On August, 17th there has been a big update in the Mob Wars application. As a consequence the script must be updated to the new “multiple location” version of the game and for now (at least for characters of level over 45) the jobs module doesn’t work.
It shouldn’t take a lot of time to fix it, but I have plenty of real world work, so you’ll have to be patient.
Concerning captchas, I will probably just stop the script whenever one is encountered to let you insert the answer yourself.
After several months since the first 0.1 release we are proud to present you the first release candidate for version 1.0. The major improvement from the last beta release is the new stealing module that allows you to steal valuable cards from rats and upgrade the cards you need so that whenever you need to steal something important you’ll have a 7000 points card in your pack.
Another improvement is the way the script decides which cards to steal/buy/pick-up as pop-ups: you’ll have three choices, all cards from selected collections, an automatically generated list of missing cards or a fully personalized list.
Changelog:
- New stealing module to steal important cards from Rats only and upgrade your droppable cards.
- You can select which cards you don’t need under the collection preferences.
- Shopping lists: fully personalized choice of the shopping list for the steal, stalk and pop-up module.
- A configurable delay for the stalking module and the amount of free space to leave in the pack.
- A Pause/Resume button for Brian, in additional to the traditional PAUSE shortcut.
- Many small changes and bug fixes.
Download PackRat Helper: version 1.0-rc1.1
ATTENTION: for those who are upgrading, please flush the scripts preferences (with Tools > GreaseMonkey > Script Commands > Reset PackRat preferences) before reporting errors.
Also available at UserScripts.org, where you find a short manual.
For more informations about the installation process please check the FAQ.
[Update: Version 1.0-rc1.1 corrects the glitch reported in comment #3]
[This version of the script is OBSOLETE. For more informations and newer versions check the PackRat Helper category.]
A couple of days ago I started working on the ‘Market stalking’ feature. For this purpose I had to parse the information contained in the excellent PackRat Wiki and transform it into a format usable by the script.
We are now proud to present version 1.0-beta of the script.
Changelog:
- The highlighting module can now highlight either all the cards from selected collections or just the missing cards and the ingredients for missing cards from your Vault and Pack. In the previous versions only missing cards from your Vault where highlighted. So (unless there are errors in the card database) only the cards you really need are highlighted.
- There is a database of known cards, recipes and markets where you can purchase them. The database is downloaded daily, but if you want to force an update go to Tools > GreaseMonkey > Script Commands “Update collections database”
- A market stalking module was added. This means that the script can buy all the cards that you need in order to complete the collection automatically.
- Some pop-up recognition problems where solved.
- The grinding feature was improved.
- The script updates your pack’s content on many pages (Make, Steal, Your Pack and Purchase). Before it only did it on the ‘Your Pack’ page. Note that when you purchase a card you must still go to Your Pack in order to make it available for grinding: the ID number of the card you bought don’t appear on the Purchase page.
- There were some changes to stealing made by the PackRat developers. The script takes them into account (meaning that grinding will work again).
The script takes the names of the cards from the name of the image files (they are the only ones available on every page). The PackRat developers added some misspellings to the names of the images (either on purpose or probably by mistake), so some informations in the database may be wrong.
We need your help: to identify the misspelled cards in the database, please go to about:config and look for the key ‘packrat*missing’. It contains the names of the cards that are not in the database. Please go to your vault and then report the entries from the collections you have completed as comments (and check the other comments too in order not to duplicate the information).
If you appreciate this release and were hesitating about making a donation, don’t hesitate any more 
. The database will need a daily update from now on, with the new collections coming and other corrections.
Download PackRat Helper: version 1.0-beta2
ATTENTION: for those who are upgrading you may consider forcing the update of the collections database (which was previously scheduled every week) with Tools > GreaseMonkey > Script Commands > Update collections database.
Also available at UserScripts.org, where you find a short manual.
For more informations about the installation process please check the FAQ.
[Update: Version 1.0-beta2 solves the problem with selecting multiple collections]
[This version of the script is obsolete. For more informations check the PackRat Helper category.]
After some changes in the Facebook application the ‘popup’ module of this script stopped working properly. This new version corrects this bug and adds two new modules: ‘highlight’ and ‘grinding’.
Changelog
- Corrected the malfunction in the ‘popup’ module.
- Added a way to specify the standard delay for actions (in the preferences).
- Added a menu command (accessible via Tools > GreaseMonkey > Script Commands) that resets the database and is totally equivalent to reinstalling the script.
- Added a ‘highlight’ module like in the 0.4 series: missing cards from selected collections are highlighted and moved in front of the pack.
- Added a ‘Delete cards from completed collections’, that cleans the markets and friend packs from collection that we already finished.
- Added a ‘grinding’ module. When active it will automatically steal cards from friends packs and drop the same card instead. It can be useful for low level characters to level up.
- (Version 0.10.3) From this version you have to go to Your Friends page at least once to give the script the chance the read the list of your friends.
PackRat Helper: version 0.10.5
Also available at UserScripts.org, where you find a short manual.
For more informations about the installation process please check the FAQ.
