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So I just earned 16360 from idling achievement games... but it says no capacity available until tomorrow.


Add the feature to your page and the. It should have a perfect games number. Can you click on it?
I already passed you on the race, man! :p
I don't know what I'm doing, by I appear to be doing something right! ;)

Really, I don't know why I have so many red points, but surely this can't reset tomorrow.
I mean, in a few minutes I'll already have close to €35 in vouchers, without purchasing anything.

I'm curious what will happen to those red points.
I still have 90000 left. :eek:

Speaking of vouchers, do these have a limit?
Do I need a minimum amount of purchases to apply it?


Edit: I have 73000+ tokens.
And, with another perfect game I have, I'll probably add 30000 more before going to bed. :hugging-face:
 
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RionaaM

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I’ve whined about it for years, but they desperately need to add multiple lists and an annotation feature like you find on Amazon or itch.io. It’s idiotic to force all my wishlisted games into one gigantic, easy-to-forget megalist.
And it also needs auto sorting features. Let me sort by tag, multiplayer capabilities, controller support (even though Steam Input makes it less important than before) and more.
 
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I already passed you on the race, man! :p
I don't know what I'm doing, by I appear to be doing something right! ;)

Really, I don't know why I have so many red points, but surely this can't reset tomorrow.
I mean, in a few minutes I'll already have close to €35 in vouchers, without purchasing anything.

I'm curious what will happen to those red points.
I still have 90000 left. :eek:

Speaking of vouchers, do these have a limit?
Do I need a minimum amount of purchases to apply it?


Edit: I have 73000+ tokens.
And, with another perfect game I have, I'll probably add 30000 more before going to bed. :hugging-face:
I’m out of red. I started with 60. How much have you spent on the actual sale?
 
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We have existed and evolved for hundreds of millions of years, unbroken by multiple cataclysms, and are unbound by such a silly thing as "gravity". We are the cockatiel. :steam_gp_cockatiel:

In all seriousness, just checking this out now after a crap day at work and I blame every one of you people that complained about the lack of mini-games for this nonsense :p You know we could have just had a $5 coupon and been on our way. It took me reading the page, clicking some stuff, and reading like 6 pages of everyone being confused here to really nail this down.

If I understand it correctly, the boost capacity (red thingy) resets daily so if I wait until tomorrow I should be able to get my first $5 coupon, buy a game, then wait until the next day or two and do it again. Basically, self-curated flash sales, which isn't as bad as flash sales but can't say I'm a fan of needing to manage resources during a damn sale ~
 

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Tips to make a big number of tokens.

Basically, it's this: play the games you already have most, or all of the achievements unlocked for 30 minutes.
The game will now show up on the recently played games list on the event page. Then, it will allow you to unlock a big number of white points. If you have red points available, you can convert those white points into tokens by boosting, up to a 1000 a time.

And. that's all.
My perfect games are granting me almost 30000 white points, which I'm turning into 30000 tokens. So, each perfect game is granting me 2 vouchers of €5 each.

You just need to have red points available, and this is probably related either to the purchases you made on Steam, or something similar like the number of games you own.
I knew reinstalling Nepnep was a good idea.
 

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I’m out of red. I started with 60. How much have you spent on the actual sale?
Zero!

Really, nothing. :thumbsupblob:
Maybe it's tied to purchases made on Steam in recent months?
Maybe it's tied to the number of games owned? Maybe it's Steam level?

Either way, I had over 160000 red points, and now I still have around 90000, and I already have 73000+ tokens.
 

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Probably not, since I have almost €30 in tokens (and should get €10 more in a few minutes, from another perfect game), so it would be ridiculous.
I would purchase hundreds of € during the event for free. That can't be right.
That doesn’t make a ton of sense then. Because at that rate, you would have half a dozen coupons, and I probably would barely end up with one.

I barely have 6000 tokens, and that’s even after spending around $35...
 
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Well then.

I started with ~10k red points, I buy games on every Steam sale and occasionally off it and I have 944 games total. Not entirely sure what to make of it.

Edit: To be clear, a ton of my games are from bundles, but probably not even half? At a guess I'd say the majority are from Steam itself.
 

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That doesn’t make a ton of sense then. Because at that rate, you would have half a dozen coupons, and I probably would barely end up with one.

I barely have 6000 tokens, and that’s even after spending around $35...
Maybe it's tied to purchases done in the last few months?
I mean, I buy games every week, so I do spend a pretty decent amount of € on Steam. I just haven't purchased anything on Steam in the current sale.

And just to be clear, I didn't get all those vouchers in a few minutes.
I meant that in a few minutes, I'll have about €35 in vouchers.
 

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Has anyone used any vouchers?
Is there a minimum amount to use them?
 

