I'm thinking in extending SGtools with a new and huge functionality, but before implementing it I would like to know if people really is interested in the idea and will use it.

The idea is to make a more flexible filter for private giveaways, but what does that mean?

You'll be able to create a set of rules for your giveaway and input a private giveaway URL. People (and you) will use "login with steam" to identify themselves and the tool will give him the url if and only if they met all the restrictions.
Once a user is given a giveaway URL, he'll be flagged as a valid entry for that giveaway. When the giveaway finish the creator will be able to check if the winner is flagged as valid, if that is not the case you'll be sure that he got the url following the rules.

What kind of rules/filters will you be able to use?

    - Min/Max Steamgifts level

    - Min/Max raw sent gifts value
    - Min/Max real sent gifts value

    - Min/Max raw won gifts value
    - Min/Max real won gifts value

    - Min/Max raw sent gifts value on Public/Private/Groups giveaways
    - Min/Max real sent gifts value on Public/Private/Groups giveaways
    - Min/Max raw won gifts value on Public/Private/Groups giveaways
    - Min/Max real won gifts value on Public/Private/Groups giveaways

    - Maximum number of entries (number of times the tool will give the url)

    - Your suggestions / ideas.

    - Sent games / Won games ratio factor
    - Sent CV / Won CV ratio factor
    - Sent Real CV / Won real CV ratio factor

    - Whitelisted game since X days

The giveaway creator will be able to see in the tool's giveaway page a list of the people who got the giveaway link and a tool to check if an entry is valid as detailed before.

Any suggestions or ideas are welcome, even those who think that this tool will be useless :)

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I'm getting a 404 error from http://www.sgtools.tk/ , everything alright?

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That domain is really old and not in use anymore, since yesterday I did a hosting change it's not redirecting to the correct ip.

The solution is to use the real domain as jatan suggested www.sgtools.info

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sgtools said that i'm not active the won game or my account is private, and now i can't check requirement for Giveaway eventhough i have activated all won game in my account, any idea ??? some bug or glitch ??

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Hello everyone,
I've a little bug with the tool that you offer. It seems that the site is flagging my account with unactivated wins, more exacly one unactivated win. Its a DLC from Payday 2 that I've won on a giveaway one or two months ago. It also says that the problem might be with steam API so...
I was just wondering if there was anything that I can do to fix this?
Thanks in advance

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These are included for completeness.

It does go on to state "the following ones are probably activated!" so you should not worry too much about it. It will not be held against you and you are but one of a large number of accounts have items that cannot be verified as owned through the Steam API.

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It would be awesome if sgtools could step in to fill the "free" games gap.
some games have had dev giveaways at some point, so sg has to block ga's for those so bots don't get CV.
but people still end up with bought copies from bundle leftovers and there are still people who need copies.
a minimum overhead solution where people can dump keys and they will be paired up with a random person who has it wishlisted or if that pool is empty a random person who simply doesn't have it yet.
Thank you

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I prefer to let all the games exchange happens here, sgtools is just a complementary thing and in my opinion it should never do things that can be done here, like giving games or creating real giveaways (as sg does).

There are a number of solutions for those homeless keys that can't be used to create a giveaway, like dumping them in the forum, on a group chat, feeding them to ArchiBot and a long list :P

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I've been trying to lobby for 0p ga's or silent 0p RNG wishlist key dumps here without success, so for now it wouldn't be a functionality overlap.
On Archibot I'm not sure how to feed it keys, the page that is supposed to have the manual for usage has no useful data:
https://touhou.justarchi.net/about/archibot linked from: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ArchiBot/
on just dumping stuff in forum/chat the main issue is I don't want users to have to run into "this key is already used" type errors, and with any such dump the vast majority of people will run into that error.
I would welcome any suggestion that would in each instance show the key to one and only one user.

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The best thing would be a "freebies" section on steamgifts, apart from the normal one, where people could create giveaways for those "banned" games for 0 points. But this functionality is not a priority so if it gets implemented, it'll be later than sooner.

About having it on sgtools, I prefer not to mix with what steamgifts already does

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No problem, Thank you for considering the issue.

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This thread provides some kind of a solution, but I too was hoping for SGTools to pick up the slack. I can understand why knsys isn't rushing to do it though.

