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Tutorial: How to get anaonymous travellers, step-by-step

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AMali
AMali
Jan 29th 2009, 02:36
I have already mentioned several times in other topics that the best way to get anonymous visits is to use proxies. (It can be used to fill 1* and 2* rooms, though.) Below you can find a step-by-step procedure about using proxies.

I won't explain what proxies are, how they work, etc. If anyone is interested, read:
http://createmycity.xooit.com/f29-Tutorials.htm
(Some tutorials are available also in languages other than English.) I will just explain what a yer player should do to receive his/her own anonymous travellers.

To use the below method you need:
0. A computer
1. A program for automatated use of proxies
2. A fresh list of proxies
3. Some free time to run the program :)

0. COMPUTER
You have it, don't you. The authors write it should have at list 32 MB RAM, a 10 MB HDD, etc., in short: your computer is very good. :)

1. PROGRAM
I suggest using CMC City Booster. This program has been written by members of CreateMyCity forum.
A. Where to find?
The program is free, and it works on (nearly) all platforms, including PCs, Macs, Linux machines, etc.

Though it is free to use, the authors don't allow to put it on other servers. Therefore you have to register at the forum before you can download the ZIP file from the page
http://createmycity.xooit.com/t856-CMC-City-Booster.htm

B. How to install?
i) Unpack the ZIP. (In Windows: double-click it, and drag the folder CMC_CB_180 outside.)
ii) Go into the folder CMC_CB_180. Open the configuration file config.ini with a notepad and change its contents:
* line #22:
The default configuration is for MyMiniCity. There is no specific configuration for yer hotels. Change this line to
ConfigType=generic
* line #27:
If the configuration type is set to generic, one has to give the whole address. For instance, this line can be changed to
Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Marseille/de-Buean
In the above example, you should change the name of the city and the name of the hotel to yours.
* line #57:
Every proxy can be used only once within 6 hours. Therefore to save time the used proxies should be excluded. Change this line to
ExcludeGood=true
(Alas, in version 1.8 this option doesn't work - at least for me. :()

2. LISTS OF PROXIES
This is the most important part. You're lucky, you need only a few visitors every day, even a 15-floors hoel has only 90 rooms. :) MyMiniCity players often get even a thousand clicks using only proxies...
There are many sites which offer proxies, less offer lists of proxies, and just a few offer ready-to-use lists. I suggest to use
http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
Notice there are 31 pages, 36 proxies in each page. (Though some proxies are repeated on several pages.) The older the proxy is, the more probable is that it is outdated. But I sometimes use even proxies from page 15 or so. :)
The table in the above page contains too much information. (Though it can be useful, if you want to have a visitor from a particular country; e.g., Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Palestinian Territory, etc.) For our purposes, we need to separate the first column only. For this, it's simplest to use a spreadsheet: copy the whole table from one page, paste it into a spreadsheet (e.g., MicroSoft Excel or OpenOffice scalc), and the table should spread into columns. Copy the first column and paste in into the file proxies.txt (using again a notepad).

3. RUNNING THE PROGRAM
a) The first run
Start CMCCityBooster.cmd (double-click its icon). A new window opens, the rest is automated.
CAUTION: If you have a firewall installed, let the booster get through it!
Next open your hotel in a browser. If not all rooms have been filled, you should take another page from
http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
Copy the first column of a table into proxies.txt, and run CMCCityBooster.cmd once more.

b) Next runs
You can reuse proxies every 6 hours. Observe the new file called, e.g.,
good.20090129.txt
It contains good (but used) proxies. After 6 hours, you can rename this file to, e.g., good.20090129a.txt, and copy its contents to proxies.txt. (The latter makes sense only if one page of proxies was not enough.) Then you can run CMCCityBooster.cmd again.
If you plan to use CMCCityBooster.cmd only once a day, you needn't rename the file good.20090129.txt mentioned above.

4. TIPS
* If you want to feed several hotels, you have to change the configuration file before each run. However, you needn't delete the old link! Instead, change the line
Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Marseille/de-Buean
to
#Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Marseille/de-Buean
(notice the hash sign in the front of the line), and write in the next line, e.g.,
Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Milano/Swim-Freaks
In this way if you want to turn back to de Buan hotel, it suffices to delete the hash sign from the first line, and insert the hash sign in the front of the second line! Of course, you can have many more links.
* If you feed several hotels, use only a few proxies in proxies.txt. Otherwise the program will mark all the proxies as used, though many of them have been used to obtain information `No free room at this moment'.
* Don't delete old good.*.txt files - they contains good proxies. You can reuse those proxies already after 6 hours. :)
* Sometimes it is good to rerun CMCCityBooster.cmd without adding new proxies to proxies.txt. It happens that during the next run some proxies `awake' and let you hit your hotel. :)