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Ok, gonna do a last tuto, using myself as an example:

I started the sale like this:



You can see i had 213k red points and 214 boosts remaining. The 213k are actually all the tokens i can get, and it's based on the money you spent since the lunar sale (including whatever tokens you had left) and the money you spend during this sale. Now to get those tokens i need to fill the left white points. and those are from the quests. For me the best method was iddling games i had with 100% achievements for 30 minutes, so they would appear here:



So i just did that until i had 213k white points (this is after i did everything, so i don't have an image with both filled):



You need the same points for both. Once you get that you can start using this to convert both to tokens:



That results in this:



And that's it. After that, you can use those tokens (if you have enough) to get discounts, or you can do like me and throw all the money to the toilet to level up the badge:

 

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Digital pinball fans, one last heads-up: the AC/DC table will be gone from Pinball Arcade and Stern Pinball at the end of the month.
The last time they removed tables, they were gone on the day before, so you shouldn't delay purchasing the table, if you want it.

Here is the table for Pinball Arcade (it's part of this pack):


And here it is for Stern Pinball:

 

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As long as the Corgi leads, everything is good.

Man, my achievement stats are shameful. CSGO is my best game with 150+ but after it is Source with 80 and something. PayDay 2 players and Zup collectors couldn't be happier with this system.
 
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DeejayDoom
How many games can you add to your "recently played" games list?
Is there a limit?

I have over 30 minutes of a game, but it's not being added.
 

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Man, my achievement stats are shameful. CSGO is my best game with 150+ but after it is Source with 80 and something. PayDay 2 players and Zup collectors couldn't be happier with this system.
Actually Zup 3 with over 1700 achievements and 100% completion only gave me 11k points. I'm sure there's already someone making a Google Doc with the most points per game/achievement.

DeejayDoom
How many games can you add to your "recently played" games list?
Is there a limit?

I have over 30 minutes of a game, but it's not being added.
You gotta quit it.
 

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You gotta quit it.
You're right!

I got 26000+ more points from all achievements from Castaway Paradise.

Next up: the original Sleeping Dogs (I have all but one achievement unlocked).


Regarding the number of points per achievements, from what I read somewhere on the website, it's tied to the "rarity" of the achievements.
If everyone has the achievements, it will earn you a lot less.
 

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I used my remaining coins towards leveling up and went from Level 82 to Level 95. Time to grind for 100 I guess.
 

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If it's tied to rarity i'll be playing some more We Happy Few tomorrow then as i've a chunk of achievements for that and the DLC that are well under 1% attainment. Possibly No Man's Sky too, some of my achievements were well under 10% attained.

edit: just checked - 0.10% to 0.60% for We Happy Few & DLC achievements.
 
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Weird, I still had white points, and suddenly they are gone?
I still have 60000+ red points, so I should be able to convert them.

I have 3 vouchers activated, 100000+ tokens on the account, but almost 15000 white points are gone. :cry:

I really don't understand this event.
 
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Also remember that you get 100 red points every day, so you will have enough for a 5$ discount the last day of the sale.
 
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So, unless Valve fixes whatever the issue is (lol) the only way to raise my capacity is from buying games, right? If it's indeed due to the refund bug, then I guess the first 75$ I'll spend is going to be "lost"...
 

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So, wait - we get a bunch of white points by claiming achievements, and they scale for "perfecting games" and for rarity?

I wonder how much points I'll get for idling Dustforce... there's only one achievement, with a 0.3% achievement rate. I have it. :heroblob:
 
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Please note: there may be a limit of around 100000 white points/tokens per day.

I've been doing a few more things, and while the red points increased with a purchase (used my first 3 vouchers), the white ones remain zero.

If anyone reaches this amount, and can confirm it, please let me know.

I'm off to bed.

Not a bad start: I earned enough for six €5 vouchers, and spent the first 3. :)
 

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No discount on Dragon Quest? Not sure I'm ready for that anyway...

Only finding about $120 of stuff I actually care about. I Think I'm gonna go with two of the four: Battletech, Iconoclasts, Timespinners, Frostpunk. Should keep me around $25 on the sale.

Now, to let them all rot in my cart for a week while I carefully study this situation like it was $25,000.

Also, there's a few "suggested games" that have achievements by themselves, and they are good to leave idle.

One of the games I got was Theme Hospital, and for each patient cured it gave me 10 points (and 20 per ghost captured, or machine upgraded), so if I speed up the game, I easily got 3000 points in a few minutes.
Theme Hospital was available for sale at some point on Steam? :cry:
Weird, I still had white points, and suddenly they are gone?
I still have 60000+ red points, so I should be able to convert them.

I have 3 vouchers activated, 100000+ tokens on the account, but almost 15000 white points are gone. :cry:

I really don't understand this event.
Every time I see a concise explanation for this meta game and feel like I finally understand it, I then see posts like this and realize that, in our heart of hearts, none of us really get what the fuck is going on.
 

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Not when converting achievements, I was way above 200k earlier.
You're right.
Weird, I had 15000 white points (the ones above 100000) disappearing, and I was left with zero.

But, I just received more 30000+ white points from Sleeping Dogs (had all but one achievement) and I'm accumulating points and tokens again.
 
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so i finally got home and checking out the sale.....are there no cards? i saved making some badges and got nothing sale related. also no queue for cards either?
 

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I've almost pulled the trigger on a few games only to realize their prices are above their historical lows. y u do dis pubs? You do realize we have tools like gg.deals and isthereanydeal to compare prices, right?
 
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