Congrats on your 1000th trade. Some nice giveaways as well. Bumping this :-)
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In terms of bot popularity, it's always number of unique Steam cards that matters, my STM listing shows that your bot has 1616 cards from 554 different games which is a very nice diversified amount, now it's mainly giving it even more than that - the more cards you have, the more possible matches users will have, ArchiBoT isn't really the same "league" with its 13k from 3.8k games, nearly everybody is guaranteed to have a match with it, if not today then in a few days when cards rotate.
Consider setting up avatar for your bot, it's always better to see some friendly recognizable picture rather than question mark. I'm pretty sure you did that already but if not, also request bot status on STM so it works in Any mode like ASF STM listing states.
It's nice seeing how ASF made STM trade bots far more common, it helps everybody.
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100% agree about the diversity. I try as much as possible to not have more cards per game than the number you need for a badge. If that happens, I trade half the cards on steamcardexchange, or sell them and buy a booster pack from a game I don't have.
You're right about the avatar, I just changed it (and I of course already requested bot status).
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It will be easier if you put your bot STM direct link, so i won't have to spec scan it by myself
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Congratulations on 1000 trades!:)
Some nice HOG choices you're giving away! Thank you!:)
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Congrats on your 1,000 trades milestone.
I was just looking at my profile ten minutes ago to see if I finally hit 7,000 owned games (and I did, it's 7,002 now). I noticed I have done 26,626 trades; I really wonder how many of those have been by hand and how many of those are ASF auto accepting (I trade a lot with the Exchange bot by hand).
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QuickMatch URLS like this are much easier to use than SpecScan since you only need to remember the bot's name.
I think to compete with AB you would first need to compete with ASF to get grateful card farmers dumping some extra cards on the bot, but you're doing a great job on your own. :)
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Thanks, I've done one. But tbh I don't see the point in scanning just one bot instead of all of them.
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If you do a full scan, the results would change after every trade is accepted. So instead of refreshing the whole thing, you can check which bots have cards for you and QuickMatch them one at a time. Saves time and load on STM servers, if nothing else.
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I see. Not a bad idea, actually, but I don't see any link on the https://www.steamtradematcher.com/compare page to quickmatch. Having to manually remember the name of the bots is not very efficient. (And how do you know that quickmatch even exists if you are a regular user of STM ? The only place I found it mentioned is if you want to create a quickmatch url, but there is no place that explains what it actually does)
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It's mentioned on the bot's profile usually. So you need to check there and find it the first time, after that the browser simply autocompletes it from couple letters. So if I used your bot a lot daily, I could just type "stas" to get there instead of having to remember the SteamID or go to profile every time to get it.
It wasn't meant as a better alternative to scanning all bots, just to SpecScan and also a very useful tool for bots to offer if some people want to use it. Server load is an issue only during Winter/Summer when everyone wants to use it at the same time, then number of matches is limited and you might never get the bot you need unless you scan it yourself.
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This is exactly what my listing is for. Instead of global scan which is usually ineffective during rush hours (like during Steam sales), ASF STM listing shows only ASF bots and all of them have specific scan link to match that single bot only.
If you have small number of cards or mostly finished sets when it's hard to find matches, global scan (and optionally specific scan) will be better, but if you have a lot of cards to match, specific scans will always work better (and be much faster).
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One year ago, I stopped putting my cheap trading cards on the market, and decided to make a trade bot, stashonimie, using ASF:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198408077986
You might have encountered this bot when using steam trade matcher:
https://www.steamtradematcher.com/quickmatch/stashonimie
A few days ago, stashonimie made its 1000th trade. To put things in context, Archibot has made 400000 trades. It's a work in progress, and my bot has high ambitions.
As a celebration, here is the opportunity to obtain 200+ cards that you can trade with my bot (with the exception of the unbundled one, I think my bot has cards from all these games):
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/l8Wtn/enigmatis-the-ghosts-of-maple-creek
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/tCxKX/queens-quest-2-stories-of-forgotten-past
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/oSpM9/vampire-legends-the-true-story-of-kisilova
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/mCAWI/enigmatis-2-the-mists-of-ravenwood
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/c9nIj/scarlett-mysteries-cursed-child
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/4sXiz/endless-fables-the-minotaurs-curse
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/GmdbB/clockwork-tales-of-glass-and-ink
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/1lyzt/modern-tales-age-of-invention
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/rJ4AF/the-secret-order-4-beyond-time
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ScqNT/clockwork
It's perfectly OK to not like trading cards. In this case, you might be interested in these games:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ag40Z/endless-fables-2-frozen-path
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/NtGpB/islands-non-places
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