FarmSolo vs. FarmMultiple

[MaddionMax™]

Hello!

My friend today adviced ASF to use.
I tried it and looks really good, but...

...I'm not able to run farming as FarmMultiple, just as FarmSolo aloriythm.
My friends run as Multiple and they got thecards really fast,

What should I do? What I done wrong?

Thanks your help!

[Archi]

What I done wrong?

Not reading wiki.

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

[MaddionMax™]

I tried to CardDropsRestriction as True, such as False option, but always the FarmSolo running.

[Simon]

Originally posted by MaddionMax™:

I tried to CardDropsRestriction as True, such as False option, but always the FarmSolo running.

ASF automatically uses the best algorithm for farming all the time - Thus meaning, sometimes it farms multiple games and sometimes it farms a single game at a time.

- You can't exactly set it up for just multiple games, the program finds the best algorithm at all times.

Though, usually it'll farm a lot of games simultaneously until it reaches a certain amount of hours (If all the games being farmed hasn't been played already)

Archy is saying you didn't read the wiki because it's clearly stated in the wiki.

In automatic mode, ASF does not allow you to choose the games that should be farmed, neither allows you to change cards farming algorithm. ASF knows better than you what it should do and what decisions it should make in order to farm as fast as possible.

[MaddionMax™]

Thanks the info! Understand it now,but seems this software is not good for me. After 2 hours I got 2 cards from one game. I think it's not so fast.

[Simon]

Originally posted by MaddionMax™:

Thanks the info! Understand it now,but seems this software is not good for me. After 2 hours I got 2 cards from one game. I think it's not so fast.

Some games takes longer than others - Personally I've got it running on a VPS using mono, this grants me a fair bit of cards (All of which I have sold as time has gone past.)

- The software is amazing, just depends on the game and other variables such as the time needed for certain games and the amount of games being played at once.

Sorta like math, in a way, maybe not?

A lot of software nowadays has dependencies in the terms of performance, in this case, a dependency would be the fact that some games takes a long time, while others take a short time.

Buying 20 games for instance, granted me 130 cards in approximately 9 hours (Over half of these cards were achieved within the first 4 hours - All the games were simultaneously idled as all of them had no playtime.)

[Archi]

ASF farms in most effective, yet friendly for Steam network way, based on your CardDropsRestricted setting, but not only. If you think you know better, you can farm manually with !play, and I can guarantee you that it will be slower than what ASF would do automatically.

You can't force ASF to use FarmSolo() or FarmMultiple() - it's ASF decision what to use in given scenario, you can only suggest ASF one approach over another with CardDropsRestricted, but like stated in the wiki, you're not in position to decide what will be better - ASF has much more data to analyze and can make choice more effectively, even if you think that you know better.

The only way of achieving even faster drop than ASF is using Steam network exploit that can drop card when game is shutting down, which is what happens e.g. with skipping games through IM. This is not friendly way, it's potential abuse, and ASF does not allow you to use it (unless you !play manually). If you want to use it, then yeah I'd appreciate if you didn't use ASF for that, as ASF is making it's best to comply with common sense and Steam servers.

[chasquit]

FarmMultple just steps through a set of games one by one and farms each one a little bit, right? Or are they idled in paralell someway? I guess no, but just wondering if FarmMultiple could increase the chances of getting banned because of the farming process...

[Archi]

FarmMultiple() farms up to 32 titles in parallel.

[chasquit]

Got it, thanks for confirming. Is FarmMultiple VAC-free or I should use FarmSolo if I don't want to take any risk of getting banned? Thank you for answering and congrats for developing this great farming tool!

[Archi]

You can't force ASF to use FarmSolo() or FarmMultiple()

Entire ASF is VAC-free.

[shadoom]

It really farms multiple games at the same time? Everywhere else I read that if you have more than one game on for farming the drop rate is nearly 0. Confusing but yeah it did work great.

[Archi]

Because when running multiple games ASF aims for farming hours, not cards. Card drop is indeed 0. That's also why it's stated multiple times that ASF knows better when to use this, and when it's needed (CardDropsRestricted).

[Vecchia]

FTR, I think the

CardDropsRestricted

setting does not exist anymore, in case anyone stumbles upon this while searching discussions here.

If I get the wiki correctly,

HoursUntilCardDrops

should now be used instead.

[Archi]

Originally posted by Vecchia:

FTR, I think the

CardDropsRestricted

setting does not exist anymore, in case anyone stumbles upon this while searching discussions here.

If I get the wiki correctly,

HoursUntilCardDrops

should now be used instead.

Because the discussion is over 2 years old. The wiki should be used for up-to-date info.