Oh cool, they post the winners? Neat!
On a different note…the moment Stardew Valley planet appeared, that planet was conquered. 
people really want that game! I just wish I had gotten the chance to farm a bit out of the Hard tiles. I need one more level to reach lvl 9! 
Guess so!
There is Planet of Spikes right now that I am trying to farm a little bit, trying to get to level 9 myself, that’s my goal for this game this sale…
Right after I wrote that, I went to look, there are only 2 hard tiles left… they are disappearing so quickly…
It’s 100 keys per game.
@Rhyagelle, the Planet of Alternate History just opened up, so you can go farm your hard tiles now…
Hehe… Putting Chrono on the map! I know this won’t last, but I am having fun throwing some time just to have the Chrono group there for a while. 
Good work man! 
Woooooow these are some slim chances!
It doesn’t make any difference to me that a bot might win anything. The odds are infinitely small anyway and given it’s down to time idled on a planet the bots have no advantage than a normal user other than number.
Without bots, the odds would be slightly better for human players, because there would be fewer accounts spending time on the planets.
It’s also just a waste of games, since most of the botters just want the cards, not the games.
But that’s merely numeric. Yes, that a large value, but they have no intrinsic advantage over someone who just has many, many Steam accounts. I’m actually ok with that.
If on the other hand the Salien level or XP counted towards anything then there’d be reason to be miffed.
Can you imagine Valve specifically designing a sale event to benefit the bots, not the players… ugh…!
Bots entering giveaways to get games to sell mostly cards that go for 1 cent or 3 cents is insanity and yet they do it! xD
If those bots get u 100,000 cards I think that pretty much makes it more than worth it…
Unless they’re winning multiple games on this event, which is impossible, no. I was specifically talking about this event, not the bot’s existence entirely.
what do u mean no, the bots get u steam cards no? some farmers have thousands of bots, which each get 6 cards/day for 2 weeks; that’s 84 cards/bot, so if some russian farmer has 3000 bots, he gets 252000 cards, which gets him an ez $7500, which definitely makes it more than worth it
@Gnuffi u mentioned something last time about a game that went free to play for a bit and where the cards dropped though they shouldn’t have, and that mentioned some crazy numbers and i think those were Russian farmers precisely who were involved in that shit, no?
i think it was prismata
it went from less than a thousand players i think, to over 120k, in like a day or so
-and it was mentioned somewhere, that there was some knowledge or something, the vast majority of it being bots, farms traced to russia i believe
you’re right on the money about it being potential big business, including the steam sale/event cards for them too, otherwise the bot farms wouldn’t bother
what’s .0.03$ for “us”, is a lot more for “them” depending on their currency
hell i’m racking in 12cards a day in a matter of seconds, imagine what someone with just a small bot network can earn and actually make profitable
to put it into perspective, Valve has just released a figure saying 13.5 million new “first time purchasers” have been made/created since january -fair bet to assume a vast number of that is bots farms just registering the minimum 5$ entry for cards+trade eligibility, -given the otherwise ludicrous explosion in regular userbase it would have been
but also don’t forget, a ton of the bots during this particular sale is just people auto lvling up the “participation badge” too, trying for rank6 
-since wasting a script running 24/7, even with the minimal resources it takes, when it’s only needed for 10secs for the cards, seems foolish how that “energy” could be spent elsewhere ? 
PS, Valve are banning some of the bots from the giveaway entries/from getting the actual games themselves if won btw
I mean “no, they can’t get more than a handful of cards, like 3-4,” from a given game and since it is impossible they’d win more than once on one account, or even if they own multiple accounts, so they can’t (from this event) get “100,000” of cards…unless ALL of the bots are owned by one person or company or something.
This might be a stupid question, but how can anyone afford to have a farm of bots with accounts which aren’t limited? To access trading and the market place there needs to be a $5 investment…
dude, u can get 6 cards per account just by entering the game 3x and checking yr discovery queue; some of these farmers own thousands of accounts run by bots, hence they can make thousands of dollars from this event alone…
the money is not in winning 1 of these random games; they don’t give a shit about that, the money is in the Steam sales event cards themselves
