IMPORTANT EDIT!

I would like to give a special thanks to both Canis and icaio for not only their HUGE contribution , but for also pretty much helping me organize this event. this train would be no where near where it is right now if not for both of them. we are now THE LONGEST TRAIN ON THIS SITE! and i couldn't ... we couldn't have done this without them. so , form the bottom of my heart. thank you. i never thought we would end up here , but here we are. I am honestly overwhelmed by how big this has gotten. when i first made this event , i never thought we would break the 400 mark. but many contributions later we are almost at 1300. AND WE STILL HAVE 11 DAYS LEFT!

i will make a complete list of people that have contributed in the train later on with links to their profile by the time we are done with a special thanks. there are way too many to list now.


so i just noticed that not only have we had a lack of events going on in the forum , but that this month had the worst number of GAs made since April 2015.
so instead of bitching about how dead this site is like a number of people do , i decided to actually try to help fix it (Crazy right? actually doing something instead of complaining?) so here is a community Train

RULES ARE RULES! : EDITED ONE MORE RULE IN ABOUT 0P GAMES

  • Must end September 28

  • No region restrictions

  • Set to "Invite Only"

  • Game value 5P or more

  • No DLCs

  • Set Contributor Level no higher than 3

  • Post URL in the comments of the last cart in the train.

  • If there is already a link for another cart in the comments of the last cart, wait until a new cart is added.

  • Number your cart in the description.

  • In case of games that haven't been released yet and games that were just added to the SteamGifts database. they will have a 0P cost until release or the Database catches up. so the rule for those is that as long as their cost wont be 5P once that happens , then the game is good. it is easy to figure out what the price range is going to be by simply look at the store page. had to add this rule mid event cause there was nothing about stuff like this and i honestly didn't think about it.

  • Check your GA comments regularly until you get a link for the next cart. You are responsible for adding the NEXT link in your GA description to keep the train
    growing.

Punch your tickets HERE

Will add more stations as we get further in.


Station Station Station Station Station Station Station Station Station Station
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200
210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300
310 320 330 340 TREE FIDDY 360 370 380 390 400
410 420 BLAZE IT 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500
510 520 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600
610 620 630 640 650 660 670 680 690 700
710 720 730 740 750 760 770 780 790 800
810 820 830 840 BLAZE IT TWICE 850 860 870 880 890 900
910 920 930 940 950 960 970 980 990 1000
1010 1020 1030 1040 1050 1060 1070 1080 1190 1100
1110 1120 1130 1140 1150 1160 1170 1180 1190 1200
1210 1220 1230 1240 1250 1260 BLAZE IT ONE LAST TIME 1270 1280 1290 1300
1310 1320 1330 1340 1350 1360 1370 1380 1390 1400
1410 1420 BLAZE IT 1430 1440 1450 1460 1470 1480 1490 1500
1510 1520 1530 1540 1550 1560 1570 1580 1590 1600
1610 1620 1630 1640 1650 1660 1670 1680 Take a break to contemplate life .....and order a pizza 1690 1700
1710 1720 1730 1740 1750 1760 1770 1780 1790 1800
1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900
1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100 Light a new blunt after the break and hit it like it owes you money
2110 2120 2130 2140 2150 2160 2170 2180 2190 2200
2210 2220 2230 2240 2250 2260 2270 2280 2290 2300
2310 2320 2330 2340 2350 2360 2370 2380 2390 2400
2410 2420 2430 2440 2450 2460 2470 2480 2490 2500
2510 2520 what was that sound? was that the cops? you a cop? you have to tell me if you a cop. i know its the law and i need you to tell me cause the weed is making me freak out. 2530 2540 2550 2560 2570 2580 2590 2600
2610 2620 2630 2640 2650 2660 2670 2680 2690 2700
2710 2720 2730 2740 2750 2760 2770 2780 2790 2800
2810 2820 2830 2840 2850 2860 2870 2880 2890 2900
2910 2920 2930 2940 you have reached the end of your adventures , only one thing left to do. SWALLOW THAT ROACH. 2950 2960 2970 2980 2990 3000
3010 3020 3030 3040 3050 3060 3070 3080 3090 3100
3110 3120 3130 3140 3150 3160 3170 3180 3190 3200
3210 3220 3230 3240 3250 3260 3270 3280 3290 3300
3310 3320 3330 3340 3350 3360 3370 3380 3390 3400
3410 3420 3430 3440 3450 3460 3470 3480 3490 3500
3510 3520 3530 3540 3550 3560 3570 3580 3590 3600
3610 3620 3630 3640 3650 3660 3670 3680 3690 3700
3710 3720 3730 3740 3750 3760 3770 3780 3790 3800
3810 3820 3830 3840 3850 3860 3870 3880 3890 3900
3910 3920 3930 3940 3950 3960 3970 3980 3990 4000
4010 4020 4030 4040 4050 4060 4070 4080 4090 4100
4110 4120 4130 4140 4150 4160 4170 4180 4190 4200
4210 4220 4230 4240 4250 4260 4270 4280 4290 4300
4310 4320 4330 4340 4350 4360 4370 4380 4390 4400
4410 4420 4430 4440 4450 4460 4470 4480 4490 The End

