Request to add
Q: Can ASF idle multiple games at once for longer than 2 hours or skip through games fast?
A: No. For farming cards that is only beneficial for some people and only due to a steam glitch. You can use the play command to do whatever you want, but there is no automated option for using glitches.
to the FAQ
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I used to add the Master ID from my account where i send commands in the "SteamMasterID" field but i don't see that field anymore in the newer version. Where shuld i put my Master ID now in the ASF Config generator? On "SteamTradeToken"?
Thanks
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"SteamTradeToken" is for user trade url -lol
U've to put master id(steamID64) on bot/alter id config : "SteamUserPermissions" > add > key(steamID64 ex : 76561198064677194) - Value(master)
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hoi archi
can i configurate asf that it idle more games at the same time? is that possible?
nothing found about this in your wiki (or my english too bad)
Edit:
wanna explain what i mean
when all games with 2 hours onr record are finished idling, than asf is farming a lot of games to get 2 hours on record.
on that point i am getting always a lot of cards at once from all those games
thats why im asking you if i can testing that, how to force asf to idle 10,20 or 50 games at the same time
Edit Edit:
i found it here under performance https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Performance
it calls glitch, so my question ended here
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I'm trying to redeem multi keys using this command (!redeem&) but it's saying Unknown command!
Am I missing something?
Sending pm to my bot like this. set my account as operator as well!
!redeem&
KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS
KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS
KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS
KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS
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try:
!redeem& KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS,KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS,KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS,KKK-EEE-YYY-SSS
not sure if command got removed, when the redeeming/forwarding preferences got changed, but it's still listed, so should work.
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I think it doesn't like the carriage returns you have there. The command definitely exists.
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Thanks for answer. Thanks god I don't play CS:GO or any multiplayer game at all (just KF 1 and 2, but not so often anymore)... :D
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with asf you still could.. it halts the idling as soon as you launch a game anyways.
the only thing that would start making me worry is if they did memory hook scans to find asf processes.. but since that's so unreliable and can easily get false positives, valve will likely never add that form of scan.
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The auto trading has broken for me suddenly.
ASF won't automatically send trade offers anymore. When I manually make a trade offer it won't auto accept the trade and I have to use WinAuth to accept it. It was working until a few days ago.
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https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Configuration#bot-config
-> SteamUserPermissions
The error you are getting should indicate that no master is specified anymore. SteamMasterId got removed.
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Thanks, that fixed it. What's odd is that I never had to set a master before. Did something change?
In ASF config-generator I put my SteamID64 in the SteamOwnerID field and that was all I needed to do for all my bots to trade properly.
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Is the OwnerID still set?
It might be, that this one got reseted when updating.
But for automatic trades (i.e. loot) a masterID was always needed (I think). Only for accepting manual trades owner was sufficient.
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Yep, the OwnerID is still set, and that's all I ever set. Automatic trades worked fine before.
Edit: I don't have my main on ASF, so the bots would auto trade, but I'd have to manually confirm on my main. But then even that stopped working. The MasterID fixed it though, so it's exactly like it was.
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is there any server thing? because sometimes it works and sometime it doesn't @_@
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Any ideas how to put ASF in Google Cloud Platform?
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On the data storage? Just copy it there but you can not run it.
On the computation cloud? Just buy the minimal vserver with debian and install mono and ASF. Should cost around 15-20$ per month.
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I think he was talking about Google VPS, not Google Drive
https://cloud.google.com
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Jeha that the computational cloud, where you have buy a vserver ;->
See my second sentence.
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Nope, you pay for use only
Besides Googles free tier is pretty generous:
As part of the Google Cloud Platform Free Tier, Compute Engine offers an amount of usage that is free to use, up to a specific limit. These free usage limits are always available even during and after the free trial period. If you go over these usage limits and are no longer in the free trial period, you will be charged according to the price sheet.
1 f1-micro VM instance per month (US regions only).
30 GB of HDD persistent disk storage per month.
5 GB of snapshot storage per month.
1 GB egress from North America to other destinations per month (excluding Australia and China).and they give you free $300 for first year to begin with, so once your bill exceeds that, you only have to pay
TL;DR f1-micro server in US, connect to US steam server, don't use more than 30GB of HDD and you're free even after first year.
I haven't used it tho. So don't know about setting up.
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(US regions only)
Hm.. is that about the server or the custumer? Checked it on their site and picked the lowest specks everywhere, checked include free stuff but ended up with 18$/month.
