Travel Tags for 2012

[JSurmann]

I was only able to swap once but will definitely get one again.

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Originally Posted by mashnut

I'll definitely get one again this year.

Any thoughts on changing the formula for which swaps are allowed? I know several people mentioned issues this year with people they hadn't met before but weren't allowed to swap because it's limited by tag number. I think Martin dewgarita had that problem a few times. It seems to me it would make sense to just limit swaps by user so that the same two people can't swap multiple times.

I think limiting it by person will result in even less trades and more complaints.

[ShopTom.com]

Originally Posted by timg

Probably start taking orders later this week. They're going to be green this year

Please consider the ability to make a swap if only 1 person hasn't had that number before. It is difficult for those of us not near other members to get much action on completely new tags.

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That's how it works now... you can't swap unless one person hasn't had a particular number.

[mashnut]

Originally Posted by timg

I think limiting it by person will result in even less trades and more complaints.

Interesting, for some reason it makes more sense to me the other way. I wouldn't expect to be able to trade with gooddrivebadputt repeatedly just because we play together often, but when I meet up with someone I've never played with hundreds of miles from home and a tag I had 6 swaps ago keeps us from trading it seems odd.

[solomon.trenton]

im confused. can someone dumb this down for me?

[mashnut]

Right now swaps are limited by tag number, once you've had a specific number you can't ever have that number again. I'm proposing that it's limited by who you've traded with rather than tag number. I met up with martin dewgarita earlier this year, and when we tried to swap it turned out that a tag had made it's way between us through a few other people. It was the first time we'd played together is year, and it seemed weird that we wouldn't be able to swap. A few others have posted with the same issue, some having to mail tags back to someone they met up with.

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I think cases like that are the exception rather than the norm. Let's say gooddrivebadputt travels a lot on business and comes back with a new tag each time and you got a new tag recently. I think it would make sense for you to be able to swap tags again since you both have 2 new tag #s. I have a feeling situations like that arise far more than the already had a tag # issue.

[mashnut]

Would it be possible to set it up so different tag numbers or different users were acceptable swaps?

[JSurmann]

Or just make it so that you cannot have the exact previous number that you had before your current tag. Say you go from 1 to 2 to 3, you can swap 3 for 1 but not 2.