Botting basics
Hello, I am new to botting and have a few beginner questions that I wanted to ask. I am interested in creating farming bots for video games.
1.) I have a good background in coding with a minor in computer science. I am good with python. Is python a good all around language for botting? Or does it depend on the game? I am fairly proficient in c and c++ but I don’t prefer to use them. I think I could learn any language but I don’t want to unless it’s necessary.
2.) How do botters automate creating accounts that are ‘ready to farm’? Creating the account is straightforward enough. Generate a junk email, got it. But most games have some kind of tutorial or intro leveling to be completed. Is this usually automated as well? Or is there some manual work to be done before releasing the bot to do its thing? Does it just take knowledge of the game to learn what is the most efficient way to set up an account to do your farming?
3.) What kind of hardware is needed to scale a botting operation into something profitable? I see forums where people say they are using powerful hardware to run dozens of bots. Right now all my coding projects are done on a standard dell laptop with an i5 and no dedicated gpu. It works for me right now since I’m only learning the basics and trying to create the bot, but would never work if I wanted to scale it up. I can get similar laptops for close to nothing. I’m just not sure what the best approach is.
4.) How much developer time is spent on a typical botting operation that is profitable? How much manual intervention is needed for these types of operations? I already know the answer will be ‘Depends how good your bot is’ but if you could provide a ballpark value for a ballpark sized operation, I would really appreciate it!
5.) Are there any specific games that you find easy/fun/profitable to bot? I recently created a Minecraft bot that accepts image files and creates the image in game with blocks. It was a lot of fun to create! Now I’m learning about how botters use python to capture screenshots and use ML to identify targets in the image. It seems pretty cool, but I know I’m only scratching the surface.
I have a couple games in mind that I would like to bot. Mainly ones that I have a good enough knowledge of that I could overcome obstacles outlined in point 2.
Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! :)