Login rewards and store Simucoins

The game gives a free reward the first time a character logs in each day, and the store gives each account free Simucoins once a month. Hydra keeps track of both, and can collect them for you.

The daily login reward

The game’s day turns at midnight Eastern. On a character’s first login of that day the game says two lines: it thanks you for logging in, with the streak of consecutive days, and it names the reward. Hydra reads them whenever a character logs in through it and keeps one row a character a day in the ledger: the reward, the streak, any login bridge the game spent, and both lines whole. Nothing is ever sent to the game to learn this.

Ask for it on the command line:

• .rewards says whether today’s reward is in for this character, at what time, and lists the last ten.
• .rewards all shows every character’s latest reward and whether today’s is in.
• .rewards store shows each account’s store Simucoins (below).

The same three are in Menu → Reports, under Login rewards. hydra import also reads rewards out of old recordings, so the history fills in from the days you played before.

A day marked given before Hydra saw it is one where the character had already logged in somewhere else, so the reward came earlier and Hydra did not hear it.

Claiming it for you

Turn on Claim the login reward in Settings → Rewards, and pick the time. Hydra then logs in for the reward alone, for every character on the roster whose account has a kept password, and no more than that: it connects, hears the reward and disconnects. Nothing is played.

It is careful about when:

• Only once the time you set has passed today, by your own clock.
• Only if Hydra was running when that time came. A Hydra started later waits until nothing has been connected through it for ten minutes, so starting Hydra to play is never met by a login of its own.
• Never on an account that has a character connected through Hydra. That account is left alone and tried again every few minutes until the reward is in or the game’s day turns.
• Only for a character whose reward for today is not already in.

Hydra cannot see a character played in another program, such as Wrayth. A scheduled login on the same account can log that character out. Choose a time you are not playing, or list the character under Never log in for.

Each login ends with quit, as you would leave, so the character is not left standing in the game. A character the game hangs up on before it says is tried three times a day at most.

A login the game refuses, a wrong password, is not tried again for hours, so a bad password cannot lock the account.

The setting is the file rewards.toml in the data folder, which the page writes. The login reward and the store are separate switches: the login reward is on when time is set, the store when store = true, and either works without the other. With neither there is no file and nothing is claimed.

time = "19:07"                     # your local time of day
skip = ["GS3:Dicate", "Nerten"]    # never log in for these
store = true                       # the month's store Simucoins (its own switch)

The store’s monthly Simucoins

With store = true (Claim the store’s Simucoins on the Rewards page, off until you turn it on, and independent of the login reward) Hydra signs in to the store at store.play.net and claims the month’s Simucoins for each account. Signing in to the store does not disturb a character playing, so it does not wait for anyone to be idle.

The store says when the next one comes, as a countdown on its page: Next Subscription Bonus in 3d, 20h. Hydra adds that to the time of its visit, and an hour for what the store leaves off, keeps the result in the ledger and goes back when it arrives; it does not look every day. If the store says nothing Hydra can read, or offers no bonus (an account with no subscription), it looks again after a day. The log line [store] ... says what was claimed, and .rewards store shows the last claim, the balance and the next date for each account.