Have about 250 cards left to idle in over 70 different games. However, when I launch Idlemaster it only wants to idle Wasteland 2 and Dungeon Defenders, which have only 1 card left each to get, and that will take a LONG time. I idled today for 10+ hours and only got 3 cards... What the hell?

Is there a better way to idle this many games?

Also, when I skip the 2nd game - Dungeon Defenders - in IdleMaster, some sort of list pops up with a bunch of game names and it says I'm currently idling 30 games... What ? Is that even possible? However, I'm not getting any cards from this 30+ game idling.

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It's not broken. It's working fine. Some games take more time to drop cards.

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Yeah but why does it, instead of skipping to the 3rd game, open up a list of 30 games?

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Change the settings. You have probably set it to idle games up to 2 hours simultaneously and then individually. Change it so it will idle them individually.

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It idles them individually. It was running for 10 hours and only idled Wasteland 2.

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I understand, but still, change them again, because maybe it's some sort of bug.

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because you choose it in the options (it is default)
it will idle all games for 2 hours, as steam changed the drop rate, so that you can't get cards before 2 hours

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ASF.

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ASF

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Oh ye, winter sale 2016 started. This is the point when IM will probably stop working, like I announced a bit ago. ASF users are covered like usual.

Usual response will point to use ASF, but if you like to fix broken software then you can also add 566020 to some kind of blacklist, if IM offers one (not sure, I stopped using it 1,5 year ago in favor of ASF)

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I will try, but what app is 566020?

EDIT: Will try ASF. Ty all.

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Winter Sale 2016 badge.

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Ty

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the winter sale cards (DUH)

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more like in favor of creating a steam-wide empire and monopol

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Praise Archi! ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ

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yes you can

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This is the point when IM will probably stop working, like I announced a bit ago

It works fine and has through every sale so far.

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Idle master has options to idle all games for 2 hours continuously and then each individually for further till all cards are dropped. You can skip to get the first two card drop but some game takes time, yes.

Alternatively, you can use archi steamfarm.

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ASF

Also you just sound like you changed your settings to idle multiple games first to get to two hours to get the drops.

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Lately I can't idle more then 1 game at a time, so I feel your pain, it's a bit frustrating, but meh.

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ASF works nicely, but if Wasteland 2 and the otherbothers you, just add them to idlemaster's blacklist and then reload the idle-list.
(Idlemaster has one upside compared to ASF - it can idle while you play, otherwise I recommend you using ASF)

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I can't remember Idlemaster to be able idling while playing, are you really sure?

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Haven't used it in a few months, but before that - definitely, I often even swtiched them - IM while I was at home, playing, and then ASF when I left :D but nowadays IM just endlessly reads my badge page

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Hmm, that's the real and only one advantage over ASF then.

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IM uses/shares Steam, ASF is its own client.

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You can use ASF while you are playing too. You just have to play in offline mode.

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Thanks - but that would mean no (group)chats either. But i'm sure someone can use this information for themselves :)

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Yes and no activating games from keys, but better than nothing. :)

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I think only people who refunded a game in past x months have the limit.

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Wait 5 seconds and click next repeat this for all the games you have left to idle and you'll have all your card drops in 30 minutes max. But you have to idle all of them individually.

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I idled all at the same time and when I stopped most of them dropped one or more cards

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Yeah you could do that but then it takes longer.

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Why should it take longer?

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stop using it and get ASF

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portable version works fine.

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I use to use idlemaster and then tried out ASF and never looked back. A way better farmer in my opinion coming from a guy who has farmed thousands of cards.

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A tip for those who have problems with idlemaster (my pc is in Greek, so I may be using the wrong words to describe what I did):
1) Go to control panel.
2) Choose "delete a program".
3) Choose idlemaster.
4) Choose to bring it back to its original state.
5) Launch idlemaster. Wow, it works. ;P
It suddenly stopped working, so I followed these steps to make it work. ;)

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My issue was that the option to idle games until 2 hours was selected. I turned that off and it worked normally, one game at a time. :)

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I know that and I have answered to you previously. xD But your thread was the most recent one related to idlemaster, so I decided to comment here, in case someone had experienced the same problem as me.

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