Is SAM safe to farm cards?

I have no idea what sam is but I've used textmode for the games that supported it (mostly valve only) to farm the cards.

Yes. VAC is only active while game is runinning and connected to VAC-server.
VAC is also based on signatures and would reguire that they specifically target it.

I use it for most of mine without problems. Just don't run it while games are active if you want to be safe for certain. I've played a few games while running it myself, but nothing with cards or VAC themselves.

Why on Earth do you want to do that? You only need to run the game until you unlock the initial amount of card drops (so e.g. 4/8), that will require about 2 hours per game. For booster packs you only need to log in to Steam.

Thanks for the advice guys :)

I'm completely against these type of programs for the obvious reasons (tbh,all this prolly shouldn't even be mentioned in SG either)

But I do have friends with low download speed & this program is their savior to get the card drops out of the way. At the same time though knowing they use it does give a flare of distrust that they are legit gamers.

It's not "allowed", per se. But it is safe since they don't really monitor it, at all.

Dont use SAM to farm games like tf2 and cs and you should be fine. Really just avoid any online multiplayer games when using SAM. The chances of anything happening to your account arent likely, but stay on the safe side.

Also you cant multi-idle games anymore, so make sure you're only doing it one at a time.

Thanks a bunch!
Didn't even know about this. Now I can get the without downloading the games.
I'll just keep on downloading and ideling the games with VAC just to be on the safe side.

Yes it is, I've farmed killing floor and red orchestra without problem.

Download TF2 its F2P so everybody have access to it. In TF2 folder find steam_appid txt file and open it with notepad. Change the number you see there with the appid number of the game you want to run (for example Vanguard Princes http://store.steampowered.com/app/262150/ the number is 262150). Then save the changes and run the TF2 with its icon in the folder not via Steam client. Error message should pop up which is good. Just leave the error message and you have successfuly fooled Steam client that you are running Vanguard Princess and in couple of hours you will collect all the cards. Of course you must own the games you want to run this way. No need for SAM and such... Also works with other Valve games like HL2 or DoDS.

dunno about SAM but i would definitely keep an eye on MAX if he was ever trying to farm cards!

I have used SAM to farm cards for many games without problems. But I haven't used SAM on VAC enabled games or online only games like MP games. So not sure if you will get your game deleted or account locked by being detected by VAC.

no, you cannot use me to get cards/ achievements. It's called slavery and I'm not cool with it :3

How do you use SAM to change # of hours spent playing?

I have used SAM for most of my farming. However, I will never play a game with SAM running. Not even a small game without VAC servers.

I'm still problem-free

Yes, it is safe. Even for VAC secured games. However, I'd advise against using it on a game while in a VAC-protected server on that same game.

Yea SAM is safe, I never use SAM to get achievments, I use it to farm cards, a lot of times, i'm to lazy to download a HUGE game and im probably never going to play just for cards, so I use SAM. As long as you dont use it for achievments ur fine.

I wish I heard of SAM before downloading 66 games for card farming :-(

how do you farm cards?

It's safe.