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Official Idle Master Thread - Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way
- Thread starter jshackles
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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 working on getting a proper build environment set up so that the Linux version will update with the source code, the Windows version will update with pyinstaller, and the OS X version will update with py2app. Hopefully soon I'll have the whole process more or less automated.
Right now, Idle Master simply gets these values when it starts up.
Corrosivefrost and I are scheming on a way to make Idle Master re-check your badges (and if you have "mostvalue" as your sort rule, this will re-grab the card price data) between games or every 2-3 games.
So, it's in the works.
Booya_base
Member
Just wanted to post to say Thanks J Shackles, this is a really good program. Its probably going to cost me a lot of money though as I tend to always want to finish badges rather than sell the cards
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
Herpes Reasons
Banned
I have about 250 games to go it's going to take forever.
it's going to take forever.
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 a small update for today (in preparation of a bigger one later) but Idle Master will now display how long it idles each game once it's complete.
In the future I plan on having the ability for you to upload this information (anonymously) so that we can start to build an aggregate database of approximately how long it takes for each game to drop it's cards. This data would then be used in yet another future update for Idle Master to give you an approximate time to completely idle all of your games.
In the future I plan on having the ability for you to upload this information (anonymously) so that we can start to build an aggregate database of approximately how long it takes for each game to drop it's cards. This data would then be used in yet another future update for Idle Master to give you an approximate time to completely idle all of your games.
darn :/ would have to participate
but I woke up to IDLEM@ster completion of all my card drops :/
I used IDLEM@ster at release (when it was limited to just the Steam OT) with almost 900 drops... and now it's 0
Linearskillz
Member
Another IDLEM@STER success story. Thanks <3
SteveWinwood
Member
well jshacks
do your magic
when i wake up im gonna be 100 bucks richer right
do your magic
when i wake up im gonna be 100 bucks richer right
Dragonborn
Member
Hey man, just wanted say thank you. The program worked flawlessly and I ended up making about 24 bucks. Not bad at all. So thanks man.
Right now, Idle Master simply gets these values when it starts up.
Corrosivefrost and I are scheming on a way to make Idle Master re-check your badges (and if you have "mostvalue" as your sort rule, this will re-grab the card price data) between games or every 2-3 games.
So, it's in the works.
Great, cheers.
It'll be most helpful for those who leave IM running overnight.
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've started a Steam Group for Idle Master users:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/idlemastery
Of course, feel free to post here as well with anything you need. Just thought it might be another fun way for people to connect.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/idlemastery
Of course, feel free to post here as well with anything you need. Just thought it might be another fun way for people to connect.
Would it be possible to list the number of card drops remaining in the output screen/log at the start of a game's idle process? Perhaps adding a line like "XXX has Y card drops remaining" right after the "Starting game XXX to idle cards" line and before the "Sleeping for 15 minutes" line?
Thanks!
Thanks!
crazyrabbits
Banned
Finally got it up and running. Have 120 games to idle.
Thank you based Shackles
Thank you based Shackles
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, glad it's working for you. Also the games that are showing up as App 204450 and App 8930 are that way because their names contain characters (like copyright or trademark symbols) that your command prompt can't properly display - so it's no big deal.
Quadraphonic
Member
I have a hunch the new Steam update broke Idle master.
It instantly returns 0 cards to idle for...
I updated the cookie info and still got bupkiss.
It instantly returns 0 cards to idle for...
I updated the cookie info and still got bupkiss.
Works fine for me on OS X:
I opt-in to the beta client updates, FWIW. I'll check on my Windows box in a few hours if no one else does it.
Nabs
Member
Everything is working fine here (PC).
Quadraphonic
Member
I'm a dumb ass. I was trying it at 4-5PM on a Tuesday. That's when Steam servers go down.
Having a problem installing this on a mates computer (Windows 8.1 I believe) I start it up, the CMD opens and then closes in less than a full second. Took me about 30 tries figuring out that it said something like "Can't load frozen modules", anyone got a clue as to what the error is?
Don't know about the category bit, however I do know that Steam's time-tracker isn't very accurate at all. Which is incredibly odd as it's an easy feature to create >_<'
It's close enough that I much prefer it to nothing.
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 don't know if I'll be able to get anything set up to filter out (or filter to) certain Steam categories, since games on the badge progress page (where Idle Master gets it's info) don't list this info.
Hey guys, any idea why the game pop-up doesn't pop up?
It stays like this for 15 minutes and then idle again for 15 minutes.
Try running Idle Master as an administrator.
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 made a small update that lists the number of drops remaining on a game when it first starts idling, and (if you're running it under Windows) the Idle Master window itself will update to let you know what game you're idling and how many card drops are remaining.
This way if you keep the app minimized, you can keep tabs on how things are going without actually opening it up to look.
