ML Bot 8.01 is ready for MTGO v4

Hello Botters,

today we release ML Bot for Mtgo v4, please be sure to download and test it. You may continue to use ML Bot for v3 until July 16th, when Wizards will turn it off but please spend some time now downloading the new bot and make sure it works properly on your machines. You don't need to do exhaustive tests, you just need to make sure it is working and it is able to complete a test trade.
The v4 bot is stable and works the exact same way as v3. If you decide to use ML Bot v4 this week please report any issues to us immediately, possibly with a screenshot. You can reach us on our LiveChat directly on our website or email us at staff@mtgolibrary.com.
If you need an updated windows 7 64 bit VM with Mtgo v4 and all the updates installed you can use the following vmware 10 image http://176.58.109.146/WIN7WM.zip

Please don't leave the bot unattended, run it when you can watch it a little bit.

You can download the ML Bot "v4" installer from the homepage of www.mtgolibrary.com or from your Online Control Panel. The old v3 installer has been removed so now you can only download the v4 installer. 


There are some minor differences between the old v3 bot and the new v4 bot.

• First of all pricelist CardsMTGO3.txt has been renamed in CardMTGO.txt and the format has slighly changed. The old format was:

01 001 01 001 324 VMA R Volcanic Island# 14.780 29.900 9.900 20.030

while the new format is:

105#324#VMA#R#Volcanic Island#14.780#29.900#9.900#20.030

The new format uses "#" as separators and adds two code numbers (in the example 105 and 324) as first fields. Please do not change them otherwised the bot won't be able to load the pricelist properly. These two numbers are respectively the setnumber (VMA is "105") and the cardnumber (Volcanic Island is number 324). Till 16th July the bot you could download the old pricelist and the new pricelist: we added a button to do that.

• All the prices have been moved to the "prices" subfolder: there you will find CardsMTGO.txt, PersonalPrices.txt, PersonalPercentages.txt, CardsForAdvertisement.txt and SpecialBuddy.txt and the debug file CardsNeededAndCollection.txt. You can open that folder from the bot GUI too. If you have scripts that access these files, you need to code the "/prices" subfolder.
• Pause command is now "CTRL+P" instead of "CTRL+A", because "P" is supposed to mean "Pause"

There will be many updates this week. The new bot has been deeply tested but, like any new software, it is still "young" and some minor issues could arise. We will be 24/7 on Livechat, you just need to reach us there.

Please also make sure you read the previous articles about v4:
http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.com/2014/07/mtgo-v4-and-ml-bot-requirements.html
http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.it/2014/06/our-plans-for-switchover.html


Enjoy,
Albert

MTGO Library Bot 6.00

ML Bot 6.00 has just been released, fixing and tuning a number of "little things".

• The initial part of the trades is now up to 3 seconds faster, resulting in less waiting time for your customers
• Special Buddies' corrections can be tuned at 1% increments
• The pause mechanism slightly changed because it was too easy to forget the bot paused and lose a day of trades. This was especially true on slow computers where the pause could take up to 500-600 ms to activate, resulting in multiple pressions of the "CTRL+A" sequence. ML Bot will now unpause automatically after 10 minutes. If a longer paused is needed, please stop the bot and restart it when done

Paused for a night...

Paused..

Yet again I have left my main bot paused while I slept (for the third time in just over 2 years).
This wouldn't be much of a problem if I lived in the US, but being in UK means that, while I'm sleeping its the end of afternoon/evening in USA, which are usually the busiest business times.

Such thing can affect the trust from your regular customers and cause loss of business on the short and long run. Downtime should always be avoided at all costs.

Has such thing ever happened to you? How do you avoid it?  (maybe using CTRL S for 60 seconds pause only?)

Let me know in the comment section!.