Chance Hale
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Valve are evil geniuses.
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Steam Trading Cards : get trading cards and turn it into stuff
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Valve are evil geniuses.
CountAntonius
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Do Foil badges give you foil backgrounds/emoticons etc?
*shrug* All I know - I got a foil card, couldn't be used to craft a normal badge. Instead it has it's own badge progress area. No clue what it crafts, and I sure as hell ain't paying $20-50 a card to complete my set.
Chance Hale
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Man, it's been like an hour and a half of playing Team Fortress 2 and only two cards. Anyone have it be considerably slower than the other titles as well?
toddhunter
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When you get to level 10...it'll all become clearer.
You get one an hour pretty much.
Chance Hale
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Chance Hale
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Just needs to be running.
102 points away.
Chance Hale
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Just start the game up and wait until you have four cards in your inventory, that simple. Can play or leave it idling.
I guess I'll do that if it's HL2 only, thanks.
Chance Hale
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998 experience ;-;
Yes. CS:GO, you need to buy the game. Dota 2, you need to... you know, the more Valve explains the less clear it gets, but for now, Dota 2 drops only work if you spent money on the game before trading cards came out. Spending money now doesn't do anything until they fix it, and they're not really clear on how it's supposed to work.
futnownarcade
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Chance Hale
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When I reach level 10 will I be able to get Foil drops for the games despite using all of the available ones? Or did you have to be level 10 before even going for drops in the first place?
Whelp, I was 2 steps away from leaving my computer on while idling in Dota2, CS:GO, TF2 and HL2 on two different accounts.
Now I'm just idling in TF2 and HL2.
With card drops not resetting and prices plummeting, I was tempted to buy some Dota2 stuff in the off chance I'd get into it later but Valve saved me from that, for now.
edit: crap I forgot I put up some TF2 cards for sale cheap when I didn't know drops wouldn't reset.
Nope. I was level 10 before I even started going for cards and all of mine were normal and I'm all out of tries. You get the cards you get and then you're done.
Soo.... For example, Half-Life 2 has 8 cards in total. You can only get 4 cards max. How are you supposed to collect all 8 cards? You'll never end up with 8 cards unless you buy the other 4 from the marketplace right? If you just trade the 4 you have, you'll end up with 4 cards again.
Unless they reset the drops, which right now, doesn't seem to be happening soon.
Am I understanding this right?
Unless they reset the drops, which right now, doesn't seem to be happening soon.
Am I understanding this right?
You're understanding it right.
I should've never gotten an invite, this isn't going to fare well with my obsession of collecting everything in a series.
Then put all your cards in the Market. When you run out of drops and have gotten rid of all your cards in the set the game disappears from your badge page.
I should've never gotten an invite, this isn't going to fare well with my obsession of collecting everything in a series.
Wok
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From what I have seen of the Market, cards are sold for roughly the same price as emoticons or background pictures, so crafting badges, which uses minimum five cards and returns an emoticon, XP and a background picture, is only interesting to reach level 10 as fast as possible, then I would say you would better directly sell cards, and hope for drops of foil cards to sell at a high price.
It's not worth at this point. At best currently you might get $5 from selling the 4 cards you get a from a game, but you'd need to spend $7.50 to buy a game or $9 to get a single card drop from a F2P game.
Wok
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The market is rising again. Maybe people were just not aware of the Steam group. Speculating is too hard.
Chance Hale
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Are there multiple backgrounds/emoticons for each game/level? I was selling some Team Fortress 2 cards for another set of Don't Starve ones for the level 2 badge and was wondering.
The backgrounds and emoticons you get from crafting are random. I don't believe the level of the badge factors into it, that's just for XP.
Chance Hale
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Cool, thanks. Does everyone else get the crafting failed message each time despite getting coupons, a badge, wallpaper, and a emoticon?
Just Half-Life 2 proper. Episode One and Two have difference app ids.
Last night it was fine and I got the message telling me what I had. This morning, I got crafting failed and got my stuff.
Chance Hale
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Ok cool, does seem a bit spotty all around.
Sorry for the all the questions but one more. Just reached level ten by trading items around but I don't see an achievement showcase. Are those random too :/
Edit: Hell, the showcase help question mark mentions a favorite screenshot option that isn't even there :/
dark_inferno
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Doubles... doubles everywhere
Have : Gordon Freeman,Glados
Want : G-Man,"Gordon and Alyx",Respite,Trouble Underground, Bring the fight to them,Destruction,Finale,Intro,The Lab,Mannequin,Underground
Have : Gordon Freeman,Glados
Want : G-Man,"Gordon and Alyx",Respite,Trouble Underground, Bring the fight to them,Destruction,Finale,Intro,The Lab,Mannequin,Underground
Achievement showcase is bugged for some users. And about the screenshot option, they'll add that eventually as the beta goes on.
A Sentient Keyboard
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Bought another few beta invites now they are cheap and the price is stable and rising again.
I'm going to say the prices are going to keep climbing until about 10-12 hours from now when the new wave of invites goes out, at which point I intend to be out of this madness.
EDIT: except they aren't rising and I'm now not going to be able to be pay for my aggresive herione addiction.
I'm going to say the prices are going to keep climbing until about 10-12 hours from now when the new wave of invites goes out, at which point I intend to be out of this madness.
EDIT: except they aren't rising and I'm now not going to be able to be pay for my aggresive herione addiction.
I've got options for all the known showcases here and they're working fine since I hit level 10. Sowing off my group right now.
With the number of games and the number of achievements they now have, they probably coded something up that queries their database and tried it while in closed testing and thought it worked fine, then when some people have a certain number of achievements, a certain game or a certain specific achievement, it fucks up. Pretty common database issues.
With the number of games and the number of achievements they now have, they probably coded something up that queries their database and tried it while in closed testing and thought it worked fine, then when some people have a certain number of achievements, a certain game or a certain specific achievement, it fucks up. Pretty common database issues.
Chance Hale
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