WE JUST BEAT COMMUNITY TRAIN 2.0 IN THE NUMBER OF CARTS!
578 CARTS REACHED , WE ARE OFFICIALLY THE LONGEST COMMUNITY TRAIN YET!

Sorry it took so long to add this in , but i actually forgot to do this even though i should have.

while i did say this was the 3.0 event , i forgot to explain or even mention the origin and the real person behind this idea.
The OG behind this event is Xarlor who came up with the first community train about 10 months ago.
it was done again by UserCar007 about 8 months ago with some changes that i have decided to keep. which were disallowing DLCs and adding a game value requirement .

I am simply adding into this event by restarting it for the third time , and i should have done this sooner but i really would like to thank both of Xarlor and UserCar007.

EDIT 2:

So someone asked what songs are in the poll.

so i decided to share them with you all. they are all from my favorite Broadway Musical / movie. Fiddler On The Roof. its kind of weird to be honest. being a Middle Eastern Ex-Muslim whose favorite movie is Fiddler on The Roof. anyway . here are the songs.

If i Were A Rich Man
Far From The Home I Love
L'chaim (To Life)
MatchMaker
SunRise , SunSet

its kind of hard to get a good and clean version of L'chaim since its set in a Bar where they are all partying and having a good time. so that one will do.

EDIT 3:
Thank you EmotionEngine for making a spread sheet with EXTREMELY detailed information about the train. i was struggeling with merely writing names down. i honestly cant imagine going through the train and writing down all the data and information you have noted in this thing.

THE AWESOME SPREADSHEET

6 years ago*

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Best Song

View Results
If i were a POTATO man
PotatoRise , PotatoSet
PotatoMaker
To POTATO
Far From The POTATO i love

while i havent hit 0 i have hit 6p meaning ill most likely wont be able to enter anything but thats why i have plently of points in my wishlisted games that can bring me back up to full

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you know.

what i used to do a while ago was hoard points.

just enter 4 week GAs and leave them before they expire to get my points back.

juggle a number of them until i would end up with around 2-3K points

i stopped doing that once i realized i had nothing to spend the points on .

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I thought that way as well, as I don't enter many GAs, and mostly cheap ones. I like casual games and they are not expensive. But then Fanatical/BundleStars started to push out those $1 bundles and SG was flooded with casual games... I needed a LOT of points to keep up xD

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Point problem because you're too casual xD

6 years ago
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cant say ive hoarded points on purpose. if i need more ill just take it off from ones i plan to enter later when i have more points. the only time ive completely ran out is during old humble monthlies or during the mystery bundles from fanatical.

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Exists in Account - "Whew" <click next>
Exists in Account - "Thank God" <click next>
Exists in Account - "Awesome, I may see the end of this thing yet" <click next>
[GREEN ENTER BUTTON ON AWESOME 50p GAME] - NNNNOOOOOOOOOO! MY PPPOOOIIIINNNTTTSSSS!!! ୧༼ಠ益ಠ༽୨

Seriously, after this monstrosity, my SG points are filing a freaking restraining order. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

6 years ago
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I miss times of crazy point regen... :((

6 years ago
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Yeah, and I think that any GA you give should put the # of points it was worth back into your pool when it closes. :)

6 years ago
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Is it bad that i dont even know how far we are at now?

been smoking hookah for the past 2 hours and i'm feeling a bit light headed.

so i dont even want to check the train for tonight.

hey its the last night , i am allowed a day off and i am calling it on the last day.

