How to keep completed sets in main account and all other cards in trading bot?

[zypA13510]

Basically, I want all cards from the main account to be moved to STM trading bot first, and only move finished sets back to the main account.

I thought this is what CompleteTypesToSend is supposed to solve, so I configured 2 accounts, one main and one trading bot, like this:

main.json

{
  "LootableTypes": [
    3,
    5
  ],
  "SendOnFarmingFinished": true,
  "SteamUserPermissions": {
    "<bot-account-steam-id>": 3
  }
}

bot.json

{
  "CompleteTypesToSend": [
    3,
    5
  ],
  "LootableTypes": [
    1,
    2,
    4,
    6,
    7,
    8,
    9,
    10,
    11,
    12,
    13,
    14,
    15,
    16
  ],
  "SendTradePeriod": 24,
  "SteamUserPermissions": {
    "<main-account-steam-id>": 3
  },
}

The idea is to automatically move everything not-a-card plus completed sets to main, and incomplete sets to bot. Unfortunately, it doesn't work and causes a loop - bot sends completed sets to main and main immediately sends back to bot.

Has anyone done this before? Is it my configuration error, or is it simply not possible without enhancement?

[Rudokhvist]

There is no option to only send incomplete sets, so without making a plugin you can't fully automate it. Best you can do in vanilla ASF is send your incomplete sets to bot manually (either by just creating a trade offer or with loot@ or transfer@ command), and set bot to send complete sets to master automatically.

[zypA13510]

But then what's the point of CompleteTypesToSend? It seems to me that its use would be very limited because the following:

• There will be more games to farm and more cards to drop on main account than bot
• We would probably like to send complete sets to main account, instead of the other way around?
• Unless we have a large bot network, there's no chance one single bot will finish a set by itself even with trading enabled

The most likely scenario for people with very few bots like me would probably be:

1. Main and bot farm the same game
2. Main send cards to bot to utilize trading to finish set
3. Finished set sent back to main to gain exp

[Abrynos]

what's the point of CompleteTypesToSend?

A lot of users already have all the cards they can earn and have automatic trading for completion of sets set up. However, that may lead to A LOT of trades going through and thus A LOT of notifications on their accounts, because the progress will often switch around duplicates in the hopes of one day completing the set.

One of the use-cases for this is following: If you move all your cards to one of your bots and then set up CompleteTypesToSend you get the completed sets to your main account (where you want them) but you won't have all the notifications on a daily basis. Especially if you don't buy lots of new games on a regular basis, this is more or less a one-time thing to do and then you just leave it running, occasionally receiving full sets.

Not sure if I managed to describe it correctly...

[Rudokhvist]

* Unless we have a large bot network, there's no chance one single bot will finish a set by itself even with trading enabled

Well if 2 bots + main account is a "large bot network" then sure, it's like you said.

I'm don't know how many people use this feature, I'm not one of them and honestly find it pretty useless (even if it were able to send only incomplete sets too). ASF is a card farming program, not inventory management tool.
Also, now that I think of it, you can actually achieve pretty much what you want if you'll just switch SendTradePeriod and SendOnFarmingFinished between you main and bot account (you can leave SendTradePeriod on bot as well, it won't hurt). This way once in a day your main account will send everything to bot, and bot will immediately return only complete sets. It will generate much more trade offers than necessary, but result will be the same.

[JustArchi]

CompleteTypesToSend make sense in a situation where you're matching cards and keeping unfinished sets on a bot account while you want your master account to have only finished ones.

What you want is to actually move everything farmed from master account to the bot account, match the sets and send them back - this isn't going to work with your settings as ASF would then again send everything back to the bot.

ASF isn't inventory management tool. There is no way for it to send "unfinished" sets only. You need to write your own plugin or use another tool for that purpose.