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Collection items that are combined are connected ambiguously
Users may have multiple items that are keys or gifts for multi-app subs, and tagged as such, so it can be unclear as to which items are connected to which. When tagging items as combined, users should have the opportunity to mark these items as connected to each other.
I propose that whenever you mark items as combined, all of the items you've marked should be marked as connected. I'd add the items to my collection, select each item, and then mark it as "combined." These items would be marked as related to each other and adding these items to a trade would also add the related items.
Alternatively, we could add these multi-app subs as separate items entirely, but there would need to be some kind of mechanism to indicate what's in these items so they can be shown in matches.
The combined tag has a int value that isn't used now and could be used for grouping.
Ideally, it would be the subID, but that is asking a lot from users. In addition, users may add the combined tag to multiple games that are combined, but not all with each other.
Another positive from fixing this is that we can have things that are combined automatically decrement after a trade instead of micromanaging everything.
The subID tag does seem like a better way to do this. However, given that there are non-Steam items and combined is more intuitive than subID, I'll test some improvements.
When applying the combined tag without any value set, it will use the current time (in seconds). That doesn't make it easy to visually scan, but it provides unique values per collection.
Here's a real world scenario with combined items with no subID: https://barter.vg/i/10148/
Originally a part of https://barter.vg/i/46937/