Advanced Mann-Conomy: How to idle with multiple accounts

[Errorproxy]

I think this is why I'm getting nothing:

tf_server_identity_account_id not set; not logging into registered account

Is it.. what's up..

[Errorproxy]

and.. matchmaking is necessary for drops, right?

Why aren't we getting drops then..

[AlfieGroove]

I get that message all the time and get drops. Have done for months.

[Bound]

I've installed Sandboxie and ran it without any hitch multiple times, and idled on TF2, but after formatting I now get this bullshit
[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/bullshit6.png[/url]

[DeltaEcho]

[QUOTE=Bound;34268121]I've installed Sandboxie and ran it without any hitch multiple times, and idled on TF2, but after formatting I now get this bullshit
[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/bullshit6.png[/url][/QUOTE]
You are launching the from the same steam.exe...
I swear this has been mentioned 20 times now D:

[Bound]

[QUOTE=DeltaEcho;34268832]You are launching the from the same steam.exe...
I swear this has been mentioned 20 times now D:[/QUOTE]

If I launch it from c:\sandboxie\user\me\derp\steam\steam.exe (whatever) I get the same message.

[DeltaEcho]

[QUOTE=Bound;34268977]If I launch it from c:\sandboxie\user\me\derp\steam\steam.exe (whatever) I get the same message.[/QUOTE]
1. Take it out of the users folder. Put it in C:\ or something.
2. You haven't set the sandbox up properly.

[Errorproxy]

[QUOTE=Satane;34262221]i wouldn't know but i get that message sometimes and i still get drops.[/QUOTE]

Well dang. No drops on 7 different accounts. Something must be up with my set up then.

Anything happens overtime that will keep someone from getting drops?

[editline]18th January 2012[/editline]

Oh yeah, Blighted Beak drop: [url]http://urli.st/nav/qxJw#1[/url]

Those other 7.. aren't getting any drops..

[zackattack187]

[QUOTE=Errorproxy;34279190]Well dang. No drops on 7 different accounts. Something must be up with my set up then.

Anything happens overtime that will keep someone from getting drops?

[editline]18th January 2012[/editline]

Oh yeah, Blighted Beak drop: [url]http://urli.st/nav/qxJw#1[/url]

Those other 7.. aren't getting any drops..[/QUOTE] I have heard that there is a drop max out that gets reset like every three months or something. Just a rumor though but seeing what's happening to you (and has happened to me before) I am thinking there's some validity to this.

[one-two12]

Why in XP can not do a copy of the game, as in vista, and 7?

[Errorproxy]

[QUOTE=zackattack187;34290047]I have heard that there is a drop max out that gets reset like every three months or something. Just a rumor though but seeing what's happening to you (and has happened to me before) I am thinking there's some validity to this.[/QUOTE]

Maybe. Maybe.

[Influential.]

[QUOTE=zackattack187;34290047]I have heard that there is a drop max out that gets reset like every three months or something. Just a rumor though but seeing what's happening to you (and has happened to me before) I am thinking there's some validity to this.[/QUOTE]

i dont know about that, coz i new accounts from under a month old, and still getting no drops

[Influential.]

wow thats weird, my drops started working again :D, did nothing, just started getting drops again

[dmtdude]

Very strange, i haven't had any issues with no drops unless the account wasn't loading properly which could happen sometimes but generally just loading that account separate fixed it.

I'm having an issue only just started happening yesterday or the day before, usually I load 15 accounts at the same time to idle besides my main (need to keep that free in case I need to jump onto the server), but now sandboxie wont load 15 accounts, I can get 14 accounts to load and idle fine, but the 15th accoutn just stays at : Connecting steam account: xxxxxxx. Has anyone else had this issue or has mine just bugged out? Any help would be appreciated.

[Alistor]

I've been idling with a couple of accounts for awhile and I'm sure it's been mentioned before but it's not in the OP, is there a limit of how many Steam accounts you can have tied to an email or credit/debt card?
I thought I heard somewhere it was two for either, but I honestly can't remember where it was or how true it was.

Just don't want to raise any ire from Valve, you know?

[DeltaEcho]

[QUOTE=Alistor;34328371]I've been idling with a couple of accounts for awhile and I'm sure it's been mentioned before but it's not in the OP, is there a limit of how many Steam accounts you can have tied to an email or credit/debt card?
I thought I heard somewhere it was two for either, but I honestly can't remember where it was or how true it was.

Just don't want to raise any ire from Valve, you know?[/QUOTE]

People have reported being able to use a credit card twice.

And only 1 steam account to an email. It's as simple of going to hotmail.com and making accounts. Once you reached the limit swap browsers.

[loolpaso]

What's wrong with this shi~?
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/822/scrncmd.jpg/][IMG]http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3040/scrncmd.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Still can't get items from last 4 days.

[The Decoy]

regarding the 1 payment method to 2 accounts, I heard that it resets after a period of time (one month), would this be true (both "does it reset" and the one month part)

[dmtdude]

[QUOTE=Alistor;34328371]I've been idling with a couple of accounts for awhile and I'm sure it's been mentioned before but it's not in the OP, is there a limit of how many Steam accounts you can have tied to an email or credit/debt card?
I thought I heard somewhere it was two for either, but I honestly can't remember where it was or how true it was.

Just don't want to raise any ire from Valve, you know?[/QUOTE]

2 accounts per payment method (click and buy/CC/paypal) is what I've had, also there is no limit for accounts per email address, at least from my experience (I have heaps of idle accounts linked to one email address).

