EVE General Discussion

Hi everybody! Is there any way of launching the game without this annoying launcher?! I was ok then I need it to update the game and then can use client directly.

I can say why I dont like this launcher:
- it is very slow
- it is very slow, really i dont understand what is it doing while loading, but it takes more time to start launcher then to start client directly! It really amazing!
Also have no idea what are the pros to run the game only from launcher. So bad! So bad!

Not entirely true. It's fairly easy to code your own "launcher".

I have so I can just double-click a shortcut and it starts up and puts me into the character select directly.

/c

Would you mind sharing it with the rest of us peasants so we can play the game.

Well I won't give you all my exact files but here's the how-to's if you want to write your own

1. You start by making a POST request to the following URL

https://login.eveonline.com/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2foauth%2fauthorize%2f%3fclient_id%3deveLauncherTQ%26lang%3den%26response_type%3dtoken%26redirect_uri%3dhttps%3a%2f%2flogin.eveonline.com%2flauncher%3fclient_id%3deveLauncherTQ%26scope%3deveClientToken%2520user&client_id=eveLauncherTQ&lang=en&response_type=token&redirect_uri=https://login.eveonline.com/launcher?client_id=eveLauncherTQ&scope=eveClientToken%20user

the body of the request should be

UserName=your_username&Password=url_encoded_password

2. assuming you've logged on from the computer before you will get the following http 301

https://login.eveonline.com/launcher?client_id=eveLauncherTQ#access_token=bunch_of_random_characters_here&token_type=Bearer&expires_in=43200

The bunch_of_random_characters_here is the token you will need to use in the next step. If you haven't logged on from the computer you will instead be redirected to "type in your character on this account" so might be wise to have used the launcher for the account once before.

3. Make a request to

https://login.eveonline.com//launcher/token?accesstoken=token_key_picked_up_in_the_previous_request

From this request you get another 301 to

https://login.eveonline.com/launcher?client_id=eveLauncherTQ#access_token=more_random_characters&token_type=Client&expires_in=600

You now have the token to launch the client

4. Launch

C:\ProgramData\CCP\EVE\SharedCache\tq\bin\exefile.exe  /noconsole /server:tranquility /ssoToken=token_from_step_3 /settingsprofile=YourProfileIfYouHaveMadeOne ""

/c

I actually had this info OK'ed years ago and it wasn't any secrets, of course they give no promises or support that the flow will work on 3rd party launchers, and you'd ofc still need the official launcher to patch up, and expect little help if someone steals your powershell script with your user/pw hard-coded in plain-text lol

/c

Thanks Chribba!

Still have no idea whats the point of running client from the launcher only... but its offtopic, nvm.

A little more help would be nice for those who don't know how to code.

Running the 1 step using Windows Powershell ISE I got "Status 200, StatusDescription : OK" and a bunch of stuff but didn't return any token.

Then looking at that script:on the topic below, I think I need to add a lot more parameters to it.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5483560#post5483560

LE:
Used the browser and it worked.

Well... maybe somebody don't understand but its more like im tired of the updates which "knows" what is better for me.

Lucas, that is great that launcher works great for you. That is really great! The problem is why there is no choice right now? Why i have the only option. That is the point. I have nothing personal about running the game from the launcher... its up to you. It is just why i can't do it my way.

Cade, yes i used the launcher to update my client. After it i can use the client directly without using launcher until a new update released. Thats how i used it and i was ok with it. Yes right now i'm using the Chribba's launch trick. And just again... running the client from launcher takes more time for me than to run it directly. You can say, smth like: "im ok with it, its very good for me, there are no issues". Ok, im good with it and i dont want to argue with you. The only problem i have - there were two options to run the game before a new update:
1. Run the game from the launcher
2. Run the game from the client
Everybody can decide what option is better for him (or her). And right now its like... "i know what is best for u". End of story.

This was a design decision made by CCP - it's not about which is better for you, it's about what they view is better for the long term of their game client. Time may prove them wrong, but there's not much you can do about it but accept it and move on with your day.