Advanced Mann-Conomy: How to idle with multiple accounts - Games

I started using textmode, and about 3 minutes in it said, [IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/28bzjme.jpg[/IMG] Should I dismiss it or do I have to do something about it?

If it says that give it a minute, and if it says something along the lines of "Fetched new item schema" or similar, it's working. If it stays like that, you have to restart.

[QUOTE=Supacasey;30869382][IMG]http://gyazo.com/43d417f9a776276b8cd84b743ce443ac.png[/IMG] :dance:[/QUOTE] Are you running all accounts from the same Steam folder?

[QUOTE=Sid51;30883706]oh, that was obvious, sorry about that eheh i was able to run 2 instances of tf2 with the same installation folder, there is any problem on doing that?[/QUOTE] If you don't get errors it's fine.

Welp, looks like I've hit the item cap for my alt then.

Any way around this error it gives me when I try to use my Paypal on two different accounts consecutively? "Your purchase has not been completed. The payment processor has reported an authorization failure. Please select a different payment method." I was able to get two keys on two accounts, one with my Paypal the other with my card directly. But now if I try again with either on the next account trying to pay with Paypal gives me the error above and with my card directly it gives me another error. Do I have to wait a while or something? [editline]4th July 2011[/editline] Hopefully it isn't long before I can do the next two, I've still got 8 more accounts to go :downs:

[QUOTE=Supacasey;30903838]Any way around this error it gives me when I try to use my Paypal on two different accounts consecutively? "Your purchase has not been completed. The payment processor has reported an authorization failure. Please select a different payment method." I was able to get two keys on two accounts, one with my Paypal the other with my card directly. But now if I try again with either on the next account trying to pay with Paypal gives me the error above and with my card directly it gives me another error. Do I have to wait a while or something? [editline]4th July 2011[/editline] Hopefully it isn't long before I can do the next two, I've still got 8 more accounts to go :downs:[/QUOTE] Try restarting your Steam or router or log on to every account unsandboxed and pay consecutively. If that doesn't work it's an issue on PayPal's side.

I had to wait a day before I could get any money into my alt's wallet (tried three methods and they all didn't work) so yeah, ya might have to wait.

I'm trying to do this, but when I launch TF2 from my main I get an error message that TF2 is unavailable, even though the sandboxed tf2 works fine. Anyone got an idea of what to do? [editline]4th July 2011[/editline] nvm I got it working. For those who might have the same problem, simply start up tf2 in your main BEFORE starting the sandbox. Once tf2 is loaded up, then start the sandboxed steam and connect.

It seems you can use the same paypal, creditcard or whatever else in 2 different accounts now. It'll deny in a third account. Not related to your cc/paypal limits or information. It may be a security implementation, but we can't gift a premium account of TF2 now. Robin said in a email they would be working on a solution for this.

Well Paypal sure fucked me over, made a new unverified account to put some cash in so my normal Paypal account wouldn't charge my card for every transaction (Was the reason for my problem above), and now that isn't working because it thinks that I've hit the $2,000 unverified account limit after spending $10. Thanks, Paypal!

[QUOTE=Supacasey;30909618]Well Paypal sure fucked me over, made a new unverified account to put some cash in so my normal Paypal account wouldn't charge my card for every transaction (Was the reason for my problem above), and now that isn't working because it thinks that I've hit the $2,000 unverified account limit after spending $10. Thanks, Paypal![/QUOTE] It's not that. It seems Steam knows your paypal ID when you purchase something and won't let you purchase on more than 2 accounts with the same ID. Same with credit card numbers. And you didn't answer my question and that was very impolite. =\

[QUOTE=gambler;30923789]It's not that. It seems Steam knows your paypal ID when you purchase something and won't let you purchase on more than 2 accounts with the same ID. Same with credit card numbers. And you didn't answer my question and that was very impolite. =\[/QUOTE] he voted disagree

Oh, my fault. I didn't see that.

[QUOTE=Digivee;30800233]When i load up my tf2 in the sandboxie'd version of steam, half the time it "Verifies" my files and says the servers are too busy. I cant copy my steam folder over so i am stumped.[/QUOTE] No one?

[QUOTE=Digivee;30939098]No one?[/QUOTE] Are you using the sandboxie version on a separated installation? Try renaming the clientregistry.blob from the Steam folder and restart it.

Can I use this to trade with my alt using while running two instances of tf2 using alt-tab? It's a real pain in the ass to fire up my brother's computer every time I want to trade. Edit: Yes. I can. Fuck year.

[QUOTE=GoldenGnome;30957125]Can I use this to trade with my alt using while running two instances of tf2 using alt-tab? It's a real pain in the ass to fire up my brother's computer every time I want to trade.[/QUOTE] Yes you can alt-tab your way through trading. And if you do have issues running alts through the same folder you might have to try booting up the accounts in a different order or copy-paste yourself a new steam directory.