AH, are the 30GB already included without the need of picking them?
If I only pick a Instance I end up with 0$ if I add persistend storage it goes to 18.xx a month.
Ah, seems to be included, because if I add 1GB I have 31GB ^^.
But I can not create a private account. Only company account. ... wtf. Ah because I'm from the EU... rly...
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You can get your own dedicated server for 1/3 of $18 already with no transfer or other limits.
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Trying to send commands via steam chat of private group, could someone please tell me what I did wrong ? :(
I put mi steam account ID in SteamOwnerID of ASF and SteamUserPermissions for the bot as master + I put my group ID in SteamMasterClanID for the bot.
Still when in the chat of this group, my bot doesn't receive the commands I send like "!pause", what did I do wrong ? :(
"It's not required to have any extra account for executing commands though Steam chat - you can create a group, set SteamMasterClanID properly to that newly created group, then give yourself access either through SteamOwnerID or SteamUserPermissions of your own bot. This way ASF bot (you) will join group and chat of your selected group, and listen to commands from your own account. You can join the same group chatroom in order to issue commands to yourself (as you'll be sending command to chatroom, and ASF instance sitting on the same chatroom will receive them, even if it shows only as your account being there). Apart from that, you can also use WCF, but chatroom way is much easier, and if you have access to some alt account, then using that instead is even easier."
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Maybe you put the wrong group id?
I checked your group (Mon groupe à moi 25) and id is: 103582791457903873
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Wow thanks a lot !!! I had another number...
Where can you find the righ ID of a steam group ?
You definitely made my day, add me on steam, I'll send you a key :)
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Hehe yes I had a strong feeling that it was the wrong group id. Happy it works out for you!
You find your groupID64 to add: /memberslistxml/?xml=1 (to the end of your steam group url)
Thanks for the offer for a key:) I like keys, but donate it if you want to Archi with our compliments.
https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm
On the bottom of this page press on steam donate. He will appreciate for sure.
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Well !play command doesn't work unfortunately...it replies right away "done!" even if cards have not been farmed :(
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the play command tells the bot what game to play. Completly independend of any cards.
So "!play 570" replies with Done, after the game (Dota 2) has been started and the bot will keep playing Dota 2 for all eternity.
Do NOT use play if you just want ASF to farm all your cards. Just enable (start) the bot and let automatic mode run.
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Ha ok I'll try !
Yes indeed, I would like the bot to farm a specific game only :)
Will the bot tell me when he is done farming that game or not ?
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No.
If you use play the bot will keep playing the specified game until you use !resume (return to automatic), !stop (kill the bot) or !play OTHERgameID.
And for the group ID stuff:
https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Configuration
"SteamMasterClanID" explains how to get this ID.
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ASF started to crash right after starting now with https://pastebin.com/X075hJ3N
Edit: works again so I guess Steam as usual, tho maybe something that could be handled with error message and not crashing?
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Hi Archie, thanks for great software
I just want to ask: do my clones use the same ip as me? I live in Italia, if my friend in USA use one of my clones to log-in and play games when ASF is running, will this clone got any problem against steam rules?
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yes, same ip.
you may get in problems if your friend in US does something stupid, otherwise most likely not.
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He only play games so I think it's fine. But i will tell him to carefully with game on VAC protect. Thanks for your help!
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Since it is forbidden to give other people your account information, you would have to argue that you used a VPN (to not get trouble if someone asks you about different ips).
Market and store transaktions over VPN are forbidden, so you would get in trouble for that.
So as long as your friend does NOT purchase or sells anything on the market or store you can argue it was you using a VPN and you are fine.
I'm often online via browser with a differnt IP (different countrs) than my ASF instance and so far noone complained about it.
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Ok i got it, i will tell him not to do anything that forbidden. Thanks so much for your information!
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Upgraded to 2.3.0.9, can't connect to Steam (Connecting... / Disconnected from Steam! / Reconnecting...). Rolled back to 2.3.0.7 to check if Steam was acting funny and it works just fine (almost instantaneous login). I tried it twice to be sure.
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Same for me with the upgrade from 2.3.0.7 to version 2.3.0.9 and moreover I've lost the ability of family sharing. Archi do you need debug log?
EDIT: I've upgraded my mono version and ASF to 2.3.1, now all is fine!
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I have a small problem, the bot simply doesn't read any command i send to the other user. Everything is configured properly and worked before, but since two months, maybe more, when i send the commands the other user simply ignores it, giving no answer, the bot correctly connects and start farming games, but i can't make him activate the keys or loot like i did before.
