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Love the new launcher and all the features!

One question though: I have multiple installations of EVE because I read that it would help with performance of each client running. Will there be or is there a way to tell the launcher which .exe to launch for which account? Or any way to tell which .exe the launcher choses?

The setup, cache and account keeping is really nice.

In my use I have faced a lot of problems with the multiple launch feature though.

Changed interval to absurd values and still not working most of the times.

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Although the launcher is designed to handle multi accounts, it is a hard fact that
installing and running indepent instalations of EVE in Windows wil affect the
performance. It has to do on how windows will handle them, not how eve handles
itself. The change may not be noticeable using 2 or 3 accounts, but when you run
6, 10, then you notice clearly the difference.

When the final version goes live, is it going to wipe all of our settings? I launched the test version and it obviously isn't using the settings we already have.

Also, while you are streamlining, is it possible to have the launcher tell the launching client which character to load?
Also, when I launch eve I always have to move it from it being a half sized window on one screen to a maximized window on another, is it possible to save my window state and launch in that state next time?

While working with the launcher (even though this is probably sso thing) could you fix what happens when you write wrong password?

Currently when user account or password is wrong it will ask you about your character with message "You haven't logged in from this IP before". This is a bit misleading as sometimes I'm actually logging from different IP and need to answer for that question.

Instead it should tell something like "username or password is wrong".

extremely slow to launch, even worse than the current launcher. all i got is a white screen that says "please wait".

I love it, nice clean simple multi server all the good buz words.


I do feel like its missing one thing. Some sort of new/announcement area. - after all its how I find out about most things as I'm to lasy to check here!


Perfect thing would be a news ticker down the bottom that just has headlines scrolling alone, a headline peeks your interest. you click it it opens like it would if you clicked on an announcement on the old launcher. Otherwise nice job CCP

What is the purpose of the username/password boxes increasing in size 2px when you hover over them and in the process moving and lagging out functionality like the drop down button for usernames? It can't be helpful to people with bad sight or color blindness, as the effect not exactly noticeable and irritating, This should be removed and replaced with something easier to notice and less irritating, like giving the mouse-overed field a darker color.

I just installed the launcher and now the progress bar does something with 166 files (I guess it's importing my settings?) but there is no tooltip, no explanatory text like when the old launcher DL'd a patch on what exactly it does.

Furthermore, and this is a thing I never understood and that makes no sense whatsoever, why is the Cancel button on the left and the Continue button on the right in the char selection in the second step of the login process? The mouse hovers on the left side of that box anyways, not the right side, making it move over to the bottom right to continue a nuisance.

Next thing: The launcher still downloads the background image at every start up of the launcher. When are you going to fix this and store the image on the computer as you do not bother to update it every day anyways. The only thing this daily download of the background image does nothing but make the startup of the launcher slower and appear sluggish.

I know that you like to play a lot, that's fine, but why does the account list recede when you click the gear wheel to open settings and when you close the settings, the list increases in size again/moves forward again? Does not make any sense and is wasted dev effort and system resources.

The age/rating notification icons are placed right over the progress bar, overlapping it.

Only a minor thing, but a different icon for the launcher from the actual client would be good to have. The old launcher has a different icon than the actual game, which makes alt-tabbing as well as differentiation on the task bar easier.

Good that there is a possible way to get on SiSi without all the rave we had before, may try that one of these days.

Two things though that concern me about this launcher set up,

1, As it is a beta there has been no information regarding reverting should....And it will, the thing break your clients, might encourage a few more to use it if they knew they could can the thing in the future.

2, The client choice set up for starting multiples is so clunky, in fact the word used when we looked at it was stone age compared to a long standing product were clients can be grouped, named and booted in chosen multiples with a single mouse click.

This later gives players the choice of setting up there clients in groups, naming them for easy reference and as long as there happy to use a single pass word for them boot the whole lot in one go in rapid sequence, for comparison, I was getting speeds for ten clients of less than four minutes, I know it's a beta version guys but you really should stop with this and the bling you feel the players really REALLY, want and concentrate on getting it to load clients quickly, simply and efficiently.

Tbh if it does this players will not be bothered if it displays the face of Donald duck while it does it, Oh and could you please add multi screen formatting while you at it, Saves tabbing....Less of a click fest you see, Not all players have sixty inch screens in multiples of ten, you know how it is.

i do agree, that having the (maybe as an option) launcher as a *sort of* evemon, to see atleast how much isk/location/gametime remaining for each account/char, and the default/skip char things sounds great aswell.


ideally aswell would to be able to save *sets*

letz say, you have a mining team: you could have the client launch your mining / orca / hauler, and have on the same accouts a pvp set, that you can launch seperated (with that skip character thing option)
just some random toughts there... guess the possibilities are pretty much limitess

After downtime today I am not able to use the new launcher to login into the game, it quits with an incompatible build and I seem to not find any option within the launcher to update the game client.

Any idea ?