Just Starded Idle Master And When I Choose Other Game im getting cards New cards in 5 seconds

8 years ago

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Am I the only one that I have the same card drop rate as before? Idle master is dropping cards with the same speed. :/

8 years ago
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I'm beginning to think this is an addition to how trading cards drop and not a glitch.

Anyway you have to skip games. It seems that cards can now drop when you close a game.
If the game has 0.0 hours of play-time then it won't drop anything.
So the way it works is that you open IM and use the setting "idle each game individually". Then you just click next game every 2-3 secs and harvest cards. If a game doesn't drop anything it's most likely because it needs more play-time before dropping.

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Actually I was playing a game with card drops during this and cards were dropping normally around an hour 1 card then i tried the last card with this and got it in 10 secs. For your first sentence

8 years ago
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But I know what to do. Thing is, it's just not working for me. I keep doing this all the time, but I don't get fast drops.

8 years ago
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wait, are you getting more cards then you should per game or are you just getting all your drops super quick?

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8 years ago
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mkay. I have nothing left to drop so I won't benefit then.

Still, poeple claiming over 600 drops in 48h?! What are they?! Naver played anything before and now idling 200 games ot once?!

8 years ago*
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RIP

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8 years ago
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I can confirm this still works and its just very stupid, I recorded it XD:
https://youtu.be/RgNVIhr21to

8 years ago
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sorry to bother, but I've just checked your profile and, um.., no offence but what the f*** have you been doing here for the past 2 years?

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8 years ago
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lol I registered about two years ago but I almost never used it before, was thinking about starting with it recently.

8 years ago
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and how about now, does this glitch works now?

8 years ago
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Yes.
It still works right now.

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This glitch only got me 1 drop from each game I had idled over 2 hours. Repeating the process over does not get me fast drops anymore.

8 years ago
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fixed, i think so

8 years ago
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Still working for me. I hit Pause Idling and leave it for a few seconds and it drops me a card. Go to Next Game and repeat.

8 years ago
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yeah, tested and worked, but not anytime, it's sometime

skip game, wait 1-2s, skip , one card drop

8 years ago
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Same way for me. It if stops I exit steam and idlemaster and it works again. Sad to say I'm on my last card drop :(

8 years ago
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2100 cards drop remaining..... dont know how about 4000+ games user =))

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It was a thing in the past ... where you idled all games for 2h , and then you got the First drop from each game in the courise of 5-10 min ...

I had over 200 games to idle first time i run the thing , and it droped me a card for each one ...

Im not sure if steam has shitstorm when you are idiling to many games , but the only times that this happened to me was when i idled a ridiculous ammount of games in the same time .

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I have only been able to get 1 card from each game so far. :(

Way I seem to be getting it to work is that I start IM, Pause a game. Start again, and click next. Then I get the card from the previous game right when I switch. After I go through them all it seems it stops. I got all my cards one after another before this.

I have tried to close IM and restart Steam/IM to get it to work again, however. I have yet to get it to work AGAIN after going though one cycle though. Still working on it.

Many of these games have over 2 hours already, but I have gotten cards from games with 0 hours too. :D

EDIT: Got it to work. Got 30+ drops in under 20 minutes. Basically you just have to keep changing the settings to idle individually, 2 hours, etc. after you cycle through to reset it, or restart Steam/IM. Then I just skipped through all the cards. At the end when I got to the list of under 2 hour games I clicked the link that updates the card count and usually got a couple cards there. Just keep messing with settings and stuff and it works eventually.

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While this may seem great, it really isn't. If this Valve doesn't figure out how to stop this it is going to have massive effect on market prices. Not just card values will go down, but with that the badge costs will go down, which means everything else will be going down too. Part of the reason prices remain somewhat stable is that it isn't this easy to get card drops to flood the market with. It keeps people who don't want to sit around for 3 hours waiting to get 4 cards from doing it. If they can get them instantly it becomes a much wider problem.

8 years ago
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I have a diva dev telling me that using an idling program is against steam rules. I had 8 hours of waiting for a few games, but most of them are around 2 hours.

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Some devs do it to be dicks. Like those ones that have games that only last 1 hour and it takes 8 hours to get all the card drops. Those are the same kind of devs that add stupid achievements like "play the game for 1 year/365 days Total", or the one in ARK where you have to stand in place for 8 hours straight with the game being the active window so you can't do anything else. I can understand ones that have short games making it take over 2 hours, but it should never take more than that.

8 years ago
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Is still "working"... just now skip 10 games and get the crome, open idle again skip and the same, and 2 times more e,e

8 years ago
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This needs bumping, so far this has bought me Enter the Gungeon, quite a few badges and I'm sat on £10 steam wallet and 60+ items on the market. I've got around 400 cards. I never idle so I was sat on a lot of cards, I still am.

It's so hit or miss, just open idle master, mess with the settings then click next on every game until done. Mess with the settings again and repeat the process.

It doesn't work with every game every time, but it DOES work, it requires a lot of fiddling with. There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind it, if you are struggling, just keep at it is my advice.

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It's done without IdleMaster, after you have 2+ hours in game, after you CLOSE game. It happens only once per game.
Changing game in application is equal to closing current and launching other...

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Here's what I do:
Put a bunch of games till 2h
Then go one by one, pausing idle master every 5 minutes, or something like that
Profit

8 years ago
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does the glitch still working?

8 years ago
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Yes

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Can confirm this still works :D

8 years ago
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awesome,thanks! Still works!

8 years ago
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Hello, just have one question. Can I play games while 'Idle Master' is running in the background?

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hi ! yes, but the idle time will be "slowed down" and you won't get any card drop for hours

8 years ago
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Don't play VAC secured games like CS:GO

8 years ago
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You know Idle Master is no longer maintained ?

Technically, yes you can but since it is interacting with your current steam client session it could get you VAC banned if anything goes wrong.

8 years ago
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has idle master completely stopped working? not reading my badges page anymore.

8 years ago
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I never used Idle Master but it is no longer supported for a few months now and you should check out asf, it's way better.

8 years ago
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I had this problem too. Someone said that you have to delete something like cache. But ASF is much better so i don't care about it anymore.

8 years ago
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It's a shame ASF doesn't have a GUI like Idle Master. I had a quick go at it but couldn't get it to work. I'll have another go though as Idle Master doesn't seem to be dropping cards when you skip anymore.

6 years ago
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It still does for me, actually.

6 years ago
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same. i had to buy more tinfoil hats as a result.

6 years ago
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Insta-drops are a Steam thing/bug/feature, not ASF or Idle Master, as I understand it.

6 years ago
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It's a bug.

6 years ago
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Yah, I'm aware of that. It was a reference to Steam often advertising some bugs and mishaps as features. :)

6 years ago
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Holy Necro Batman!

6 years ago
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