is it against the rules to idle cards ?

[Mikasa Ackerman]

alot games i bought have trading cards , is it against any rule to leave them run simultaneously to get some trading cards ? i wouldnt use a program i would just start them in the badge tab and leave them running in the background

[Cathulhu]

No, it is not. But keep in mind that running multiple games is in no way an effective method to idle games as Valve reduces the drop rate. Running one game at a time is the most effective way.

[SpunkyJones]

No rules, but running multiple games use to slow down card drops, not sure if that changed.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Nope.

You going to idle that bundle you just purchased?

[Mikasa Ackerman]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Nope.

You going to idle that bundle you just purchased?

:qr:

some other games , i got alot games that have card drops remaining , a bird story, a bloody night , hat in time , alan wake , aMAZE , antichamber just to name a few

even in crash bandicoot i got 5 card drops remaining , i dont want to wait until i finally play all games to get the cards ( if i open the badge page in browser it is quite large , as seen here:
https://imgur.com/a/eJd9dQj

look at the scroll thing on the right , thats how many games i have there

[FFF]

No its not, and its also ok to run a program that does it automatically. I use ASF without problem, it can idle cards and hours on as many accs as i want at same time, it uses only like 100 mb ram and pretty much no cpu no matter how many accs or games it idles.

[Mikasa Ackerman]

Originally posted by Booster S> Keys SEPA/Paypal:

No its not, and its also ok to run a program that does it automatically. I use ASF without problem, it can idle cards and hours on as many accs as i want at same time, it uses only like 100 mb ram and pretty much no cpu no matter how many accs or games it idles.

and asf is really safe ? i dont want to risk anything , i just want to get card drops from games , but since my pc is strong anyway and i often spend a few hours just browsing youtube in the evening i can easily leave single games running during that time

[FFF]

Originally posted by Ryuko Matoi:

Originally posted by Booster S> Keys SEPA/Paypal:

No its not, and its also ok to run a program that does it automatically. I use ASF without problem, it can idle cards and hours on as many accs as i want at same time, it uses only like 100 mb ram and pretty much no cpu no matter how many accs or games it idles.

and asf is really safe ? i dont want to risk anything , i just want to get card drops from games , but since my pc is strong anyway and i often spend a few hours just browsing youtube in the evening i can easily leave single games running during that time

I operate card farm with over 300 bots powered by asf, and on dozens of my real accs and for friends i use it to farm hours, i started using it in 2016 and never had any problem, and dont know why i should - its nothing bad or shady. As long as the bot accs arent stolen/hijacked its safe with any amount of bots.

[Mikasa Ackerman]

i now set up the program (asf) , is it safe to play something while its running , it said it would take around a month and 16 hours to idle everything ( it found 395 games with remaining drops ) i dont really want to not play anything at all for that long , i mostly want to play some offline games like final fantasy

[Si-Fi]

If you are running ASF, you are already technically playing a game so exiting ASF is required.
Same goes for Idle-Master and Idle Daddy.

But anything that does not require Steam should be okay.

[Mikasa Ackerman]

Originally posted by Si-Fi:

If you are running ASF, you are already technically playing a game so exiting ASF is required.
Same goes for Idle-Master and Idle Daddy.

But anything that does not require Steam should be okay.

thanks , i dont really want to play anything right now anyway , so its fine , the program has been running for 1 hour and i got a star ocean card already

guess i could always have it idle when i am doing other things besides gaming if its a problem to play a game while idling , or i could play the sims on origins

[Si-Fi]

Originally posted by Ryuko Matoi:

Originally posted by Si-Fi:

If you are running ASF, you are already technically playing a game so exiting ASF is required.
Same goes for Idle-Master and Idle Daddy.

But anything that does not require Steam should be okay.

thanks , i dont really want to play anything right now anyway , so its fine , the program has been running for 1 hour and i got a star ocean card already

guess i could always have it idle when i am doing other things besides gaming if its a problem to play a game while idling , or i could play the sims on origins

Yep, thats almost exactly what i do just in case i fall asleep. :)

[Mikasa Ackerman]

Originally posted by Si-Fi:

Originally posted by Ryuko Matoi:

thanks , i dont really want to play anything right now anyway , so its fine , the program has been running for 1 hour and i got a star ocean card already

guess i could always have it idle when i am doing other things besides gaming if its a problem to play a game while idling , or i could play the sims on origins

Yep, thats almost exactly what i do just in case i fall asleep. :)

another thing i can always do is , whenever i want to watch an anime and pay attention to it , just have the program running, in detective conan i am done with all dubbed episodes anyway and i need to read the subtitles if i want to understand everything