[crashlapine]

Finally figured out how to make this work without too many problems, but quick/stupid question
Do i need to be signed into friends to receive item drops? I heard people complaining about that on some server and not sure if that is a thing that actually happens

Oh and it seems random people tend to join about 10 minutes after starting up because itemtest is popular or something?
[url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14573214/youhurthispride.png]It isn't actually all that bad to notice happen[/url]

[AlfieGroove]

[QUOTE=cebceb44;34347361]Finally figured out how to make this work without too many problems, but quick/stupid question
Do i need to be signed into friends to receive item drops? I heard people complaining about that on some server and not sure if that is a thing that actually happens

Oh and it seems random people tend to join about 10 minutes after starting up because itemtest is popular or something?
[url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14573214/youhurthispride.png]It isn't actually all that bad to notice happen[/url][/QUOTE]
add +sv_lan 1 to the launch bat

[Errorproxy]

[QUOTE=dmtdude;34347053]2 accounts per payment method (click and buy/CC/paypal) is what I've had, also there is no limit for accounts per email address, at least from my experience (I have heaps of idle accounts linked to one email address).[/QUOTE]

What the heck. Maybe I just didn't try making multiple accounts with one email.

Credit Cards can be used multiple times though. Strange you guys can't.

[hotradish]

I'd definitely like to thank the OP. Followed directions and now have 20 accounts running at the same time.
Gonna see how many I can load up before I run out of ports to bind, and memory.

I can definitely see how one might write a script to run several at a time for about 10 hours and then start a new batch and just keep doing that throughout the week.:wink:

EDIT: Hmm...running more accounts at a time is more of a headache than I thought.
I've tried:
- Connecting to a dedicated server, but that only shaved about 10 MB off.
- Using the Idle.cfg configuration but that only shaved 20 MB off.
- Disabling almost every start-up service except the firewall and internet connection (and sandboxie of course). This freed up about an extra GB of RAM.

I can run about 22 Accounts now...well, safely, tried running 23 and my desktop started spazzing out.
On the plus side most of my accounts are averaging 9 to 10 drops :v:

[Lenzikus]

[QUOTE=Influential.;34304973]wow thats weird, my drops started working again :D, did nothing, just started getting drops again[/QUOTE]

You probably hit the drop limit.

[mans]

Hello everyone

thank you for the great post ! ;)

i try to figure out how my idle could join a team and a class, to be able to kill them for my strange weapons. The commands so far are jointeam <param> and join_class <param> but they dont work

my idea is that you cant join team and class while console mode, but i need a confirmation

plus i found something interesting for all of us : [url]http://www.jengerer.com/item_manager/[/url] this is a simple tool for crafting witch not require to launch tf2

[dmtdude]

[QUOTE=Errorproxy;34350794]What the heck. Maybe I just didn't try making multiple accounts with one email.

Credit Cards can be used multiple times though. Strange you guys can't.[/QUOTE]

When you choose the same email address you have already used it asks if you want to find your old account or if you want to create a new one, and just select to create a new one. And yea, my paymnent methods always cap at 2 accounts, then I get an error, do u have the option for generating CC numbers from your account maybe?

[QUOTE=hotradish;34354948]I'd definitely like to thank the OP. Followed directions and now have 20 accounts running at the same time.
Gonna see how many I can load up before I run out of ports to bind, and memory.

I can definitely see how one might write a script to run several at a time for about 10 hours and then start a new batch and just keep doing that throughout the week.:wink:

EDIT: Hmm...running more accounts at a time is more of a headache than I thought.
I've tried:
- Connecting to a dedicated server, but that only shaved about 10 MB off.
- Using the Idle.cfg configuration but that only shaved 20 MB off.
- Disabling almost every start-up service except the firewall and internet connection (and sandboxie of course). This freed up about an extra GB of RAM.

I can run about 22 Accounts now...well, safely, tried running 23 and my desktop started spazzing out.
On the plus side most of my accounts are averaging 9 to 10 drops :v:[/QUOTE]

How do you have 22 accounts running? I run out of UDP ports at 16, anything your doing that you can think of as to why you'd have more ports to access?

[zackattack187]

On all of my accounts, I now have a # sign in front of all the words on my friends list. Any thoughts on this?

[pollyzoid]

[QUOTE=zackattack187;34363202]On all of my accounts, I now have a # sign in front of all the words on my friends list. Any thoughts on this?[/QUOTE]

Try removing the relevant platform_<language>.txt in Steam/resources/. The # sign means it's a placeholder for a translation string from the language files.

[Gamemaster1379]

Okay, so I am able to idle on multiple accounts, but right now I really can't get past 3 without significant system slowdown. If I can, I want to minimize resources so I can do another account or two.

Right now, this is what my launch settings are for each instance.

cd "<dir>"

[quote]
Steam.exe -applaunch 440 -textmode -novid -nosound +sv_pure 0 +sv_lan 0 +map cp_junction_final +mp_timelimit 0 +sv_password XXXX +sv_pure_kick_clients 0 +sv_cheats 0 -maxplayers 2 -nopreload -noipx
[/quote]

Even with this, the instances will still eat up to as much as a half gig of RAM. Is there anything else I can add to this to reduce the overall instance size?

EDIT: Also, I don't use the same accounts on the same Sandboxies each week, so I'd rather that anything I use not be account dependent because the resource may not be there the following week.

[Errorproxy]

So the drop limit is every month now instead of weekly?