TOPIC: F:AT Math Trade --GLORY and REVELRY--
F:AT Math Trade --GLORY and REVELRY-- If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. Au contraire, you cranky old fucker Clint Eastwood! By participating in a F:AT-sanctioned Arms Trade, your boundless joy is assured! Nothing is at risk! Trade only if you want to! But if you do, you get something you have personally OK'd. This thread runs a "math trade"--a computer assisted algorithm to determine the best possible combination of trades so everyone ends up with games they want, even if not trading one-to-one. People will submit cryptically formatted lists to me that I hand graciously to the Mayor of Carmel, who will arrange for some pissant underling to do whatever-the-hell-needs-happening. An example would be: Black Barney WANTS a sexy volleyball girl love pillow and HAS Reef Encounter Barnes WANTS Reef Encounter and HAS a lot of shitty opinions Uba WANTS a lot of shitty opinions and HAS sexy love pillows. (Clint just wants to make movies about jazz greats without Spike Lee getting all up in his shit.) The pissant will collate or whatever he-goddamned-does-all-day and tell Black Barney to send Reef Encounter to Barnes. Barnes will send his shitty opinions to Uba. Uba will don her protective hazmat suit and package the love pillow to Barney. She will then take a shower, but she will never be clean. Everyone is happy! (Except the love pillow.) The Carmel City Attorney assures us that you are not obligated to trade any games away. If you have a game that outshines the competition, submit an empty list for it, and it won't go anywhere. +++++ RULES +++++ You can post games you are willing to trade away immediately. To do so, in your FIRST reply to this thread: Enter your name, your location, how much shipping you are willing to cover and your games and their condition. You can edit this reply until the "closed for submission" time to add more games, but once I add the game to the master list in this post, YOU CANNOT REMOVE IT until the trades are finalized. If you remove an item after it has been added to the list:  e.g. GAMES FOR TRADE: Matt Loter, 06812, USA – I’ll cover the first $10 to ship everywhere. • DUNE – FFG 2012 edition that's actually a different game. New in shrink! • Gherkin Jerkin – Hans im Gluck. Very rare import. Well played lover’s copy. Want lists for each item you've added to the list are due by Tuesday Apr 3rd 3pm PDT Feel free to submit want lists early. All want lists are to be PMed to my account here (jeb). This isn't a "no shipping" trade. People from the tumbleweed strewn wests of Spain may participate. Please state your shipping status in your Games For Trade post. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Shipping is a big deal. If you live in New York, and you put a game from the mexican border town of San Miguel on your Want List, BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR A SUBSTANTIAL CHUNK OF THE COST OF HAVING GAMES SHIPPED TO YOU. If someone offers "free shipping globally!" they are going to pay a frigging fortune shipping games--that's their prerogative. On the other hand, you cannot opt out of shipping internationally. You should set an upper bound on what you're willing to spend, and chase the recipient for the extra you'll need to get it to her. (Another way to look at it: You will pay for having games shipped to you, but many games come with a cash bonus to offset the shipping cost. ) I am the ultimate arbiter of any disputes. By signing up some games here, you are submitting to this rule. I don't care if you don't like my decision. You don't want to be the first jackass to be added to the bad trader list, do ya, punk? When adding games for trade, you must describe the condition of the game, and note if anything is missing. If not noted, the game will assumed to be complete and in good condition. Also note if the game is not an English language edition. Please verify that you actually have possession of the game before adding a game to this list for trade. Seriously. Go to your garage and look at the game. Maybe rats ate some pieces or something. TAKE A LOOK. If it's a video game, note what system it's for and whether or not you have the box and manual and so forth. Lean towards being more informative rather than less. LORD OF THE RINGS is not super helpful, for example. The Knizia boardgame? Some flavor of video game? A nice set of the books? Please use the following format for your Want Lists: (FAT_Username) Your_Game_Number : Game_wanted_#1 Game_wanted_#2 Game_wanted_#3 &c. A possible list might look like this: (jeb) 1 : 14 18 19 (jeb) 11 : 14 18 19 22 26 7 (jeb) 12 : 14 (jeb) 16 : This means I have four games to trade away: 1, 11, 12 and 16. My game 16 is very dear to me and there was nothing I wanted to trade for. Oh well. Game 12 I could part with for game 14. Game 1 could go for Game 14, 18, or 19. And Game 11 I want to move along, so I'll take any of the six games listed for it.  Look at this handsome fella. How could he lead you astray? LINEAR-PRIORITIES: Use the 1,2,3,4,... priority scheme. SMALL-STEP=1: Adjust how priorities change between successive entries in a want list. (The default value is 1.) BIG-STEP=9: Adjust how priorities change for each semicolon in a want list. (The default value is 9.) REQUIRE-COLONS: Make colons mandatory for every want list. REQUIRE-USERNAMES: Make usernames mandatory for every want list. ITERATIONS=100: If set to a number larger than 1, then use randomization to find num different solutions, keeping the solution with the best sum-of-squares metric. Note that all of the solutions will have the same number of trades and the same total cost. ALLOW-DUMMIES: Allow users to include dummy items to protect against getting duplicates. There have been some questions about how to best use dummy items to protect against getting duplicate items. Here is a big ass quote from the Trade Maximiser wiki page…  Warning: Spoiler!If you have any questions about any aspect of the trade, please let me know and I'll try to answer them quickly. Post your stupid comments and questions to the blog, not in this thread! Make sure to be aggressive with those lists, this guy didn't bust out for nothin'.  ASSCLOWN: Jeb NEED WANTS: |
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