After the recent class update, I've been trying to increase my play time from 2 to 3 hours per week to 2 to 3 per night in order to receive additional weapon drops. Yet this doesn't seem to be enough to find the weapons that I'm after. My question is:
- What are the latest methods for idling in Team Fortress 2?
- Does Valve still actively punish idlers, and if so, how do I avoid this?
Best Answer
You will not be punished for joining a server running "achievement_idle" and leaving your computer on.
However, the marginal gain idling provides means that it's not a very effective way of getting items, especially if running your computer for that long means overheating.
Valve never "punished" idlers, only those who used the external program developed by Drunken_f00l to trick the steam servers into thinking they were in the game, connected to the server, when in fact, they were only connected to the server, outside the game.
For what it's worth, I believe Valve stated that ~1 hour a night was enough to get all your weekly drops.