Given that this script is seriously out of date and depends on the kindness of others to keep it running at all, maybe you should look at bumcheekascend, which is free, and see if it will meet your needs. I've never used either script, so I have no idea how well one works compared to the other. But if you look through the previous 789 messages in this thread, you may get an idea of the world of hurt you're letting yourself in for should you succeed in getting the password.
Ethelred is, of course, entitled to his(?) opinion. I might suggest the "seriously out of date" claim is based upon ignorance or at least differing opinions as to whether two months since an update makes something seriously out of date or not. There are things that do not work. Some of them will be fixed by me or others and some, like opening the Guild, await changes to mafia that have yet to be made in response to changes in the game. The "kindness of strangers" claim is accurate but as one of those strangers I'd like to believe it is irrelevant. I find the summary of this thread and the claim that using Ascend will put someone in a "world of hurt" to be an outrageously bogus claim especially from someone who has never used Ascend.
All that said...
I run Ascend on one character created solely to debug Ascend. I run BCC's ascend occasionally on another character. They do fill slightly different niches. On the whole I would say BCC runs are faster but Ascend's are easier, primarily because EatDrink is reasonably well integrated into Ascend whereas eating and drinking are manual activities for BCC's. At one point BCC's did not even support softcore (although it does now) whereas I can't recall trying too many hardcore runs with Ascend. I have a better sense of how to control Ascend, but that could be because I know the code. BCC's does have a relay script to set parameters. Ascend uses zLib so you need to find a zLib 'editor' for the relay browser or edit text files directly.
Free is good. Why should anyone use Ascend instead of BCC's script? Neither script achieves 100% hands off automation all of the time but where and how they fail is different. I believe Ascend's support for softcore is more automated although I may be wrong. Ascend comes with Farm which is a pretty good aftercore script that uses mall prices and a whole bunch of other things to find and automate the best place to farm for meat and items that can be sold for meat.
I have a job, have paid off my mortgage and routinely spend more than $10 a week at Starbucks so getting worked up about $10 to try a script and possibly losing my investment is a waste of my time. However if $10 is a big deal or an economic hardship then I would suggest that BCC is the way to go unless you want to use Farm to recover your investment.