5. BONUS FOR THE LAZY ONES
You can download two files from my page:
* http://czapla_myminicity.republika.pl/config.ini
- the configuration file for yer hotels, don't forget to change line #27 unless your aim is to help acparker25. :)
* http://czapla_myminicity.republika.pl/proxies.txt
- the ready-to-use file with 197 proxies, taken from the current first 6 pages from
five current pages from
http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
It should be enough even for a big hotel! But remember - if someone else uses them before you, you have to wait 6 hours - or create your own list of proxies. :)

I tried to make everything as clear as I could. If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate, just ask.

Greetings for everybody.

PS. Don't even think about visiting my hotels. Both my hotels have been closed for... for... forever! :)
AllaireHeart
AllaireHeart
Jan 29th 2009, 05:43
IM CONFused
but ill try :D
PreciouSoHearT
PreciouSoHearT
Jan 31st 2009, 20:10
Hey AMali, i think, you didn't check it from there.

That wont work. If you click on Download button, it wont work. Your page will be hang for 3 to 4 seconds, and then nothing lol

But, i think, you have it already. If you have - then would you like to give it here directly ?
AMali
AMali
Feb 1st 2009, 01:04
On the page
http://createmycity.xooit.com/t856-CMC-City-Booster.htm
(copy and paste into your browser's address bar), in the middle, you can see:
`Last version here :',
and right below this there is a link. Right now it is
http://createmycity.xooit.com/t1919-CMC-City-Booster.htm
but it can change any time. After you click that link, you are redirected to a registration/login page. You have to register (upper-right corner), and then click the link you will get by e-mail before you can proceed further.
Greetings.
PS. Alas, on the above page it is written:
`You don't have the rights :
- to distribute yourself this sofware
(...)
- to link directly to the archive (zip file)'
and I prefer to obey those rules.
PreciouSoHearT
PreciouSoHearT
Feb 1st 2009, 07:52
Yea after a hard try, i am success lol My anti virus didn't let me download it at before.

It wont work for me :( Cause - after run that program, it is running ans says - .............. created... (my hotel's name)

But, in real - nothing. Then i had put another hotel's name in config file. And its same. Nothing. No visit and nothing.

I have changed only 2 lines

From your page, i saw - they are like bellow:

# Examples: Target=createmycity, Target=http://www.google.com ...
Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Marseille/de-Buean
#Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Milano/Swim-Freaks

And i have changed it like :

# Examples: Target=createmycity, Target=http://www.google.com ...
Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Granada/*-PreciouS-PARTY-*
#Target=http://www.yerhotel.com/Aurora/*-PreciouS-MOMENTS-*

But, it is nothing :(

Anyway, i believe, i am doing wrong with this.

Would you please tell me, from where and what to change from config file ?

And are there anything for changing ?

Thanks in advance :)
PreciouSoHearT
PreciouSoHearT
Feb 1st 2009, 08:44
Oh sorry my friend AMali :P

One of my friend fixed my problem lol

And i think, using a link exchange is better than this program lol

It is more hard to use, every time / every day, i have to find new proxies lol

Anyway, thanks for everything :)
AMali
AMali
Feb 1st 2009, 12:45
Now I don't look for new proxies anymore. I use only a single list of proxies (the one published in my page) in about 12-15 hotels here (100-120 rooms in total), and it is OK. I've measured - I needed 69 seconds to fill 42 rooms in a single hotel. Quite little, don't you think so? :) But you can change IP, if it's easier to you, it's up to you. :)
PreciouSoHearT
PreciouSoHearT
Feb 1st 2009, 17:33
Hey, i need more times lol
I need 5 minutes to feel my 90 rooms lol

Hmmm, you can feel 40 for 1 minute. Its good :)

And now, i don't change my IP :P Before i was using my 2 IP. Cause, i had no soft before. Now i have one - since today morning. So, now i don't need to change ma IP :P

Oh, And i had have a look on your list. Sometimes, they wont work and not all of thm are good.