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sgtools flagged me for having unactivated wins or having a private profile, but my account is in good standing with all wins activated and having a public profile. The only thing that sticks out is that I won a game (Skyrim) recently and the guy emailed me a steam gift, which I activated and the sgtools says I have all games activated. My profile is unchanged and still public as I was able to join giveaways through sgtools previously.

So I was wondering whats wrong and how to fix it so that I can join giveaways through sgtools again

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Steam fuckup, I resetted your cache, try again :)

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Thanks its working again.

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I managed to find the old key for race injection I won , SG tools says I'm missing, actually I'm at this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/89ha699yffqr8kv/Screenshot%202016-01-24%2016.11.32.png?dl=0

own: RACE 07, Formula RaceRoom, Race on, STCC The Game (won more than 1 year ago)

and seems I won: Race the WTCC the game, in another giveaway (more than one year ago)

actual bundle : RACE 07, STCC The Game 2, Formula RaceRoom, GT Power Expansion, Retro Pack, WTCC 2010 Pack

so actually or the bundle has changed through time or I have recived an incomplete bundle , bacause I have always activated my wins, so I wanted to know if is possible to fix it , actually being flagged piss me off a bit .

seems ppl love to blacklist without further checks LOL

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On both case scenarios, namely the pack has changed or you received an incorrect (or not complete) game, steamgifts support is the correct place to report, since sgtools can't do nothing on this matter.

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I just saw your "Train Checker" addition to the illegal entries list. Thanks, knsys!!

❤❤❤❤

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Wow, you are fast :O

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Just coincidence I'm sure if you only just got it up and running. I haven't checked the illegal entries list since yesterday afternoon. :)

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For custom filters: Does "real_sent_group" include whitelist giveaways?
Also, do I use parentheses in a correct way in real_sent_group/(real_sent_public+real_sent_private) < 1 ?

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Yes, it includes them, just like steamgifts does. Group can be:

  1. Group only
  2. Group and Whitelist
  3. Whitelist only
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Ty for the clarification.

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Hi, for some reason I keep getting flagged for having non-activated wins or a private profile. But I've activated all my wins. I even checked with rule checker on SG tools and no non-activated wins were shown. My profile is also public. What could be the problem?

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I want to make a giveaway for people who have the game in their wishlists, but I can't find the option on sgtools (I guess when you say "Whitelisted game since X days" you meant "wishlist", or is it a different thing?). How can I do it? Is it a custom filter?

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It's meant to be wishlist yes, but it's not implemented and not in top of the priorities right now.

It'll be an option that will appear in the future

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Thanks for answering. I saw it in the big blue box from the first page and automatically thought it was already done. I hope that even if it is not a priority, it gets implemented soon.
I wonder if when you implement it, you could also add a "no more than X games in your wishlist" option.

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I'am sure it is found somewhere in the replies here, but I am super lazy atm, dont feel like to game either -,-.

But what is bothering me between multiwin and non-activated check that with the last one if there is a space before the name it crashes and by multi it isnt. Is that a coding error or steam?

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i have a problem with the CV sended. When i run the option for Real Contribution value is returning 57$ but when i try to enter in a giveaway with the min limit 50, its returning an error as my CV is 30. I updated a lot of times my steamgifts account but the problem continue. Can you help me, pls?

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That is because cache, there is alot of information about that in the thread, please take a look at the other posts.

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I was looking for more information in this post but is the problem in the sgtools cache or on my computer? I read that you are reseting the cache of some users.

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is it possible to have a wishlist sign on things?

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Sgtools doesn't store your wishlist, at least not at the moment, and if I remember well there is no api call to get them, so it involves parsing steam website.

That means it would be slow and therefore until there is a stored wishlist, this won't be possible.

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So, I'm loving the new pie chart
However, I'm seeing it bug out on people with larger numbers
For example, when I try to run it on myself, I get my wins just fine, but my sent which is 1200+ breaks the pie chart thing.
Do you have a possible solution of some sort to fix this? I would love to see those results XD

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Fixed the issue with the thousand's coma separator, thanks for the report!

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Awesome! Thanks, loving this new chart :D

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The pies are no lie here :)
Thanks for the charts, they are great!

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Time since last received game? I think it might be usable for people who want to give those who haven't won recently.

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Something really weird. Noticed this last night.

I'm using Firefox and have also Internet Explorer.

After I log into SGTools when I click on any of the 4 top tabs (Home, CV, Rules Checkers,Giveaways) the drop down menu's don't drop down anymore?

