All you have said except the perks are affirmative questions.
For the perks questions, do you mean bots?
If you do, they are all good if you are lazy. To exp, use the Pirate one.
To make Golds, use Quick Gold bot.
Then for the reputations quests, you need to select bots with the reputation you wanna increase.
To farm items, run the bot for the item you want.
And as for the "item add" topic, they patched it ages ago. Tought you can get some items yet. Look for threads on this form.