Idle/farming game status

[SpaceDude 👽]

Not sure if I understand this option.

I want is "Garry's mod" to be showed when I'm online and not farming.
I want is "Garry's mod" to be showed when farming (not show the farming game),

But with following settings i only get online, no "Garry's mod" then farming or idle.

GamesPlayedWhileIdle = "Garry's mod" (appid 4000)
FarmOffline = True
CustomerGamePlayedWhileFarming = "Garry's mod"

[Spa]

Never tried the combination you want, but you need to change FarmOffline to false for sure.

Then if you own Garry's mod on your account this seems a correct setting as well: GamesPlayedWhileIdle = "4000",

Read for full info:

https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Configuration

section: CustomGamePlayedWhileFarming and
section: CustomGamePlayedWhileIdle

[Vanilla]

If FarmOffline is true, ASF not gonna log in on Steam chat, so it won't showed that you farming game

[r6d2]

Originally posted by Spa:

Then if you own Garry's mod on your account this seems a correct setting as well: GamesPlayedWhileIdle = "4000",

Since this data type is not a string, I guess the correct setup would be

"GamesPlayedWhileIdle": [4000],

The string options CustomGamePlayedWhileFarming and CustomGamePlayedWhileIdle won't actually make anyone believe you're playing Garry's Mod, since "Playing non-steam game:" will always be prepended by Steam.

You can prank your clueless friends by setting this though:

"CustomGamePlayedWhileFarming": "Half-Life 3"

[SpaceDude 👽]

OK, I think a misunderstand

GamesPlayedWhileIdle
Playing games in such manner increases your "hours played" of those games, but nothing else apart of it.

I was hoping that this option would help me to get the Addict achievement You have wasted a year of your life playing GMod!
But it looks like only "hours played" on profile has increased not the hours played towards the achievement.

[Spa]

If the achievement requires you to playing the game a x amount of hours then it should help you to use the gamesplayedwhleidle. Since with that option you can technical play the game when you not farming.

For that use the correct setting r6d2 gave you. [4000],

[SpaceDude 👽]

Originally posted by Spa:

If the achievement requires you to playing the game a x amount of hours then it should help you to use the gamesplayedwhleidle. Since with that option you can technical play the game when you not farming.

For that use the correct setting r6d2 gave you. [4000],

Are u sure? I havn't got this achievement :

One Day
24 hours of your life wasted

My guess it's time logged in to the gm server that counts.

Edit: Is it possible to add "+map gm_construct -textmode -novid"? so GM load a map when idle.

[Spa]

I'm not 100% sure since you telling me that the game uses gm servers. You can test it out by idling the game for longer than the needed hours and see if you get the achievement or not.

Your second question: when you use settings like gamesplayedwhleidle [4000], ASF will play the game through his own steam client implementation. Extra options like you asked are not possible to add on ASF and seems to me out of the scope for ASF as well.

[SpaceDude 👽]

I still have problem with settings for this one:

My current setting is:
CustomGamePlayedWhileFarming = ASF
CustomGamePlayedWhileIdle = STM 1:1 Trading
FarmOffline = False
GamesPlayedWhileIdle = Appid 753 (Steam)

My problem is when Farming is starting "ASF" is showing up first after I have done some kind of "trigger" like FarmOffline true/false until I "trigg" the change the "farming game" is on display.

N.B. When farming is done the Idle msg displayed correctly

[r6d2]

The strings are not guaranteed to display all the time. It's ultimately up to Steam. This is documented on the wiki.

[SpaceDude 👽]

Originally posted by r6d2:

The strings are not guaranteed to display all the time. It's ultimately up to Steam. This is documented on the wiki.

OK, but I can "force" the CustomGamePlayedWhileFarming string to display by toggle FarmOffline to true/false.

N.B. When farming is done the Idle string displayed correctly

[Archi]

As r6d2 pointed out, if you add any Steam game on top of custom string, custom string being displayed is no longer guaranteed - it does not matter that you managed to "force" Steam network into displaying the case you want through this way or another - there is no way to enforce given case, and it can quickly change without you even noticing it.

Custom string being displayed is guaranteed only when no Steam game is played on top of it, so only for CustomGamePlayedWhileIdle with empty GamesPlayedWhileIdle, when ASF is not farming anything. Any other case is "it might display nicely, or might not, and nothing will be improved in this regard".