Setting Up

Before you join, you need a place to store your stuff, also known as a trade post. To make life easier for you and for your fellow TCG members, you should separate your cards—at least into groups of keeping and trading. You are also required to keep a detailed card log, showing how you got every card. The final thing you need on your site is a way to contact you, either a form or an email link, so you can trade.

A thorough explanation on how you should set up your trade post are as follows:

• Collecting are the decks you are currently actively looking to master. Players will usually offer you these cards first, as it's the highest priority!
• Future/Keeping are the decks that you plan on mastering later but are not focusing on at the moment (but are still accepting cards from them in incoming trades).
• Trading are the cards that you don't want to master or keep at all and are willing to trade away. These are cards that traders will take in exchange for giving you the cards you're looking for.
• Statistics is most likely the main page of the TCG you joined, which should display a level badge, linked button to the TCG you've joined, card count/worth, items (if there's any), currency and coupons that you gained.
• Contact is the page where potential traders can contact you which includes a contact or trade form, an email address is also necessary, or post on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth or any other website.

If you don't have a website to display or host your trade post, you can use free hosting sites or blogs such as LiveJournal, TCG Publicity or Leprd Space.

Activity & Trade Logs

Although most logs are automatically stored in a database and being kept safe for members to copy and move over to eTCG, whatever a player do at Frames TCG, they are still required to log it on their trade post in details. Every time they play games, complete a service or activity where they are rewarded, and such must be recorded and logged correctly. Despite the on-site logs, Frames TCG is still running on the honor system as we cannot keep track on every single things that players do. This will ensure our members are playing fairly by letting us know where and when they got the cards and rewards.

Keeping a detailed log is actually beneficial not only to players but to the TCG's staffs as well. Staffs who moderate the games and events may be able to verify whether a player's trade post logs match the on-site logs and that players have rightfully earned the cards they are using for rewards that needs them as proof.

Aside from activity logs, players are also required to keep track of their own traded cards, for both incoming and outgoing trades. We highly recommend that activity logs which contains games, rewards from services, and the likes are separated from trade logs for ease.

The example above shows what separated logs look like and the difference between good and bad logs. You could also combine your logs, but we highly recommend to have them separated. It's pretty much up to you to decide if you'd rather sort your logs that way or just have them all in one section!