Question [Question] Fastest way of accepting a tradeoffer

[mar71n]

I'm currently having competition in a little niche, and its all about beeing faster.

 

For that reason I want to accept a tradeoffer asap after getting it.

 

Here is my question: 

 

Is there anything that I can do to make 

manager.on('newOffer', function (offer) {
    //Just a function that has some logic, does pretty much just accept the offer as long as itemstogive.length ==0
    accept(offer);
});

faster? Or is this the fastest already. And how much delay is there between getting the offer, and this block of code realizing that a new offer came in?

 

I can also post my full code if needed. 

[SunriseM]

You can change the Poll Interval in the Manager constructor. 

 

• pollInterval - Optional. The time, in milliseconds, between polls. If -1, timed polling is disabled. Minimum 1000, default 30000 (30 seconds).

 

you can also add Polling data, but i think it only affects trade loads after you have received multiples offers

[mar71n]

You can change the Poll Interval in the Manager constructor. 

 

• pollInterval - Optional. The time, in milliseconds, between polls. If -1, timed polling is disabled. Minimum 1000, default 30000 (30 seconds).

 

you can also add Polling data, but i think it only affects trade loads after you have received multiples offers

do you have any experience with that? I bet that steam doesn't like if the interval is too low

[SunriseM]

No i don't have experience in it and Yeah you are probably going to get Error 429 if you set it too low.

[Dr. McKay]

The absolute fastest way to accept incoming trade offers is to pass a node-steam-user instance to steam-tradeoffer-manager. The Steam server will send real-time notifications of when offers are received, and newOffer will be emitted immediately after the offer's details are retrieved.

[Alex_Wells]

Write your own library, cutting off as much as you can. Two best things are:
1) cut off this.update() at accept

2) use async events

[Dr. McKay]

Write your own library, cutting off as much as you can. Two best things are:

1) cut off this.update() at accept

2) use async events

 

https://github.com/DoctorMcKay/node-steam-tradeoffer-manager/wiki/TradeOffer#acceptskipstateupdate-callback

 

Async events would be pretty difficult, seeing as EventEmitter is synchronous.