Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I am sure many of us have the issue of the launcher not validating the client when we first open it. This involves closing and restarting the launcher multiple times until it finally does do the validation and we can log in, or running the exe file directly, which has it own issues (no, NES for example).

I would like to propose that CCP offer a workaround until such time as the launcher issue can be identified and resolved.

Give us a button that forces the client validation. I can't speak for anyone else, but I would much rather click an extra button than open and close the launcher a dozen times until it decides to do its primary function.

CCP, give us this - make our lives a little easier.

Using the exe file helps you how exactly when the client files change but the launcher won't update them? That's one of the other issues with using the exefile.

And using the exefile isn't a proper workaround - it works because CCP hasn't made changes to make it not work - something they have repeatedly warned would eventually happen - at which point, welcome to playing open and close for 15 minutes trying to get into the game.

Again, I repeat - how does using the EXE file help you come patch day?

Give me a sensible answer and I'll drop it. (One that doesn't involve sacrificing a chicken to placate the angry volcano god).

The point being I'd like CCP to offer us a way to use their product the way they intended it to be used. Not to either skip my way passed it or play launcher roulette.

You use the launcher for what it really is, a patcher, then you go back to using the exefile. Also, if your patcher is still broken, maybe the problem is local on your system. I use the patcher as a launcher on my laptop and have zero issues. Launches every time.


When I first disabled DoD on my desktop, I told my TQ and SiSi installs to use seperate caches. Have had no issues switching between the two.

There are exactly 7 of us that have posted here, wondering how you come up with this statement, what is your source?
Because people do not openly complain about it does not mean they are not having the same problems.

That is a blatant lie. CCP's launcher is very far from being a properly working piece of software. You have to close it to initiate an update, for instance, it doesn't even have Patch Notes for launcher updates. Since recently, when I enter my password with typos, I get a character selection question like in the forum/eve gate log in only to learn in the next step that my PW was wrong. And then I get back to the usual user/pw text box view, only that not my char I want to log in is selected in the user list but the char with the last successful log in. So, please do not call the launcher "not broken". Thank you.

It works well enough, which seems to be CCPs new standard of doing things: Make it barely work and it's fine.

Because the players of this game are some of the whiniest people on the internet. If something in EvE breaks, there are a hundred threads made to say it's broken, and that it's a sign that eve is dieing. Once whatever was broken is fixed, there's an additional hundred threads made to complain that it wasn't fixed the way the poster wanted it fixed, and that EvE is dieing because of it. If this were still a widespread problem, there would be many, many more threads on the topic.

This problem you have was a real problem, at one time. CCP fixed the problem for the majority of its players. The fact that there are seven of you still bitching about this, as opposed to the many that were complaining before CCP fixed it, tells me that the real issue is a localized one.

I have the same difficultys with my launcher. I don't know what went wrong, but from time to time it works perfectly well and on other days it doesn't matter how often I start the launcher but it would not validate my client.
I hope they fix it as soon as possible. Annoys me

As above for a while now.

While you can start from the .exe at present it has been stated in relation to the two factor security recently introduced that eventually that functionality will be removed as it makes that security upgrade a bit pointless.

Once more. My problem is not to login to game. I just want to get a functional launcher. If they don't wont us to use the launcher they should delete it and we can start eve as we did before the launcher.