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Winning at Candy Crush

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Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#51

Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves on yahoo as mine. Good times, never lost.

Many people tried that strategy against Kasparov.

No seriously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#52
post #27

In 2009, when Farmville was the New Hotness, I checked it out to see what all the fuss was. After all, it was rumored to be minting $1 million per day. Soon after, I saw that a lot of my friends were playing. Girlfriends were getting boyfriends to tend their crops for them while at work. They were very scrupulous with the design of their farm and tending their crops. But I wanted to just be at the top of the leaderbo…

I ended up coding my own version of something like this, with I think a few enhancements to make my life much easier.

First, I assumed the crops were laid out in a grid without any offsets. This then allowed me to define the grid in a 2d array and mark squares to skip over very easily.

Second, rather than assuming that my cursor is starting at some spot on the screen that I had to keep duplicating, I just start the cursor over the first farm plot.

Third, I actually never move the cursor to a new farm plot position. Instead, I scroll the screen and replace the cursor where it started.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#53
post #27

In 2009, when Farmville was the New Hotness, I checked it out to see what all the fuss was. After all, it was rumored to be minting $1 million per day. Soon after, I saw that a lot of my friends were playing. Girlfriends were getting boyfriends to tend their crops for them while at work. They were very scrupulous with the design of their farm and tending their crops. But I wanted to just be at the top of the leaderbo…

http://www.sikuli.org Is my GOTO GUI scripting language for game scripting. Graphic templates are fuzzy matched. Actual scripts are python. Inbuilt OCR. I can do that kinda thing very fast. Its really awesome and put of MIT

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#54

Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves on yahoo as mine. Good times, never lost.

People still do that in chess.com. It is really annoying, because even if you are good enough to beat the computer, playing against a computer is very boring.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#55
post #27

In 2009, when Farmville was the New Hotness, I checked it out to see what all the fuss was. After all, it was rumored to be minting $1 million per day. Soon after, I saw that a lot of my friends were playing. Girlfriends were getting boyfriends to tend their crops for them while at work. They were very scrupulous with the design of their farm and tending their crops. But I wanted to just be at the top of the leaderbo…

http://www.sikuli.org Is my GOTO GUI scripting language for game scripting. Graphic templates are fuzzy matched. Actual scripts are python. Inbuilt OCR. I can do that kinda thing very fast. Its really awesome and put of MIT

Cool. I used AutoIt for similar stuff:

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

Scripting is some dialect of BASIC and also has OCR.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#56
My game cheat story starts way, way back, playing Wizardry on the Apple II. In this game, you go through a dungeon, killing monsters and collecting treasure and experience. Fun, but slow going. So I found out where in memory these values are stored and started manipulating them, giving myself tons of experience and new treasures.

Everything went fine until I put in an invalid treasure value which apparently caused some random memory locations to be modified, corrupting the game. Unfortunately, game state was written back to the same floppy disk that holds the game itself, rendering the game unplayable.

Fortunately, I could borrow a second floppy drive, borrow an uncorrupted copy of the game, and repair the game with a disk-to-disk copy. Unfortunately, I plugged in the disk drive connector crooked, sending -12 volts into a chip on the controller board that didn't want -12 volts. The result was a "pop" and a disk controller that no longer worked. Needless to say, my father wasn't happy.

Finding the problem was easy - it was the chip with a square hole blown out of it where the silicon had vaporized. Unfortunately getting a replacement chip wasn't easy when you live in the middle of nowhere. So I built a replacement circuit on a solderless breadboard and wired it into the controller board, and everything worked fine until I could get the proper replacement chip.

TL;DR: cheat at games and you will be punished

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#57
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll never find it, it's too well hidden! Muhaha! P.S.: It isn't.

I used a APK "decompiler" once to get API keys and urls (wasn't for candy crush but for a music app using https). I guess it should work here too.

I have a setup with my own WiFi, SQUID as a transparent proxy with self-signed CA generating "legit" site certificates on the fly.

The CA is loaded into Android as trusted, internet is disabled on every app except target to reduce noise (yay! UNIX users/permissions!) SQUID's built-in logging spills all the magic beans.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#59
post #8

it is crazy that a game that makes multi million dollars every day has no server side validation at all and just trust the client. crazy

Why? People who are:

1. skilled enough to hack it AND 2. so interested to play the game that they would pay for something in it

are very very rare.

Unless you have world-wide score list that people actually care about or something like that.

Re: Winning at Candy Crush

#60

Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves on yahoo as mine. Good times, never lost.

I hate you. I'm sure I played people like you. I like long games but people cheating forced me to play speed which I really hate.
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