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Ideas for the new launcher

Author
K1netic
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-05-23 18:55:14 UTC
First i think you should change what happens after you accept the EULA. Its not right how the centered text moves around and the login button resizes because the background shrinks. Please make the text and the login button static by only having the background resizes when we accept the EULA. In other words all the content should be put in a fixed width div because right now it looks like it's set to take 100% of the width, which makes the resize FUGLY.

Secondly, please make the single sign on actually single sign on by having more then one login fields! Right now i keep having to retype my passwords hoping between my 3 accounts. Really defeats the all purpose of SSO in my eyes. What if when i entered a password correctly a 2nd set of login fields appeared under it. then a 3rd.. maybe move the bottom left slideshow somewhere else. after having 3 or 4 logged in accounts add a 2nd column making the all launcher bigger. of course you'd have to set a maximum (maybe 12) of logged accounts on the launcher so also add a remove button. Possibly add a drop down button to select which character you want to log in, bypassing the all login thing, make the launcher actually useful!

Or even better, add a master account. one login shows a mosaic of all my characters (sorted by SP). a click on a portrait would show the pilot info (subscription time left / location / sec status etc) in a info panel with a LOG IN button under which would log me all the way in.

Probably not possible, for security reasons, to have the account management page be logged in when i click the link from the launcher? that is until you move the account management stuff to the launcher. Add a select account popup if needs be.

If you can make the launcher multi account i wouldn't mind using it :)

In hopes that some1 at ccp reads this.
Inquisitor Tyr
VEN0M0US.
Out of the Blue.
#2 - 2013-05-23 20:36:35 UTC
Agreed - something needs to change. Loading the game takes several times longer since you can no longer launch multiple clients simultaneously. Now you have to have wait for one to load before you can launch the next. So much for taking advantage of multi-core CPUs.

And switching between characters is now cumbersome.

Honestly, it just wasn't well thought out. Someone sat down and thought about "can we make the launcher prettier?" but they didn't include functionality in their design process.

Please fix it. I think bad thoughts every time I have to use this new launcher.