This time I'm going through the settings tabs of MTGO Library Bot.
Getting started:
First of all you should register your own account on mtgolibrary.com and then log in and click "Register new bot" and register your first bot. If you're going to run more than one bot, go into "Sharing credits" with each bot and add them to the same chain. This ensures that your customers can use any leftover credits on each of your bots.
Now start MTGO Library Bot and insert your bot's name into "Username" and the bot account's password into "MTGO Password" and lastly the password you use on the mtgolibrary site in "Bot Password"
I would recommend setting it to restart every 2 hours or so as MTGO can get a bit sluggish.
Mtgo also has a bug where it believes you're in a trade even though you're not, which will give potential customers a message that states that you're busy even though you're not when they try to trade.
A restart fixes this.
Make sure to uncheck "Make all tradeable". It automatically makes all cards you own tradeable which means your Lite bots will be selling valuable cards at bulk prices.
Also make sure to set the Bot type to whatever you're planning on using it for. Some people prefer to have one bot that buys and one that sells, in that case set the selling bot to only be a "Seller" and vice versa.
A "Trader" is a bot that allows a user to both sell to your bot and purchase at the same time.
Most bots have all these checked at the same time and that's what I would recommend.
Here you can choose which sets to buy and how many of each rarity within each set to purchase.
For a Pro bot that is just starting out without a huge collection I would recommend buying only Standard and only 4 of each Common, Uncommon, Rare and Mythic. Foil is something I would recommend buying further down the road, the same goes for other sets. I would also recommend you to not buy basic lands or boosters in the beginning.
You can select set-categories in the "Quick selection" box and then choose rarities and quantities and lastly hit "Submit to collection". This is great for changing a lot of collection settings at once.
I wouldn't recommend you to change anything here except for maybe "Buyer Search Order", for example if you're not buying Foil you might as well move them down to prioritizing stuff you're actually buying.
Prices Tab: This one differs depending on which bot type you're using and I'll go through this one for each type in upcoming posts.
Here you can set your own account as Administrator which gives you privileges to execute commands for certain bot tasks as well as setting up automatic transferring of cards between your bots.
I wouldn't really recommend you to use the auto transfer as it's not very good at the moment and I think you're better off spending maybe 5 minutes every day to transfer them by hand.
"1st welcome message": Is the message your bot will greet a new customer with.
"General welcome message": Is the message your bot will post to returning customers upon opening of a new trade.
"Additional info message 1,2 and 3": These can be used for anything you would like to tell your customers. For example an email address where they can reach you on, or which bots are part of your chain.
"End of trade message": This message will be posted when a trade is completed.
"Display WIKI price message at the beginning of trade": This one should be checked. It will advertise the wikiprice site where they can find bot prices, but it also reduces the fee you'll have to pay to MTGO Library for each transaction from 3.5% to 2.5%.
"Classified message": This is the message the bot will post in the classifieds tab in MTGO. A good idea is to write either your bulk prices here or advertise cards you have for sale.
"Buy class. message": here you can set if you want to use a different message when your bot is busy. For example you could put (Busy Trading) or something similar in front of your normal classified message.
"Trading room message": this determines what your bot will post in the trading room.
Store and Accounts Tab:
Here you can find some licensing information about your bot.
Next time I'll go through how you can set up your first Lite bot and start botting for real.
Until next time, have fun!
-Tom (Sitrec)
Archbot MTGO Store: ArchBot, ArchBot2, ArchBot3, ArchBot4 & ArchBot5
or you can buy basic lands and write :
ReplyDeleteM14;Plains;;;0.001;0.002;;
etc...
on your personal prices
You will be surprised on how many people pick up basic lands :)
@Carlos Lazaro yes indeed, but I couldn't really go into all these kind of settings in this very basic, introductory ML Bot settings post. It'll all be covered later on.
ReplyDeleteis there any way to actually just remove the settings you are not using? I see the bot randomly looking for foil comons when i have none I am buying....the list jas all the possibilities but no way to remove the ones you are not interested in?
ReplyDeleteBuyer Tab/search order.
@Bert Not that I'm aware of, I would love to know if anyone knows a way of doing it though.
ReplyDelete