ASF Permissions and Trade to Master

[ezeholz]

Hi! I'm back with another enhancement or feature that might be useful.

In the past Steam Sale, every day i received in my main acc multiple trades at once, one for each bot I have. The thing is, I would like to generate a proxy of those trades so that every bot that farms anything send it to the proxy bot, and every 12 hours the proxy bot send a trade to my main. I managed to set up like the following graph

Bot 1 --> Proxy Bot
           (Master)

Proxy Bot --> Main Acc
(Trade 12hs)  (Master)

Bot 1 --> Main Acc
         (Operator)

That way, I still manage some core decisions over Bot 1 through my main acc, but don't receive a bunch of trades each time.

Problem: There're commands that I can't manage being an Operator that way, as the 2fa command that seems pretty useful if you need to login into that account.

Proposed solution: Set a trader id variable into the bot's config. If it's not set, you can go ahead and grab Master, but if it's set the bot will trade into that acc instead of the master acc. That way I can set my main acc as Master inside Bot 1, and complete the trader id as the proxy bot.

Considerations: It seems that my main acc have access to every command in every bot possible, because it's set as SteamOwnerID, but I manage a server where's an instance of ASF running, and I'm not the only person in it, so it could be useful for others if they have a possibility to also create proxy bots.

[nolddor]

Taking into account ASF support just cover use cases when you run no more than 10 accounts.
I do not see any problem of having one trade per bot every 12h under this scenario...

Saying that If you are talking about something bigger, what 'multiple trades at once' really means?

[ezeholz]

I now manage 3 accounts plus my main one, every one of them send to me a trade request for Steam Sale cards. That means 3 trade requests per day. If I proxy them, that would mean just one every 12 hours, and that one would have all 3 cards together.

It's not a big problem, but having 10 trade requests isn't much friendly

[nolddor]

You can configure your main to auto-accept the trades from your other bots.
Still i do not see any big gain with this vs all the work required to implement the feature but im not the one deciding anything at here.

I just wanted to know if there were any major issue or improvements. Sadly for now, I do not see any to be fair.
Let's wait and see what ASF Team think about.

[JustArchi]

There is transfer command which can be used for transferring items between bots without any requirement of SteamUserPermissions.

ASF is not inventory manager, you can achieve what you want regardless of your SteamUserPermissions through your own tools/scripts, e.g. a cron script that will each 12h call transfer command with all the bots you want to target bot, and then another job that will e.g. each 24h call transfer from that bot to your main account. No automatic solution for that is planned since we're not coding automation scripts for every single target scenario, and considering how easy to achieve that yourself is, it makes little sense to do it otherwise.

[Rudokhvist]

IMHO, what you already did (with a combination of Master and Owner permissions) is enough to cover this use case. And if you run a server for other users, one again, IMHO it's better to run separate instance for each user - ASF can handle rate limits cross-process, and with separate instances you are guaranteed to not accidentally run commands on other user's bots because of being owner, and you can set owner of each instance to corresponding user, so that they will be able to setup "proxy" for trades too.