Anyone having this problem or know how to fix it?
Thanks anyway.
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cause 2 months ago, the master config got reworked
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If you still have difficulties: I made a detailed post a while ago, with an animated .gif at the bottom.
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Thanks, i fixed tha problem... The ID i was using wasn't the 64bit, so there it is, changed it and now commands are working. Really thanks. ^^
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Nice! Hope you also added the permissions to all the bots or you can't loot them. Latest part of my post. Have fun!
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Hey, is there a way to send commands from bot account to an other bot account? For example: im logged in with bot1, but want to send a redeem command to bot2.
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https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki
Set them up on ASF config and talk to your bot trough chat
!r k-e-y
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Wait wait wait, there's a shortcut to !redeem? Fuck. Thanks, for some reason I wasn't aware of that.
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i was shocked like you when I read about them too
https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Commands
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The funny thing is that I knew the main commands but for some reason I didn't remember there were shortcuts. :P
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Did you know that you can just paste the key(s) without any !r* at all? :)
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Really? Strange, I'm pretty sure I tried that and it didn't work.
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That's what I use 99%+ of the time unless there's just 1 account missing some game.
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Yep, just tried and it worked. Neat.
What's even the reason of having !redeem or !r at this point? :P
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Uh, pardon me? Not sure I know what you're asking.
I know that this is a command, but I don't understand what you mean to ask. :P
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Well when you just drop a key you can not specify a bot.
So if I want to redeem a key on my main by writing from my main to one of my bots, I'm screwed without the actual redeem command.
PS: Wan't a real question. More a retorical one to answer yours ;->
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Oh, right. Sorry, I'm distracted. Just got off work and my brain is still in "shut up I'm not listening" mode. :P
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If you decide to launch a game, ASF will get disconnected, and resume farming once you finish playing your game, being as transparent as possible.
So its not possible to farm and play a game at the same time?
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Correct. ASF acts like a separate instance of Steam and Steam will only let one instance of Steam play a game at a time. If you have ASF farming cards when you try to launch a game it detects you as playing a game on another computer and will prompt you if you wish to play your game you will disconnect the other connection. While this stops ASF from farming cards it will start up again after you are finished playing your game.
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Okay ty, seems its nothing for me. Idle Master still works?
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IdleMaster didn't works for me few month ago, and I decided to use ASF
You can play when idling with idle master, but you have to open Steam to idle
and you don't have to install Steam when using ASF
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I have and play only steam games so it wont be a problem to be installed (O.o) or opened. But if it doesnt work thats bad. :(
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Yeah, you don't have to open Steam (or Install Steam) to use ASF..
You can even idling using any computer as long it connected to internet
like me who used idling in computer lab xD
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Yes but I play every free minute. So its useless for me if I cannot play and idle at the same time.
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Even if you could play and farm at the same time - it's useless. Cards drop much slower when more then one game is on. You won't get your card anytime soon this way.
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Lol, 7 hours noone replies and then in 5 seconds two people ^^
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No, you can play 2 games at the same time without losing time. If you start 3 games you have a difference of 1 or 2 hours.
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No, you can't. But if you want to believe - who am I to try to stop you. Do it your way if it satisfies your needs.
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I idle for years + I have over 9,000 cards in the inventory. Just believe what I say -.-
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Same is true for me. Well, I don't have 9000 cards, but that's just because I sell it on a regular basis. Just believe what I say, would you?
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One question for you. A game have 3 card. After 1 hour playtime you received your second card. How long you must wait to recieve the last card?
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It depends on the game, since the dev can chose the drop time. The minimal time is 15 or 20 minutes. So after 45-60 minutes you have recieved all three card drops from a game. On the other hand the maximal droptime is 2 hours, so the third card drops after 6 hours.
Most games keep it somewhat around 20+-5 but some make it longer.
I would assume, that when you play two games the drop time is doubled, Maybe if one game does not have drops it's less than doubled.
But you definetly will drop slower.
PS: Depending on the game (VAC) idling while playing is impossible anyways.
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Okay you dont know how to idle. I takes 0 seconds. You need to just close the game and you will receive the last card.
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Okay you dont know how to idle.
lel
Works not for everyone and not reproducable.
It's most likely a not intended steam glitch.
It works even faster if you bring all games to 2hours simultaniously and then skip through games, like discussed here for 20 times.
