What do people win by being idle on TF2?

You get items, and they dont have to be playing the game. They can run it in the cmd window.
They dont even need to connect to a idle server. They can use their own ip and do a local game all through the command window,thus using very little resources. They will get items without doing anything. The items can be sold or traded for games. But its hard to get a lot of valuable items, well i should say rare.

items.

Crates*
Idle = random items = metal = keys
:D

Virtual hats.

I think you can gain more being idle in TF2 than being idle in real life.

I gained nothing yet, from both.

Items. Which you use to craft metal. 18 weapons = 1 ref. Each account gets 9-12 weapons per week and takes around 8-9 hrs to get all the drops. You could get lucky and find a hat or something too. You then use metal to get keys. Keys are getting more expensive. They are like 4-5 ref. Use keys to get games or real world money. The only way to profit off of idling is to have several accounts. With keys being 4-5 ref you need at least 6 accounts to get a key a week. Some people have like 200-300 accounts. Use a program called sandboxie to idle all the accounts at once on a text server. Sandboxie is for free but it only gives you 1 account. Buy it for like 20 dollars to idle several accounts at a time.

The only marketable items you can get are tools and crates. Tools include paints, decal tool, name tag, but they're very rare.

Normally you just get weapons or crates. Assuming you get all weapons, 18 of them would be a refined metal which is about .35-.40. Typically you get 10 or so items per week, but it can be more. If you're really lucky you can get a hat which are 1.33+ ref, but they're few and far between.

Hats sometimes.

items

This is the cause that Keys value Increase a lot in last months / weeks, is around 5 REF each and continue up...

It's like bitcoin farming, only more nerdy.

Para la gente que le interesa como hacerlo

http://www.teamfortress.cl/foros/topic/3304-guia-idlear-multiples-cuentas-usando-sandboxie/

Guia en Español hecha por mi :)

Random s**t. That is all.

If you are Premium you can find Hats, Miscs and Weapons + Crates.

My Backpack is worth 128 Dollar

You get weapons (or hats) from idling

weapons = scrap

scrap = reclaimed metal

reclaimed metal = refined metal

refined metal = keys

keys = currency in the tf2 economy

Any chance of being banned?

Any chance of being banned?

If u still want ur items, but dnt have the time or simply dnt want to play tf2 for 10 hours in the week then u may as well idle and play/watch/surf internet. If you have one account then no harm and no need for special programs.