I'm having this on both browsers.

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Same issue in Chrome :/

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Hey Aurorable;

for me it's since yesterday and I didn't install drivers or Microsoft updates or changed my system.

Ad blocker is always disabled for SGTools, latest Adobe products versions and latest Java version installed.

Using Windows 7 64bit

Firefox and Internet Explorer are both latest versions/updates

I can only use the first SGTools pages when I click on any of the 4 top tabs and the drop down menu for the real CV (gifts won/gifts sent) does work.

Computer restarts and browser restarts doens't solve the issue.

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I didn't change/installed anything either :( It just stopped working today for me, but yesterday it was have trouble loading pages and they also would randomly freeze. I even wiped my browser and it fixed nothing. The only things I've have installed is Norton browsers protection, SGLinkies and SteamGifts Blacklist/Whitelist Indicator (which has never and) shouldn't affect anything :/ I can still go to the pages, just the drop down won't work. (Using windows 10 64bit)

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I can still go to the pages, just the drop down won't work

The very same problem here.

We have 3 different browsers between us. We have different Windows versions. We didn't install windows updates or drivers.

We do have both 64 bits OS systems.

I think tinkering, un- and reinstalling, trial and error guessing is useless untill we hear from Knsys.

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I just fixed it, it was a bug when dumping assetics :(

It should work fine now :3

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Thank you Knsys!

After 1 browser page refresh the menu's drop down again.

You're even faster than a peregrine falcon! ^ ^

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YAY :D

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May I suggest a 1 manual per day cache check per user?
I made some GAs and some values changed but when I try to enter some previously failed SGTool GAs, I get the same result when I should pass.

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I have been flagged. I don't have any unactivated wins nor is my profile private.
May I ask why I have been flagged?

Thank you in advance.

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Cache resetted, try again :3

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Thank you, it worked! :D

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Could you add me on steam for a bit?
I've had some odd functionality where 5 of 10 entrants on a giveaway are listed in the invalid entries section [though they don't seem as though they ought be], and I'd appreciate if I could run that by you and if you could confirm that those are all in fact invalid entries, and not just a weird bug.

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Sure, you can add me.
There is no known bug on invalid entries so it most likely they got the url leaked.

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Added :)

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Apparently my account is flagged for unactivated wins and / or private profile, though I don't have either (sgtools even tells me that all my wins are activated). How do I fix this?

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I got a question about SGTools, perhaps some kind user of SteamGifts knows the answer.
I was trying to understand how the value given is calculated.
Do giveaways with 1 to 4 entries to a group count for your value given?

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Private / Group giveaways with less than 5 entries doesn't count towards CV and levels.
That is a rule to try to minimize potential abuse, it makes some small giveaway groups sometime loose some potential cv but it's for the greater good.

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Is it possible to show how much value is being discarded?
As to get a better number for the real value given when looking at someone's profile.

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It's on todo list :)

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They don't. For Real CV (that's what you ask?) calculation rules used are the same as for SG Level.

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The other thing that I'm wondering is that I saw the value given drop.
It went down a few dollars. Now one of the reasons it could drop was that a game was just given and added to the bundle list.
However that was not the case for me.
What else could lead to the value given go down?

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When a game gets permanently discounted aka his base price decreases, the CV it gives decreases too, even if it was more expensive when you gave it away, a game will always give contributor value according to the actual base price.

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I have a question regarding setting the maximum number of entries. It appears this is actually the number of times the URL is given out. Is there any way to add in a true comparison of the number of current entrants in the GA as part of the filter? Of course I'd also want to keep the filter for number of times the URL is given out because that's useful as well.

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Maximum number of entries is indeed the maximum number of times the url will be given away by sgtools.

The problem with making it real entries is that it would require a recurring parsing of entries every X minutes, making it not that accurate. Or if we do that just real time, the number of times we would parse the giveaway page could be huge.

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Yesterday I found a GA that required to have 1:1 sent/won ratio but when I clicked to check it, it was 0.98:1 and it was true because I had gived away 51 games, and won 52 so yesterday I created GA to make even 1:1 so I could join on the sg tools. The guy who won marked as received but on sg tools it still shows that my ratio is 0.98. I even resynced my account hoping that it could do something. Obviously it didn't because now I'm asking for your help.
edit: yep, working

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SGtools / Steam is messing up again. Where and how do I clear the cache myself?

edit: its working again somehow

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