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Official Idle Master Thread - Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way
- Thread starter jshackles
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thequickandthedead
Member
wait, Steam records this gametime? Fuck.
Hm. Got the new version and it says "Error setting cookies" then "Error reading badge page" but the settings file didn't seem to change anything.
EDIT: Nvm, figured it out.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
I had that exact thought but fuck it, I have 112 games with card drops remaining and I won't be playing every single one.
Linearskillz
Member
Sometimes Steam seems to stop tracking my game time and awarding cards even though it shows me in game. I need to restart Idle Master to get it going again. I don't need to change anything in settings, my session is the same. I have no clue what's causing the issue, maybe it's switching from one game to the other too quickly or something?
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
back home
this time the start.exe runs like normal and tells me how many games with cards left and how it's going to idle game X
but the steam-idle app doesn't seem to run here for some reason ? and steam doesn't show me in-game
edit: nevermind, a system restart was all that was needed
this time the start.exe runs like normal and tells me how many games with cards left and how it's going to idle game X
but the steam-idle app doesn't seem to run here for some reason ? and steam doesn't show me in-game
edit: nevermind, a system restart was all that was needed
My flight was delayed a day, so I haven't even had a chance to give any of this a try. If no one else does, I'll definitely give your script a try on OS X and an Ubuntu VM in the next day or so.
As for sharing with jshackles, maybe figure out how to incorporate it directly and submit a pull request? GitHub has good solutions for tracking suggested changes/PRs bulti in. If you've never done this sort of thing before, PM me and I can walk you through.
josecitoxnyo
Member
Is this ok? I ran it, it did´nt open a pop up window with the game cover like in the video and it says this.
Edit: Nvm, i just tried run it with administrator privileges and it worked.
Edit: Nvm, i just tried run it with administrator privileges and it worked.
demosthenes
Member
There should be no issue with signing out of Steam friends?
josecitoxnyo
Member
Not at all, i´ve been offline since i started the program and i´m getting the cards with no problem at all.
demosthenes
Member
Had 2 messages "Hey! Didn't know you played that!" Don't want to have to keep saying "oh erm, not right now actually!"
Awful Falafel
Banned
Really? Shit, people have been thinking I've been playing weird shit all day non-stop. Knowing this could've saved me having to explain this. Oh well.
Joe Molotov
Member
"Why are you playing Sexy Beach 2?"
"Uhhhh....I was just idling it for cards. Idle Master just randomly picked it haha, so random."
Finished my multi-platform fork: https://github.com/mlstnr/idle_master
I tested the program on Windows 8 64 bit and Arch Linux 64 bit and it works on both platforms. For Windows users there is nothing exciting, because it does the same stuff as the original program.
I tried to run it in an OS X VM but only got errors loading the Steam API library in the program. I don't know if it's bug in the program, in Python on OS X or in the VM.
I tested the program on Windows 8 64 bit and Arch Linux 64 bit and it works on both platforms. For Windows users there is nothing exciting, because it does the same stuff as the original program.
I tried to run it in an OS X VM but only got errors loading the Steam API library in the program. I don't know if it's bug in the program, in Python on OS X or in the VM.
This utility was working flawlessly until this morning. Now it's playing a game for 30 minutes and skipping to the next one. It's not waiting until the cards are depleted before moving on.
Anyone else having this issue? Or am I just stupid.
Edit: Reading the thread, it seems I'm not the only one. I'll update my cookie data tonight, I'm currently at work and it's running at home.
Anyone else having this issue? Or am I just stupid.
Edit: Reading the thread, it seems I'm not the only one. I'll update my cookie data tonight, I'm currently at work and it's running at home.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Without thinking I had deleted the "steamparental" line, that's what screwed it up whoops.
SerTapTap
Member
Yup, I have 3 hours of gametime in a few games I've never played. don't really care. More annoying is all the people asking "how is that game" while I'm idling. Steam needs a "farming for cards" status. They did this to us.
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 had this happen the other day, and the issue turned out to be that my cookie data had expired (and when opening Steamcommunity.com in Chrome, I was not logged in).
To fix it all I had to do was log back into steamcommunity.com in Chrome, then Idle Master began working again as expected.
PurpleMoustache
Member
Just ran it for 24 hours.
Got 54 cards (2.25 per hour) 2 foils, 5 dupes.
Got 54 cards (2.25 per hour) 2 foils, 5 dupes.
I'm getting the following crash after every game it tries to load:
FWIW, I can confirm the same.
On native OS X 10.9.4, I'm getting exactly that, on a slightly newer rev of Python (2.7.7). I only had a bit to look, but it just looks like it is loading the dylib just fine, but for some reason the SteamAPI_Init() call is bombing out. Your Python code looks fine to me. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with the Steamworks API, so I can't offer much more than that for now until I really dig in. I'm hoping there's some way to get some more verbose errors from the SteamAPI_Init call.
In better news, I had an ISO of Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop on my drive, so I spun up a VM with defaults. The multiprocessing branch worked fine with a simple `python start_gui.py` once I made sure I had all the pre-req libraries installed. So, as expected, your method seems to work fine across distros.
