EVE General Discussion

I am sure this has been discussed before, but I am a new spacer & I have to ask why there is no log off button to the char selection screen? Is it necessary to completely close the game each time? Granted it only takes a few seconds, but I figured there must be a reason.

Thank you (:

Last time I saw a dev response on this they said it would take something like 6months of nontrivial coding to save you less than 20(ish) seconds.

Personally I just keep the launcher open.

Fixing EVE legacy code is like playing pick-up-sticks. There's a good chance that when they try to pull that one section of code out to make this request of yours happen, that they'll bring down all the stuff that was built off of it.

There's a real potential for disaster here and not really worth it for a few seconds time saving. Just do as Ralph (and most others) does.

Mr Epeen

Here is the last thread this was discussed in: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6309662#post6309662

When you write software you often make assumptions based on how you think the software will be used or what it should do, for example stuff like "only one client will be logged into an account" or in this case "the characterID won't change during a session" and then you rely on that assumption in different parts of the code.
Just putting in a button that allows you to switch to a different character and thus change the character ID is trivial, however fixing all those parts in the code where you used that assumption is a lot of work.
Especially with legacy code that you didn't write yourself it can be very hard to even find all the parts of the code where that assumption was used, because it might not be obvious or is only important in certain edge cases.

Even for those of us currently playing on potatoes or toasters, EVE restarts quite quickly enough. I do notice a performance hit when I have two clients open though.

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Or you could close it and click the PLAY button on the launcher and not require any coding at all. Guess which option CCP want.

It is extreme, and a log-off button should be implemented at some point. But you have to understand that EVE as a game has been in constant development since 2001, and some of the most basic systems (such as the account verification, character selection) have barely been touched in the last decade. This particular system acts as a foundation for thousands of lines of code and changing it would, as others have said, break an ungodly amount of things. The age old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies here, unfortunately.

A few years ago CCP shared plans for a new login service though, so I assume they do plan to update and modernize those systems at some point, but it would have to be in a wider scope than just adding a logoff button.