[QUOTE=soulquarian;35600701]Hey guys, a rather what would seem simple question, I got everything working no worries...I got 8 accounts, using sandboxie and tf2idle, one question: I can only get 4 premium accounts though, 2 on my credit card and 2 with my paypal, how do I get more with my current payment methods?
[editline]17th April 2012[/editline]
I think I found an answer if you live in australia...the prepaid credit card! omg - amazing! =)
[url]https://www.everydaymoney.com.au/edm/wps/portal/money/!ut/p/b1/04_SjzQyMbMwN7cwt9SP0I_KSyzLTE8syczPS8wB8aPM4t0NzZ1MXExNDNydAp0NPH1cfZxMQnwMDMxM9YNT8_RzoxwVASXt3-U!/[/url][/QUOTE]
I had to use debit gift cards for additional accounts. Seems you found a similar solution.
Actually, I just got an account through ClickAndBuy, I put my credit card through that, so thats 2 accounts with credit card directly, 2 with paypal and now 2 with clickandbuy, im gonna try all steam payment options =p
Anyone know why my sandboxed TF2 stops responding after maxplayers is set to 24? The launch options aren't the issue since my unsandboxed main account TF2 works just fine with it.
Can someone please help me with what I explained above? I've spent countless hours over several days trying to get this to work.
Can you post some screenshots of the Settings page of TF2Idle and also a screenshot of one of the account settings. Also post a screenshot of your directory structure including your symbolic links.
This is what i have:
[B]D:\Sandboxie\Steam\[/B]
Underneath this directory i have a folders for each idle account named 'acount1', 'account2', etc.
On the same level i have steam.exe with the files created by steam upon install.
And also on this same level i have a copy of my steamapps folder.
[B]If i go to D:\Sandboxie\Steam\Account1\[/B]
I have here also a steam.exe with accompanying files, a symbolic link Steamapps folder which links to the Steamapps copied folder one level up.
[B]
If i go to D:\Sandboxie\Steam\Steamapps\[/B]
In here have the folders for each account which are automatically created by steam based on which steam useraccount you loing with. If your ilde account 1 username is japanimater1 you will see a folder with that name here and so on for each idle account.
[B]If i go to D:\Sandboxie\Steam\Steamapps\%userfolder%[/B]
I will see a 'team fortress 2' folder. And underneath that are the gamefiles.
A diskspace saving tip which was not mentioned in the tutorial is to make make a copy of this 'team fortress 2' folder and place it on the same level as your copied 'steamapps' folder and make a symbolic link for each 'team fortress 2' folder to that one source folder. The folder will be about 800MB of size so if you use 10 idle accounts it will be about 8GB and if you use the symbolic link it will be just 800MB.
This setup works perfectly for me. Also i have to say my normal TF2 installation is in [B]D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\[/B]
[QUOTE=Eraserhead23;35629136]Can you post some screenshots of the Settings page of TF2Idle and also a screenshot of one of the account settings. Also post a screenshot of your directory structure including your symbolic links.
This is what i have:
[B]D:\Sandboxie\Steam\[/B]
Underneath this directory i have a folders for each idle account named 'acount1', 'account2', etc.
On the same level i have steam.exe with the files created by steam upon install.
And also on this same level i have a copy of my steamapps folder.
[B]If i go to D:\Sandboxie\Steam\Account1\[/B]
I have here also a steam.exe with accompanying files, a symbolic link Steamapps folder which links to the Steamapps copied folder one level up.
[B]
If i go to D:\Sandboxie\Steam\Steamapps\[/B]
In here have the folders for each account which are automatically created by steam based on which steam useraccount you loing with. If your ilde account 1 username is japanimater1 you will see a folder with that name here and so on for each idle account.
[B]If i go to D:\Sandboxie\Steam\Steamapps\%userfolder%[/B]
I will see a 'team fortress 2' folder. And underneath that are the gamefiles.
A diskspace saving tip which was not mentioned in the tutorial is to make make a copy of this 'team fortress 2' folder and place it on the same level as your copied 'steamapps' folder and make a symbolic link for each 'team fortress 2' folder to that one source folder. The folder will be about 800MB of size so if you use 10 idle accounts it will be about 8GB and if you use the symbolic link it will be just 800MB.
This setup works perfectly for me. Also i have to say my normal TF2 installation is in [B]D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\[/B][/QUOTE]
I think I figured out what I did wrong. When I was taking the screenshots I checked on the symbolic link and clicked it. Rather than the file directory reflecting the complete directory as if I had just navigated to the original steamapps folder such as C:\program files(x86)\steam\steamapps, upon clicking the symbolic link the directory looked like this. C:\Users\"My Name"\Desktop\SandBoxIdle(Folder I made that holds duplicate Steam files for each idle account folder)\"Account Name"\steamapps. The folder it took me to had the gcf files and such, but the directory wasn't named as it should've been.
