Announcement: Contest, Academy_BuyBot, and More!

Posted on August 22, 2011 by General

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Neros on August 22, 2011 at 1:04 AM said:

So more accounts you own the better chance of winning you get right?
420gabriel on August 22, 2011 at 5:06 AM said:

love the quizbot, got some nice promo lands there.
Plejades on August 22, 2011 at 5:12 AM said:

@Neros: Short answer – yes. As long as the accounts are displaying the information we put up above it does not matter to us who owns the account. Every published classified is eligible.
Neros on August 22, 2011 at 5:31 AM said:

Why everyone say Nero instead of Neros? Epic I’ll be trying to enter then.

@420gabriel
I’ve never seen anything that good on there besides the one time I answered and closed the trade thinking I could come back and get the 4 when I figured what I needed for my decks.
Plejades on August 22, 2011 at 5:43 AM said:

Apologize. Corrected. I guess your name resembles to closely the name of the beloved ancient historic figure that called Rome it’s home.
Neros on August 22, 2011 at 7:31 AM said:

Yeah thats why I decided to take off the 64 I had attached at the end. I never knew about Nero. I knew there was a Nero around that time period but, not that one.
Martin on August 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM said:

I remember Sharpbot using a similar tactic to promote their bot.

Unfortunately i need the adspace myself, but looking at classifieds right now, you don’t need me anyway.

This has been my favorite MTGO site for a long time now and i’m happy to see you grow!
Plejades on August 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM said:

Hello Martin,

glad you like the site. We are pretty excited to publish even more content in the future as well as develop small useful tools for the community. If you haven’t done so yet check out the “tools” page with our updated MtGNotifier 0.04 – a must have for MTGO users!
kdogmasterpro on August 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM said:

Ha I think somebody tried to trade with me believing I was an mtgoacademy bot. I wish I wasn’t in the middle of a match so I could have played along and pretended to be a bot.
exstatic2001 on August 22, 2011 at 8:20 PM said:

How awesome is this? Very.
Malum on August 22, 2011 at 8:26 PM said:

Good luck to everyone who does this
browndr on August 23, 2011 at 10:41 AM said:

Sweet. My name is on there twice. Now hopefully, my computer doesn’t go to sleep at home while I’m at work.
Anon on August 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM said:

Yeah, this is straight up ripped off Sharpbot’s prize system he ran all last month. Pretty surprised yall would do it.
AnonKool on August 23, 2011 at 8:50 PM said:

Curse you sharpbot, for copyrighting competitions!
PlanetWalls on August 24, 2011 at 3:52 AM said:

RE: Anon — We’ll be offering some more involved contests as we move forward. Magic puzzles, deckbuilding contests, PREs, stuff like that. Really, this is just a great promotional tool that simultaneously gives away stuff to our fans at little cost to them (just a couple minutes and a copy/paste).
lazdada on August 24, 2011 at 9:27 AM said:

I tried the new academy_buybot and Wow! It’s fast! It seeks cards almost instantly and the buy prices are quite good. But I have one problem: I wasn’t able to remove cards I didn’t want to sell, and the help command … didn’t help much. Is there a way other than making these cards untradable in the collection?
Plejades on August 24, 2011 at 11:28 AM said:

@lazdada: You might have noticed the “Beta 1.0″ in the classified. That indicates that we are still adding features over time and to answer your question – no, there is currently no option to do that but there will be; along with a lot of other features we are going to slowly roll out.
Thanks for your comment.
Zage on August 25, 2011 at 11:58 AM said:

Pretty smart idea, this. Good for you and good luck with the bots!
Zage on August 25, 2011 at 1:40 PM said:

Ever since I put this ad up, people keep ‘trading’ me every 15 minutes or so (saying nothing or cancelling when I ask them what’s up). Anyone know why people would trade someone posting this ad?
Plejades on August 25, 2011 at 2:18 PM said:

@Zage: Short answer is that many players seem to be to lazy to read….
You can prevent that from happening by marking the checkbox “Ignore trade requests from non-buddies” in your personal settings page.
Zage on August 25, 2011 at 3:01 PM said:

Wow, you must be getting a ton of traffic then because seriously, every 15 minutes for a few hours. It’s died down a little now fortunately.

Thanks for the tip btw, never knew such an option existed!
ReinaldoVrins on August 27, 2011 at 6:57 AM said:

Hi guys,

buybot beta 1.0 doesn’t work for me. It selects 75 cards to buy and then logs off. Happened twice in a row, session ID’s LQL254 and LQL2B2.

Just FYI.

regards
Plejades on August 27, 2011 at 7:03 AM said:

@ReinaldoVrins: Thanks for the info. We did not have much of a problem with it so far and will look into the issue you had when my tech guy is back from his well deserved vacation….
Can you maybe try it again and see if the error still exists? It might have to do with our server changes we made. Thanks!
Manhandle on August 27, 2011 at 1:26 PM said:

great contest, guys

can’t wait for the next one
ReinaldoVrins on August 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM said:

@Plejades: just tried again 5 minutes ago, same thing. [@A]10:59 PM [b]Academy_Buybot[/b]: Your trade session ID is ‘LQNOZ6′ (include it in support requests)
Plejades on August 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM said:

Hello Reinaldo,

seems to be an issue with the combination of letters in your username. We are using OCR to do the trades and it seems to stumble in very rare cases. We are already in the process to resolve the issue with the new release. Thanks for the info again.