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For the other numpties out there, some launcher advice
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Cristl
#1 - 2016-09-12 14:30:48 UTC
I might be the only berk that didn't get this, but in case I'm not and this helps anyone:

First, there is a an option to pin accounts. Second, there is an option to check "automatic login".

Some feedback from a noob:

Both of the above buttons are obscured by the news dialogue box. Only the settings 'cog' and the 'x' mark to remove accounts are visible by default. Uncovering the options to pin and automatic login should not require people to figure out they need to close the news feed. Entering my account details each login has almost driven me nuts (or more nuts).

Furthermore, "automatic login" makes it sound like it will launch all of the selected accounts, not just automatically give me the option to launch the accounts, if that makes sense. Rename it. The word "pin" is also pretty arbitrary, how about just explaining: "remember account details on this computer"?
Tappits
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
#2 - 2016-09-12 17:17:01 UTC
WTB auto close on log in.
Cicero Joens
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2016-09-12 17:23:46 UTC
I thought this was going to be about missiles.
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2016-09-12 17:27:11 UTC
Tappits wrote:
WTB auto close on log in.


Not 100% sure but this might exist already

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Sasha Nemtsov
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2016-09-12 17:39:07 UTC
Cristl wrote:
I might be the only berk that didn't get this, but in case I'm not and this helps anyone:

First, there is a an option to pin accounts. Second, there is an option to check "automatic login".

Some feedback from a noob:

Both of the above buttons are obscured by the news dialogue box. Only the settings 'cog' and the 'x' mark to remove accounts are visible by default. Uncovering the options to pin and automatic login should not require people to figure out they need to close the news feed. Entering my account details each login has almost driven me nuts (or more nuts).

Furthermore, "automatic login" makes it sound like it will launch all of the selected accounts, not just automatically give me the option to launch the accounts, if that makes sense. Rename it. The word "pin" is also pretty arbitrary, how about just explaining: "remember account details on this computer"?


+1 Upvote....

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Galactic Rangers
#6 - 2016-09-12 20:37:44 UTC
Cicero Joens wrote:
I thought this was going to be about missiles.


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Serene Repose
#7 - 2016-09-12 20:42:25 UTC
It's like Dolly Parton said to the truck driver staring at her generous endowments, "Tweak, baby. Tweak."

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Major Xadi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2016-09-13 01:23:47 UTC
I pin my accounts and still have to add accounts most of the time when opening the launcher. Sometimes it will retain them for 2 or 3 days, but inevitably it kicks them out.

I have a lot of patience, but I have 5 accounts and this has gotten very annoying now
Sasha Nemtsov
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2016-09-13 19:19:04 UTC
Major Xadi wrote:
I pin my accounts and still have to add accounts most of the time when opening the launcher. Sometimes it will retain them for 2 or 3 days, but inevitably it kicks them out.

I have a lot of patience, but I have 5 accounts and this has gotten very annoying now


Are you also checking the 'automatic login' bit? It was that and the pinning which made the whole thing go away for me.

To be clear, then. The small blue box which sits at the top of the list of your accounts. It has 3 horizontal lines and a down arrow. Not the same graphic which is located at the top right of the launcher itself. Click 'pin' and 'automatic login'.

As an earlier poster said, the effect is to launch the launcher with all your accounts ready to be clicked - it doesn't launch the actual game with selected accounts activated (that is 'play selected', bottom left).

They really could/should have done this better

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#10 - 2016-09-13 23:29:42 UTC
Tsukino Stareine wrote:
Tappits wrote:
WTB auto close on log in.


Not 100% sure but this might exist already


Pretty sure it doesn't unless it's been added within the last couple of weeks. I've looked.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Major Xadi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2016-09-14 01:51:36 UTC
Sasha Nemtsov wrote:
Major Xadi wrote:
I pin my accounts and still have to add accounts most of the time when opening the launcher. Sometimes it will retain them for 2 or 3 days, but inevitably it kicks them out.

I have a lot of patience, but I have 5 accounts and this has gotten very annoying now


Are you also checking the 'automatic login' bit? It was that and the pinning which made the whole thing go away for me.

To be clear, then. The small blue box which sits at the top of the list of your accounts. It has 3 horizontal lines and a down arrow. Not the same graphic which is located at the top right of the launcher itself. Click 'pin' and 'automatic login'.

As an earlier poster said, the effect is to launch the launcher with all your accounts ready to be clicked - it doesn't launch the actual game with selected accounts activated (that is 'play selected', bottom left).

They really could/should have done this better



Ah, ok. I just checked it. Thank you very much