What are the chances of getting trading cards?

[Nicreven]

I recently found out about the trading cards and medals , i have a few questions:
1. What are the chances of getting regular everyday cards ? (not holo , not foil)
2. Are medals the only way of leveling up in steam? If not what are the other ways?
3. How do i know what cards i have and if i have them?

Any information will be helpful ! Thanks in advance !

[Start_Running]

1, Very small
2. You gain XP by spending money and buiying stuff
3. Check your inventory

[Nicreven]

Thanks

[Nicreven]

So like a 1% chance lets say?

[Nicreven]

I have a friend who got 5 cards from spiral knights , he has 1.5 hours on record.

[Nicreven]

Does the amount of xp i get depend on how much money i get?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Until you add $5 to your account, you can not get cards.

[Longhaul]

Leveling your profile is easy, just craft your badges. Christmas is the best time to level i think as people are selling all thier cards for dirt cheap.. i have 100 cards each of the Steam Vote ones i need to craft up.

Everything you recieve from Steam is in your Inventory

Getting cards from your games is a chore.. sometimes they drop at a decent rate, other times you wont get any..

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Here's how trading cards work:

https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq/

FYI you get half (or half rounded up) of a set for playing a game with cards. You'll need to buy/ or trade for the other half, or wait for booster packs to drop (3 cards per booster).

[Longhaul]

Originally posted by Quint the Maxim Tomato:

Here's how trading cards work:

https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq/

FYI you get half (or half rounded up) of a set for playing a game with cards. You'll need to buy/trade/wait for the other half.

Ya should have stated that. You never get a full set from a game..

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Nicreven:

Does the amount of xp i get depend on how much money i get?

The amount of XP you get is completely unrelated to any money of any sort, aside from indirectly through the money you spend on buying cards or the money you get for selling them.

Every time you craft a badge you get 100 XP.

Every time you buy a new game, or register a new game to your account using a Steam key, you get a certain amount of XP depending on how many games you already had before.

[Nicreven]

Wait , so i need to have a premium steam acc to trade? Well shoot.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Nicreven:

Wait , so i need to have a premium steam acc to trade? Well shoot.

Yeah, basically means you need to spend $5 of your own money on Steam.

[indecendence]

There is a reason for "premium" account. Reduce fraud, spammers, cheaters and etc.

You earn cards by playing games that has Steam Trading Cards label to them and it drops half rounded up of the cards. It may be foil and/or duplicate.

Once you've completed the card drop, you are then qualified for booster pack for the game. You earn booster pack (contains 3 random cards) when someone crafted a badge.

Your booster pack drop rate increases as your level increase by 10 levels.

You can earn badges (exp and eventually level) by performing some tasks, rarely, organized by Steam such as performing community tasks, being in Steam long enough (every year Steam awards you a badge), sale events and etc.

However, these events only earns you very little experience. You can check my profile as I do have most of the badges earned apart from crafting them from cards.

Every 10 level, you can also gain a slot in your profile to display a new showcase (select from a set).

You can check your inventory for cards or badges to see which you have earned/qualify to earn/in progress.

These can be accessed via Steam Client > Your Username (mouse over) > Badges/Inventory

If you are thinking about earning from cards, I would advice you otherwise. The time and effort spent is no worth it. Steam Trading Cards are not meant for this purpose in the first place.

If you are thinking about spending time and money to invest on levels, like me, someday you will look back and get dissapointed. Just my personal opinion.

[Dildo_Swaggins_6493]

the way cards work is lets say u have 0 trading cards (even with a badge) u then have a 10% every hour to get a card but every 1 card = a divide so lets say the 10% + 1 card = -1% meaning each card x by 1 means that every 2 cards u are 5% less likely to get a card until u reach 0.3% after 2 cards but now the time for each card isnt an hour its 30 mins and so on