Suggestions on a good autoclicker?

[Arokthis]

The last one I got had the ****ing "chromium" malware attached. Took me almost a month to get rid of it.

[RonjaLin]

Word of advice: Scan twice/thrice: Scan the website before downloading (preferrably before entering it, and the download link also) and after downloading but before executing anything
https://www.virustotal.com/

Try Hitman Pro if you got malware:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/hitmanpro/
(note that newer versions only run for 30 days, this one despite the warning on the download page seems to run forever?)

Also Malwarebytes:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/

The GS Autoclicker supposedly is fine. However, autoclickers are inefficient for this game, as there is a minimum delay between a click and when resources are gotten.

[Arokthis]

@Protoblob --- I'm pretty sure I got it from Download.com or CNET.com - It said it was safe.

Also, just being able to click 3 or 4 times a second will speed things up quite a bit in the early stages of a reset.

[RonjaLin]

Ah, interesting. I only know about autoclicker dot pro which ws safe for years but then the author added a cryptominer apparently. So I thought maybe you caught that one.

Back in the day when we automated multiplayer matches for grinding, we used Autohotkey. But that one requires some setup. I checked out the GS Autoclicker and it works okay. Setting it to 100ms seems to be the maximum that makes sense (but is slower than human clicking. You can try if lower intervals work better, as you said 250ms. But the thing is, if you click once in 250ms, and it lowers the remaining time by half, you get around 1 thing per second? 100ms was around 2, I think? Manual clicking yields 3 to 4 items per second. It also yields you physical strain and a broken mouse.

However, I can't give any support on any program. Check them out at your own risk.

[Darth[SW]]

Originally posted by Protoblob:

Ah, interesting. I only know about autoclicker dot pro which ws safe for years but then the author added a cryptominer apparently. So I thought maybe you caught that one.

Back in the day when we automated multiplayer matches for grinding, we used Autohotkey. But that one requires some setup. I checked out the GS Autoclicker and it works okay. Setting it to 100ms seems to be the maximum that makes sense (but is slower than human clicking. You can try if lower intervals work better, as you said 250ms. But the thing is, if you click once in 250ms, and it lowers the remaining time by half, you get around 1 thing per second? 100ms was around 2, I think? Manual clicking yields 3 to 4 items per second. It also yields you physical strain and a broken mouse.

However, I can't give any support on any program. Check them out at your own risk.

If you know how to use AHK you can setup a key that when held down will click in the current mouse position repeatedly. You can also make this a toggle or anything you want to do basically. I myself have a mouse and keyboard with programmable buttons and that is my goto for autoclicking. This game needs a delay above 100ms or it will get stuck at 0seconds on the crafts.

[Rock Olympa]

adventure capitalist is good because of events
dont use autoclicker ever or u miss the point of the game.

[p0ntus]

I use something by "Polar". The reason is solely because there is something wrong with the mouse, and it has always had this problem, once in a while, no way to predict, it stops registering clicks or releases of the mouse button, and that is not fun if the "Skip time machine" is active and it stops working. The time machine would expire and it's another 3 hour wait because of a broken mouse. But as someone said, check the files for possible dangerous code.

[KaosReigns]

Originally posted by p0ntus:

I use something by "Polar". The reason is solely because there is something wrong with the mouse, and it has always had this problem, once in a while, no way to predict, it stops registering clicks or releases of the mouse button, and that is not fun if the "Skip time machine" is active and it stops working. The time machine would expire and it's another 3 hour wait because of a broken mouse. But as someone said, check the files for possible dangerous code.

Never explain yourself to people that like to replace mice. Autoclickers save you money, doesnt matter about any other reason people come up with.

Mice have a set amount of clicks, mine this time has an est. 50 million, which wouldnt take long at all to get to on a game like this. So to me, using an autoclicker is a money saver, not a cheat at all. I also sit in front of my PC while my clicker is active, I dont AFK click while I sleep, so there is also that.

As for OP, I use a clicker called Free Mouse Clicker. Nice and simple, it doesnt let you record clicks, but simply automates it at a super basic level.

Alt+F2 - Starts clicking with a minimum speed of 1 millisecond.
You can adjust hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds.

Alt+F3 - Stops clicking.

Nice and simple.

https://www.freemouseclicker.com/

No idea about malware and such, but seeings how this has its own website and has been active for quite a bit, its safe to assume there is nothing, or they would have been discovered and shut down by now.

[duregard]

I use a autohotkey script I made myself.

