How do I make my bot run faster?

It’s a question we hear all the time.  “Why is my bot slow?” or “It takes forever for the bot to complete actions!” – This can be frustrating, often more for us developers than the users.  Why? Because it can be easily fixed!  90% of the time the issue is NOT with the bot speed, but with how the USER has the actions organized.

In this post I will explain how to optimize your actions for SPEED.

What are Actions?

Actions are the functions that you want the bot to perform.  It’s common sense that the more of these you add, the longer it will take the bot to complete the cycle. If speed is your main concern, you need to use these correctly in order for focus on time.

Choose a Botting Style

You need to decide what it is you are trying to do.  Is gaining the most amount of resources possible your desire? Is building up your farm accounts through upgrades more important? Is alliance management most important?  Pick what is important to YOU.

Exploit Your Botting Style

Now that you know what’s most important – Delete the rest of the crap so it can do what it is you want it to do – QUICKLY.

But I want ALL of it!

Of course you do, the bot has a ton of features and we want to be able to take advantage of all of them – but you need to do it PROPERLY.

Heres How: Use Action Classes

Use the “Save” and “Load” setting to set up different action classes.

Create different action classes to easily switch between what you find important.  For instance, an optimized bot will run Gather Resources 90% of the day because the troops return and need to be sent out every few hours.  If your bot is busy doing other functions like Base Management – it’s wasting its time. How long does it take for your resource mines to reach max capacity? 12 hours or so? How much do you earn from them anyway? so as long as you run Auto Collect Resources once or twice a day – That’s all you need.  You do NOT need these functions running every time the account runs.  That’s pointlessly slowing your bot down.  This game logic applies for many of the actions – They don’t need to run all the time! Instead try this…

1. Save a Action List for Gather Resources
2. Save a Action List for Base Management and anything else you want.

Now, load Gather Resources and run that 90% a day.  When you get home from work, or school, or before you eat – Load Base Management and let it run though ONCE.  Once it completes, load Gather Resources again and let it go. You will now see that all your marches are always out gathering resources as it should – Did the bot change? No… Your Botting Style changed by using some game logic. These are very simple principles that can be applied on a large scale.  Each botter has a different agenda and should put a little thought into how he can gain the most from his bot.

Got it? Good. There’s More!

This bot is meant to run 24/7 for a 30 day period. It takes a few hours for the troops to return from gathering in the game and therefor, speed is really never a concern. While stability is the most important factor, it also shouldn’t take an hour to run through each account. (20 minutes or less is normal and safe.) Below are some ways to further speed up your bot if its running too slow.

Switch Gathering Styles

The most time consuming process is when the bot has to move around the map to find resources to gather. By using VIP and the Gather Search Action instead, you can speed up your bot by nearly 75%.  Swith from Gather Resources to Gather Search (or VIP when the game allows it).

Move to a Better Area

If you don’t want to use Gather Search and VIP, its important that your mini farm accounts are in an area with A LOT of plots to farm. If you are in the middle of an alliance, or in an area with limited plots – The bot has to search longer and further to find a plot.

Only use 2 Resource Options for Gathering

If you select all of the resource options, the bot has to check for 5 different images every time it moves. By only using 2 options (such as Wood & Food), you cut the work the bot has to do which speeds up the entire process. Putting a little thought into how the bot is working and why can go a long way toward speeding up your bot.  If you need further help – Join us in our live chat