[AH Bot] HappyAuction

[knightxii]

This thread is almost dead, despite this fact I want to open a new discus. The theme is "Biggest botting fackups".
As about me:
1. Once I miss-configured pricing algorithm and was using ARMOR stat instead of DPS. 3 days of botting and about 400 euros loss.
2. Someone or something found pole-arm that I misspriced and sold it to me about 10 or 15 times (the same item). ~50 euros lost.
3. And the biggest failure was that I didn't start botting immediately after D3 release :-)

About #3, you wouldn't have missed much from the botting scenes. I was there right at the start. It wasn't until August of that year that the legendary items became more manageable.
3 months after release the AH system was very limited in capability. No time-sort, only 3-parameters (instead of 6), rare items are far and few and unmaneable (making buyers have second doubt). The only thing worth botting was jewelries in the begining. Also, HappyAuction was not bug free until September that year. It lacked a lot of capability when it first rolled out. Although I gotta admit HA auction in performance was vastly suprior to the most common form of AH-botting at the time (which was AutoIt custom scripts).

It was very exciting back then at the start. someone from ownedcore or BH posted a public autoit script, and then botting exploded. I'm sure there were other botters who stayed hidden before that public autoit script. That script (in my opinion) a biblical manuscipt for all of my early botting concept. In the end, AutoIt lacking OCR proved to be inferior to HA Memory reading.

There were those who profited a lot though during the first two three months of release. They had a focus narrow item and stick with the strategy.

[ztnko]

i use tesseract-ocr engine with autoit since june

[knightxii]

i use tesseract-ocr engine with autoit since june

Very nice! I was aware of the existence of tesseract-OCR open source engine but was not confident enough to explore that option to detail. In the end, I opted to making my own very primative basic number-reader to deal with weapon DPS (which was not reliably searchable at the time - unless you have OCR). That netted me quite a bit of money from the weapon business.

[ChuiChu]

i actually made the earliest iteration of HA using tesseract and quickly found it to be nearly useless for general use

[RodeoRaider]

i actually made the earliest iteration of HA using tesseract and quickly found it to be nearly useless for general use

Lol, good job, sir!

[RodeoRaider]

Anyone got banned?

[MATRASUS]

Yes, another wave confirmed

[ury0005]

Do you stop boting after ban reports?

[stonegg]

ChuiChu can you update for 2.0, appreciate

[DoichinMitrev]

Yes please, update for new patch! <3

Also, I got an email saying my account is banned today but 6 hours later it is still working, very strange. Anyone else?

[seraph18]

It is hard for chuichu to do the update, new patch will work less than a month.


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[ury005]

What is the situation with gold selling on RMAH after the new patch since it is BoA?

[unrealaz]

You can still sell If you got caught sitting on a lot of now BoA gold... - Forums - Diablo III.

We just need to get the bot working.

They do have a bug that prevents you from selling now indeed.

[Fgura]

Yes we need it. I can't live without HA!

[ury005]

king is dead long live the king