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Steam cards idling just takes too damn long.

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Lugum

Yes i am using Idlemaster, but everytime you get new games, you wait 2 hours again.
I pretty much have the pc on for 16 hours everyday (Don't think i'd even get 10 cards a day), but usually my total card amount to idle increases rather then decreases.
Yeah i guess maybe it's a luxury problem, i don't know.

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9 years ago*

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EViLiSLuRKiNG

Don't think i'd even get 10 cards a day

Idle Master can idle more than one game at a time so say it idles 10 games within 2 hours those games will hit that two hour delay.The rest of the card drops are up to the developer to decide how quick they drop.Even so in A 10 hour day you should get a lot more even if you only got 1 card every half hour that is 2 and hour and 20 in 10 hours.Though you will surely get more then that.

Key redemptions should no longer have said delay as I got a drop from playing El Ninja within the first 5 minutes of play.If you do have a lot of games though it will still take some time to drop cards.They were not intended for farming but for playing the game so if done the proper way it would not seem like such a chore.

8 years ago
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UngweLianti

Idle as many games as possible each time to ~1-2 hours, once you've got all games on about 1-2h, Run Idlemaster and set it to run each game individually. Then click next every 1-2 sec in the app, and the cards will start flowing in one by one. I've farmed about 700 cards in a few hours doing that (after the first 1-2h on all games have been reached)

Maybe this is something that should be added to ASF/Idlemaster etc. :) Just saying cuz it works every time.

8 years ago
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UngweLianti

I've got 60+ cards now since I posted that 8 min ago.

8 years ago
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UngweLianti

Oh, and SAM (Steam achievement manager) It's a little bit more manual input. But you can idle at least 100 games without much problem. Just get the time idle'd to about 1-2 hours, then do the other steps as mentioned earlier. Promise you good results

Have fun! :)

8 years ago
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nightswallow22

Note that skipping the games to get a faster drop rate will keep you from playing any actual games on steam if you restart idlemaster for another session. You can logout and then log back in to fix this issue but I had about 400 card drops in 20 minutes doing it that way

8 years ago
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RachelGamer

You can idle up to 30 games at the same time using Idle Master for the first 2 hours. After the first 2 hours, just keep pressing the next button after 5 secs. You'll get a bunch of cards. I get around 100 cards in one day doing that.
Edit: Just noticed this thread is 11 months old. ^^

8 years ago
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Mallorn

Doesnt matter.
I got some info I didnt know ;)

8 years ago
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nightswallow22

It's actually better to have around 5-6 games with over 2 hours of playtime. This way you can set idlemaster to run the games individually and then consecutively. Then after skipping through each individual game you close out idlemaster 4-5 seconds after it starts to run consecutively. This will cause the games that haven't run 2 hours to drop cards also. There it's even a chance you won't need to run a game for 2 hours before all the cards drop.

Be warned it can cause problems when trying to play a game directly after running idlemaster. A simple fix it's to exit and restart steam.

8 years ago
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Minimalist

I usually prefer IM because when Idling multiple accounts in ASF it takes much much longer for the cards to drop, I'd rather idle individually with IM

8 years ago
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