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Whats wrong with farming Cards currently? (takes too darn long)

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DominusFerrus

So not not even 2-3 weeks ago, one was able to farm the cards
without having to wait/play the "initial 2 hours" - that was undone OK ...

I'm using Ilde-Master and have idled the bunch of games first for 2 hours simultaneously, then they run individually ...
thing is 2 - 4 hours pass (the game was already idled 2 hours) and maybe 1 or 2 cards drop on
random bundle-games seems like it takes forever . . .

^ Doubt that is common, has steam messed something up (reduced drop rate/increased time) or is it just the games?

Most plausible explanation for now, given by juzer:

Steam doesn't track ingame time correctly anymore (few weeks now) and that affects card drops.
Ingame time only increases on 0.5 hrs intervals instead of 0.1 hrs."

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Does it take longer for you to get the cards? (after having run the game for 2 hours)

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schippi

droprate (after the 2hour thing, if its in effect) is gamedependant as far as i know, because i have seen a couple of patchnotes on games that said they changed the droprate,

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juzer

Steam doesn't track ingame time correctly anymore (few weeks now) and that affects card drops. Ingame time only increases on 0.5 hrs intervals instead of 0.1 hrs.

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DominusFerrus

Thanks for your input, if that is to be true, it could easily be the cause.

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juzer

I noticed this more than 2 weeks ago, and now after 2 weeks of constant idling I m 100% sure that this is the problem.
Doesn't seem like steam gives a fuck or that there will be some workaround.

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DominusFerrus

I see, and yes seems like it ... whatever time Steam is counting/showing,
it doesn't seem to be right, for the time/drop that passed/received in real time.

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sanmal

Hours (2+several for all cards) and it begining long time ago.

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ndx8

my opinion

that was only an experiment

now back to the normal

+1
a developer sayd they are nothing to do with this its total steam.

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talgaby

If you had issued a refund ticket (even if it was for a game removal), then the cards start drop only at 2 hours + whatever the dev set (if it is not the default 15 minutes/drop).

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DominusFerrus

aye so i heard back when it was on ... its back to +2hrs since a while (hadn't had any refunds/removals myself)

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Ran7

Last game i farm take 5,1 hr.
Thats right 5,1 Hour.

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midnightshooter

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you can't refund a game if you played it for more than 2 hours?

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DominusFerrus

Yes, but that is already "accepted" (the +2hours).

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ndx8

last night my game was 8+ hours for 5 cards (0.4 :D )

(off: a weird thing, 2 drops CARD1: 10 CENTS CARD2 FOLIE: 9 CENTS) (the same card with folie cheaper?!)(WHT YOU BEAR) (I HATE THAT BEAR)

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DominusFerrus

oh wow, 8hrs for 5 cards ... sounds like the magic i'm referring to (card drops taking forever ...)

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ndx8

if you cheat for cards and dont play the game why are you sad? ;')

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Sooth

Nearly all my games take 6 to 15 hours to drop all their cards, now :X
One I'm currently farming is up to 13 hours, and still hasn't dropped its last card. :P

Still, I didn't do much farming before the change, so while all the ones before were 50 minutes to 5 hours (ie 3 to 7 hours in the new system), that could just be coincidence.

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Closed 9 years ago by DominusFerrus.