The Traveling Hat

Da_Man

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Behold, The Traveling Beanie™!

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The Plan: Rename it "The Traveling Beanie". And a description leading to a link where people can log it, and tell people to hand it off to someone else in 3 days or so.

While I'm sure its gonna fail due to the "OMG A HAT ITS MINE" thing, but hey, its a fun experiment.

Here is the blog I set up, to keep track of who gets it: http://travelingbeanie.blogspot.com/

I'm handing it off to someone tonight, so lets see what happens!

EDIT: First hand-off to Okrag!
 
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Numerous

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Why do I get the feeling that someone will craft it with another hat then claim they never had it in the first place? It's somewhat pessimistic but easily possible.
 

Da_Man

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@Numerous, its gonna happen eventually, but we'll know how did it.
 

Numerous

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@Numerous, its gonna happen eventually, but we'll know how did it.
How?

Is there some sort of item history we can access?

What if, say, someone passes me the beanie, and I log Doofus J Untrustworthy's steam ID, craft the hat with one of my own (or trade it away to someone else who crafts it with another of their own hats), then claim it was Doofus J Untrustworthy who crafted the beanie with another hat, and stole it from the community?

For example.
 
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Da_Man

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Assuming they log their name on the blog, we can see who had it last. Supposedly.
 

grazr

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You should get them to log what maps they visited with the hat, and some of their scores. If you find data collection an interesting thing that might be interesting. I'm not sure it'd really mean anything, but it's a little player history along with the hats own history.
 

lana

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Scientific discovery: Respite makes you better at TF2
 

Da_Man

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I wonder if its possible to use the Steam API to log it automatically, but I know exactly jack shit about it. Anyone have any ideas with that?
 

Hanz

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My dog ate the hat. What now? :/
 
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