6 years ago
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4245...
6 years ago
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Well, we just passed 420(0) Blaze It so you are excused ;p

6 years ago
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Bumpa
Haha, imagine someone who just spotted that thread ;P Sleepless night ahead ;)

6 years ago
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they would run out of points way before going through 100 if they find alot they like

6 years ago
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well, they can theorethically have few thousandsa points stored in GAs ending after train so could withdraw ;p

6 years ago
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true ive got over 400 saved up in case anything pops up soon

6 years ago
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I have none ;p even more - I had to withdraw quite a lot of points from other carts to enter a few of newer ones ;p

but on the other hand have myself to blame - I only started seriously following a train like a week ago, could be entering for whole month ;p

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yeah its killer if you came late to the party.

6 years ago
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well, it could be worse, I could have joined today ;p In this week+ I still managed to enter 600 GAs ;p

6 years ago
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oh nice i got little over 200 with a 89% chance at the moment

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99% here ^^

6 years ago
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that will 1% will be your downfall

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nah, everyone knows I'm the guy who wins everything on SG ;p

6 years ago
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Silo's Points needed.

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So, how many giveaways have you all entered? Thanks to this train I'm at about 75 entered, which is waaay more then I've been entered in for a long time.

6 years ago
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well i put it down just a little above but ive entered just over 200. didnt actually realise it kept going up that much

6 years ago
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If I counted right, it should be around 139 giveaways and still going. I would have entered even more if I hadn't been entering some public giveaways on the side... XD

6 years ago
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between 600 and 650, too lazy to count non-train GAs

6 years ago
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10, which is exactly double of what I've entered in the past month.

6 years ago
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800+ and I expect to win N O T H I N G

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probably 25, but only games i want to play

6 years ago
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Bump!

6 years ago
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It is midnight in Moscow timezone, so the gifting part officially started! 4 of my games already found their lucky owners :)

6 years ago
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oh you literally ended it at the start of the 28th. well thats nice for the winners to get it little bit earlier if they are still on the 27th

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97% chance of winning bump.
Also unlike above user, I went evening local time, so 21h left. There's quite some leeway when it ends, there's also plenty left 1 day+.
So ride forth unstoppable beast!

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6 years ago
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Hi, can someone share link to #4251? (or later) Thank You.

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4250 = blacklisted by the giveaway creator

6 years ago
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it's not a problem - just open it in incognito/private mode (or log out from SG, because you simply gotta enter GA while being logged out, incognito just logs you out by default) ;) then click next, copy link and paste it into normal mode where you are logged

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Hehe wow now i feel so stupid. Thank You for help.

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Thank You :)

6 years ago
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Thanks for the link, algo got stuck at 4250

6 years ago
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an avid blacklister, I see xD

6 years ago
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My GA's just ended. Thus starts the harvesting time.

6 years ago
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Bump! Thanks FiddlerOnTheWeb, canis39, icaio, zelghadis, emotionengine and everyone involved. Really nice event! :)

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Well I made it through the train with 279 points left, I don't know what everybody is going on about. My only regret is that I didn't manage to leave more comments. I'm going to bed now and I'll see you all for the next community train.

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This train is way too fast, isn't there a speedlimit on these tracks? :D

6 years ago
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well when you never stop the train why follow a speed limit. if passengers want in they have to dive head first into a cart and hope they dont fall short

6 years ago
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Anyone do the math / estimate on how much time an average person would have spent clicking through the entire train?

6 years ago
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it really depends - are you using ESGST or some other extension or do you have to manually locate NEXT button and click it? How fast is your internet connection and how fast does SG pages load??

