I'm sure most of you are regular 'farmers'. You always have ASF or IdleMaster running in the background, farming for trading cards as soon as you add new games.
It's normal. It's called not throwing money out the window. You make a few cents on each card, and the bigger your library, the more money it represents.
You may also be, while it's less likely (:lol:), a regular 'player', meaning your library items aren't just for show, you also like to play them. Some games you enjoy, some not, in the end you want to showcase them in your library but the playtimes are all screwed up-- because of farming! There are even some games that can take a LOT of time to finish farming and you only realize it the next morning. I have Wasteland 2 sitting at 16 hours playtime even though I never even installed it, for instance.
So... What can we do?
Well, just use Lestrade's!
1/ Go to your Library page.
2/ Click the Sync with Steam button to get the latest version of your library & playtimes.
3/ The library, by default, is sorted by playtimes, like in Steam. Now just hover your mouse (yes, I'm not supporting mobile devices yet, I'll do that later) over the actual playtime data. For instance, "(5h38mn)".
4/ A new button will show up over it, "Mark as farmed".
5/ Haven't played this game yet? Click the button!!! That's all.
You are now the proud owner of a reset playtime for that game. It will no longer show as played for 5 hours and 38 minutes. Internally it's just telling Lestrade's to remove 5h38 from the playtime in real time. If you start playing the game now for 10 minutes, the game will show as being played for 10 minutes.
Isn't that swell?!
It's something I've never seen any other site do.
Future improvements:
- Ability to undo that action for a game,
- Ability to mass-reset all playtimes (not sure I'll do it) or mass-revert them.
- Ability to actually set a playtime. If for instance you remember playing a game for an hour, you can ask LT's to set the playtime to an hour.
Well, I hope you enjoy the feature! I wrote it while trying to ensure it'd be fast enough to mark games as farmed en masse. I've done it for hundreds of games in my library this afternoon and tweaked the UX to make it even simpler.
It's normal. It's called not throwing money out the window. You make a few cents on each card, and the bigger your library, the more money it represents.
You may also be, while it's less likely (:lol:), a regular 'player', meaning your library items aren't just for show, you also like to play them. Some games you enjoy, some not, in the end you want to showcase them in your library but the playtimes are all screwed up-- because of farming! There are even some games that can take a LOT of time to finish farming and you only realize it the next morning. I have Wasteland 2 sitting at 16 hours playtime even though I never even installed it, for instance.
So... What can we do?
Well, just use Lestrade's!
1/ Go to your Library page.
2/ Click the Sync with Steam button to get the latest version of your library & playtimes.
3/ The library, by default, is sorted by playtimes, like in Steam. Now just hover your mouse (yes, I'm not supporting mobile devices yet, I'll do that later) over the actual playtime data. For instance, "(5h38mn)".
4/ A new button will show up over it, "Mark as farmed".
5/ Haven't played this game yet? Click the button!!! That's all.
You are now the proud owner of a reset playtime for that game. It will no longer show as played for 5 hours and 38 minutes. Internally it's just telling Lestrade's to remove 5h38 from the playtime in real time. If you start playing the game now for 10 minutes, the game will show as being played for 10 minutes.
Isn't that swell?!
It's something I've never seen any other site do.
Future improvements:
- Ability to undo that action for a game,
- Ability to mass-reset all playtimes (not sure I'll do it) or mass-revert them.
- Ability to actually set a playtime. If for instance you remember playing a game for an hour, you can ask LT's to set the playtime to an hour.
Well, I hope you enjoy the feature! I wrote it while trying to ensure it'd be fast enough to mark games as farmed en masse. I've done it for hundreds of games in my library this afternoon and tweaked the UX to make it even simpler.