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Spring 2015, Fubar stopped having unlimited 11s as a bonus, and came up with this and it lasted four (4) hours. They did not sell well, so they made an achievement for first time activated. A lot of complaints, and they changed it to eight (8) but and brought back the unlimited 11's, at first about once per month, and during the time this was written, it's almost once a week.
You get no bonus points. You don't reset the ability to re-rate your profile, it's primary use is to be able to attempt the hardest achievements for rating profiles 11 in a day. The toughestes one is:
Rate 10,000 Newbies 11 in a Fubar Day. I know of only one other person besides myself, who has completed it. You can complete it also if you have many people reset your 11's (VIP of course) about 40 times. Other than that, there is nothing more to say about this power up, so I will instead explain my little experience with it, and how I went about completing that most difficult achievement. I call it the most difficult because unlike the 5000 rates for Fu Darling, this one is 100% solo.
UPDATE: 07/03/16 - The new achievement difficulty index has one hidden feature. If you hold your mouse over the meter on any achievement, it will show you how many have it completed, up to 999. Then it changes to 1000+, 2000+ 3000+ etc. This image shows the meter for this most difficult achievement.
Like many, I bought (traded) one, but when I activated it, I was "out of 11s", so I screen captured it, and sent a message to Fubar Support. All they really could do, was to give me another one. I still have that power up, almost one year old, and will never use it.
I decided on a weekend that started with unlimited 11's in June 2015. I went to bed early, and was working it immediately at Fu Midnight. When the bonus is unlimited 11's, the actual limit is 9,999. I used that counter as the only way to determine how many newbies I had rated 11. While at it, I also went to like 10,000 newbies for the achievements (and also for 5,000 each).
The counter started at midnight with what was remaining from the day before, so I recorded that number in Notepad as a reference. At 1:30AM Fubar time, 11's reset, so my counter would jump back to 9,999. So I recorded my count right before that time, and that was my reference in addition to the difference in how many from 9,999 I had remaining. That meant, I would need no 11s reset to get to 10,000 in one day. Pretty good strategery if I say so myself.
Doing some other arithmetic, dividing 10,000 into one day, that works out to one rate and like every 8.64 seconds. That sounds fast but that's easier than it looks because newbie profiles open much faster because they often have one photo, and haven't discovered what skins are. It's a good idea to block skins too.
I would use the lower levels, starting at 20 doing a search, first male, then female (gives more results that way) then open only those with green names. Since I got this done, the name color option was put into place, and newbies were changed to white when they verified email, which makes this now very tough using this method. You still have to find 10,000 newbies because they won't run a boomerang to reset.
I would use one hand on my keyboard, and the other on the mouse. I would hold the Ctrl key down, and left click each one to open them in new tabs. When I had a good number open, like 30+, I would use Ctrl-Tab to go to the next tab, click like first then the 11 rate. Immediately I would press Ctrl-W to close that tab and automatically go to the next. On a search page of levels 1 or 0, I could open all the profiles listed as green, like and rate them all, and complete all 30 in about 90 seconds. Then click the next page and repeat. I would miss and click 10 once in a while. The trick there was to not re-rate them 11, because it won't count but it will subtract on how many 11' you have left and throw off your counting. Also. always LIKE first, then RATE, because if you rate a newbie during the same SECOND of time as you open their page (including switching tabs) the Fubar Servers will see this and give you a "Rating too fast, ignored" message and force you to click again.
Fubar has in place the bouncer that will show up if you open too many things to fast, and there is also one undocumented feature that prevents you from opening too many profiles each hour, which is 1,000. Starting at the second hour, I reached the 1,000 threshold at about 52 minutes. Any profiles clicked after that, I would get a totally white screen. Unable to rate or like any more. When the top of the hour came, I was then able to open more profiles and continue. I used this as a way to document 1,000 newbie profiles liked and rated each hour, and used the remaining time to stretch out my legs and get something to eat/drink.
This achievement is a very lonely process. Nothing anyone can do to help you with this. Posting a banner is pointless, and you don't have much time to respond to friends who want to chitchat. SO the only thing I did was update my status with my running count. When I got to the higher numbers, I got some cool profile status comments and shout box messages.
After the sixth or seventh time I got to the white screen, Fubar did the next thing to slow things down. Instead of 1,000 profile views per hour, I was now limited to 350. At least I was well past 7,500 and when I got the achievements for 5,000 each, I had a new reference point to know how much farther I had to go. I went to the support lounge to ask about the limits with the white screen. Not one of the bouncers had ever heard about the 350 limit, but I was all but accused of running scripting language to get this done. Nothing could be further from the truth. I had literally opened, liked, rated and closed 1,000 profiles in as fast as 44 minutes (I got faster with time).
In the middle of the day, the unlimited 11's was changed to something else, and with the 350 limit per hour, I wasn't going to run my FOUR HOUR Unlimited 11s power up. So, I had a couple friends use their ability points to refresh my 11s enough times. I completed the 10,000 newbie likes but was about 150 short of the 11 rates because all the ones I missed and clicked 10, didn't count when I re rated. It was a little time later, and I did complete them all.
Finding 10,000 newbies was a lot of work. I got about 6,000 fast using the searching for levels 0 and 1, then doing a new search when I got to page 100 for each. Doing separate searches for each gender gave me more than not searching that way, so I had to manually enter the url for the rest. IF user number 1003946 is a newbie (just an example), then user number 10039461 would also be a newbie even if they don't show up in a search. This is how I found the 10,000 necessary to complete them. All profiles were manually opened, manually liked, manually rated, and manually closed, and I still had more than six hours left in the day.
Also, when GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) midnight comes, NOT FUBAR Midnight, the newbies on their 7th day automatically are no longer newbies. It's not the exact minute that their profile was created. I tried to explain this in the Fubar Support lounge and not one of the several bouncers was able to grasp that concept. All computers connected to the internet with automatic time adjustment, use GMT as a reference. Even servers. The time zone you choose places the correct system date/time on your screen, but the internal clock is still at GMT. There are a few advantages to being an IT professional that can be of great help.
The one other Fubar item that uses GMT is the date recorded for compling achievements. If you complete one after GMT midnight, it will display the date complete (not the time) as tomorrow. Try this if you don't believe me.
So if you want to go for this (or even just the 5,000 one that very few have done) I'll be happy to give you some one-on-one time to help you practice your technique. I really do want to see someone else get this achievement.