For example I am using ESGST so I can one-click move to next wagon, page loads for 2sec at average atm, so just clicking through entire train (not even looking what GA is being given away, not entering anything, just jumping to the next page as soon as current one loads) would take me 8586sec aka 143min aka 2h 21min. If let's say I spend just 5 sec on avg per pag to look at game and quickly click Enter button if it intrests me, so with page loading 7sec per GA total, going through whole train would take me 30051sec aka 500minutes aka 8h 20min ^^

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So for some old guy like me, not using an extension, and probably taking more than 5 seconds at a minimum, much longer if I'm not sure what it is and have to check Steam, I'm probably looking at a couple days worth of time. Hmm... perhaps I shouldn't have asked that question. :)

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let's just say that it took me 3 h to go through 1k GAs last night, and for many pages I didn't even bother looking what';s the GA, the moment I saw "Exist in Account" I clicked Next, so let's say each of these GAs was not 7sec but 2.5sec - and as I own quite a lot of games I saw "Exist in Account" a lot ;p

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If you're already using ESGST: why don't you use the extractor functionality?

6 years ago
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What's the extractor functionality? I'm guessing it's something that would have saved a lot of time?

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It checks the discussion/giveaway description for links to other giveaways and lists them like in the image at the bottom. It's not that fast but you can have it run while it's extracting giveaways and then scroll down just checking the games and selecting which ones you want to open.

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And together with a filter you can configure to only see GAs for games you don't own yet. Very efficient for long trains.

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Oh didn't know you could do that, I have ESGST installed but hardly use it for anything other than small quality of life features like bookmarks and quick comment formatting. I'll have to check that out to only show wishlisted games, can save a lot of time, thanks!

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You could use the same filter as the one you are using for the general giveaway list or you could set up another one. And there are many filter options.

6 years ago
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Oh damn, that's nice.

6 years ago
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because I never actually dig into it that much ;p I treat ESGST rather in minimal fashion (only reason I DLed it in first place was because my filter-script for main page stopped working ;p)

6 years ago
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Your mouse will talk to you again after you configured it. :D

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Clicking next automatically when there was a pink button worked until I was low on points cause then I had to watch for "exists in account" vs "not enough points". I'm sure your 8h estimate is a good minimum for me.

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We're at 4293 now!

6 years ago
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151 left to next (final?) milestone xD

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Finally reached the end of train for now... bump.

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4300, wow!

6 years ago
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I kinda miss a point in adding 1k giveaways 1 day before ending but whatever, had a lot of fun first 3.5k :3.

6 years ago
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it's only fun when you put 50p back to back with minutes to go

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the ultimate troll XD

6 years ago
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well - actually it's the best, most of users are still stuck in initial GAs and suddenly stuff that had 300 Entries only has 50, 6 times better chance to win ;p Not to mention AAA GAs with 1/4th of usual entries ;p

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first giveaway i entered ending in 1 hour!

it's already Sep 28...

also: what we'll do, tomorrow? :O

edit: it's 2:32 AM here (rome time)

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mine ends in 56 minutes 2 of them then not until 2-3 hours later
tomorrow everyone who isnt in friday yet will be getting/sending gifts

6 years ago
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that's me, next 24h:

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yep sums it up perfect. new title: community train 3.0 christmas has come early

6 years ago
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My giveaways are ending in 20h and since I used a lot of keys which were sitting in my leftovers for a good while I hope all of them are still OK. If not it will be an expensive weekend hunting for game deals :P

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ouch. didn't thought about that :|

but, still, first i'll unwrap my gifts then i'll try to fix those... :P

6 years ago
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I already delivered my 1st GA, luckilly won by contributor, which made me quite happy, I guessed everything would go to the leeches ;p

Didn't win anything, few GAs ended already, but SG still saying I have 99% chance to win ;p

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that's something i often thought about: GA creator too, needs luck. and sometimes happens, and you get those good feelings good odds can give :D

also, our wins... this could be pretty unique, can't guess much, but a vast majority of us should win at least one ga...

kinda eggsited here :P

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It is funny how many of the "old" carts are going DOWN in number of entries.... :D :D :D

6 years ago
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Uff... even if I won't win a thing, I am glad I survived it to to currently last cart... what a ride!

6 years ago
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so not only do i have a 96% now i also have a 2nd stat at 0% i wonder which will win XD

6 years ago
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0% (1st in graph) is chance do GAs from today that already ended, 96% (2nd in graph) is for GAs still running. It's always 2 stats per day, they become 1 stat when all GAs for this dayyou entered end ;)

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well i had the general idea of what the 0 was always about but always good to know properly. but that 0 will find a way to get me out of the running

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Closed 5 years ago by FiddlerOnTheWeb.