Small update and season end.

I made a very small update to the bot today that probably won't matter very much to you: Steem-Engine tokens will now be sent from the @ottermakerengine account instead of @ottermaker. Everything else remains the same, the only difference for the user is that if you want to check the wallet before sending cards or DEC you need to look here to see the bot's balances now. I'll put a technical explanation for why at the end of the post if you're interested.

Season Ending

As I write this we're about eight and a half hours from season rewards happening, and the bot is as always prepared to take any unwanted Reward cards you would care to burn, and give you back 101% of the DEC you would get if you burned them yourself. This is usually the busiest moment for Ottermaker, and the bot currently has 340,000 DEC to hand out, plus I'm pretty close to max on several Reward cards and will be looking to burn those as I get enough cards in.

Simply gift cards to @ottermaker from within the game or Peakmonsters, and automatically get DEC in your Steem-Engine wallet for every bcx as per the table below:

Rarity	Beta/Reward	Alpha/Promo
Common	15.15	30.3
Rare	60.6	121.2
Epic	303	606
Legendary	1515	3030
Gold Common	757.5	1515
Gold Rare	3030	6060
Gold Epic	15150	30300
Gold Legendary	75750	151500

Note that Gold cards are currently only accepted from the Reward and Promo editions.

Buy BETA for 1600 DEC apiece

This week several people have developed a habit of sending in cards for DEC and sending the DEC right back for BETA packs, which is great! but the bot still has over 1000 BETA in its balance and I'd love to convert them into DEC. You can buy them by sending any amount DEC to @ottermaker and it will send you one BETA token for every 1600 DEC, plus change if necessary.

BETA tokens will be sent to your Steem-Engine wallet; to turn them into packs in the game simply send them to @steemmonsters.

Technical details

Most people can ignore this part, but I thought I would post why I made the technical change listed above. Much like the people in charge of Steem, I made the mistake of not thinking enough about custom JSON collision when I first made the bot. The original version did well enough taking in cards, but if I wanted to do anything with the cards once they were in the account, I ran the risk of submitting a custom JSON at the same time as the bot was doing so. Steem doesn't allow that and it breaks things, so now most of the bot's custom JSON transactions are being done from @ottermakerengine, leaving @ottermaker free to make use of its cards. This will let me work on automating what happens to the cards after they come in, which is the next step for me, even though it won't mean much change for users.