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Bearilian
Man Eating Bears
#1 - 2011-11-04 09:10:59 UTC
not sure what forum to put this in or whether its been discussed before.

Why is there not an option to go back to the character selection screen, without having to log out?

If theres a technical reason, then never mind. It's not too inconvinient, just wondering why they did not implement that into the options menu..
RaTTuS
BIG
#2 - 2011-11-04 09:30:17 UTC
it's technical...
in the old old old days you could - but it was removed because it would trash itself [see currputed cache] after a couple of switches

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The Offerer
Doomheim
#3 - 2011-11-04 10:04:10 UTC
Bearilian wrote:
not sure what forum to put this in


here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=270
Bearilian
Man Eating Bears
#4 - 2011-11-04 10:19:47 UTC
thanks guys. ill just let this one fissle out...
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#5 - 2011-11-04 10:23:57 UTC
Bearilian wrote:
thanks guys. ill just let this one fissle out...


Don't post it in the forum of dead ideas, no one goes there and CCP hardly reads it. This should have been added back in years ago. Fight the power! Add log off to character screen option.

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Naran Eto
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2011-11-04 10:50:45 UTC
It would be great to be able to switch characters without logging out and in again, but i doubt we will get it.

We had this originally but there were issues with the way the game worked on login and after switching characters a few times it would create a huge memory leak, the only way they could code it to avoid the memory leak was to have it clear the cache and to clear the cache you need to fully log out. They couldn't find a way to work around this so that is how we got the current system.
Sverige Pahis
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2011-11-04 11:38:40 UTC
Supported, seriously it can't be that hard.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#8 - 2011-11-04 11:40:54 UTC
Sverige Pahis wrote:
Supported, seriously it can't be that hard.


You would be surprised. Sometimes it is the "small" things that are built on bad code libraries and can mess up so many other things, while a "big" change only takes a few hundred lines that you mostly copy and paste, then just edit a bit here and there.

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Tora Oni
Legendary Sidekicks in Space
#9 - 2011-11-04 11:42:52 UTC
Isn’t this just a $$$$ thing ? If you could switch chars fast and easy, you will probably have less people with multiple accounts ?
Zleon Leigh
#10 - 2011-11-04 11:46:15 UTC
When I posted the same suggestion a few weeks back someone replied CCP had memory leak issues. I wonder if perhaps they have fixed the issue and should try it again. Logging to switch char is so 1980....

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T' Elk
Strategically Bad
Goonswarm Federation
#11 - 2011-11-04 12:01:27 UTC
...And why do you have multiple characters on one account, other than forum alts? :3

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flakeys
Doomheim
#12 - 2011-11-04 13:26:55 UTC
Brooks Puuntai wrote:
This should have been added back in years ago.



It was , they removed it though.

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Lipbite
Express Hauler
#13 - 2011-11-04 13:30:12 UTC
Sverige Pahis wrote:
Supported, seriously it can't be that hard.


There are no easy tasks. Not for CCP.