I have a question about idling games that do not support trading cards. I mean that, when trading cards are added to a game, Steam gives trading cards of that game depending of the gameplay time. Since these games can't be seen on Badges page, before cards are added, IM does not idle the games without trading cards. Such an option can be beneficial, considering that initial values of cards are usually higher than long term values. A people who already idled/played a game before trading cards are added gets the cards without need of idling that game anymore. The reason why I am writing this is that there are some games which are likely to add trading cards but currently they have no trading cards. On the other hand, for IM, it should not be so difficult to idle for a few hours of such games. Unfortunately this must be done for a predefined amount of time such as 2.5 hours since there is no badge page to check for that game. All this procedure can be done after harvesting all cards available and for future investment.

Thanks for your effort. I hope it helped

引用自 MrL0G1C：

A test needs to be done to determine:
If you start a game that still has all card drops, and then stop it quickly to get the 1st card to drop, does the last drop happen sooner or does it still happen after 30min per card total.

So is it:
card1 at 1min card2 at 31min card 3 at 61min or

card1 at 1min card2 at 60min card3 at 90min or

card1 at 1min, card2 at 31min, card3 at 90min.

I think different games behave don't all drop the same, I don't know the determining factor.

Such a test might be good, and can be useful if the case is

引用自 MrL0G1C：

card1 at 1min card2 at 31min card 3 at 61min or

But I am still in doubt that this method is only for first card, If you are sure about it, I won't insist, but why not try again after some amount of time passes (couple of hours to 1 day).
When large amounts of games are in concern, even 1 day is not too much time.

I agree that the time between drops varies with game, but that should have no effect with this kind of procedure as long as run&exit method works for all card drops of a game (not only 1st one).

Or maybe, one just doesn't need to keep the PC open through a night and just get the cards by only running IM once a day

引用自 MrL0G1C：

Idling together brings no benefit, it's just there for people who have 2hour drop restriction because they got a steam store refund at some point.

Idling 5 games together simply takes 5 times as long for card to drop as when you idle 1 game.

The stop to drop method mostly only works on the 1st card of the set, if the game has been in the library for a long time then you might get lucky and get more quick drops.

Thanks for quick reply.

I am not sure if this works everytime but for even 1st card, this reduces the amount of time significantly. As far as I experienced, a single run through all games (just run the game and exit) results in card drop. I didn't closely look if it was their first card however. Nevertheless, this should not take much time for IM.

I just noticed one thing. If you idle for 2 hours and an wait amount of time (I don't exacly know how many hours) then you can get drops instanteneously if you run and exit a game (with card drops available) irrespective of the playtime. This makes idling much much faster. For now I can do it manually. But such a feature can be implemented to the program.

To be clearer, I will go on for an example:

Lets say you have 30 games to idle with 3 card drops each = Total 90 cards.



Current Method:

You idled all together = 2 hours

Lets say an average of 1.5 hours is required to get all drops for each game = Total 45 hours



My suggestion:

You idled all together = 2 hours

You runned and exited the games one by one = Get 30 (amount of games) cards instanteously. Note that IM can do this procedure very quickly.

Wait or idle a bit further to the next time when you get drops by only running and exiting the game (say it 12 hours, i really don't know exact time, but I think it should not be too difficult to figure out, I use this method once a day and it works), by the time you can idle for games which have more card drops available (with 5 drops available etc.) = 36 hours



Even for 30 games it is possible to save time and more importantly this method is independent of the number of the games to idle. Current method is still more effective if you have few games, but in this method, required time is the same for 50 games and 500 games. The only consideration is the number of cards each game provides.