NPC/Farming Questions

Why won't my bot farm npc5s?

There are a number of reasons why it might not be farming. To get a correct answer you may need to enable verbose + npc farming debugging, copy the log after it tries and fails to farm, and paste it to us on the forum. Here are the 3 most common culprits:

Your city has low/no upkeep and farms giving it a positive food income, and you have config NpcLimit:xx set. This goal will actually prevent the bot from farming. You don't need this goal unless you're deliberately trying to limit your food income to avoid being a juicy target. Delete the goal and your bot will farm.
You have mismatched or unsafe research making it a risk to your ballista to farm. This is common on new servers/accounts. The bot needs a Military Tradition level 2+ higher than the npc level, so for a npc5 it needs MT7+. The bot also needs archery 8 + hbr 5/6, or archery 9 + hbr 8/9, or archery 10 + any hbr level.
You're missing some troops to farm. This is also common on new accounts/servers. If you do not set npctroops in your goals, the default is 550 ballista + enough transports to carry all the loot based on your current Logistics research.. this could be over 500 transports. Either set the goal to use less, or build more troops.

Why won't my bot farm npc10s?

Just like above, there are a number of reasons why it might not be farming. The most common by far is a missing NpcLimits line. Do not confuse this npclimits directive with the config npclimits:9999 goal. They're separate. In order for the bot to hit 6-10s you need to tell it how many of whatever troop (usually archers) you want to be IN the city (not total, but actually there and idle) before it will send. An example of this goal is: npclimits 10 a:200k.

I turned on debugging to find the problem. My bot says it can't find a npc field to attack, it must be blind! I have dozens of npcs around my city.

No, your bot isn't blind. That's the generic error that many other errors default to when it's unable to farm for some reason. The most common of those reasons are listed above. Please enable "verbose" Debugging as well as the "npc farming" debug you turned on to see this message. Verbose will give you a more detailed explanation of what's wrong with farming.

Setup Questions

Where do I download the bot?

The bot will be available in the Downloads & Announcements section on the forum. You must register a forum account first to see this section.
You can find that section here: http://forum.neatportal.com/viewforum.php?f=12. If you're a VIP member you can download it near the top of the VIP forum here: http://forum.neatportal.com/viewforum.php?f=9

The bot keeps losing my goals or settings, why?

Your flash storage limit is probably reached. When flash gets full it starts randomly losing stuff. Right click anywhere in the bot, go to Settings, then slide the bar right to Unlimited. If you're on a Mac or Win8 and unable to click inside this popup (it freezes on the screen for some) then go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html and scroll down to "local" in the list, select it, and then slide the bar above to Unlimited. If that doesn't work either, make sure your font size in Windows is set to 100% and try the right click in bot method again.

How do I find the password stored in the bot?

In the script window of any city, type this: echo Config.password, then hit run. You will need to disable "Safe Scripts" mode first in Global Settings. Don't forget to re-enable Safe Scripts after you're done. It can help protect your account when you run scripts from someone else.

Bot/Director won't work on Windows 8 or 8.1?

You need to set the bot and Director both to Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode.

Connection Errors/Problems

Security Error, reconnect in ...

Usually security errors are due to IP limits. Evony has limited you to a certain number of connections per IP. The "standard" on most servers is 20, it's as low as 2-3 on other servers, and somewhere in between on still other servers. You have a few choices here:

Start using proxies for some or all of your accounts. They will make it appear you're connecting from a different IP address.
Start using an IP hider program, such as Easy-Hide-IP. This is the same as proxies, only uses their software.
Run less alts.
Offload some of your accounts to other locations, such as a paid VPS service.

Unable to Load Config

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