How to farm War Spoils

Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2015, 16:04 PMJordan823

Looks like I'm the proud owner of two Elite Troop Doctrines! Oh, I now also own four "Swift Move" bulletins, 10% movement speed for sWs Supply Halftracks, don't even have the slots to make use of them all.

Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2015, 16:44 PMscratchedpaintjob

oh thats sweet

as i said, the drops are pretty random, bit nice to see you got better luck this time!

Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2015, 21:20 PMJordan823

Haha, that's A LOT of dupes
So cool that you got all of that though, more than I can dream right there

Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2015, 18:40 PMS0_L337_1T_HURTS

At this point: I then activate the script [double click script and accept 'run' (i get a prompt) FYI: Language is in English, since that seemed to cause someone else a problem.

Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2015, 14:09 PMS0_L337_1T_HURTS

Got it working: right click the script and choose 'Run as Administrator' to start.
Hopefully this info will help someone else, too.

While idle/AFK, the script breaks after one game and I'm not sure why. I'll experiment more later but I leave the window 'activated' and then go afk, I came back to see the script hijacked my mouse cursor and I couldn't get it back--forced me into a hard restart.

I'm glad this script was made.

Jump back to quoted post24 Mar 2015, 11:41 AMscratchedpaintjob

which script did you use? the newest experimental or the normal one? at which point exactly does it stop?

Jump back to quoted post24 Mar 2015, 14:47 PMS0_L337_1T_HURTS

1000Experimental2 .... it has worked flawlessly for two nights. The times the script broke, I can't be sure of the cause. Maybe some sort of power saver or sleep function attempts to turn on and breaks the script? I have all that stuff disabled though, and having the game running should prevent sleeping or powersaving anyway. Strange. I find the script works flawlessly, for me at least, when I have another program running in the background, one that I know wont allow the computer to sleep or something, then I leave it running in the background and this has made everything stable through long afk periods.

In case anyone's curious: I let it idle from 12midnight-8am for two nights and loot 4 warspoils each night. No commanders, yet Only 1 warspoil per 90-120 min or so is horrible. No normal person can hope to loot commanders even if they played hard core every night of the week for 8 straight hours. It's a lottery that could take years.

This script is our only hope.

Jump back to quoted post24 Mar 2015, 19:16 PMdaspoulos

but hey it made it so I don't have to pay for anything anymore.

Jump back to quoted post25 Mar 2015, 04:13 AMS0_L337_1T_HURTS

Kind of like saying, "Prison rape isn't great, but hey at least it's free sex."

Jump back to quoted post25 Mar 2015, 05:29 AMdaspoulos

Not at all. WHat I'm saying is, before I wouldn't have paid to get commanders. Now I have premium content, in fact most all from playing the game regularly. It doesn't come regularly or consistently. But over time just looking at all the free commanders I've won, I've gained quite a bit with no drawbacks whatsoever.

I'll just rephrase, it may not be a pretty system, but its a system that can only give you benefits. Only good has came out of war spoils. That is unless you care about bulletins (which quite frankly are worthless, I already have all the bulletins I need), even still free commanders > bulletins.

All if this though ONLY applies to players who played the game and unlocked everything before war spoils, because you got to keep everything. So in my case I not only have all the base commanders and worthwhile bonuses. But now I'm getting free skins and commanders that will continue to come out or the ones I didn't buy before.

Jump back to quoted post16 Oct 2014, 16:00 PMscratchedpaintjob

Hi,

as we all now, the War Spoils System is bad and you need a big amount of time to get commanders, if you dont want to spend huge amounts of money. But with the help of some tools you can farm effectively while being at work, school university or whatsoever.

I got all WFA commanders with this skript besides the rifles company one.

First of all you will need this map made by Havenco(credits to him!):
Pepperidge Farm
favour the map, if you like it!

Now you have to start COH2 in windowed mode:
1. Right-click on "Company of Heroes 2" under the Steam Library and select Properties
2. Select "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS..."
3. Write "-window -forceactive" and then click "OK" followed by "CLOSE"

Then you will go to the options menu and change the resolution to 1024*768. This will hopefully decrease the power consumption of the system and ensure, that the skripts click at the right positions. This script does not work without it!
Close the game.

Now you need one of those two scripts:
~15 minutes/game time
~1 hour/game

or you can "make" it yourself by copying this text into a Autohotkey script:



Now start the game. It will (hopefully) be in windowed mode at the left top of your screen.
1. Open a custom game
2. Choose pepperidge farm
3. Choose Standart Ressources, Fixed positions, 250VPs for the first skript, 1000VPs for the second Skript and the "selfmade" skript and a easy AI as enemy
4. Start the skript. Some virusscanners might stop the .exe skripts, in this case you have to make the skript yourself with autohotkey and start the .ahk. You might also need to start it as administrator, if it doesnt work otherwise.
5. Click somewhere in the COH2 window to make it the active one. (you have 10 seconds to do that)
6. Enjoy!
Both Skripts farm a little more than 10 hours, you can of course stop them before that.

I would generally advise you to go with 1000vps because you seem to get more bulletins this way.
Furthermore, the 1000vp skript needs much longer per game and therefore is not that prone to random Performance issues...

If you experience any bugs, have questions or need different timings because your computer is superslow, just write here!

EDIT: USE THE 1000VP SCRIPT. WAR SPOILS SEEM TO BE BUGGED AND GIVE YOU A LOT MORE STUFF PER TIME IF YOU HAVE LONG GAMES!!!

EDIT2: changed the clicking points for new patch. the old scripts wont work anymore unfortunately, so pls download the new version

Jump back to quoted post3 Apr 2015, 14:53 PMBratwurst

This do not work for me. With the old script you have in the first post they don't start a new game after finished the first one. Stops after showing the statistics.

With the experimental script the script starts the game, but do not click on the button after I loaded the game.

Any thoughts about this?

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 12:23 PMJohnyb1987

you can easily leave the pc and bang you girlfriend.

Jump back to quoted post3 Apr 2015, 14:53 PMBratwurst

This do not work for me. With the old script - you have in the first post - they don't start a new game after finished the first one. Stops after showing the statistics.

With the experimental script the the game starts, but it don't click on the button after it loaded the game.
Any thoughts about this?

Jump back to quoted post4 Apr 2015, 20:48 PMCorkscrewblow

Yeah it stops there for me as well. Looks like this new patch makes the current scripts not work.

Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2015, 02:10 AMSkunk McSmelly

Where can I get the new version?