Issues, Workarounds & Localization

CCP has over 500 employees. If this money went exclusively into every employee's salary and spread exactly equal this would be $180,000 per year, but the average is likely considerably less due to their other expenditures, e.g. server maintenance, upgrades, and operating costs (the electricity bill for Tranquility must be absolutely tremendous), equipment for developing and testing, upkeep and maintenance of CCP facilities (they have three headquarters to maintain, remember), research and development, travel fees for developers to attend things like EVE Vegas, probably fees associated with partnerships, other fees associated with things like showing EVE at conventions like E3, fees associated with marketing and advertising, banking fees, etc.

Posting for the same reason. What's this for? Are we able to connect our Steam accounts to the launcher (now or in the future)?

This is everything that's wrong with CCP right here,

Why? Why is it so ******* important to strip this functionality from the game? This is just Incarna all over again, the whole "we know what's best for you, now shut up and take it." the same stupidity that stopped Microsoft from having great success with Windows 8 and instead caused the entire PC industry to suffer.

This stupid insistence in ramrodding a "new paradigm" down people's throats. Get it through your thick skulls, we pay to play a ******* game not to buy into your multi-platform paradigm.

SSO is not a good fit for this game, it will never be a good fit for this game, so stop trying to shoehorn it in.

locate the eve folder.
go to the bin folder
use the eve exe in there. just make a short cut for your desktop and your back to the old login mechanic

just tried this.

if you launch the game from the launcher and the server is starting up, it dumps you at the old login screen.

how are you going to remove the login screen if the launcher relies on it as a full back for when it can but cant really launch the game?.
my guess is a big clock counting down?

This really reminds me how they thought that removing ship spinning is way to go and that we dont want it...only that it wasnt true. Shame is that we have to go over same charade again.
This kind of bring question how much % of devs are core/longterm devs and how much are new people. Cause sometimes it looks like they hire new folks and give them task like "work on this aspect of game" and they do. But without past experience with eve and knowing what ppl like it ends up as disaster when when they decide that "we know better"

PS: if you use exefile you still have "log off" button

Yeah, and I don't think any of us assume that it means the new launcher will be reverted to the old status.
SSO, ads, slowness, social media, extra clicks, webserver reliance etc., I don't think these things will be removed.
Which is why I am now content in the promise that the launcher bugfix (i.e. bin/ExeFile.exe and avoiding the bug altogether) will never be removed.
It's right in the quote, isn't it?

Artemis, I have the same problem. It's because the launcher doesn't close right in Windows XP. I realise you are not a tech guy, so please understand I am trying to make this easy to understand, not talking down to you:

After you close the launcher, but before you open a new one:
1) Open the task manager. You do this by pressing Control-Alt-Delete all at the same time.
2) On the Task Manager window, there are 5 Tabs. Click on the processes tab.
3) Under the tabs are column headers. The one on the left says "Image Name" click it and it will sort the process in alphabetical order.
4) Scroll down until you see Launcher.exe - There will be more than one. Click on the one with the biggest number in the "Mem Usage" column on the far right. It will highlight Blue
5) In the lower right, there is an "End Process" button. Click it. If a warning window pops up asking you if you really want to close it, click yes.
6) The Launcher.exe process will close, and perhaps other Launcher.exe processes will close as well.
7) If there are still Launcher.exe processes open, go back to Step 4 and repeat until all the Launcher.exe process are closed.
8) Close the task manager by clicking the red 'X'
Now you can use the launcher again just like you did before you closed it.

Yes, it's cumbersome, and CCP should have fixed this before releasing the Launcher, but once you do it a couple of times, it's quite fast and saves rebooting.

I really hope Atropos meant that truly. I've said before that I'm having no more problems with multiple accounts using the launcher since the "Launching..." delay was removed but I'd still LOVE to see even faster ways of getting into the game on all my accounts. Something like this would rock my world:

1. Open launcher.
2. Select all of your accounts that you'd like to log in at once.
3. Enter their passwords and click GO!

Edit: In the list of accounts if you could enter and save details like startup path, settings folder, etc. for each of them then all the better!

this exactly.

We didnt need a new launcher, the community made that pretty clear. If a new launcher should be done, then it should work exactly like in the quote.
If youre not getting that to work, then you shouldnt roll it out.