I have one 'main' Steam account (this account) and also 5 other 'farming' accounts for harvesting trading cards from spare keys. The main account has 1500 titles still to farm, the farming accounts have 300 titles on each still to farm.

I use ASF to idle all accounts at the same time and it works well, but I have seen people talk about Idle Master being able to drop cards from a single account more quickly than ASF. For my circumstance, what is the best way to idle, especially seeing as one account has so many more cards left to farm than the others?

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Idle master have bug that give you card drops extra fast you just need to get all games up to 2h then just press skip to next game after 3-4 sek.

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Card drops are determined server side. This isn't a bug in any idling software and can be replicated in them all.

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a) Not reliable replicatable. (At least I tried it a few times only worked once, and not for all accounts)
b) To clarify: It is a bug and not intended by valve for sure, just not a bug in IM, but in steam instead.

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It can't be reliably replicated by all users even in IM so your point A is irrelevant - not that I claimed any degree of reliability, just that all idling software could do it. I also never claimed it wasn't a bug, I just refuted the statement that it was a bug in IM.

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a) No, you made it sound like it could always be reproduced. In an software at any time. At least that's how I understood it.
b) Jep, I'm aware of what you meant, just wanted to clarify for other people that it IS a bug since your statement could be missunderstanding.

I basically wanted to clarify, because these two arguments (can be always reproduced and it's not a bug) are the ones always used by people that try to get archi to implement it^^

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The post I was replying too was incorrect, I corrected it. Your mis-comprehension of my statements doesn't make them any less factual. It's not a bug in IM and it can be reproduced in other software, that's fact. I neither said it could be reproduced reliably or that it wasn't a bug.

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Yes.
But communications is not only the sole content of words.
I have in my first comment never mentioned, that I want to proof you wrong, just stated additional facts.
Which you never the less, somehow took as an attack.

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I think steam already fixed the bug with fast farming. It stopped to work for me a few weeks ago.

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still work for me (tried today)

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Thanks for the info. Then there must be another problem. :(

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i use new version ------> https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/7joXv/idle-master-141-released
and all works great

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Still works for me, too. :X
Like Mihey, I'm using the latest version.

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Me too. I even deleted some temporary files of the app and it didn't help. The app looks like it is farming normally, but I am afraid it is not farming actually, because it always shows 0 hours on record for each game.

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hide this game, its broken xD There's no card drop for this trash (game not released)
I added this game ("28 waves later") to idle-master blacklist:

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You can do it with ASF too
Just idle some at the same time and then change the Idle order.
That way card drops are really fast mostly.

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Use SingleBoostr from HourBoostr, select 33 game titles. I tested a "Start/Stop" method in 5 seconds, I got 100+ card drops in few hours. I used this way just to minimised the counter of hours played. Within an hour clocked, I got all the cards. If for a lot of cards (Ex: 7), the counter clocked me 2 hours.

Get it here https://github.com/Ezzpify/HourBoostr/releases

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The IdleMaster method seems to be working for me, thanks everyone!

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