[This version of the script is OBSOLETE. For more informations and newer versions check the PackRat Helper category.]
As I mentioned in my previous post the PackRat servers are undergoing a great strain due to the number of people playing the game and (which most concerns me) the number of people that use this script 24 hours a day. The developers of the game has gently asked to make some modifications to the script to limit the abuses. Since their proposal was reasonable enough, I have decided to adopt it (with some changes).
Changelog:
- Stalking works again.
- You can automatically buy only one card of each kind from the new collections every 24 hours (currently “Green Scene”, “High Seas Century” and “Trick or Treat). For the rest of them you’ll get a confirmation pop-up).
- After collecting 2000 credits or discovering 10 pop-ups since your last visit to Your Pack, the script will pause.
- After 2 hours since your last visit to Your Pack, the script will browse the pages at a much slower pace.
- The minimum delay for browsing is 3 seconds, while for market stalking it is 30 seconds.
Download PackRat Helper: version 1.1
Also available at UserScripts.org, where you find a short manual.
For more informations about the installation process please check the FAQ.
The script has reached 700 daily users, which compared with the total number of PackRat players is far from negligible. It’s no surprise that we attracted the attention of the Dev’s, who contacted me in the hope to make the game a better place (for the script users, the others and the servers).
Some of the features of the script (if misused) place a great strain to the game servers and cause a denial of service for everyone. On the other side despite my best intentions there are other features that hurt the non-script users of the game: stalking for newly released cards e.g. makes impossible for a normal user to buy these items.
Thus I am discussing with the Dev’s the limits to put on the script to make it more fair for everyone. As far I am thinking about:
- Putting a limit on how long the script can run unattended (e.g. 2 hours). Afterwards it will just stop and ask for human input.
- The credit module will become inert after a certain amount of money. E.g. if you have more than 20k credits, you surely don’t need more.
- The script will stalk normally for old cards, but when you are looking for newly released items you will have to manually confirm your intention of buying that item (and give a chance to others to buy the card).
I gave the link to this post to PackRat’s Dev’s so that we can discuss the problems together.
[This version of the script is OBSOLETE. For more informations and newer versions check the PackRat Helper category.]
At a popular demand and since it doesn’t seem to provide any valuable data, I removed the pop-up that relayed the error messages when the menu is not available.
Changelog:
- Removed the pop-up with errors.
- Update version 1.0.2: a last bugfix for the market stalking fix.
Download PackRat Helper: version 1.0.1, version 1.0.2
Also available at UserScripts.org, where you find a short manual.
For more informations about the installation process please check the FAQ.
[This version of the script is OBSOLETE. For more informations and newer versions check the PackRat Helper category.]
Since the release of the 1.0-beta version of the script a month ago, the script has improved greatly on the stability and features level. That’s why we are now proud to present the first stable 1.0 release.
The stalking module that was broken a couple of days ago by an update in the PackRat application is working again and some minor features you requested were added.
I’d like to thank Donna for her donation to this project.
Changelog:
- The script takes into account the new changes to buying introduced by the PackRat developers. Market stalking will work again.
- There is an option to browse only through Rats in the Browse section.
- An option to stalk every market (instead of only those were there are known cards from the shopping list) has been added. Use it if you are looking for cards that are not already in the database.
- A fourth shopping list was added: “Empty”. It can be useful if you are looking only for cards that are not in the database.
- There is an option to steal locks even if they are not in the shopping list. It can be useful to free some space in the pack, while not buying any lock from the markets while market stalking.
- A couple of new script commands were introduced: “Show pop-up statistics” and “Show unknown cards”. The second one can be useful to correct some misspelling done by the PackRat Devs. E.g. if the image file for “Any Card” has a name that is different from “any-card” (e.g. “Any%20Card” or ‘any-cadr”, etc.) I must take this into account in the database to correctly detect it.
Download PackRat Helper: version 1.0
Also available at UserScripts.org, where you find a short manual.
For more informations about the installation process please check the FAQ.
