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Been testing it a bit now and I can find no issues :D

But I do have requests/feature additions...

1. Allow us to select character so we wont need to do it ingame :D
2. starting the game as it is now it goes to the primary screen and centered, make it so that the "settings1" etc etc remembers windows position and monitor

*EDIT* 3. an option to close and/or minimize launcher after pressing "play selected"

Firstly praise: Launcher looks great, operates well

But . . . And somehow provision needs to be made for this . . . The problem of account bulk data download bottlenecking on multiple clients

When I load a bunch of clients simultaneously (and I have a few) the whole system lags and waits for the launcher to get all the account data stuff before the character selection screen. Having launched it a few minutes ago, only one account is at the character selection screen. (Been waiting about five or more minutes) Yeah, so the account data makes for one big fat bottleneck which slows the logging on to a snail's pace. (I have rather slow internet, which may exacerbate things.)

Now what I usually do is to log in each account at a time, waiting for the (old) eve launcher to download the character before loading the next account. That makes the logging process although very tedious a little faster. (Rather than having to wait for eve to get all the accounts simultaneously, I load em as quickly as I can which makes for a little faster process.)

What I would like is a setting which allows to autoload the next account as soon as the bulk data for the previous account has been downloaded rather than all the accounts at once which jams up the internet line. I don't know if such a setting is feasible, but I don't think it ought to be too difficult to code. Under the new launcher I could just manually log in each account as soon as the previous one has loaded of course, but since we are optomising things and since the idea is not to do things manually, I thought I'd enquire into such a setting.

After playing around with the new launcher for a bit, there are three suggestions I'll make about UI, two being button placement in the account list and one being about the Logout button.

1. Move the Play button to the left, so that it's just to the right of the Multi Login check box.
2. Move the sorting arrows to the right, so they're just to the left of the Logout X.
3. Give a confirmation when clicking the Logout button.

The rationality I have behind these changes is that the Play and Multi Login options are going to be the two most commonly-used features (or so I would expect). Having them at the beginning of the line just feels like it would make more sense, and since most people are conditioned to have checkboxes at the very beginning or very end of a line, it should be the very first option.

With the sorting arrows, I can't imagine that an account list is going to be sorted all that often. Maybe when a person creates a new account, but that will likely be a one-time thing to put it in the desired location in the list, making it a feature that doesn't need to be front-and-center in a person's attention.

As for the logout button, one misclick and you're relogging the char. I've done that twice with the Play button being right next to it, but it may be less of an issue if the Play button were further away.

Anyway, I'm really enjoying the new launcher so far!

Once some more of the bugs are ironed out of this new Launcher will give it some more stress testing. Until then I'll give it one gigantic kudos right now. The ability to get to Sisi or Duality without having to be a software savvy person! The current way is a bottle of Excedrin worth of headaches.

>Jeven

In few words:

All my account, each one with its own settings, and the remember option not to have to rewrite 10times my password !

CCP, seriously, I love you :D

Edit:
Many idea before my post are really cool, but, for now, the new launcher is already a huge step forward :D

this.

I really like the Launcher the way it is currently.

Only thing i would love to see, is something like a "Masterpassword".
I would love to save the accounts.. but i don't want them "public".

Maybe something like multiple Profiles for different people with master passwords?

Will Eveprobe the graphics testing utility also be added into the new launcher?

Ok. Now what about the mitigation of file fragmentation after each update.
I'm spending literally hours (cumulatively) selectively defragmenting the bazillion files on my std HDD, starting from the introduction of the DoD resource caching in Scylla.
Please do not mention the word SSD if you intend to reply.

Can we please pretty please get our settings into the server storage.
This way they won't keep getting lost every time we switch computers etc.
Pretty pretty please.