What id does: Cycles between right-clicking multiple icons in the workshop, progressing each one (so you can autoclick a whole chain of products).

Usage: Place the script in a .ahk file, install AHK and start the script. Press F6 over any inital product in the workshop (without any product window open). Then hold mouse over at least two more products in the workshop (again without any open product windows) and press F7. Then press F8 to start/stop the clicking (make sure you have the game-window in focus!).

Script:

#MaxThreadsPerHotkey, 2
SetBatchLines, -1
SetDefaultMouseSpeed, 0

Toggle := False

Xs := []
Ys := []

F7::
MouseGetPos, x, y
Xs.Push(x)
Ys.Push(y)
return

F6::
MouseGetPos, x, y
Xs := [x]
Ys := [y]
return

F8::
Toggle := !Toggle
Loop
{
If (!Toggle){
Return
}
For k, x in Xs
{
y := Ys[k]
SendInput, {RButton}
Sleep 10
SendInput, {RButton}
MouseMove, x, y
Sleep 10
}
}

[p0ntus]

Never mind, I bought a new mouse finally. Thank you anyway. In the process I discovered there is a minor performance issue but that's in the the game

[25hz]

Originally posted by duregard:

I use a autohotkey script I made myself.

What id does: Cycles between right-clicking multiple icons in the workshop, progressing each one (so you can autoclick a whole chain of products).

Usage: Place the script in a .ahk file, install AHK and start the script. Press F6 over any inital product in the workshop (without any product window open). Then hold mouse over at least two more products in the workshop (again without any open product windows) and press F7. Then press F8 to start/stop the clicking (make sure you have the game-window in focus!).

Script:

#MaxThreadsPerHotkey, 2
SetBatchLines, -1
SetDefaultMouseSpeed, 0

Toggle := False

Xs := []
Ys := []

F7::
MouseGetPos, x, y
Xs.Push(x)
Ys.Push(y)
return

F6::
MouseGetPos, x, y
Xs := [x]
Ys := [y]
return

F8::
Toggle := !Toggle
Loop
{
If (!Toggle){
Return
}
For k, x in Xs
{
y := Ys[k]
SendInput, {RButton}
Sleep 10
SendInput, {RButton}
MouseMove, x, y
Sleep 10
}
}

Ok, so what does right clicking do? It turned the product icon purple. What does that mean and how do you turn off what the right clicking did?

EDIT: Ok, so on further investigation, instead of opening the product panel and left-clicking on the product icon, I guess you can right click the icon to do the same thing with the product window closed? It seems to function like that, which I did not know :) I guess the purple background in the icon is just the background colour of the item :)

[25hz]

Two good, simple ones are TinyTask and NiAutoclicker.

NiAutoclicker is good because it is window specific. You can set it on a window and it still allows free mouse use on any other window on your computer. It also doesn't change focus from where you want to use the mouse on an active window, to the window where you have the autoclicker. It also allows multiple click locations with a set number of clicks per second or the number of seconds between clicks.

Also, as mentioned, there is a cap on how often clicks are registered. It seems to be about 12 per second is the max the game will register.

[25hz]

Originally posted by Arokthis:

The last one I got had the ****ing "chromium" malware attached. Took me almost a month to get rid of it.

Also, just a FYI, THIS game has that virus "Chromium" installed in it too. It's called ZFGameBrowser.exe. You can name edit the file name and the game still runs fine without it.

[Isharu Matsu]

OP Autoclicker... or minimouse macro, sorry devs but your pay to win formula is too atrocious

[76561199059379723]

sorry Isharu Matsu, but your playstyle is too ineffective ;) many players in our game are winning without paying. ask our discord! feel free to use auto-clickers if you want.

Also: the zfgamebrowser.exe (Chromium) is a standard open source web browser which is used in the game to display the FAQ and Privacy policy. If you don't need those you don't need the zfgamebrowser.exe. If there is a virus it's most likely coming from somewhere else. There are other steam community discussions clarifying all this.

[RonjaLin]

I recommend the website virustotal.com as well as the tools Malwarebytes and Hitman Pro (best would be if you find a free version from many years ago but I think there are only trial versions nowadays - don't confuse with the video game series) for virus and malware scanning.

However, if you are actually infected, you might want to write at a specialized forum for help, or look at the bleepingcomputer guides.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/

References:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/hitmanpro/ (only use if actually infected, due to 30 days trial)
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/f/22/virus-trojan-spyware-and-malware-removal-help/ (example of a specialized forum)