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The idle master seems to logout every 24hrs. Just login again after that (not sure why this problem started happening though
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Ok I see IdleMaster think steam is not running (and it is running). It looks like something changed in steam. But it should be not only for me then... If other ppl dont have problem maybe i should reinstall something... If it is common problem then i need to move to this new program from kOROMOShYdOpOlOuS link ...
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Its source is available, and due to its popularity someone would update it for sure even if that ocurred.
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Nope works fine for me. Just remember steam has to be running before you turn idlemaster on. That's the only time I've gotten it to mistake steam as not running.
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Site is down.
The installed app tries to auto update on startup, cant find site, and will give an error.
Im not sure if the site will ever be back, so it might be time to look for an alternative.
the good news, is that the github source code is still available - so in theory it shouldnt take long for a new version by another user will pop up.
The code is made in c sharp.
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it shouldnt take long for a new version by another user will pop up.
It will, because every developer has a brain, and every developer with a brain won't start working on not his own project if there are much better ones (e.g. ASF) available. Did you see any developer working on his own kernel after Linux was released? Nobody wants to waste time on writing useless code that will never achieve quality of already available solutions, especially if there is absolutely no reason in doing so as well.
People need to accept the fact that IM is dead and move on, instead, they're wasting more and more hours trying to make deprecated program work.
Well, I couldn't care less, people love to make their lifes harder :3.
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"Well, I couldn't care less"
Considering that you post in every single IM thread here and on Steam, uh, I think not.
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And concerning working on code once the original devs leave .... yeah, like many open source products they get forked and the original distro gets left behind. Why start from scratch when you can reference someone else's work and either improve on it or at least use parts of it to make something better.
You act like you never looked at the IM source code and never used anything that any one else made.
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Why start from scratch when you can reference someone else's work and either improve on it or at least use parts of it to make something better.
You don't start from scratch, you start from something that is abandoned, prone to errors, troublesome and painful to work with. And despite all of your effort that you'd put in "making idlemaster great again", it will never achieve being as resistant as ASF towards steam quirks, offering offline farming or many other features ASF includes, and all of that is caused only because of how IM works - the same thing that pushed me to code ASF, to overcome those problems.
So yes, if you expect any developer to continue IM project despite of ASF existance, then I wouldn't call him very smart. I'm not even sure if anybody is even capable of improving it, because unlike you, I spent many hours analyzing IM code source wondering if I should start my own project from scratch, or reuse IM components, improve them and send pull request with features I wanted to add. I chosen the first way for the very good reason - because it was not possible physically to add things I wanted back to IM. IM was coded wrong since the very first version, with wrong approaches and wrong decisions, that's why it's so troublesome lately to work with it, and Steam didn't change nearly anything in last 2-3 years regarding cards.
There is a giant difference between continuing the project that was abandoned by first dev, and reinventing the wheel. If you decide to work on something that is already done elsewhere, and much better than you ever manage to do that yourself, then you're simply wasting time that you could spend on improving the good project from start. And somebody capable of writing code is usually smart enough to not make bad decision.
This is also one of the reasons why I have at least a few very advanced dev-like users in ASF, testing my pre-releases, giving feedback and suggesting further enhancements, while IM has none.
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People need to accept the fact that IM is dead and move on, instead, they're wasting more and more hours trying to make deprecated program work.Well, I couldn't care less, people love to make their lifes harder :3.
It still works fine for me so how am i wasting my time?Or how am i making it harder?I get it those who do have issues maybe it is time to move on,but to include everyone wasting there time or making life hard as if you speak for everyone and some how know whoever is using it is making there life harder and wasting time is a bit of a leap is it not?
It works as needed for me so until it stops doing what i need i will stick with it,i already have it installed i know how to use it and it easy to deal with why would i switch just because something is no longer supported?
You are not helping some by trying to tell everyone to update and those who do not are just stubborn fools wasting there time and making life hard just because something is no longer supported.I would actually be annoyed if you told me that because it works just fine for me.You would have been better off saying i think it is time to maybe move on to a more supported idler.Instead you treat everyone who still uses it like fools for wasting what you consider time and making life hard for sticking with it.
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https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/Z3NVVlV
People claiming that IM works for them are either unaware of the issue, or lucky enough to not notice any abnormal situations (and those are happening so frequently that I just had enough of that).
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I use IM at least once a week. I am all caught up on my card farming so it is usually only farming from the freebie gleam.io games I pick up here and there and I never have more than two or three games to idle for at a time. I start it, go to bed, wake up and it's done. I'm not wasting "hours and hours" as far as I see it. Until it breaks I will continue to use it as I have no need for additional features and it's never failed me. It doesn't make my life any harder at all, especially considering that before IM I used S.A.M. to get my cards.
Calling people foolish and making comments such as "making life hard for sticking with it" surely doesn't encourage people who have had no issues with IM to use your product instead. You sound like a crybaby who is upset that someone would rather play with their toy and not yours. I had fully intended to try out your product if IM failed me but now I wonder if I want to support it by doing so because of the negative way you treat potential users that haven't made the switch. If you were a retail distributor and talked to your customers with the tone that you have used here you would be out of business quickly. You might want to take that into consideration when promoting your product regardless of how good it is.
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I downloaded idlemaster from WWW again and it works now (but it was standalone version without installer). Previous version has desktop shortcut and does not work now (it worked for a long time before). I am not sure where first version files are on my HDD - now trying to uninstall it :)... Funny think is that both versions are 1.4.0... It looks like previous version is corrupted somehow...
EDIT: or it is a case from BBR comment. Anyway if someone has a problem with idlemaster it can be downloaded from idlemaster web page as standalone version which still works. It looks my movement to new program is a little delayed then :).
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it just bugs after some weeks of use, but if you just erase the folder and unpack the original zip file in another location, it will work
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Idlemaster still works for me. Never had any problems with it. Keep using it. It's safe and nice. :D
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+1 for Archi's Steam Farm
Mind that, I was an avid Idle Master supporter, until it broke for me.
Now that I use ASF, I'm quite surprised that I didn't discover it earlier, it's way more powerful, and less invasive than IM, although not as much user-friendly.
Also, it's the only way to farm cards on Mac OSes and Linux distros.
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I am not sure if it only I or it is some change in steam which prevent IdleMaster to work (I know that Idlemaster is no longer supported :( ). I start idle master today and it forced me to sign in again. But this time I can not sign in, as I login, entering steam guard code etc and everything ending on saving settings... Do anyone has the same problem? Of course I could use alternative program, but steam data is something I would like not to enter in not entirely trusted programs. By using only one program which was popular I decrease risk for my stem :).
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