You collected all 3 which Steam is going to give you. Idlemaster DOES NOT give you cards. It simply tricks steam into giving you the cards without you needing to commit the effort that Valve wants you to.

So if you want more cards, buy more games.

Card drops are not infinite, they're roughly 50% of what you need to make 1 badge of that set.

Once you have all the drops steam stops giving you cards. Idlemaster detects this and stops bothering to idle when there's no drops left.

When you have 0 drops for every single game you own, it says "Idle complete".

If you pretend Idlemaster is a car, then your games owned is the fuel. Right now your fuel tank is empty. You've burned it all up. So the fix to this problem is to add more fuel (obtain more games which have cards). Doesn't matter how, go join giveaways if you're not up for buying cheap card-giving games. This should help if you want to go down that route.

Also this information (except the reddit link) is all in the FAQ. Next time please read the FAQ before posting a question which is answered inside said post.

MelancholyBroken lähetti viestin:

I thought IM only supported two hours. This is odd.

No, your assumption is odd.

Computer has to stay awake. Screen can go off, but the computer itself needs to remain on for the duration of the idling.

yenka | шлюха lähetti viestin:

Patches back Valve did it because you can't ask for an automatic refund after having played 2 hours at a game. They consider that it's enough to try it and eventually trigger issue(s). Then, you can't ask for an automatic refund AND have dropped cards. It could have been farm to get free cards.

Some people actually did exploit this for about a day which is why they set the system in place.

If this fails set your profile to something custom rather than steam's default number system. This sometimes works. No idea why.

You can, I've not yet heard of someone getting banned from using idlemaster. That said there's no assurance you'd not be the first, so it'd be wise to simply run idlemaster while you're not playing CSGO.

If you're running both on the same computer, the VAC system scans your computer itself briefly (which is how it detects if you have such a program and how come it can detect "residual" hacks that were used on a non-VAC server and not deleted from the computer) so it'd detect idlemaster if you ran two steam accounts at once.

"Idling complete" means Idlemaster has finished its job. You have no more cards waiting for you, your complaint is "My car has run out of petrol!"

So our only solution for you is "WELL REFUEL IT!". In this case, you refuel it by buying more games with cards.

Cards are not infinite, steam only gives you half the cards you need for 1 badge. Then it stops forever. Blame Valve if you think this is unfair.

Card drops aren't infinite. You only get drops equal to half a badge, you're expected to buy/trade for the rest.

It's like this:

A few patches back Valve made it so that you only got your cards after 2 hours had passed. Until then you got nothing at all, the timer started at 2 hours.

To save time, Idlemaster was set to idle ALL games for that 2 hours rather than 2 hours being consumed per game just waiting around.

After this it does them 1 by 1 because this is the most efficient way to get the cards. The more games you run at once the fewer cards dropped per hour-per-game (if you ran it just for 1 hour you'd likely get more for that hour but if you ran it for 6 hours you'd start to see a steep drop in your rate of gain relative to 1-by-1 idling).

Idlemaster's development was stopped after this point, while Valve changed their policy again on cards. Thus it idles all for 2 hours still before switching to 1-by-1. As it was last programmed to.