So I think I just have to figure out how to make a symbolic link that goes to the Steamapps folder without deleting the original and is named correctly. I know it says how to in the tutorial, but I can be dense at times and I think there is just something i'm not seeing that I should.
Additionally: How I made the symbolic link is upon entering the command prompt under administrator I navigated to my first idle folder( cd C:\users\"My Name"\desktop\SandboxieIdle\"Account Name") then while in the directory I typed in "mklink /D steamapps "C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps". I didn't move around or alter the original steamapps folder in any way.
Additionally2: After watching a tutorial video I figured I would try it that way too( [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIVNLPz3wfI[/url] ). Following his example I did mklink /d "C:\users\"My Name"\desktop\SandboxieIdle\"Account Name"\steamapps" "C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps". Note that in the cmd I only put one set of quotations around each directory as what was highlighted in the video. Even doing it this way still came up with a symbolic link that took me to what looked like the right place put still had the wrong directory name.
Why is your steamapps folder underneath your accountname folder?
[QUOTE=japanimater;35630133]I think I figured out what I did wrong. When I was taking the screenshots I checked on the symbolic link and clicked it. Rather than the file directory reflecting the complete directory as if I had just navigated to the original steamapps folder such as C:\program files(x86)\steam\steamapps, upon clicking the symbolic link the directory looked like this. C:\Users\"My Name"\Desktop\SandBoxIdle(Folder I made that holds duplicate Steam files for each idle account folder)\"Account Name"\steamapps. The folder it took me to had the gcf files and such, but the directory wasn't named as it should've been.
So I think I just have to figure out how to make a symbolic link that goes to the Steamapps folder without deleting the original and is named correctly. I know it says how to in the tutorial, but I can be dense at times and I think there is just something i'm not seeing that I should.
Additionally: How I made the symbolic link is upon entering the command prompt under administrator I navigated to my first idle folder( cd C:\users\"My Name"\desktop\SandboxieIdle\"Account Name") then while in the directory I typed in "mklink /D steamapps "C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps". I didn't move around or alter the original steamapps folder in any way.
Additionally2: After watching a tutorial video I figured I would try it that way too( [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIVNLPz3wfI[/url] ). Following his example I did mklink /d "C:\users\"My Name"\desktop\SandboxieIdle\"Account Name"\steamapps" "C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps". Note that in the cmd I only put one set of quotations around each directory as what was highlighted in the video. Even doing it this way still came up with a symbolic link that took me to what looked like the right place put still had the wrong directory name.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Eraserhead23;35643812]Why is your steamapps folder underneath your accountname folder?[/QUOTE]
That's the way it did it, I don't know. Upon entering this line into the cmd( mklink /d "C:\users\"My Name"\desktop\SandboxieIdle\"Account Name"\steamapps" "C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps" ) it puts a symbolic link into my idle account folder where it should go, the link also takes me to where it should go, but the directory name is incorrect, instead of (C:\Users\"My Name"\Desktop\SandBoxIdle\"Account Name"\steamapps) it should be (C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps).
Following the instructions in that idle thread brought about the same results.
"Or if you didn't move steamapps:
cd C:\Idle\Steam1
mklink /D steamapps "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps""
What I did the prior on was Windows Vista, but when I tried this on a different pc that uses Win7 it still does the same thing.
I wrote something and it got deleted, was bout bugs, meh - not writing it again, lol =)
Hi,
Just wanted to say first, thankyou for the program, it's awesome.
I migrated from MAID to this, mainly because of the delay timer, as I'm running on a crappy old box for the purposes of idling.
When using MAID, I was getting the usual 8-12 drops per week, on 8 accounts. I've just idled last night and two of my accounts had nothing, 4 had only two items and the other two had normal drops. They are all showing 'accountname connected' when starting.
Do you know what might be going wrong? I'm using the default launch options. Unfortunately, I forgot to dump the console, but I'm going to try run again tonight, so I can do a screendump tomorrow.
antikarma, I think the drop system had problems with the timer or something this weekend. I don't this manager but I had only 1-2 drops per account also.
Yes same here, zero drops last night.
Also i had another account that had 16 drops the day before that!
Thanks guys. Ye, I thought something was strange. I've been running TF2Idle for 3 idle sessions now, the first was fine, the second two (last week and this week) have been naff.
I was worrying myself as to why I wasn't getting many drops, "is it cause afew of mine accounts are free to play" I hope that thats the reason,
Also, mousekateer the bug I have is the groups, they are buggy and don't show on my laptop - cause when you have like 15 or 20 groups the list malfunctions, try it out,
Also can you put a number scheme on the side so we know what group is what please, I made an example:
[IMG]http://risingstormhq.com/tf2idle-groups.jpg[/IMG]
I covered my names up, you can just see the numbers, have a button on the side with the group number or name (whatever you can fit in), when you click the button the whole group is selected.
