Archisteamfarm: Games' titles command.

[Botan626]

Suggestion

Purpose

A new command which will list the titles of the games being currently farmed.

How can ASF users benefit from this suggestion?

It's hard to understand what games ASF is farming in multiple mode. E.g. when the bot was receiving multiple keys, or the games were added from different sources (key redeeming, accepting a gift) and you want to double check if the bot actually started farming a specific game, or the developer released the cards for his games and all of sudden the bot started farming. This new command will help in these cases.

Why currently available solutions are not sufficient?

The status command gives the list of appids, but we don't carry steamdb database in our heads, and it's not convenient going to steamdb for checking every appid.

Does your suggestion fall into ASF scope?

Yes.

Is your suggestion abiding to Steam ToS?

Yes.

[JustArchi]

Suggestion itself is alright but I completely miss a point of this. ASF already states to you exact title of the game that is being farmed for cards. Doing so also in hours case would be simply-put a spam of titles that doesn't mean much, since it shouldn't mean much to you what 32 games ASF decided to bump hours for at the moment.

Moreover, if you need that info then you can already query IPC's /Api/Bot/{Bot} interface that will state full data about entire CardsFarmer module.

But sure, I think it won't hurt to include that info on Trace logging level. Adding a command for that is totally wrong and would serve no use, but if user truly wants that extra info spam, then he should be able to enable trace logging level for that. Wishlist.

[Botan626]

ASF already states to you exact title of the game that is being farmed for cards.

That's right, but only for the single game mode farming. When ASF is farming multiple games at once, I have no idea what are these games more than often.

Doing so also in hours case would be simply-put a spam of titles that doesn't mean much...

No. I didn't mean to auto plot the list every hour. Vice versa, only in the manual mode when the user wishes by sending a command to a bot via chat for e.g.

but if user truly wants that extra info spam

Why would you call it spam? If a bot's farming, let's say, 6-7 games, I suppose it will be quite a useful info on knowing what are these games.

[JustArchi]

Even better - I can just add it to !status.

[Botan626]

Great you agreed with me on this. Thank you. Will wait for it.