Everything we've seen suggests that the restocks are random apart from the obvious fact that lower rarity items restock more frequently than higher rarity items. Also, you can't really look into it in with much certainty when we've got no way of getting complete data.
But as a legit RSer, I know they're not random. There is an obvious pattern of one large restock about every seventeen minutes normally, followed by one or two smaller (sometimes more profitable) restocks three to six minutes later. It's like clockwork, I can almost set my watch by it. It's solely dependant on the number and rate of items being sold in the shop. I've seen RSs as close as two or three minutes apart during high traffic times. All of this seems to be measurable with the proper automation, given there's enough people using Abrosia. And you do have a way of getting 99% complete data. Every time a user of Abrosia refreshes and sees a restock, the shops restock time can subjected to the last refresh wait time within a margin of error of about 1% and added to a database for the calculation of average RS times and eventually, RS predictions. I'm not describing anything I can't code myself.
But disregarding that, my original idea of intelligent pausing is strongly rooted in logic and, in addition to the previously mentioned data collection function, I could code it. Not only that but it would be simple, far from the most complicated algorithm I've ever developed.
Can't you just schedule Abrosia to RS for an hour with a 10 minute break randomly throughout the day?
I usually only use Abrosia when I'm at my computer and I frequently pause it to browse around the site, do dailies, train, etc.
I understand the point of Abrosia is to automate the RS process, but it seems kinda greedy (and risky) to leave it on all the time trying to emulate human actions...
Intelligent pausing would make it look more human, but no human RSs for more than six hours or so (even that's pushing it). Many people here use Abrosia all day long or all night long. It would be extremely helpful for the ABer to be able to pause after a restock to look more natural, maybe 1% or 5% of the time depending on your preference. It eliminates the need to deal with the scheduler for small pauses (which is fixed, so if you don't change it every day, you're at more risk for pattern detection) and just use it for starting and stopping, but I don't think it would encourage people to AB longer.
Edited by leptooners, 03 May 2014 - 12:35 PM.
There is the pause feature for when a UB is bought but after a restock it would make sense for someone to go elsewhere for a break.
