Where is kataztrophik?

Most of the people I have met who idle only have a few accounts, so compared to I think you have a good amount. I think I heard of somebody with 100-200 accounts or something like that, let me see what I can find.

I have 70 accounts, I run 10 of them per night. I'm surprised you're using a secondary hard drive for yours, are you symbolic linking? Those 70 accounts I have only take up 30.2 gb in space, since I just link to my primary account's Steamapps folder.

Thats not fair with idling on multiple accounts, you should feel bad.
Not mentioning idling is also not fair, you should play the game and get items for it.

I heard of people using near 250 alts. There shouldn't be that many who do so though, considering all the logistics behind idling 11h per week for each account.

Setup sandbox premium with tf2idle gui program. Run dedictated tf2 server, have 32 or 16 accounts join that server, giving you 199-204mb ram per accounts. +connect ip:29000 -port20. Have over 112 premium + 16 f2p accounts, I usually idle 32 or 16 account per day with 16gb ram. On sandbox setting just set all accounts to 1 alt steam folder with tf2 folder, that all you need, gotta love steampipe.

I have only one account.

I read last night about a guy who had more than 6000 accounts (half of them premium) banned.

Since the SteamPipe update you don't need to copy dirs, just use the same in sandboxie for every account.

O.o WOW

Holy... I have three alts, but rarely run more than two at a time. These days, I don't even bother with one though. I should, but I feel like I have better things to do with my processing power (and I always feel like I shouldn't run other games while idling and I hate having that feeling, whether I'm actually going to run anything else or not.)

Wait, does steam allow several instances of itself running at the same time? Or do you use some external software?

To be honest this is exploiting imho and I hope that steam will make a definite statement to either allow it or forbid it, hopefully forbid it. (They might have done that already but to me it seemed like they had not)

Is idling a PC all night worth the items you get? I mean, the power cost and component wear on the machine must outweigh the near-worthless drops in TF2 right?

Meh, I heard some server admins have 500+ alts.

I use this with 4ish accounts, works great, and integrates with Sandboxie somewhat. Cuts down on file size too.

http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250564

I have 6 alts (+ my own) but i'm planning on getting more, and more. Why? I don't really know, I barely buy any games nowadays, but I just enjoy making money, that's all. I'd like to have around 70, that would be cool, maybe a hundred, because why not. lol.

How does this work though? You have to buy the game or pay at least $9 in micropurchases before cards drop. Surely you're not going to make $9+ from 4 cards?

I was about to start a TF2 idling "empire" just a few months back but for some reason I didn't, maybe because I didn't have enough time. I should have done that, TF2 idle Hats and shit + Dem cards = Profit, I guess. Btw did you purchase something from Mann Co with every acc?

How does idling even work? I thought you can only start 1 instance of steam at once?!

alts?

Well, one of my friend idles with 120-200 idle accounts, He just use virtualbox and made all those accounts premium, how are you planning to make them premium ? I know ways but still, I'm wondering.

well I have only 8 alt accounts. 5 accounts are premium and 3 accounts are free to play (because most of the salvage crates drop on f2p accounts). well I suggest you all upgrade to premium your accounts using QIWI (only for russian users), because buying the upgrade to premium from valve store or from any trading site is costly.

Exactly 0

Raiden so you have 64 alts with premium? Do you use sandboxie or just run them normally?

Steampipe is one of the biggest Steam updates for TF2. Making it load faster, Run Faster, Making mods work better, Loading maps faster and making replays faster too.