Tf2 what is idling

Now onto the Idling info: Basic Idling: To start off, use the server browser search feature to find an idle server, and join it. Then minimize your TF2 window and do whatever you want to do for a period of time, when you come back you should have some new items in your backpack.

Tip: If your on a server with an instant respawn feature, you may not get your items right away. If no new item notifications show up, leave the server.

You will most likely get the notification! Advanced Idling: While joining servers and minimizing works well, this method will still use some of your RAM and CPU power, so here I will discuss how you can idle without as much energy consumption. First things first, go to your library:. Pretty sure it's been upped to 3 weeks, aka 30 hours. Because Wednesday is when the week "resets". Wait what? Thursday is when the drop limit resets, no? I got 48 in 4 days. I have seen people idle in TF2 for 5 days.

I don't really thing its forbidden to idle. Just play the game. Please don't tell me on what to spend my money! You make a valid point, sir. Not to mention that people do other things while idling that theyd do if they were not idling. Thanks for the answers! I think it stacks if you missed drops from last week. But it only stacks once. Oh it must have been the Orange box! I never spend money on in-game stuff. U can idle 25 hours in day. Once i've idled 30 in one day!! How, when day have 27h and 19m?

I'm a time traveler. I didn't see that class in game. Available only for Platinum users. Here on earth we only have a 24hour cycle. I didn't know people from earth had access to Steam. Must be a new thing there. You can still play other games or whatever you want while idling. TF2 economy. You can do quite a profit from it. Started idling last Dec So anyone saying idling is useless means they don't know what they are saying. Since drop is limited it's totally safe to idle as much as you want.

Neither do hats they have a special timer. How's that achievable? I didn't knew there's something like this. Just play TFC :p. It was long time ago, we need next hat for non idlers. I'm idling because i cant play on my PC. Maybe special hat for idlers? Maybe because the game sucks. Play the game or delete it! Sounds like a good way to steal monies from hat freaks.

Beyond that, anything goes. Balance and lines of sight are no concern. Instead the designers fill the space with ingenious traps and strange assault courses designed to make achievement farming easier.

One of my guilty pleasures is to server hop through all non-standard maps and peek into what people have made. I just alphabetise the server browser and pick the maps that don't come with the recognisable TF2 suffixes. The fickle nature of TF2 hosting means these servers aren't always running, but if you're scouring the server browser for an interesting experience, then here are a few to look out for. This is the granddaddy of idle servers, and the most basic setup.

It consists of three rooms: two spawn rooms facing into a central, uncappable point. The spawn points are kill rooms, with the player's health dropping as soon as they land on the server, and the only place both teams can meet is the centre room, with the smallest loop of a corridor protecting the players from a line-of-sight death. It's basically like sharing a bedroom with a little brother.

Everyone is crammed together, giving each other the stink-eye through the spawn room windows. Petty little fights will eventually break out, with each person flipping between multiple classes to attempt to get the upper hand. The perfect space to hone your Heavy boxing skills.

On the Red team, it's business as usual: you spawn in a room and you die, or you can have a fun little battle in the central space. But if you only spawn on the Red side you'll miss out on the hat party on the other end of the map. The Blu team spawns on a conveyor belt in a forced conga line beneath a glowing sign that points you to "Free Hats". Never trust a glowing sign.

As in life, they always end up in disappointment and murder. The conveyor belt tips the players into a fiery pit before launching their corpses into the air like a diseased cow. Awesomebox8 makes a few additions to the stock idle server.

Instead of dying in situ, the players are funnelled off onto a conveyor belt.