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I've not seen a dedicated thread for this so I thought I would throw my hat in the ring and give this a go....
If you have info to add/change/delete please let me know and I will edit to reflect.
(if there is an established thread please let me know and I will have this removed/deleted)
Before we get to the trading card part we really need to cover 'Steam Levels'
Steam Levels
To see yours, when logged into the Steam client, move mouse over your Steam name and select profile.
Your level should be displayed top right.
You can now click on your level and it will take you to your 'Badges' page.
This will show you some more detail about your current Level and what is required to progress
Badges are things you earn in Steam - there are numerous ways to earn badges (covered later).
When you earn a Badge you get XP
When you get XP your level progresses until you Level up!
When you level up you get free stuff.
Minor levels seem to give 3 items - currently A Steam Summer Sale Trading card, a couple of sale specific Emoticons/Profile backgrounds
Major levels (every 5 afaik) give an additional Steam perk, so far extra friends list slots, and 'Featured' space on the profile page
So how do you get badges?
Badges
As mentioned there are many ways to earn Steam badges - you've have already got a few.
All badges give XP, some varying amounts (Sales ones in particular), many are multiple level so you can upgrade your badge and earn the additional XP, this is sometimes achievable by using cards.
When you 'level' a badge you get: A new Badge, and for game specific more emoticons and profile stuff and cards.
I will list the ones I know about here:
Power player Own 100+ games (Ranked?)
Steam Holiday Sale 2011 Participating in the sale (Varies)
Steam Summer Sale 2012 Participating in the sale (Varies)
Years of service Steam membership (Ranked)
Steam Holiday Sale 2012 Participating in the sale (Varies)
Community Steam tasks (Ranked)
Steam Summer Getaway Participating in the sale + cards (Ranked)
Game Specific Owning and playing (Ranked)
So these cards then....
Cards
At the moment cards seem to be generated in two ways:
By owning and playing supported Steam games
By leveling a badge or increasing your overall Steam level.
If you go to your Badges page you will see each badge that can be earned with cards.
Each Badge will require a certain number of cards to complete
You will get approx 50% of these cards by playing that game for approx 1-2hrs (it seems that this is a Steam client counter which checks to see if you are playing a card supported game every 20mins approx - you could be lucky and start a game and get a card almost immediately or you could have just missed a count and will have to wait until the next.)
There are a fixed amount of card drops per game - typically 4-5. It is possible that you could get all drops of the same card meaning you will have more cards to collect from booster drops.
When the Badge says there are no more card drops remaining as you continue to play the game you will get random booster packs for that game. These contain 3 cards. The more you play - the more you get. When you have the full set - you can now generate your new lvl2 badge and get whatever freebies Steam throws at you. It seems that each game badge has 5 levels 100-500XP.
In this process you will end up with lots of duplicates - lots!
And no doubt there will be a card that you just cant get.
NOTE ABOUT BOOSTER PACKS!!
TBC
NOTE ABOUT FOIL CARDS!!
If you are Steam level 10 or greater, any card drop has a small chance to contain a foil card. (Reports that prople are getting foil cards below lvl10 - I wonder if this is triggered by something other than Steam level)
The only differences:
They are rarer
They buy/sell for more
They create a foil collection Badge which in turn can be levelled. (more XP)
Welcome to the community marketplace!
Accesed either via the Community menu or via your inventory - this is basically where you can buy and sell your cards.
Trade!!!
Yes you can pretty much trade all this stuff.
Open chat with someone, click little arrow beside their name at the top...invite to trade. from there you can swap stuff with yer mates!
Desktop Wallpapers!!!! What was I thinking forgetting this!
If you click on any Badge on your badge page, you get a view of all the cards that made it - fullsize - desktop resolution. Some pretty cool artwork in there imho
.
If you have info to add/change/delete please let me know and I will edit to reflect.
(if there is an established thread please let me know and I will have this removed/deleted)
Before we get to the trading card part we really need to cover 'Steam Levels'
Steam Levels
To see yours, when logged into the Steam client, move mouse over your Steam name and select profile.
Your level should be displayed top right.
You can now click on your level and it will take you to your 'Badges' page.
This will show you some more detail about your current Level and what is required to progress
Badges are things you earn in Steam - there are numerous ways to earn badges (covered later).
When you earn a Badge you get XP
When you get XP your level progresses until you Level up!
When you level up you get free stuff.
Minor levels seem to give 3 items - currently A Steam Summer Sale Trading card, a couple of sale specific Emoticons/Profile backgrounds
Major levels (every 5 afaik) give an additional Steam perk, so far extra friends list slots, and 'Featured' space on the profile page
So how do you get badges?
Badges
As mentioned there are many ways to earn Steam badges - you've have already got a few.
All badges give XP, some varying amounts (Sales ones in particular), many are multiple level so you can upgrade your badge and earn the additional XP, this is sometimes achievable by using cards.
When you 'level' a badge you get: A new Badge, and for game specific more emoticons and profile stuff and cards.
I will list the ones I know about here:
Power player Own 100+ games (Ranked?)
Steam Holiday Sale 2011 Participating in the sale (Varies)
Steam Summer Sale 2012 Participating in the sale (Varies)
Years of service Steam membership (Ranked)
Steam Holiday Sale 2012 Participating in the sale (Varies)
Community Steam tasks (Ranked)
Steam Summer Getaway Participating in the sale + cards (Ranked)
Game Specific Owning and playing (Ranked)
So these cards then....
Cards
At the moment cards seem to be generated in two ways:
By owning and playing supported Steam games
By leveling a badge or increasing your overall Steam level.
If you go to your Badges page you will see each badge that can be earned with cards.
Each Badge will require a certain number of cards to complete
You will get approx 50% of these cards by playing that game for approx 1-2hrs (it seems that this is a Steam client counter which checks to see if you are playing a card supported game every 20mins approx - you could be lucky and start a game and get a card almost immediately or you could have just missed a count and will have to wait until the next.)
There are a fixed amount of card drops per game - typically 4-5. It is possible that you could get all drops of the same card meaning you will have more cards to collect from booster drops.
When the Badge says there are no more card drops remaining as you continue to play the game you will get random booster packs for that game. These contain 3 cards. The more you play - the more you get. When you have the full set - you can now generate your new lvl2 badge and get whatever freebies Steam throws at you. It seems that each game badge has 5 levels 100-500XP.
In this process you will end up with lots of duplicates - lots!
And no doubt there will be a card that you just cant get.
NOTE ABOUT BOOSTER PACKS!!
TBC
NOTE ABOUT FOIL CARDS!!
If you are Steam level 10 or greater, any card drop has a small chance to contain a foil card. (Reports that prople are getting foil cards below lvl10 - I wonder if this is triggered by something other than Steam level)
The only differences:
They are rarer
They buy/sell for more
They create a foil collection Badge which in turn can be levelled. (more XP)
Welcome to the community marketplace!
Accesed either via the Community menu or via your inventory - this is basically where you can buy and sell your cards.
Trade!!!
Yes you can pretty much trade all this stuff.
Open chat with someone, click little arrow beside their name at the top...invite to trade. from there you can swap stuff with yer mates!
Desktop Wallpapers!!!! What was I thinking forgetting this!
If you click on any Badge on your badge page, you get a view of all the cards that made it - fullsize - desktop resolution. Some pretty cool artwork in there imho
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