Best Song
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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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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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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. :)
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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.
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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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Insufficient Funds.
bump. #4250 https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Cjeh5/layers-of-fear
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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.
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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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Bump! Thanks FiddlerOnTheWeb, canis39, icaio, zelghadis, emotionengine and everyone involved. Really nice event! :)
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This train is way too fast, isn't there a speedlimit on these tracks? :D
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Anyone do the math / estimate on how much time an average person would have spent clicking through the entire train?
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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
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