[QUOTE=jechtman;30957608]Yes you can alt-tab your way through trading. And if you do have issues running alts through the same folder you might have to try booting up the accounts in a different order or copy-paste yourself a new steam directory.[/QUOTE] Yea, I booted my main first and then the sandbox'd alt and it worked like a charm. This is fucking awesome. I can trade with myself. It's like pokemon, only I don't have to catch rattata to trade back and forth.

Makes me wish I had a job at Best Buy so I could steal all the 100$ recycle computer trade ins, connect em to a bunch of old CRT monitors, and just have a 24/7 bank of idling machines.

I keep getting this. [IMG]http://i51.tinypic.com/t7z8qp.png[/IMG] Help? Edit: Eh, I just created 4 sandboxes and ran steam.exe from my normal steam installation folder and launched tf2 in text mode, eventhing seems to be working out alright. [quote] [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24657578/df gdfg dfg.png[/img] [/quote]

aight! got my 2 accounts on, thanks! :)

made second account, used my virtual visa to buy key and lab coat paint. using alt account painted my tylorean and unboxed strange sticky launcher, traded them back to my main, nothing dropped yet, gotta use that account to store crates, besides idling of course.

whats the cheapest thing to buy in store to get premium?

[QUOTE=obiwanek;31058382]whats the cheapest thing to buy in store to get premium?[/QUOTE] You have to pay a MINIMUM of 5 dollars (the lowest amount you can put in the Steam Wallet), so your best bet is to just buy two keys. [editline]11th July 2011[/editline] Also, [I]I still can't fucking buy premium on two of my accounts.[/I] I have so many items sitting in them that I can't trade because of Steam's stupid Paypal ID lock thing. Fuck, does it [I]really [/I]have to be that hard? Seriously. [editline]11th July 2011[/editline] At least they have a way to gift premium tf2 planned.

I've run into a problem that requires me to break my own automerge: The game ALWAYS tries to download an update when there is one and I have to wait for Steam to finish Validating itself before the game actually launches and I have to do this for every account and it takes forever and it is a pain in the ass and there [I]HAS[/I] to be a way around this shit. The thing is, it SHOULD automatically update the game, but it doesn't. Upon trying to launch the game it tells me that it has to validate the files BUT AS ALWAYS it just freezes at 100% and doesn't do anything else.

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just adding one thing that i found very useful, you can put on the .bat command line "+sv_password xxxx" this add a password and stop random people getting on your idle server

Slightly alternative method, instead of copying the whole Steam folder and TF2 stuff. [release] This method involves creating symbolic links instead of copying the steamapps folder. Basically, you can share a single steamapps folder between all your Steam copies, thus saving you HD space and updating TF2 multiple times. [h2]Requirements[/h2] -Windows Vista or 7 -Ability to follow instructions [h2]How-to[/h2] [b]Step 1.[/b] Decide your main steamapps folder. Generally it should be the one with most games. [b]Step 2.[/b] If you want, you can move the steamapps folder somewhere else and rename it (mine is D:\Games\Steam for example) [b]Step 3.[/b] Remove all the other steamapps folders. [b]Step 4.[/b] Open cmd.exe as an administrator [b]Step 5.[/b] Navigate into each Steam folder without steamapps and run the following: [code]mklink /D steamapps <main steamapps path>[/code] For example: [code]cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam mklink /D steamapps "D:\Games\Steam"[/code] Or if you didn't move steamapps: [code]cd C:\Idle\Steam1 mklink /D steamapps "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps"[/code] [b]Step 6.[/b] A shortcut should appear, named steamapps. Double-clicking it should show you the contents of the main steamapps folder. [b]Step 7.[/b] You're done! Now you can run all the idle accounts while only maintaining a single steamapps folder [/release]

[QUOTE=raBBish;31223603]Slightly alternative method, instead of copying the whole Steam folder and TF2 stuff. [release] This method involves creating symbolic links instead of copying the steamapps folder. Basically, you can share a single steamapps folder between all your Steam copies, thus saving you HD space and updating TF2 multiple times. [h2]Requirements[/h2] -Windows Vista or 7 -Ability to follow instructions [h2]How-to[/h2] [b]Step 1.[/b] Decide your main steamapps folder. Generally it should be the one with most games. [b]Step 2.[/b] If you want, you can move the steamapps folder somewhere else and rename it (mine is D:\Games\Steam for example) [b]Step 3.[/b] Remove all the other steamapps folders. [b]Step 4.[/b] Open cmd.exe as an administrator [b]Step 5.[/b] Navigate into each Steam folder without steamapps and run the following: [code]mklink /D steamapps <main steamapps path>[/code] For example: [code]cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam mklink /D steamapps "D:\Games\Steam"[/code] Or if you didn't move steamapps: [code]cd C:\Idle\Steam1 mklink /D steamapps "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps"[/code] [b]Step 6.[/b] A shortcut should appear, named steamapps. Double-clicking it should show you the contents of the main steamapps folder. [b]Step 7.[/b] You're done! Now you can run all the idle accounts while only maintaining a single steamapps folder [/release][/QUOTE] Nice one. Added this to the guide and thanks a lot. This saved me about 115GB and all instances of TF2 now load faster. I'm experimenting with other folders than steamapps right now.