Continue reading »]]> I have a little surprise for you. Well this is for those who are still playing DarkThrone Beta and want to get higher especially in these last days of the game.

The player works in the same way as the Gold Player, you run the application inside the web browser, and also you need to have Java plugin installed and trust the applet certificate. To access the player you just open the web browser to http://gold.ovisual.com/beta
At the application startup you need to provide the DarkThrone beta account and password and you are up and running. The interface works in the same way as Gold Player, but is a bit simplified, it has only attack functionality (because who needs a recruiter in beta?!? ).
Mainly you have to specify what exactly you want to attack then you are ready! You are unleashing hell to all the targets in a matter of seconds.
Of course, at the end of each attack don’t forget to deposit the money in the bank.

Enjoy!

Continue reading »]]> A new Gold Player is here. What’s new:
– ability to buy structure upgrades (in the shopping tab). If a structure upgrade is available then the first one will be bought. If there are multiple structure upgrades available then each can be bought one by one.
– levels range fix in the scanner configuration.
– friends and clan mates now can be filtered out from the attack queue.
– some statistics of the Gold Player usage is displayed here.
– some other minor fixes and improvements.

Cheers!

Continue reading »]]> I am proud to announce a new version of DarkThrone Gold Player (v. 1.0.7).

This release adds the following functionality.

• spy and attack tab is available.
• spy center web page
• various bug fixes

Ok, let’s talk about these.

Spy and Attack

This functionality lets you scan through the list of other DarkThrone players and based on a condition (that you can configure), you can apply actions like spy or/and attack.

Here is a step by step guide how to use this:

Step 1. Configure the scanner condition.
In the scanner condition dialog you can set condition like “scan players with more than 10000000 amount of gold and less than 500 army” … etc.
Of course if you want to be able to attack or spy you have to set a proper level range based on your current level. This range can be your entire range (let’s say level 10 to level 22) if you are level 16 or a smaller range (like level 11 to level 12).
If the condition is satisfied than the player is added to a queue. Currently there is a limitation: the queue can be up to 125.

Step 2. Configure the scanner action.
When the scanning process is over (this means the scanner finish players list) than the action can begin.
You can choose what action to perform on the players from the queue: spy, attack or both. If you set spy with attack option this means that you will spy the players, and if the spy succeeded than you will attack also. You can set an additional condition of attack here (like if player defense found by spies is less than a specified defense).

Be aware: as you surely know spying does not consume your turns but the attack action will do. So if you have 100 players in the queue and you will attack them with 10 turns then you will spend at the end of the scanning process 1000 turns!
Also if your condition is not set right (like you have a small army and you have selected to attack all the players with a huge army and high defense) you can loose like a 100 battles in a matter of seconds. So choose wise!

Step 3. Start the scanner.
Here the scanner will start. Currently there isn’t any feedback on the interface other than the status and the queue size.
You can stop the scanner anytime (this can take few seconds until it finish the current task) and start it again, on each start the queue will be cleared.

Step 4. Wait until it finish its job.
The scanner can take a lot of time (like few minutes) and depends on the scanner condition (example: if you scan all the players from level 1 which are about 20000) and your internet bandwidth.
You will know when the scanner finishes when the status become Idle.

Spy Center web page

This web page displays the list of the DarkThrone players with the stats that are discovered in the spy process. This section is also in work and currently all the stats are overriten by the newer stats even if they don’t add more information. I will have to optimize this algorithm in a next release.

So this is it for now. Please don’t hesitate to post here the issues you found on this player application.

Happy spy/attack and also Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year!