[Update: in version 0.10 the 'highlight' module updated the 'credit' preferences...
Version 0.10.2 corrects other minor bugs,
Version 0.10.3 corrects not recognized cards (like 'roulette=wheel')
Version 0.10.4 corrects grinding of mismatched cards.
Version 0.10.5 corrects another "In the Oven" problem.]
I published a quick fix for the Monsters Enhancer, that makes it work with the new Facebook layout as version 1.1.1.
[This version of the script is obsolete. For more informations check the PackRat Helper category.]
Following some comments on my last post I made some adjustments to the script to follow the user preferences. Hence I publish version 0.9.1 of the script.
I wish to thank Arachne, Kriis, Splityarn and JustOneTrack for their contributions.
Changelog
- Browsing is only active on user pages.
- I added a ‘Notes’ field to the script status. It’s where messages like “You must go to X page for Y feature” go.
- The “Pop-up” message when we stumble on pop-ups was deleted. As I already said it was meant only for debugging purpose, I didn’t mean to include it into the release.
- The previous script browsed randomly to the next or previous friend. Since users did not appreciate the random walk, I reverted to the previous behaviour, meaning that the script always goes to the next friend.
- Some minor adjustments around the pause function.
PackRat Helper: version 0.9.1
Also available at UserScripts.org.
For more informations on installation, please read the FAQ.
[This version of the script is obsolete. For more informations check the PackRat Helper category.]
After a long time without updates we are proud to announce version 0.9 of our script. It is a complete rewrite of the script into the new framework I already applied to the Mob Wars script. I would like to thank sKrptUzr, Packratter and an anonymous contributor that helped with their (financial) tips for the work on this release
Changelog from version 0.4.1
- Complete rewrite of the script.
- You can now browse the user pages even without collecting credits.
- The script now works with the new Pack Rat and Facebook update.
- You can select the collections from which you want to accept popups.
- Highlighting have not yet been rewritten
PackRat Helper: version 0.9
Also available on UserScripts.org
I just discovered that Facebook introduced a new layout that uses different URLs (apps.new.facebook.com), so I am obliged to release a quick fix to work with the new layout.
Mob Wars Helper: version 1.0-beta2a
Also available at Userscripts.org
For more informations on installation, please read the FAQ.
[Update: I eventually managed to go to jail, so now the script recognizes jail and sets the appropriate delay for actions. Hence beta2a.]
[This version of the script is OBSOLETE. For more informations and new releases check the Mob Wars Helper category.]
Back from my holiday I could eventually test the new features of the script and we are ready for a new release. Plenty of information was added to the game’s screen as well as a hospital module. Also since the script is almost complete we are going directly to version 1.0-beta
New features
- Hospital: You can now instruct the script to heal you whenever your health goes below a certain level (in the preferences menu). I am not sure how much we can heal ourselves, but you should enter values of 50-60% maximum if you don’t want the script to go too often to the hospital to discover that healing is not available.
- Buying amount: You can now buy and sell stockpile and buildings by any amount you wish. Buying/selling more than 10 buildings is forbidden by the server (if you try you’ll get an error message).
- Return of income: You can see on your City what is the return of income of the different buildings, the advised quantity (whether you should buy a unit or wait until you can buy 10) is automatically entered on the left of the buying button and you can see the number of turns (of 54 minutes for Insomniacs or 60 minutes otherwise) left until you earn enough money to make the acquisition. The computation of the number of turns is done using your hourly income and the mean payout of your active job.
- Attack and defense strength: You can see on the Fight and Stockpile page your current attack and defense strength.
- Enemy max mob size: On your Fight page you can see what is the maximum mob size of enemies you can safely attack. Roughly it means that an enemy of this size equipped with the most powerful weapons at your disposal will have a defense strength less than your attack strength. Obviously we can not know how many level-up points where used by your opponent to increase his defense strength.
- Best weapon purchase: On your Stockpile page you can see what is the most profitable purchase to increase your attack/defense rating: 300 Colts 1911 (300k$) are cheaper than 50 Miniguns (6M$) and they both increase your attack rating by 600 points. Obviously the calculations done take into account your mob size (don’t bother buying 10 Miniguns if you have only 5 mob members).
- Debugging: I added some debugging code to the script. If one of the modules crashes you can see the error in the Menu panel (and if the menu panel crashes you receive a pop-up ).
Mob Wars Helper: Version 1.0-beta
Also available on UserScripts.org.
Since I’ve stumbled across a site which offers scripts similar in features to those you find on this site, but for a fee, I would like to elucidate about the licensing of my scripts.
They are all released under GNU General Public Licence version 2 or (at your choice) later. They are free of charge and provided without any warranty (even implied). I’ll do my best to resolve all the problems on this blog.
However if you wish to make a donation, you are welcome to do so. They will help me maintaining this site and coding new script features. Here are some methods you can use:
Remember to include your name or nickname and an e-mail address so that I can thank contributors personally and dedicate new releases to them :-).
This site also displays ads to support itself, but since Google AdSense pays on a per-click rather than per-view basis I won’t see any money until 2020
