Setting up Mouse Scrolling for MTGOLibrary bot

Here is a small walk-through on how to set your mouse wheel scrolling

to work with MTGOLibrary bots.

Windows XP

Firstly Go on Start Menu and Control Panel

 Printers and Other Hardware (or straight to mouse if classic view)

 Click on Mouse and go to the tab "Wheel" at the top

 Change the number of lines from 3 (default) into 4

 Windows Vista / 7

Firstly Go on Start Menu and Control Panel

  Click on Hardware and Sound

 Click on Devices and Printers

Identify your mouse, right click on it and choose "Mouse settings"

 Go to the tab "Wheel" at the top and change the number of lines from 3 into 4.

You have now setup your mouse to work with MTGO Library bot. Happy Botting

MTGO Library Bot 5.09 is out!

We have a new shiny version of ML Bot out now, version 5.09. The version features a better connection with the webserver - in fact you will see that the webserver is currently running very smoothly.

As minor features, we added the possibily to erase the screenshots' trades every week, every 2 week and every month (in addition to the old choices - 2 months, 4 months and 6 months). You will find the new option included in the related dropdown menu in the "General Tab".

Failure (Part 1)

McDonald’s is the world’s most successful franchise.  98% of all new restaurants will be successful.  This is touted during their franchise sales pitch, especially when you consider some of the considerable and expensive hoops that McDonald’s corporate require from every applicant for a franchise.  When you consider that 80% of all new businesses will fail in the first five (5) years of existence, seeing an opportunity to virtually not fail is highly attractive to those wishing to start a business.

We who run bots are not all that different.  We run our own online store, but MTGO Library is the heart and soul of our franchise business. 

These two thoughts kept swirling in my head while I was trying in vain to explain what I do to an acquaintance of mine who has a very annoying trait: he is exceedingly negative.  I don’t mean legitimate concerns and questions one has, but of the more annoying and pessimistic variety.  He would emotionally declare that if he ran a bot, he’d never make a trade.  That if  he bid on a collection of cards on Ebay, he’d overpay and wouldn’t be able to sell the cards at cost, much less at a profit.  Then he’d be forced to sell those same cards at fire sale prices.  If you think this was annoying, try listening to this for about fifteen (15) minutes.

But this negative rant also got me thinking about businesses.  They all tout the successes of businesses and never even mention the prospects of failure.  Again, we’re not all that different.  This series will look at how bots can fail and in so doing, make certain we do not emulate those mistakes.

Server is very slow

Hello,






the server is currently very slow. We are fixing it, and it will be running again smoothly soon

Independence Day

For those in the United States, today is July 4th, Independence Day.  It is a day of hot dogs, barbeques, going to the beach, going to a baseball game, watching fireworks, and getting together with friends for a nice summer day.
Note the commonality of the things listed above, virtually nothing is done indoors.  Until WotC comes up with an app that allows trading, or a client where you can play MTGO on a smartphone, Magic Online will continue to be played indoors and online.

Oh great.  Another dead day where I won’t be making any money.

Not necessarily.  There are those who prefer indoor activities and will not be playing Diablo 3, KOTOR, or WoW.  Some may be unwilling or unable to go and risk skin cancer.  In any event, while the majority of people will be doing festive summer activities, it does not mean that MTGO will be offline as there will be more users on MTGO than on a normal Wednesday.

So, why not use this information to your advantage?  Change your advertising messages; and even offer a sale celebrating the birthday of the United States!

MTGO Library Bot 5.08 is out!

ML Bot 5.08 is out.

It fixes some issues with the recent redesign of the UI and fixes a problem when loading ''modified'' CardsMTGO3.txt (sometimes resulting in crashes)

IPA

Invasion was released in September 2000. Twelve years passed, but we still can enjoy drafting IPA thanks to 10th MtGO anniversary. If you have ever drafted either Shards of Alara or Ravnica, you know that multi-color blocks can be difficult. You end up with a lot of cards in different, usually 3-4 colors. Next step is to build a mana base, which might be not easy task, especially there are not very much fixing in Invasion. As a result, the drafts are a complicated balance of picking powerful cards, without stretching your mana too much.

Do you remember times when Pernicious Deed or Orim's Chant was about 100 Event Tickets? By now there have been plenty of IPA drafts and price of cards gradually dropped. These days IPA draft set costs only 13 Event Tickets to comparizon with 30 Event Tickets few years ago. For players that don’t play in a lot of eternal formats, it may be difficult figuring out what the best money cards are. I have heard several stories of people being passed these cards during IPA drafts, which is just silly. It’s like handing a two twenty dollar bills to the person on your right. One of the problems is that there are few stores on MTGO that advertise the prices for these cards in the classifieds. If you see an Orim’s Chant, and look it up in the classifieds, you probably won’t even see an ad, and you certainly won’t pick it because it is terrible in limited. Additionally, IPA has a lot of commons that see a lot of play in Pauper, such as Ancient Spring, Crimson Acolyte, Exclude. IPA commons are worth definately much more than normal commons.
Some of them are even worth a few tix, which is a really good price as for a common.

The moral of the story is to check the value of unknown to you cards from drafted edition :)