Monday and Tuesday make me sketch.

Oh how true it is, I really do hate Mondays and Tuesdays for botting and gold selling.


I'm not sure when I adopted the idea that Monday was a no-no,
But I'm fairly sure it was when I saw 3 farmers and 2 vanillas get banned on a Monday morning 9am for chain selling gold on 3 servers in under a half hour.

I was present for this transaction (my buddy was selling gold on 3 servers after a brisk round of laser tag) and had been seated next to him.

The first and second transaction went down just fine, Client got the gold, or the guild, and all was well.

Once he logged on the third and final server, He made his way to Ratchet bank and danced till the client arrived to take the gold.

While waiting for this client to arrive, His vanilla was disconnected.
Upon logging back in, He found his vanilla had been banned.

He immediately checked battle.net to see if he could log into the account management on his other accounts....

All 3 of the farmers that the gold came off of, plus both the vanillas used during that mornings sales had all been banned for exploitation of the economy.

OH CRAP!

Let me tell you he was pretty damn upset.

I devised later that a GM had been watching him the entire time (he used one IP)
and had waited for the last transaction so they could ban not only all his active farmers but take notice of who the client was who was purchasing the sums of gold also.


Monday is pure evil.
When I had regular jobs, on the days where I felt like working, Monday was always the "hit the bricks" and "back to the grind" days, Where you tried to recoup for last week, Or tried to get ahead by getting as much done as possible.

The same rule applies to selling gold and farming imo.
On Monday mornings, IMO, The GM Staff that is dedicated to the gold sales and economy related offenses, is on in full force and actively looking for deals going down.

This is why I NEVER SELL GOLD ON MONDAY. For real, I never do.







Now on to Tuesdays...
Tuesday is patch day, downtime day, restarts day, whichever one Blizzard picks, all of them are your enemy, and mine.

We all already know (or should) that Warden can be updated at any time without sending any customer a patch or prompting them to download a file.


However, Why willingly add to the pile of potential signatures and updates by hitting the floor running with your Army of bots the second the servers come up Tuesday morning?

In almost all cases, I don't even open a bot on Tuesday.
As some of you know, the Mimicusa team is located overseas, and they generally get online around 5pm cst, So Tuesdays I sit back and wait for them to get on and give the updates a review.


If there are no updates that particular day, There may be extended downtime.
There may also be rolling restarts, and partial restarts, or any of thee above.

I don't care if Blizzard paints rainbow ponies everywhere and says Botters welcome,
I never ever bot on Tuesday, ever, ever, ever, ever.

Imo, The chance of running into something unfriendly are greatly increased after a fresh server restart, Or a very recent server maintenance.





The top question I get on Tuesdays...

"Hack, when the servers are up will it be safe to bot?"
Nobody is able to know that till the servers actually come up and any new content can be identified and inspected.


"I saw no updates, Am I safe to fire up my 9000 bots?"
Although I imagine you would be able to fire them all up,
Why would you wanna be one of the thousands of people who do the exact same thing?




From an IT standpoint, The easiest way to find a flaw in your server or program is to restart it.
You get a fresh look at everything running, and are able to catalog sequences and information for later review.

I take this to heart, and apply it to Blizzards tactics as well.
If I can figure it out, I guarantee they already do it.


Hope this helps.

-hack

Mmoglider.org