This morning it would show the App ID and the name of the game that was idling, not it is just showing the same name. This does not matter in the least but is it supposed to show the app id and name, or just the name. Seems weird to me it just all of a sudden changed after idling for the first game.
Also does it find a game at random to idle for every time you run it? The first time I raan it I closed it before it had all the cards for the game and when I restarted it went to a new game. Now it it seems to go back to the same game every time I restart.
Also does it find a game at random to idle for every time you run it? The first time I raan it I closed it before it had all the cards for the game and when I restarted it went to a new game. Now it it seems to go back to the same game every time I restart.
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.
Just to answer a few of your questions - if Idle Master encounters a game with a weird character such as a copyright or trademark symbol, it will only say "app 392328" or whatever. This is because Python 2.7 doesn't have very good support for unicode characters and can't display them without either throwing an error or being strangely formatted.
As for the order of games: if you don't set a sorting option in the settings.txt file, Idle Master will simply go straight down the list of games that need idled from this page. The order of the badges on this page typically stays the same, but can change based on how many cards you have of a particular set or other factors.
I've been running it at night for the last few days and usually wake up with between 12-15 cards. I still have 190 games to go...
(I did start with 213 games, so I'm making progress. It's just that I started with so many...)
I can't confirm this yet, but I think logging into Steam community from another PC while idlemaster is running will cause the next game in the idle queue to fail.
I idled all night without issue, checked on it in the morning, then went to work. Right around the time I logged into steam from work (just the web page), I stopped getting cards. Went home for lunch and saw it was spitting out an error (I apologize, didn't write down the error). I stopped and restarted it but it kept telling me I had no cards left. Re-logged into steam community on my home PC in chrome, then re-entered the cookie info in the settings.txt (I think it was exactly the same) and restarted idlemaster and it worked. Went back to work, logged into Steam community again. I got another couple cards from the same game it was on when I left, then none since. I'll check it when I get home but I suspect it is the same error again.
edit: Yep. Confirmed. After logging in at work, it fails at the home machine with the error - "Still unable to find drop info." I had to re-log into SteamCommunity through Chrome (strangely enough triggering my Steam Guard) and it started working again with a restart.
I idled all night without issue, checked on it in the morning, then went to work. Right around the time I logged into steam from work (just the web page), I stopped getting cards. Went home for lunch and saw it was spitting out an error (I apologize, didn't write down the error). I stopped and restarted it but it kept telling me I had no cards left. Re-logged into steam community on my home PC in chrome, then re-entered the cookie info in the settings.txt (I think it was exactly the same) and restarted idlemaster and it worked. Went back to work, logged into Steam community again. I got another couple cards from the same game it was on when I left, then none since. I'll check it when I get home but I suspect it is the same error again.
edit: Yep. Confirmed. After logging in at work, it fails at the home machine with the error - "Still unable to find drop info." I had to re-log into SteamCommunity through Chrome (strangely enough triggering my Steam Guard) and it started working again with a restart.
Ultimadrago
Member
82 games left.
Man, I never cared about cards before, but with this app I suddenly do!
I've made a nice chunk of change off it thus far. It'll be useful for the next Steam sale (assuming I can't that Steam game for even cheaper from a non-Steam retailer).
Man, I never cared about cards before, but with this app I suddenly do!
I've made a nice chunk of change off it thus far. It'll be useful for the next Steam sale (assuming I can't that Steam game for even cheaper from a non-Steam retailer).
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Mine closes right away and I can't figure out why.
EDIT: Got the older version working. The newer version won't work with the exact same config. Probably cause I deleted steamparental and sort.
115 games to idle : O
EDIT: Got the older version working. The newer version won't work with the exact same config. Probably cause I deleted steamparental and sort.
115 games to idle : O
Meh, that's nothing. I've been idling for the past few days, and still have 230 games to go. Damned bundles.
That's how the system works. You need to buy or trade for the rest of the cards to craft the badge. Or just sell your cards on the market.
That's what I thought...I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy.
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Deleted member 102362
Unconfirmed Member
Thanks, jshackles, this has been working out great!
Linearskillz
Member
Just an update on this, it seems to have been working pretty well since I posted about this problem. Maybe Steam was just having some hiccups at the time. I'm also using the cookie data from Firefox instead since that's my primary browser. I check Steam itself from my browser fairly often so maybe that helps keep my session active? Dunno!
Anyway, thanks! 2/3 of the way through all my games!
Wasn't a super important feature with the blacklist now in and all, but trying to skip the current game with ctrl+c causes a crash right now.
http://i.imgur.com/HWR4b9B.png
http://i.imgur.com/HWR4b9B.png
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.
Awesome work. I saw your pull request on Git hub too thanks for that.
I'm out of town until Saturday but once I'm back I'll do some testing of my own in OSX and Linux and merge that code in.
Thanks again for your assistance!
Using it at the moment and it seems to be working fine still.
Drunken F00l made a TF2 program that ran it in text mode and idled for you when the drop system first came out. Valve dubbed it a cheat, removed all the items, gave items to those that didn't cheat, and hired DF.
Not sure how they feel about this system.