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Update

This thread is no longer relevant as the spreadsheet is no longer publicly accessible after some people messed it up.
The project is still live however, and I will create a recruitment thread to invite interested users to a private group, where the new spreadsheet has been implemented. I have already invited the fifty-something users who where in the original spreadsheet. If you were in the "test run" and haven't received an invite to the group, please let me know and I will send you an invite. If you aren't a total stranger to me, you may also ask for an invite in the comments and I will invite you (providing you aren't a complete stranger who is barely active on Steamgifts. Just a precaution to ensure I don't invite the wrong people here).

As I said though, there WILL be a recruitment thread. Just not right now, as I am too tired to deal with invites at the moment. (since this morning, I spent something like five hours on this achievement thing non-stop. A guy deserves a break, no?) :P

The "official" recruitment thread will probably be live tomorrow.

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Hello Steamgifts, I would like to introduce you to one of the silliest, pointless thing I may have done so far.

We all love achievements, right? We hunt, claim and hoard them, even though they rarely are ever rewarding (unless if you consider e-peen size a reward). And to be honest, although I am not an achievements hunter, I have always wanted achievements on Steamgifts. And so, without further delay, I present you...

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Steamgifts Achievements - A Spreadsheet Experiment


Steamgifts Achievements is a project I have been considering for a while. Not having any coding knowledge to actually create an achievements userscript, I have been working on a second best idea. A spreadsheet where users are free to edit themselves and participate in an achievements hunt based around Steamgifts in general.

Now, I know what you’re thinking.“But jbond, you’re just going to leave a spreadsheet open to editing for all forum users to mess around? That CAN’T possibly be a good idea.” And you are perfectly correct. It’s a terrible idea, but one I am willing to experiment with. I’ll see how this goes. If it goes to shit, I’ll just dump the entire thing. Or find an alternate solution.

In the meantime, feel free to post suggestions and ideas. I need a crapload more achievements, as the spreadsheet barely skims the surface of what is possible to turn into achievements. So go wild, send suggestions and ideas my way, and I’ll catch up when and if I can. Or not. I don’t really know yet.

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Introductory FAQ


What the fuck is this?

Basically, a spreadsheet open to editing to anyone who can read this thread. Inside it, achievements are listed. Keep track of what you do on Steamgifts and add a checkmark to achievements as you earn them. It's really simple, there's nothing more to it.

How the fuck does this work?

Read the FAQ & Guide below. It's very simple.

Why the fuck would I participate?

There is absolutely no reason to do so. There are no giveaways (yet) and no prizes or rewards. This is as pointless as Steam achievements.

This seems like a terrible idea, really.

That's not a fucking question. But I'll allow it, and confirm - yes, this is a terrible idea. There is a massive chance of some users completely fucking up the spreadsheet. Hence why this is titled "A Spreadsheet Experiment". I ask all of you who will participate to follow the rules and common sense.

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The Spreadsheet


Steamgifts Achievements (Link removed)

FAQ & Guide (Link removed)

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And that's it. I'll be watching you all from my throne and make sure nothing fucks up. Let the experiment begin. Hopefully every participants will have fun or be amused by this idea. Please keep in mind that this is for fun and entertainment purpose only.


Community Giveaways

Giveaway From Level
Fortix MrBron99 Level 0
Fortix 2 MrBron99 Level 0
Mystery Game MrBron99 Level 1
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Phestacles Level 0
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500th forum thread should be called Shitposter :P

8 years ago
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Heh, I bet rachel and I are the only ones that make that cut :P

8 years ago
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mm... interesting... my stats are pretty poor with me being a lurker around and not commenting/creating threads tho!

8 years ago
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The numbers, Mason! - Win one of Jatan11t's numbered giveaways

8 years ago
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Again one of those that are hard to get. What if I already have every game he makes a giveaway for?

8 years ago
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I'm heading to bed, will continue tomorrow and check what's new. Thanks for this jbond!

8 years ago
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[Insert comment here for achievement]

8 years ago
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where ?

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Right there.

8 years ago
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you mean here or there ??

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Why not both?