As heavy says "Put group numbers here!"
[QUOTE=soulquarian;35690994]I was worrying myself as to why I wasn't getting many drops, "is it cause afew of mine accounts are free to play" I hope that thats the reason,
Also, mousekateer the bug I have is the groups, they are buggy and don't show on my laptop - cause when you have like 15 or 20 groups the list malfunctions, try it out,
Also can you put a number scheme on the side so we know what group is what please, I made an example:
I covered my names up, you can just see the numbers, have a button on the side with the group number or name (whatever you can fit in), when you click the button the whole group is selected.
As heavy says "Put group numbers here!"[/QUOTE]
The issue with drops is widespread and has nothing to do with TF2Idle, as noted by other users in this thread and on the Steam forums.
As for the bug you mention, could you show a screenshot of what your buggy groups list looks like? I'd rather not have a list of groups present in the main view as that would take up much needed space.
I never said it was cause of tf2idle, your program doesn't connect to tf2 in any way, it just executes scripts to make everyones life easier =)
Here is the screeny, the list is to big and when I try to drag the list up to click the okay button it snaps back down and I can't use it, this is only on my laptop not on desktop,
[IMG]http://risingstormhq.com/tf2idle-group2big.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=soulquarian;35691360]I never said it was cause of tf2idle, your program doesn't connect to tf2 in any way, it just executes scripts to make everyones life easier =)
Here is the screeny, the list is to big and when I try to drag the list up to click the okay button it snaps back down and I can't use it, this is only on my laptop not on desktop,
[/QUOTE]
I see. I'll think of something and include it in a bunch of fixes that I'll push all together in the near future when I have the time to work on this.
Also another weird thing happened, I create like 50+ accounts on my desktop tf2idle, then I put it on a pen drive to move it to my laptop and when I copied it across the "Sandbox paths" had all been reset to "Multiple values" then I looked on my desktop and they was also reset, so I had to enter them all again..I now keep up a backup of the tf2idle.ini file, I think most people should back it up if they have alot of accounts.
50 accounts? holy crap....
Who has the most accounts i wonder?
I also wonder if you guys use the same e-mail address to register all those accounts and if you use different names or not. I still can't imagine Valve will continue to allow this. On the other hand you do pay for each account to upgrade them to premium so it is profit for them....
[QUOTE=Eraserhead23;35729265]50 accounts? holy crap....
Who has the most accounts i wonder?
I also wonder if you guys use the same e-mail address to register all those accounts and if you use different names or not. I still can't imagine Valve will continue to allow this. On the other hand you do pay for each account to upgrade them to premium so it is profit for them....[/QUOTE]
nooch has 300 I think
[editline]27th April 2012[/editline]
[url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/noochland[/url]
I have 70 accounts, but only like 10 are premium, one of my free accounts got a crate 40 last night, so I will have to upgrade that one now =)
I think im gonna stop at 40 premium accounts, yeah - thats my limit.
Just a quick bug. When you select multiple accounts to update, it seems to overwrite the Sandbox path. ie. I go in to assign multiple accounts to one group, so I only update the Group field, but it also overwrites the Sandboxie Path field.
[QUOTE=soulquarian;35733560]I have 70 accounts, but only like 10 are premium, one of my free accounts got a crate 40 last night, so I will have to upgrade that one now =)
I think im gonna stop at 40 premium accounts, yeah - thats my limit.[/QUOTE]
F2P accounts wont drop any hats at all. Thats alot of metal.
[QUOTE]F2P accounts wont drop any hats at all. Thats alot of metal.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, im aware of that, if you get roughly 10 drops per week then 2 accounts is 1 refined per week, so 40 accounts is roughly 20 refined per week, is an alright ammount, could do with more to be honest.
How will you get those refined without upgrading them to premium?
[QUOTE]How will you get those refined without upgrading them to premium? [/QUOTE]
You can't trade with F2P accounts, only way is to upgrade to premium.
[QUOTE=Eraserhead23;35729265]50 accounts? holy crap....
Who has the most accounts i wonder?
I also wonder if you guys use the same e-mail address to register all those accounts and if you use different names or not. I still can't imagine Valve will continue to allow this. On the other hand you do pay for each account to upgrade them to premium so it is profit for them....[/QUOTE]
Ive got 335, I know another guy who has about 700 and is expanding to almost 1000 soon XD
[editline]29th April 2012[/editline]
FYI this program is SO much better than MAID, wheres that donate button...
[QUOTE=xago;35756174]Ive got 335, I know another guy who has about 700 and is expanding to almost 1000 soon XD
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Holy [I][B]Fuck.[/B][/I]
[QUOTE=xago;35756174]Ive got 335, I know another guy who has about 700 and is expanding to almost 1000 soon XD[/QUOTE]
links to main profile for proof, please.
[QUOTE=AlfieGroove;35761155]links to main profile for proof, please.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather not show them off
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