See last chapter here
https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Performance
Btw. half the time I am doing other stuff while idling. Checking all games for "how many card drops and when to close" is a waste of personal time.
Besides ASF can run on a server as well. Guess idling 24 hours without intervenining beats closing a game once in a while.
Oh, and did I mention, that I need to farm more than one account?
If you think for your case it is the best you play while running idlemaster, thats fine.
But ASF has so many advantages. and as I mentioned. for VAC protected games you can not idle while playing.
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I know about this glitch. And it works not only with last card. But your answer is incorrect, because chance of this glitch occurance is not 100%.
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Only kids and noobs care if a card drops 10 seconds faster or not, really, because they don't know how to idle. :P
The whole point is to run ASF and forget, not stay there DDoSing Steam to get that card that you would get anyways.
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I already said I cannot use ASF because I play the whole day. And nope, thats not ddosing, I think its a feature for those who never used the refund button.
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No.
And if you do the skip through games stuff, thats sending a lot of requests to steam... And dosing is sending a lot of requests.
You will most likely not reach the point where valve hunts you down, but it is significantly increased traffic compared to normal playing or idling.
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Starting > playing > closing the game is the same like starting > idling > closing -.- Why it should increase the traffic if I idle and close the game after waited hours and close the game to receive the last card? O.o
I think you misunderstand me. I think you understand I would start and close the game the whole day.
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Because it's
Request for starting -> waiting a considerable amount of time, i.e. 1 or 2 hours -> request for closing
vs.
Request for starting -> waiting 3sec. -> request for closing
in a loop.
For the case of skipping throuh games, like I mentioned.
Just closing early does not do that. But that as well is a glitch, and not "you do not know anything about idling" because it does not work for everyone.
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Okay like I thought you misunderstand me.
I start the game > idle it for hours till I got 2 out of 3 cards > close the game.
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Jeha, I understood that.
But you told us that together with a
Okay you dont know how to idle.
Which is bullshit, since that behavior is not intended (does not work on all accounts, not reliable reproducable). It's based on the same glitch than the "skip through games method" which is even faster but basically does dosing.
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Ah, btw.
I already said I cannot use ASF because I play the whole day.
If these games do not require network, you can play them in offline mode. Then ASF will farm.
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When you idle while playing the amounts of cards dropping is greatly reduced.
Depending on volvos mood you might not drop cards at all, when playing while idling.
But with 29 out of the last 14 days played, you probably have multiple games running anyways ;->
PS: Die Unfassbaren ist wirklich ein geiler Film
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Just 29? I thought its more. Where you see this number?
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honestly, try few times to use it, but, i m not programmer, i m noob on pc
i even cant understant what i have to download from file list.
after watching youtube i download this stuff, but cant understand how to run it - ok, youtube again
run program, but how to login? - i m stuck one more time and dont want to use it anymore
maybe for u, as creator, it simple, but not for me
why u dont make simple interface for noobs? or its gone be more simpe in future, have i wait for it?
when i m use idlemaster - i have to do same work as on steam - only log and pass
asf can idle while gaming like idlemaster?
p.s. idlemaster still suported
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i cant understand how ro use first program and u give me second, thx bro
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first sentence of the "second program"
Some, may find difficult to use ASF because it's a console application, so I made an user interface for make it simpler.
Anyways. just download the full ASF zip. open the config generator and follow the wiki for each setting.
Afterwards just launch ASF.exe and if you did everything correctly it will ask you for your password.
p.s. idlemaster still suported
Nope, it's not. At least not officially. The original guy who made it does not support it anymore. There are some people from the community, which fix it if it's broken. Thats it.
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At least look at the screenshot on the "second program" first... You only need to browse ASF.exe file, click the password button, put username and password, and click "start" button
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I don't use it so I don't know.. xD
sorry
If IM still works, use it
(But it didn't works for me for some reason)
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You need to configure your bots before. Additionally the "enter your password" stuff is broken.
So basically after ASF is setup, ASFui makes sending commands easier ^^
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You need to do the config thing first.
ASFui only helps you, after you set your stuff up.
Open the config-generator that came with the ASF.zip and edit the fields as explained in the wiki. Afterards start ASF.exe or ASFui.exe.
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thats helps a lot, i ll delete program, its gona be much easier
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if you are interested, there is russian support on the Discord channel (link should be somewhere on Github site)
PS: pls no cakeday spam ;_;
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Hello
Saint Row 2 is free
Can be added to the library with a command? Try with "! Addlicense + appid and did not work (appid steamdb)
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Can you do a command that bot can join a list of Steam Groups?
