These servers are where you go to hang out and do nothing for long periods of time. Durring this time though you will get weapon (and rarely hats) drops that you can use to craft hats.
Being idle in a Team Fortress 2 server means that you are not moving. There are tons of servers dedicated to being idle. These servers are called achievement_idle
No, TF2 does not have any single-player. You can play on servers with random people or your steam friends
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No there are no servers that can make items drop more frequently, but you can always use an idle server to get items without actually having to play for hours at a time.
There are online servers which you can join to play multiplayer.
As of July 25, 2012 the TF2 servers are not down.
It's still very popular. The general populace has moved on from it though, as they tend to do with everything. But there are still hundreds of servers online.
Assuming this is TF2, you get it like any other weapon. Random drops on servers. It can also be found as a strange in the #30 crate.
I think so. I have bought a windows 7 PC, and i could install, launch and play tf2. I couldn't cantact any servers, but i cant do that on my xp too. so it should work. good luck!
Yes there is a point behind dedicated servers.
Nothing happens, that information is saved to the steam servers. In other words they'll be there when you re-install
Find the server you want in the server list, and click the connect button in the corner. You will automatically disconnect from the current server and join the new server.