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I realize I'm a bit late to this thread, but I've enjoyed reading others' stories and felt I should share. I tend to abuse HTML browser-based games by using bo
by IChrisI 16y ago
I realize I'm a bit late to this thread, but I've enjoyed reading others' stories and felt I should share.
I tend to abuse HTML browser-based games by using bookmarklets. I played Parallel Universe 2 for awhile, and when I got bored I set up a bookmarklet that would adventure out into a particular level, fight enemies, collect treasure, and even resurrect itself when it died. The game's item-selling interface kind of sucked, it just said the item name and you could click for details, but that's rather inefficient since I had 1k-2k items after a day of auto-playing. I made a bookmarklet that opened each item window, grabbed the items's stats, wrote them to the item list, and closed the window. It took ~15 minutes to run for that many items, but hey, I had to find the best ones somehow right? :)
I played The Hacker Project for awhile too. They had voting links - they were on about 20 top-game lists, and they gave everybody a small reward for voting once a day. The voting link went to a vote.php?link=n page, for n=1-20. Did they allow numbers over 20? Nope. How about under 1? Yep! I went to vote.php?link=0, vote.php?link=-1, and checked a few to make sure they worked. Then I set up a script to vote 6 times a second and left it running for almost a week before I got banned. I was moving up in ranks quite fast, I think I almost got into the top 10. I hacked The Hacker Project!