Sorry if it`s a stupid question!
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ASF keeps flashing in front of whatever I am looking at(browser, desktop, Steam client, etc.) on my screen once in a while. I don't know why and I have no errors using ASF. Seems to happen every time I receive a card drop.
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Flashing? Can you catch that on video?
This is definitely not ASF issue, but maybe I could suggest something OS-related.
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I have a problem where while sometimes it farms a lot of games at once, eventually it always ends up farming just one game at a time, even if I have card drops on 10 different games, which means it takes a few days to finish. Is there any way I can make it always farm multiple games, unless there is only one game left to farm?
Also, are there any valid reasons why to farm only one game at a time after they have more than 2 hours? Why can't it keep farming multiple games after 2 hours and just have card drops from all of them? That's what I used to do when I farmed them on my own, and that worked faster than doing one by one.
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Q: Can ASF idle multiple games at once for longer than 2 hours or skip through games fast?
A: No, ASF doesn't support Steam glitches.
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Is there a command i can use to send a group id and all the bots will join that group (not the group chat)? Something like "join asf <GroupID>"? I know that asf can join the ASF Group and the master group defined by user.
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From the FAQ:
Users sign-in using their Steam account, and we require their account to be valued at $100 or greater. Games that have been accessible through bundles, or games that were once available for free due to promotions or pricing errors are not included in this calculation. We have this requirement in place to prevent users from registering multiple accounts.
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Im not using multiple accounts on SG, dumbass. I use multiple accounts to farm cards.
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It's funny how people always think that editing their posts will hide anything:
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You do know he is talking about Gleam GAs, right ?
Even the original comment in the screenshot you just posted makes that pretty obvious.
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Is he? I read giveaways so it seemed rather likely to me that it pertains to this site.
But I guess the Gleam things could apply.
Doesn't make it much better in my view but then it's up to Gleams Terms of Service and not Steamgifts.
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Promotional Freebies would be the more accurate term but pretty much everbody refers to them as GAs which can cause some confusion ;)
I'm 98,3% sure he is. There are no developer Group GAs here on SG that give guaranteed keys but pretty much every Gleam GA requires you to join at least one Spam group.
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And the blacklisting is also the height of maturity.
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But ... but why?
redo the redeem command so it accepts gleam links.
Auto enters all tasks, gets and redeems the key and leaves all groups.
All using a different proxy for each bot.
Should be a piece of a cake, shouldn't it? ;->
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ASF is a C# application that allows you to farm steam cards using multiple steam accounts simultaneously. Unlike Idle Master which works only for one account at given time, requires steam client running in background, and launches additional processes imitating "game playing" status, ASF doesn't require any steam client running in the background, doesn't launch any additional processes and is made to handle unlimited steam accounts at once. In addition to that, it's meant to be run on servers or other desktop-less machines, and features full cross-OS support, which makes it possible to launch on any .NET Core-supported operating system, such as Windows, Linux or OS X. ASF is possible thanks to gigantic amount of work done in marvelous SteamKit2 library.
ASF doesn't require and doesn't interfere in any way with Steam client. In addition to that, it doesn't require exclusive access to given account, which means that you can use your main account in Steam client, and use ASF for idling the same account at the same time. If you decide to launch a game, ASF will get disconnected, and resume idling once you finish playing your game, being as transparent as possible during entire process.
Core features
Interesting features
For comparison with other similar programs and further read about the most interesting exclusive ASF features, I recommend to visit appropriate FAQ entry that explains everything in detail. It's also a very good starting point if you want to have a glimpse on what ASF can do, besides the obvious.
Setting up
Detailed guide regarding setting up and using ASF is available in the setting up article on our wiki. It's user-friendly tutorial with helpful screenshots that compacts the whole basic knowledge about ASF into a single document.
Useful links
Main page / Source code
Latest version / Download
Wiki / Help
Steam group
Discord
You might be also interested in our side project, ASF STM listing.
Is the project still supported?
As stated in my thread closing statement, despite of SG thread being closed, I intend to keep the project up-to-date and supported through non-SG channels. You can check the date of the latest release for reference.
This thread
The thread on SG is open for discussion and support matters that are related to ASF as a program. If you have any particular issue, question or other case to discuss, feel free to leave a comment.
Have fun.
Please do not add me on steam, if you have questions or issues - ask in the thread.
Prior to doing so, make sure to read main page and the wiki, especially our FAQ.
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