Eine Frage stellt sich mir gerade noch, deshalb stelle ich sie jetzt mal hier:
Sind im MT "Dummy Lists" erlaubt ?
Wer keine Ahnung hat, was das ist, es sind Einträge in die jeweilige Wunschliste, die es mir ermöglichen ein mehrfach angebotenes Spiel in meine Wunschliste aufzunehmen und die sicherstellen das ich dann nur eines davon bekomme.
Näheres auf englisch:
How does duplicate protection (dummy items) work?
Suppose you are looking for Vegas Showdown in a math trade, and other people have put up several copies of it. If you have put up a single item in the math trade, then you can safely put all the copies of Vegas Showdown in your want list, as in
005-HTMF : 197-CAYL 123-VEGA 078-VEGA 150-VEGA 026-TOCO
However, suppose you are creating several want lists. If you put all the copies of Vegas Showdown in all of your want lists, as in
005-HTMF : 197-CAYL 123-VEGA 078-VEGA 150-VEGA 026-TOCO
006-JENG : 197-CAYL 123-VEGA 078-VEGA 150-VEGA 026-TOCO
then you might end up with multiple copies of Vegas Showdown. In some situations, this would be okay, but in other situations, you would vastly prefer not to get multiple copies of the same game.
In TradeMaximizer, you can protect against getting duplicates by adding a dummy wantlist, as follows:
1. Add username tags to all of your want lists (if you haven't already).
(cokasaki) 005-HTMF : 197-CAYL 123-VEGA 078-VEGA 150-VEGA 026-TOCO
(cokasaki) 006-JENG : 197-CAYL 123-VEGA 078-VEGA 150-VEGA 026-TOCO
Username tags have the form "(name)" and go at the beginning of the want list.
2. Create a dummy item, named "%something", and add the set of duplicate items to the want list of the dummy item.
(cokasaki) %VEGAS : 123-VEGA 078-VEGA 150-VEGA
3. Now remove the duplicate items from your regular want lists, and add the dummy item instead.
(cokasaki) 005-HTMF : 197-CAYL %VEGAS 026-TOCO
(cokasaki) 006-JENG : 197-CAYL %VEGAS 026-TOCO
Now at most one of your regular items can "win" the dummy item, and the dummy item can win at most one of the duplicate items, so you will receive at most one of the duplicates.
Some things to note about dummy items:
* Dummy items can only be used if the trade moderator has selected the ALLOW-DUMMIES option.
* You must include a username tag in any want list that involves dummy items.
* You can create as many dummy items as you want.
* You cannot refer to anyone else's dummy items, nor can they refer to yours.
* You can refer to one of your dummy items in the want list of another dummy item.
* Dummy items are not included in the trade count, so they do not artificially inflate the number of trades.
* In a trade with priorities, keep in mind that priorities are ignored in the want list for a dummy item. However, the priority of the dummy item in the want list for one of your regular items is handled normally.
* Dummy items are elided from the trade output. For example, if 006-JENG received %VEGAS and %VEGAS received 123-VEGA, then the output would say that 006-JENG received 123-VEGA.