8 years ago
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because i am here and is is not there

8 years ago
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i changed my tittle color by copy/past how can i change it back ??

8 years ago
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Columns are too wide. Just let them be simple as wide as the user name.

8 years ago
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Some suggestions:

Had to reroll
Made a GA for level x [x= 0, ...,10]
Won a GA and received something else
Won a GA and received invalid/used key/nothing
Made a GA that got 0 entries (extra hard if separated into invite/group/public)

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Some great ideas here!

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I'm on an old linux distro since my win7 decided to F— itself (and the emergency netbook to fry its HD) so I can't view properly the spreadsheet..

Some things that came into my mind in that short time I could see the page:
* I would have inverted the table (users in rows and achievements in columns), this way one could sort them for whatever (s)he wants.
* I've read something about "negative" achievements.. you could put those on a second page :) (at first I was going to say "divide users in pages based on their starting char" but may be worse this way).
* I think you can freeze both first column(s) and first row(s), so it's easier to check values in the bottom-right part of the sheet.
* Also, be aware that each Google Spreadsheet has a limit of 400.000 cells, with a maximum of 256 columns per sheet.

I'll add more if I think of something else.

I'll be adding me as soon as I fix my laptop.

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I feel like most of the columns don't need to be that wide >.<

Hmm...
How about a section for support tickets made? Uhh... wait.... maybe not a good idea... (No spam pls)
I'd rather a section for support tickets answered ;)

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Thank you all for the suggestions and feedback and stuff! This is turning out to be more popular than I expected.
I work in 2 hours, so I'll take a break now. If anything fucks up while I'm away, message me or get someone to message me on Steam.

8 years ago
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ok, this is fun. :)

You could add a luck, groups and blacklist category

oh, and something about ga distribution over public.private.group and regional

8 years ago
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This looks fun!
You know what? This need a script. :D

8 years ago
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A small giveaway, cause this is a great project :D btw. does it count for the supporter achievement?
It would be great if you could put it in the main post :)
Mystery game

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Indeed it does!

8 years ago
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Sadly not a leecher yet, but a recruit from this very moment on!

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Pretty legit my friend! You've put some work into this, I see. So, how am I to find out how many blacklists I'm on? Archie ever release his script? :D

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You can check it here

8 years ago
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Holy crap! That's amazing! Thanks for the link :D

8 years ago
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Just commenting for the achievement

8 years ago
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Win 25 giveaways - "Leecher"? There's bunch of people who gave away a lot more and sometimes didn't even won 1 giveaway (like cg :P, or long time ago Khalaq, until Skyrim opened a floodgate ).

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I like the idea, but it would be use to have community related hidden achievements like sgtools is scam or stab xD

8 years ago
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It's going to be fun to see, how much achievements i can get now. Cool idea, must have taken some lots of time to do this, nice work :)

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"Scroller" comment :-p

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I use the column AP!

Cool! I have earned 48 achievements! :)

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Perhaps a few achievements about groups? (Joined x groups through group recruitment threads, member of x Steam Gifts based groups concurrently, etc.) There are a ton of great (and a few dubious) groups here, and there are so many to be represented there shouldn't (in my opinion) be achievements for individual groups.

Also, ratio based achievements (Had a 1/4 ratio, had a 4/1 ratio, etc.) might be interesting also, if only to see how people changed their ratios over time if they unlocked the achievement and then went the other direction. :3

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Honestly, I don't even remember how I got into half of the groups I'm in now. No idea how many I joined via recruitment threads. I think that would be a little too hard to find out because I think it's not something you just remember, neither do you have a way to look it up, really.

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True. Of course, these are user reported, so if you can't recall, you can use your judgement to try to find it out.

8 years ago
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Steamgifts Achievements is a project I have been considering for a while. Not having any coding knowledge to actually create an achievements userscript

Perhaps I could code SG cheevos into ArchiBoT module, so they'd be handled automatically and without fuckups.

Let me know if that appeals to you.

Edit: On the other hand, too many user-based cheevos ArchiBoT could not check, so pointless to implement.

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Looks very interesting, but i'm too lazy.

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Closed 8 years ago by jbondguy007.