This way if you keep the app minimized, you can keep tabs on how things are going without actually opening it up to look.
Good idea in theory, but...
I'm curious about how your setup allows you to read it easily (I'm probably missing something obvious).
Coreda
Member
Love this update. Does Idle Master also have some setting that can disable the in-game banner window opening? I usually close it anyway.
It allows you to hover over the taskbar item to glance at the progress.
Coreda
Member
Double posting, but I've seem to have come across a bug.
I asked in the Steam thread if it was normal to take 4+ hours for a single card to drop, and from the replies it obviously wasn't normal. The Steam Library was also only reporting 6 minutes played, when the idling was much longer.
I've since discovered what appears to have caused the issue - closing the 'You're Now In-Game' window after Idle Master started idling. This didn't seem to affect card drops in other games prior to this, but for the current game I'm idling - Euro Truck Simulator 2 - it only began dropping the first card when I left that second window open. I had restarted the client and Idle Master a few times after the initial post, and closed the secondary window each time, same result - no drop. Leaving the window open however resulted in the correct idle time in Steam and a card drop.
I asked in the Steam thread if it was normal to take 4+ hours for a single card to drop, and from the replies it obviously wasn't normal. The Steam Library was also only reporting 6 minutes played, when the idling was much longer.
I've since discovered what appears to have caused the issue - closing the 'You're Now In-Game' window after Idle Master started idling. This didn't seem to affect card drops in other games prior to this, but for the current game I'm idling - Euro Truck Simulator 2 - it only began dropping the first card when I left that second window open. I had restarted the client and Idle Master a few times after the initial post, and closed the secondary window each time, same result - no drop. Leaving the window open however resulted in the correct idle time in Steam and a card drop.
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.
The second window is the process that's emulating the game which is reporting to Steam that you're playing it. If you close the second window that pops up, it's just like closing a game - Steam will think you're no longer playing.
I'm not sure how it worked for you before, but you'll need to leave that window open if you want cards to drop.
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.
Idle Master 0.5 has been released.
https://github.com/jshackles/idle_master
This version should work with the new badge page layout and pagination. If anyone runs into any issues, please let me know.
https://github.com/jshackles/idle_master
This version should work with the new badge page layout and pagination. If anyone runs into any issues, please let me know.
Just went out there, and the blacklist functionality is more than sufficient for my purposes.
Thanks for this program, JShackles. You are truly a king among men (and women).
stan423321
Member
Unfortunately I have an issue.
After a few successful sessions of usage, suddenly the game simulating process seems to -terminate seconds after being launched. I don't see a window with the game banner nor is my Steam status changed, but steam-idle.exe does appear for a moment on the task manager's list if I watch that while launching the start process. Then it disappears.
Does anybody have an idea what is going on?
EDIT: The problem disappeared as suddenly as it started. Sorry for bothering you.
After a few successful sessions of usage, suddenly the game simulating process seems to -terminate seconds after being launched. I don't see a window with the game banner nor is my Steam status changed, but steam-idle.exe does appear for a moment on the task manager's list if I watch that while launching the start process. Then it disappears.
Does anybody have an idea what is going on?
EDIT: The problem disappeared as suddenly as it started. Sorry for bothering you.
thequickandthedead
Member
Weird. No matter how many times I've tried to get this running it just says 0 card drops remaining. What possible reason could there be?
thequickandthedead
Member
Any suggestions?
I haven't looked at the code since jshackles first released it, but my first guess would be that your badge list isn't being parsed correctly. Make sure you have the latest version, and that you've set up the settings file correctly.
aY227
Member
Here's a screenshot of what I'm working on:
EDIT: And - it's live.
EDIT EDIT: and now it will also log all output to idlemaster.log (this will help us troubleshoot issues that come up)
Gooosh!
Program worked for me few weeks ago, and today all I saw is that error.
After about 30 minutes of updating cookies/settings and reading FAQ it turned out that Norton Iternet Security deleted steam-idle.exe and I didnt noticed it :/
And about idle master - amazing stuff, such a time saver - thank You so much for all Your work.
Darth Kupi
Banned
I tried idlemaster for the first time today, and thats what I'm getting as well.
I had the same error. Logged into steam community on chrome and it fixed it on idle master.
Darth Kupi
Banned
YianGaruga
Banned
I think just opening the page fixes it sometimes, at least it did for me. No need to log out and in again.
Darth Kupi
Banned
No I opened it several times when it was not working before.
Darth Kupi
Banned
Ok the same error kept happening again, and thru trial and error I've found logging out and then in again on the steam storefront page, not the steam community page seems to fix it for me.
Maybe delete cookies and let new ones be created.
Might have to verify steamguard thru email again.
Maybe delete cookies and let new ones be created.
Might have to verify steamguard thru email again.
What's steamid for? I only use "sessionid" and "steamLogin".