The Technomancer
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Its a hat redemption code for RIFT, and it doesn't count against your drops as its an achievement item.yeoz said:
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Dreams-Visions
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The_Technomancer said:
Grimm Fandango said:
okay good. thanks, guys.yeoz said:
The Omega Man
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Well like any other regular Thursday morning, I launched my extra idling account to collect some fresh loot, and I was greeted with a big VAC BANNING, first things first, I don't cheat, never have, never will, second, I barely use this account, I only use it for idling on a mac since text mode is not available on macs.
I went to the official steam forums and low and behold there were tons of people complaining that they just god VAC banned, it seems that valve did a ban wave based on some false positive or something, well, I sent a ticket to custom support without much hope, but it turned out valve corrected their mistake quickly and I was unbanned in matter of hours as well as the people complaining on the forums.
now back to idding, feels good man...
I went to the official steam forums and low and behold there were tons of people complaining that they just god VAC banned, it seems that valve did a ban wave based on some false positive or something, well, I sent a ticket to custom support without much hope, but it turned out valve corrected their mistake quickly and I was unbanned in matter of hours as well as the people complaining on the forums.
now back to idding, feels good man...
I've been waiting a long time for something to go wrong with VAC and draw major attention to it (aside from the semi-mass VAC bannings back with Blackops or whatever, where Valve apologized after the fact). Sounds like this might almost be it, but it's presumably not happening to enough people to matter. I am especially interested in whether they reverse any bans. Side note about that Spacewar game, I went into the config files and turned Steam/VAC interaction for the UDK since I was afraid of something stupid like that.EmCeeGramr said:
GruntOfAction
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Totally did not do some text mode idling last night...
Got my first official hat drop..."A Rather Festive Tree"...I'm not even sure if it's worth anything considering it's from the Christmas update.
Got my first official hat drop..."A Rather Festive Tree"...I'm not even sure if it's worth anything considering it's from the Christmas update.
EmCeeGramr
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People are already getting unbanned after putting in tickets.Blizzard said:
thunker 9000
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Where do you guys go to see what an individual hat or item is worth?
I just got a strange direct hit and I am wondering what I should ask for it.
I just got a strange direct hit and I am wondering what I should ask for it.
Dreams-Visions
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I assume "value" is a function of (a) the price in the Mann Co. Store + (b) the general rarity of a hat.Pookaki said:
I'm sure there are websites dedicated to figuring out what % of the community has a particular hat.
edit: here you go! http://tf2stats.net/hats/
As for trading weapons for hats...since it's not an apples-apples proposition, I really don't know how that works out. I suppose you can simply go to a trading server and tell people you'd like to trade a strange direct hit for hats and see what people are offering. If you like a hat(s) and/or find what is being offered sufficiently rare (or in enough volume to compensate for lack of rarity), go for it.
(all commentary is from a complete n00b, but this is based on how typical free markets work. I assume it applies here too.)
Acerac
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Man, there seem to be a lot of people who enjoy idling.
Do you guys not play the game much? Or do you just only play on your mains, and leave your alts for loot? I know I'm usually done with my drops on my main account fairly quickly, though I suppose if you've got alts for soaking up drops that'd make a lot of sense.
Not trying to hate, I'm more curious than anything. I like to see my drops come as I play, but I could see that being annoying with a bunch of accounts.
Do you guys not play the game much? Or do you just only play on your mains, and leave your alts for loot? I know I'm usually done with my drops on my main account fairly quickly, though I suppose if you've got alts for soaking up drops that'd make a lot of sense.
Not trying to hate, I'm more curious than anything. I like to see my drops come as I play, but I could see that being annoying with a bunch of accounts.
Sgt.Pepper
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So who is going to use their tickets for the shades instead of other games?
The Omega Man
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so just to be clear, no ultra hat by completing all the activities correct?
Sgt.Pepper
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So wait, are the shades today only? Since it says new deals everyday in the prize booth page.
Grimm Fandango
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Sgt.Pepper said:
I'm going to assume no. Looks to me that the booth stays constant or at least new ones will be added daily. Don't see anything about "today only" for the prizes.
Angry Fork
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What glasses and ticket stuff are you guys talking about? I played this weekend and got some rift ticket thing but I don't know if that's what you're talking about. I'm playing tonight but haven't in the last few days so I haven't kept up on new items.
The Omega Man
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check here:Angry Fork said:
http://store.steampowered.com/summersale/prizebooth/
these are the prized (DLC) you can redeem with the tickets won by competing activities, the is a pair of glasses for TF2 among them
Angry Fork
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So for every activity you do in one of the games listed you get a ticket? And then you use 3 tickets to get the glasses? What if you don't have any of those games =( The sunglasses can't be crafted? There's a lot more days for the sale though so maybe something will come up for a game that I own.
There are hats,enzo_gt said:The prize shop mentions hats but there are none for TF2 up there
just not for tf2
Usually there are ways to get free tickets. Like today's free ticket is to join a steam group. Last time around for the treasure hunt promotion, there was stuff like posting a comment to a friend's profile, or writing a game recommendation, to get free tickets. I expect this time around to be the same.Angry Fork said:
Grimm Fandango
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yeoz said:
Where does it say this?
It's the last activity in the prize booth.Grimm Fandango said:
TurboLibre
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Weenerz said:
Haha, first thing I thought of when the sale went up. I didn't even care too much about the sale I just wanted information on where I could get a key.
Damnit. Look at what this game has done to me.
balladofwindfishes
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So Valve knows about the VAC problem, and will unban you if you contact support?
Because Valve can be kind of crazy with VAC sometimes.
Because Valve can be kind of crazy with VAC sometimes.
Well, they should give them back. Maybe then the detonator will work again!Borgnine said:
I mainly idle because I already had the 2 extra accounts and i hate not being able to get new weapons when they're first released. Thanks to my extra accounts I had all but 2 of the weapons from the uber update within a few hours of it launching. Got the two I was missing within the next two days. I rarely idle on my main account unless I know I won't be able to play much that week or it's a double drop week.Acerac said:
EmCeeGramr
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Well that was weird. Joined the GAF server, it was on Harvest... and there were these strange people with high pings in there playing around taunt killing. Well, whatever. I play along and taunt kill. Anyway, the worst one sounds like he's 12 years old, and keeps giggling like a moron and screaming every time he dies.
Eventually somebody on the other team shoots me, and I shoot him back. Suddenly this little kid is pissed and starts saying that he's gonna kick me (looooool) and someone on the other team who has no idea what's going on is just going "uhhhh kick this guy he's killing people."
Long story short I started playing for real and they kept whining about how they would "kick me" until I pointed out that I played on this server all the time and had no idea who they were and why they were acting like they owned it, at which point they quickly quit.
Eventually somebody on the other team shoots me, and I shoot him back. Suddenly this little kid is pissed and starts saying that he's gonna kick me (looooool) and someone on the other team who has no idea what's going on is just going "uhhhh kick this guy he's killing people."
Long story short I started playing for real and they kept whining about how they would "kick me" until I pointed out that I played on this server all the time and had no idea who they were and why they were acting like they owned it, at which point they quickly quit.
EmCeeGramr
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No, I didn't see any stars.Yeef said:
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