ShutdownOnFarmingFinished weekly

[Nuklon]

Checklist

• I read and understood ASF's Contributing guidelines
• I also read Setting-up and FAQ, I don't need help, this is an enhancement idea
• This is not a duplicate of an existing issue
• My idea doesn't duplicate existing ASF functionality described on the wiki
• I believe that my idea falls into ASF's scope and should be offered as part of ASF built-in functionality
• My idea doesn't violate the Steam Subscriber Agreement
• My idea doesn't violate the Steam Online Conduct
• This is not ASF-ui suggestion

Enhancement purpose

To be eligible for booster packs, you need to sign in at least once a week:

Booster packs are granted randomly to eligible users as more badges are crafted by members of the community. Make sure you log in to Steam each week to maintain eligibility.

I propose an alternative in FarmingPreferences where the bot shuts down, but reconnects to Steam at least once a week. Say WeeklyShutdownOnFarmingFinished

Solution

See "Enhancement purpose".

Why currently available solutions are not sufficient?

See "Enhancement purpose".

Can you help us with this enhancement idea?

Somehow, I can test and offer feedback, but can't code

Additional info

No response

[nolddor]

Note that you can configure a crontab or Task Scheduler to start and/or restart ASF at desired cadence. i.e. Once a week on Sundays.

[JustArchi]

This is overly complicated for achieving that, what is stopping you from having bot enabled that simply doesn't do anything, but stays logged in? I'm very skeptical to this idea since it requires a lot of code to do right, can introduce crazy amount of bugs and suddenly people will expect that ASF actually can log in weekly without any issues, which is a cost I don't want to endure, since it should be a job for dedicated ASF plugin rather than core.

[Nuklon]

I don't need to have all my alt accounts connected constantly, but I would like for them to be eligible for boosters.

and suddenly people will expect that ASF actually can log in weekly without any issues

I don't follow what you mean here. An alternative option would be to add a Restart option perhaps? Say you specify Restart: "24:00:00", to restart the bot every 24 hours since ASF has started.

[Abrynos]

You can do all that without increasing maintenance burden on ASF team. ASF has IPC-API for this. I'd recommend configuring your bots as disabled and havin a cronjob start them once a week and a second one firing half an hour later stopping the bots again.