I am hoping to capitalize on obtaining as many trading cards as possible before they expire on July 4th. Is the gap between earning cards from the discovery queue based on a specific global reset time, or must a certain amount of time pass before I can earn cards again?
Steam Trading Cards – When Does the Discovery Queue Card Availability Reset?
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All games have:
- A max of 5 levels for the regular badge.
- A max of 1 level for the Foil badge.
A few examples:
Most Steam seasonal sales have:
- A theoretical max of ∞ levels for the regular badge.
- A theoretical max of ∞ level for the Foil badge.
All Steam seasonal sales so far with ∞ badge levels:
The Steam Winter Sale of 2013 was the first to set the precedent, in which for the first time both foil and regular badges were able to level up as many times possible during the event. This meant that users could easily complete badges and quickly level up their Steam accounts, without a "level cap" on the badge.
A few examples of users with high levels of badges:
From the Steam Winter Sale on out, most of the other Steam seasonal sales feature badges unlimited levels (exception is the Summer Getaway Sale), so theoretically, there's no limit to how many levels you can get with any of those badges.
Typically you get one drop about every 15, 30 or 60 minutes of "gameplay" depending on the game.
By gameplay, of course, I mean "have the game running", and by "have the game running" I mean "the border of your avatar changes from blue to green." For example, for Trine 2, idling in the launcher counts as gameplay.
Hot Trine 2 gameplay action
From personal experience, it appears that you can get a drop every ~15 minutes so long as you restart the game after every drop.
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I believe it's 10 AM Pacific time (note that at the moment, the Pacific time zone is observing Daylight Saving time). In the past, that's when the new sales begin.