Anyway, its ok, i just wanted share with you - thats all :)

Be happy.
AMali
AMali
Feb 1st 2009, 19:53
Hmm... To make another visit using the same computer, one can either
* change IP,
* use proxy,
* cheat google analysis.
You claim you don't change your IP. I don't believe you can cheat google analysis, it's neither easy nor worth it. So, you use proxies. And maybe you even don't know this, cause the software does it for you...
PS. I've written before proxies are alive only for a short time. I know some of them become dead from time to time - but there are 200 proxies in my list, and I need about 100. :) The most important is that I needn't care about it, I just run a command, switch to my work, and after 2 minutes the rooms have been filled.
PreciouSoHearT
PreciouSoHearT
Feb 1st 2009, 21:12
Yea i have 2 IP. But, now - i don't use another one. Now, i am using my main IP. Which one i use for all over the world.

Well, i believe - you know more things - but, don't say like that to some one "you don't know"

Anyway, i know, Proxy and Socks never born to being alive forever. After use sometimes, they become death Proxy/Socks. But, yea - there are 3 ways to let them alive, and it is hard process, also i must pa for it.

Anyway, its better if we wont argue with this topic. We could be friend. And not to give sad words - it is better, if we share our thoughts and knowledge - friendly :)

Oh, i was asking you to give me some fresh proxies.
AMali
AMali
Feb 1st 2009, 22:27
> But, yea - there are 3 ways to let them alive, and it is hard process, also i must pa for it.
FALSE: There is no way to revive a proxy if the admin doesn't permit it. :(

I don't understand why you pay for proxies - there are so many freely available proxies than can be easily found in the internet. But it is your choice.

The proxies from my private list have been designed to be available for only a limited number of requires daily, and only a limited group of persons uses them. Therefore the admins have no need to block the access to them. Of course, sometimes they are unavailable due to, e.g., maintenance.

> Oh, i was asking you to give me some fresh proxies.
You can always find fresh proxies in the internet. The page I've mentioned above is sufficient for yer. I cannot share proxies from my private list - I've got it from a friend of mine, it's his property, and I can use it only for my own links.

PS. I'm neither your friend nor your enemy. I just sometimes can't stand the texts you write. :( In future, I'll probably ignore your messages, it seems that my comments have no impact.

EOT
vrototurtle
vrototurtle
Feb 2nd 2009, 01:38
looks like I have not installed java yet. after that, I can try it out. Thanks
epic
epic
Feb 7th 2009, 01:04
The table in the above page contains too much information. (Though it can be useful, if you want to have a visitor from a particular country; e.g., Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Palestinian Territory, etc.) For our purposes, we need to separate the first column only. For this, it's simplest to use a spreadsheet: copy the whole table from one page, paste it into a spreadsheet (e.g., MicroSoft Excel or OpenOffice scalc), and the table should spread into columns. Copy the first column and paste in into the file proxies.txt (using again a notepad).


WHAT THE HELL I AM COMPLETELY CONFUSED!

where is the table,all i see on that website is a box with proxies inside? WTH?

i tried to copy the box but then it put all the text into one small box,(microsoft exel)

please take off the lens cap off the camera situation,its been all good so far.
epic
epic
Feb 7th 2009, 01:20
okay dont worry,i got it now but when i try to run it,it flashes up for 1second then closes,what do i do?
AMali
AMali
Feb 7th 2009, 17:33
It is hard to say. :( At the very first glance it seems that you don't have Java installed. Try the following:
Edit the file CMCCityBooster.cmd with a text editor. Append `pause' in the second line. This way the program will stop after executing `java -jar ...' and we will know what is wrong.
epic
epic
Feb 7th 2009, 19:25
ok i just deleted it,re-downloaded and did everything u sed,it works now,thanks so much
epic
epic
Feb 7th 2009, 19:56
another proxy website which lists them is here http://www.proxy-list.net/anonymous-proxy-lists.shtml
AMali
AMali
Feb 7th 2009, 22:25
There are many websites with proxies, one just has to use, e.g., Google. But the one you which address you wrote is new to me. Thanks. :)
gilraen
gilraen
Feb 8th 2009, 17:40
epic - replying to your question "i tried to copy the box but then it put all the text into one small box,(microsoft exel)" - in Excel, go into Edit -> Paste Special... and use option to paste as plain "Text" or "Unicode Text", just not "HTML", which is the default.
epic
epic
Feb 9th 2009, 02:32
okay let me get this straight,after a lot of copying and pasting i have over 600 ips on my proxy list,and i can RE-use these every 6 hours?
AMali
AMali
Feb 9th 2009, 12:13
Yes. But be aware that not every proxy is alive, noy every proxy responds quickly enough, some proxies could be used earlier by other people, etc. I think you can fill about 150 rooms every 6 hours using this list. :)
Greetings.
Neotears
Neotears
Feb 25th 2009, 14:54
Super =D Though I only had like four rooms to fill, it worked like a charm! Thanks
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