Collect Steam trading cards easily with Idle Master

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Came across this neat little program that can help you collect Steam trading cards without even having the games installed. It was made by the guy who created the Enhanced Steam plugin, and it's open source, so you can decide for yourself whether you trust it.

Idle Master will simulate you being "in-game" on Steam for each game in your library with available Trading Card drops, and will automatically move from game to game when each is finished.


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I've used Idle Master in the past, but constantly having to login annoyed me. So now I just stick to using SAM (Steam Achievement Manger). It does the same thing, although if you can also cheat for achievements. I don't use that, but I mean... why would you!? Achievements aren't important.
 
The_Imp_ZA said:
I've used Idle Master in the past, but constantly having to login annoyed me. So now I just stick to using SAM (Steam Achievement Manger). It does the same thing, although if you can also cheat for achievements. I don't use that, but I mean... why would you!? Achievements aren't important.
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Been using idle master quite a while now, and only needed to login once using the browser cookie method on the txt file. Its a once-off if you do it right. SAM is the one to look out for due to VAC banning, and achievement cheating is just for tards...
 
mottamort said:
Been using idle master quite a while now, and only needed to login once using the browser cookie method on the txt file. Its a once-off if you do it right. SAM is the one to look out for due to VAC banning, and achievement cheating is just for tards...
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Never heard of anyone being VAC banned for using SAM to idle for cards. It's the exact same way that Idle Master does it.
 
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The question is not whether you can trust the code. The question is how will valve react to their latest mini economy being undermined.

Gaming valve ends badly for the player in my experience
 
HavocXphere said:
The question is not whether you can trust the code. The question is how will valve react to their latest mini economy being undermined.

Gaming valve ends badly for the player in my experience
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I'm not sure what you're on about? You know that Valve gets a cut for everything that's sold on the market, right? In other words, they want to sell as many cards as possible.

You can replicate what these programs do yourself, if you wanted to. Take an older Indie game, like Super Hexagon for example. Edit the steam_api.dll and change the value to the game you want to idle. You can find the numbers for the game you want by looking on the Store page. The URL for each game on the Store contains the API number. Launch "Super Hexagon", and Steam will think you're in the game that you changed the API value to, and you'll get your cards. All these programs do is make a text file, and launch an executable that Steam can recognise.

If anything, this is saving them server costs because people don't have to download games that they have no interest in, just to get the cards. I've been using SAM to idle for cards for about two years, Valve has no intention of banning things that make them money. The way their system is designed, it would actually be nigh impossible for them to detect it anyway.
 
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I always give my cards away as I don't see any use for them, so whoever has me on Steam... check out my inventory and lemme know when you want something.
 
BeoTeK said:
Will this be seen as "in game" and will it add to play time ?
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Can confirm with idle master yes it sees you as in-game, and it adds to game time. So its something you likely wanna have running during sleepytime since running multiple games at once significantly hampers card drop rates. Thats what I did. couple of evenings of running idle-master before i went to bed, ???, profit.
 
I'm with blaaislaai on this one; I don't really see the point of trading cards and are more than willing to give them away. Also I am quite reluctant to do anything that may or may not cause any infraction on my Steam account.
 
I've crafted a few badges, but mostly I sell them. I am currently sitting on $12 in my Steam Wallet, and that is just with selling stuff. I didn't spend any money to get cash in my wallet.

I would have had more, but I have bought quite a bit of stuff with my Steam Wallet as well. It would have been way over $20 by now. So selling cards is not a bad business.
 
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