Advertising
Module: Advertising
Does your advertising for you. It posts your messages in Trade (or any channel that is open) every few minutes, and sends one private message to each new player it finds: people near you, people talking in the chat and, if you want, everyone on the website’s online list. Each player gets your message only once.
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Advertising
Posts your messages in a channel and sends one private message to each new player you meet.
Channel messages
Private messages
Safety
How to turn it on
- 1Click Bot, then ⤢ (All settings) and pick Advertising in the list.
- 2In Channel messages, the Trade line is already there: type your message in the box and click Add.
- 3Want private messages too? Tick “Send private messages to new players” and add your message there.
- 4Turn Advertising on with its switch in the list (All settings).
Settings, one by one
Channel messages
Each line posts in one channel. You can have up to 6 lines (for example Trade and World with different messages).
Channel · every … to … min · On · Post now · ✕
Pick the channel and how often to post. The bot waits a random time between the two numbers, so it never posts at the exact same rhythm. “Post now” posts on the next chance (good to test). ✕ removes the line. A channel marked “(not open)” must be opened in the game first (Trade, World and Help open by themselves when you log in).
Values: 1 to 120 minutes. Default: Trade, every 5 to 7 minutes.
ExampleTrade · every 5 to 7 min
Status of the line
Shows what happened: “Posted in Trade ✓” when your message really showed up in the channel. If it doesn’t show up 3 times in a row (muted, blocked…), the bot stops that line for 10 minutes and warns you.
ExamplePosted in Trade ✓ 1:05 ago. Next in 4:50.
Messages
Your messages for that channel. Each time one is picked at random, never the same one twice in a row. Type in the box and click Add; click × to remove.
Values: Up to 8 messages, up to 120 characters each. Links only to minibia.com (the game blocks others). Can’t start with / or *.
Example“Selling sd 120gp, pm me” · “Buying dragon ham, good price”
Private messages
The bot writes *Name* message in the chat, exactly like you would, so the player gets a private message. Each player gets it only once.
Send private messages to new players
Turns private messages on or off.
Values: Off by default.
Messages
Your private messages. One is picked at random for each player.
Values: Up to 8 messages, up to 88 characters each (so they fit with any player name).
Example“Runes cheap in Thais depot, come by!”
Find people from
Where the bot finds new people. “Players on my screen”: everyone who walks near you. “People talking in the chat”: whoever talks in Trade, World, Help or near you. “The website’s online list”: every few minutes reads the minibia.com online list of the world you are playing on (Genesis, Solace or Nemesis) and messages those players from the highest level to the lowest (people on screen go first, then chat, then the website).
Values: Screen and chat on by default; website off. The list is read every 15 minutes by default (5 to 240). “Refresh list” reads it now.
Wait between messages · At most … per hour
How long to wait between two private messages (a random time between the two numbers) and the most messages per hour.
Values: 20 to 3600 seconds, default 45 to 90. 1 to 120 per hour, default 30.
Example60 to 120 s · at most 20 per hour
Skip party members · Skip my Heal Friends list · Never message
People who never get a message: your party, the names on your Heal Friends list and any name you add to “Never message”. Gamemasters never get messages either.
Values: Party and friends skipped by default. Up to 50 names.
Already messaged · Clear
How many players already got a private message from this character. They won’t get another one. “Clear” forgets the list, so everybody can get one again.
Safety
Pause in battle · Only in a protection zone
“Pause in battle” waits while you are fighting. “Only in a protection zone” only advertises in a temple, a depot or another safe place.
Values: Pause in battle: on. Only in a protection zone: off.
It always waits
While a GM is on screen, while a captcha or an NPC conversation is open, while you are typing and, on Android, while the full window is open (close it and the posts start; the small panel does not stop them — and on PC the bot window never does). It also keeps at least 8 seconds between any two messages.
Ready example — selling runes
- Channel messages: Trade, every 5 to 7 min: “Selling sd 120gp, pm me”, “SD and UH cheap, pm me”.
- Private messages on: “Runes cheap in Thais depot, come by!”, from my screen and the chat.
- Wait 60 to 120 s, at most 20 per hour.
- Turn Advertising on — about half a minute later the first post goes to Trade.
Too many messages annoy players and they can report you. Keep the default timing (or slower), write friendly messages and avoid messaging the whole online list at once.
If your message stops showing up in a channel, the bot pauses that line for 10 minutes and warns you — you may have been muted. Wait a bit and post less often.
The website list needs the minibia.com security check to pass in the game window. If the page says the check blocked the list, keep playing normally and press “Refresh list” later.