Wait what? Are you not putting in the right URL in the txt file.
ex. http://steamcommunity.com/id/ (usernamehere)
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Official Idle Master Thread - Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way
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Wait what? Are you not putting in the right URL in the txt file.
ex. http://steamcommunity.com/id/ (usernamehere)
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
neat.
in a totally not-banworthy sense.
I'm going to leave it running for a bit, see what happens.
in a totally not-banworthy sense.
I'm going to leave it running for a bit, see what happens.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Works great thanks. I've got 27 left to idle. I did this manually awhile back for everything else so this is amazing to me.
I did that, and it still gives me the error config thing.
EDIT: Nevermind, got it to work this time. Had to put them in new line breaks.
One more question; if I put my computer on Sleep mode will the application still work?
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
is this normal behavior? start (exe) will run an app, but after dropping a single card terminate the steam-idle process for some reason, despite there being more drops for that game.
For now, you can manually skip a game by killing the steam-idle process (just hit the red X) then hitting ctrl+C in the start.exe process. Problem is you can only do this for games it's already started.
It'll resume when your computer wakes up.
That doesn't seem normal. What is it saying when it terminates steam-idle?
LiquidSolid
Member
Awesome idea, jshackles. I'd been using Steam Achievement Manager but it's not exactly a great solution, so this is perfect.
BlackRainbowFT
Member
Hey jshackles!
It says I have 0 games with drops left.
EDIT: ok, I found what was wrong. Part of the LoginID key I copied was hidden because it was too long... Oops.
(btw, in chrome, to get faster access to the cookies, you can click on the leftmost icon inside inside the address bar and click "show cookies and site data")
It says I have 0 games with drops left.
EDIT: ok, I found what was wrong. Part of the LoginID key I copied was hidden because it was too long... Oops.
(btw, in chrome, to get faster access to the cookies, you can click on the leftmost icon inside inside the address bar and click "show cookies and site data")
So I woke up this morning, saw I had over £10 in my wallet balance from 0 yesterday morning and 15 more cards in my inventory to chuck on to the market. The first thing that came to my mind was this...
Great work jshackles. You gone dun it again!
and no I totally didn't just spend the last hour making that
Great work jshackles. You gone dun it again!
Hopefully this won't mess up card prices too much. It's my only way to make any money to buy games.
Tizoc
Member
It is now Idling Memoria for me and I haven't even downloaded that game yet
So the answer is Yes.
Haunted
Member
I understand what you're saying, but it's not like people hadn't been idling before this program. This just makes it more convenient.
Reading out game time has always been sketchy.
It's an odd one since people won't be getting *more* cards, they'll just get the cards they were entitled to *sooner*. So there might be a peak, but then it ought to even out.
This might well be a great time to work towards badges.
Gipsy Danger
Member
Sir, you are a king among men. Will download after work and try it out.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh wow, I was using SAM to do this but hey, even better. lol
You sell them and get money. Or craft game badges.
You can still run it during daytime and get loads of cards, if you're not in a hurry! Okay, if you play steam games all day your drop rate might get really bad, but who plays games on steam anyways? =)
My Idle Mistress is working great, thanks again Jshack and Stump!
Checking in to report my results after running it for 8 hours or so last night.
I got 5 drops total so it didn't work completely as intended unfortunately (it's supposed to drop a lot more than that isn't it?). Checked the log and I got this message several times.
It repeated that 5 times and it also repeated another for a different game as well. Not sure what the deal is but thought I'd let you know Jshackles It's running but not getting the drops for some reason.
I got 5 drops total so it didn't work completely as intended unfortunately (it's supposed to drop a lot more than that isn't it?). Checked the log and I got this message several times.
It repeated that 5 times and it also repeated another for a different game as well. Not sure what the deal is but thought I'd let you know Jshackles
It's running but not getting the drops for some reason.Checking in to report my results after running it for 8 hours or so last night.
I got 5 drops total so it didn't work completely as intended unfortunately (it's supposed to drop a lot more than that isn't it?). Checked the log and I got this message several times.
It repeated that 5 times and it also repeated another for a different game as well. Not sure what the deal is but thought I'd let you know Jshackles
That's normal behavior, it checks every 5 minutes when there's only 1 drop remaining to see if the last drop happened yet. That appid is Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. You said it happened 5 times, which is about 25 minutes or less for one drop, which is where it should be.
What other game did you get the message for? Was it permanently stuck on the other one? Did you ONLY get drops from CoJ + that other game?
Edit:
I'm not a cookie expert but I have to assume they're different. Try logging out of steam in your browser and back in again. If that doesn't work, you could log out, clear the steamcommunity.com cookie, then try again.
Checking in to report my results after running it for 8 hours or so last night.
I got 5 drops total so it didn't work completely as intended unfortunately (it's supposed to drop a lot more than that isn't it?). Checked the log and I got this message several times.
It repeated that 5 times and it also repeated another for a different game as well. Not sure what the deal is but thought I'd let you know Jshackles
certain games just drop ridiculously slow. the program is probably working fine and you just unfortunately got stuck on one of those games. i've got about 5 hours of idle time in awesomenauts and i still have a drop or 2 left.
Awful Falafel
Banned
Is there anyway to get the cookies from the steam client directly rather than the browser cookies? Just wondering because I clear my browser cookies regularly and don't feel like starting a whitelist or dealing with steamgaurd repeatedly.
Ah ok thanks for the responses. I thought something just might have gotten stuck based on that message repeating like that. I saw others reporting a lot more drops so thought mine bugged out.
The other game was Batman Arkham City GOTY.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I'm curious: would you guys be opposed to Idle Master collecting anonymous usage statistics about how long you idle particular games until they're out of cards? Possibly making it an "opt-in" option in the settings file?
With everyone idling essentially the same games with the same drop times, I think it would be awesome if Idle Master collected these statistics. They could then be compiled and used in the program itself - something like "Starting Awesomenauts to idle cards: approximately 9 hours remaining...". Or something like "3 card drops remaining: estimated time to next drop is 25 minutes."
Having enough data from enough people could let the program accurately predict these types of things. Of course, I know not everyone is keen on "their information" being sent to a server somewhere.
EDIT: this data could even be put to use in Enhanced Steam, when viewing the badges page it could display the average time to drop cards.
With everyone idling essentially the same games with the same drop times, I think it would be awesome if Idle Master collected these statistics. They could then be compiled and used in the program itself - something like "Starting Awesomenauts to idle cards: approximately 9 hours remaining...". Or something like "3 card drops remaining: estimated time to next drop is 25 minutes."
Having enough data from enough people could let the program accurately predict these types of things. Of course, I know not everyone is keen on "their information" being sent to a server somewhere.
EDIT: this data could even be put to use in Enhanced Steam, when viewing the badges page it could display the average time to drop cards.
hannuraina
Member
assuming it default to no, and the code remains os i don't see a problem. btw, thanks! amazing idea and it's been working perfectly.
Awful Falafel
Banned
I'm all for it. If it's opt-in I don't see any real downside for anyone to complain about. While you're adding features I think a time stamp would be handy when looking back at the logs, especially for troubleshooting. Also handy for figuring out when exactly the next refresh will be.
That's funny you mention data collection as I was after logging on my drops and times so cobbled together a really archaic script in Powershell which really is only reporting back every 15 mins so is wildly inaccurate (didn't fancy putting my Python skills to the test this morning ). I'd be all for it as it would be useful information for everyone concerned.
). I'd be all for it as it would be useful information for everyone concerned.
Nabs
Member
I'd be down for that.
As long as it's opt-in, go for it.