Did you read the FAQ page posted above? Steam only gives you a certain number of cards per game. If a game has cards, you're only eligible to receive a certain number (half of the available cards, rounded up). Regardless of whether you use Idle Master or actually play the game, you will still only get that number of card drops per game.

The portable version of Idle Master that's available for download hasn't been updated in almost 3 months and should be identical to the previous version of Idle Master. It's actually identical (in code) to the existing version, it's just not digitally signed.

If Steam isn't showing you as in-game, be sure that steam-idle.exe is in the Idle Master directory. It sounds like (for some people at least) the program updated and your anti-virus program deleted the steam-idle.exe application. You can redownload the file (as part of the portable Idle Master) and place it in your Idle Master directory and that should solve the issue.

As long as Steam shows you "in-game" when Idle Master is running, there is no way that it could affect the rate at which cards drop in any way. This is all determined by Valve and happens at the same rate as it would if you were actually playing the game.

The latest update didn't change any of the Idle Master code at all, so it won't fix any bugs and shouldn't cause any difference in things such as drop rates.

The update was only a small change to the code signing certificate that the program uses. Previously the application used a self-signed certificate, and now it uses a trusted 3rd party code signing certificate.

The only difference users should notice is that when downloading and installing the program from the site, it should now say that the application is signed by "Open source developer Jason Shackles".

Do you have card drops remaining in these games? It looks like you have 33 hours in Starbound and 626 hours in CS:GO, so you've probably long since got your free card drops from those games.

You can view which games have available card drops from your badges page: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/my/badges/

Also, be sure to read the trading cards FAQ: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/tradingcards/faq

Have you used this trick to try and idle cards from any game other than CS:GO? Perhaps the trick only works with this game for some reason? I've tried it now with a few combinations of games but haven't had an positive results.

One thing you could try for your own program, is you can run the steam-idle.exe application provided with Idle Master to manually idle the game. For example, if you wanted to idle Counter Strike: Source, you could run "steam-idle.exe 240" rather than the game's actual EXE file.

Hi, thanks for the tip. However, in my own testing I'm not finding any increase in the speed in which cards are dropping using this method. Let me make sure I have your steps correct:

1) Launch Idle Master and wait for the first card to drop
2) After the first card drops, launch a Valve game without card drops (I tested with CS:S) using the same account
3) After 10 minutes, from what you're saying, it sounds like another card should drop (in my testing, it did not)
4) Close CS:S, wait another 10 minutes
5) After another 10 minutes, launch CS:S again

Using this method, the card drops for the game that Idle Master chose still took around 30-45 minutes each to drop. In your own testing it also sounds like this is something that doesn't always work 100% of the time, at least when using a non-Valve game.

I'll try a few other combinations of things to see if I can get it to work, but I don't see this being added as a feature until it can be done reliably 100% of the time.

Have you tried downloading the portable version of Idle Master? It can simply be copied to any folder on your PC and run from there. It's usually the first thing I recommend to people who are having difficulty with the installer.

http://www.steamidlemaster.com/portable.zip

Additionally you can check out the Linux version of Idle Master which is written in Python and is available here:

https://github.com/jshackles/idle_master_py/tree/master/Releases/Linux

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