How to choose which game you Idle?

[Coleman]

Just wondering if this is possible. Currently running newest version of Idle Master and would only like to idle one game.

[Glimmer]

You can black list all the other games, or you can manually select a game.
Blacklisting will allow IM to stop idling once it has received all of your free cards. Manually selecting a game will keep IM running even if you have no drops remaining, in case you want to up the reported playtime.

Can Idle Master be used to pad my playtime of a particular game?

The steam-idle.exe application that's included with Idle Master can be given a command line argument of the appid of the game you'd like to idle. For example, if you'd like to idle Team Fortress 2 for playtime, you can simply run "steam-idle.exe 440" from a command prompt. There is no user interface for this, it must be done through the command line.

[Coleman]

Originally posted by Glimmer:

You can black list all the other games, or you can manually select a game.
Blacklisting will allow IM to stop idling once it has received all of your free cards. Manually selecting a game will keep IM running even if you have no drops remaining, in case you want to up the reported playtime.

Can Idle Master be used to pad my playtime of a particular game?

The steam-idle.exe application that's included with Idle Master can be given a command line argument of the appid of the game you'd like to idle. For example, if you'd like to idle Team Fortress 2 for playtime, you can simply run "steam-idle.exe 440" from a command prompt. There is no user interface for this, it must be done through the command line.

I am a huge noob to IM. Can you please tell me how to do this and which would be best?

[Glimmer]

Which is best depends on what you're trying to accomplish, how many games you have and how many of those games you want to receive cards/playtime from.

If you just want to increase your listed playtime, using the command line is best since it won't turn off once you have ~4 hours of playtime (a rough estimate of how long it takes to receive all your cards from an average game). For this you'll need to know how to open a Command Prompt[www.7tutorials.com], the path to Idle Master and the AppID for whatever game you want to run.
The path to IM depends on where you installed it, but should be along the lines of "c:\Programs Files (x86)\Idle Master\steam-idle.exe"
AppID can be pulled from multiple sources through Steam, the Store and Badges pages being the most common
CS:GO's Store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/
CS:GO's AppID: 730
Once you have an open command line and the relevant data, start the program. Using the the provided info idling you would do this by entering

"c:\Programs Files (x86)\Idle Master\steam-idle.exe" 730

into the command prompt.

If you just want to idle a select few of games for their cards, depends on how many games you have, how many you want cards from and your preference in initial time investments. 1 game out of 300 would be a lot easier to use the command line. 299 games out of 300 would be better to use normal Idle Master operation. The black list is a pain to set up but it is saved across sessions so you won't have to redo it if you add more STC enabled games to your library that you want cards from.

[Coleman]

Originally posted by Glimmer:

Which is best depends on what you're trying to accomplish, how many games you have and how many of those games you want to receive cards/playtime from.

If you just want to increase your listed playtime, using the command line is best since it won't turn off once you have ~4 hours of playtime (a rough estimate of how long it takes to receive all your cards from an average game). For this you'll need to know how to open a Command Prompt[www.7tutorials.com], the path to Idle Master and the AppID for whatever game you want to run.
The path to IM depends on where you installed it, but should be along the lines of "c:\Programs Files (x86)\Idle Master\steam-idle.exe"
AppID can be pulled from multiple sources through Steam, the Store and Badges pages being the most common
CS:GO's Store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/
CS:GO's AppID: 730
Once you have an open command line and the relevant data, start the program. Using the the provided info idling you would do this by entering

"c:\Programs Files (x86)\Idle Master\steam-idle.exe" 730

into the command prompt.

If you just want to idle a select few of games for their cards, depends on how many games you have, how many you want cards from and your preference in initial time investments. 1 game out of 300 would be a lot easier to use the command line. 299 games out of 300 would be better to use normal Idle Master operation. The black list is a pain to set up but it is saved across sessions so you won't have to redo it if you add more STC enabled games to your library that you want cards from.

I want to only get cards from CS:GO. What is the rundown for how to do this? (again huge noob and I'm very sorry)

[Glimmer]

Originally posted by Coleman:

I want to only get cards from CS:GO. What is the rundown for how to do this? (again huge noob and I'm very sorry)

1) Open a command prompt. I posted a link that shows how to do that for various versions of Windows.
2) Enter the full path to Steam-Idle.exe followed by the AppID of the game. I do not have the Windows version so i can't be certain what it is, but my example should be close. You can open up a My Computer window and try and track it down.


With 161 hours of playtime, 19 hours within the past 2 weeks, I'd assume you have received all of your free cards which would mean further idling is pointless.

Non-F2P games like CS:GO only give half (rounded up) of the total number of cards in the set. In the case of CS:GO, it has 5 cards in the set so you only get 3 cards from playing it. Trading/Selling/Using those cards will not grant you additional/replacement cards.

Playing after you have received your cards does not increase your odds of getting a booster pack from that game.

[Coleman]

Ok. Also, my idling has finished. How do I start it back up?

[Glimmer]

Originally posted by Coleman:

Ok. Also, my idling has finished. How do I start it back up?

Double check your Badges page to make sure you have drops remaining. There is no known method to reset your drops counter.

F2P games do not give any free cards just for adding them, you must spend 9$US for each drop.