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Winter Expansion - Arguments
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Famble
Three's a Crowd
#1 - 2011-11-12 07:41:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Famble
I'm talking about command line arguments, naturally.

Many, many players have alts and dual box. Can you give us the ability to add the name of the player and its password as an argument to the shortcut's command line?

For example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\EVE\eve.exe" -name=Famble -password=iLikePie

This way we could have multiple shortcuts on the desktop that when double clicked log us right into our toons with no user interaction.

Think how nice it would be to write a little batch file that starts all of your accounts with a double-click.

I love it, you love it, let's do it!

If anyone ever looks at you and says,_ "Hold my beer, watch this,"_  you're probably going to want to pay attention.
ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#2 - 2011-11-12 08:11:58 UTC  |  Edited by: ACE McFACE
Posting to confirm Famble's password is iLikePie

To actually respond to the OP, I dont have alts but this still looks like a really good idea

Now, more than ever, we need a dislike button.
Famble
Three's a Crowd
#3 - 2011-11-12 08:16:09 UTC
ACE McFACE wrote:
Posting to confirm Famble's password is iLikePie

To actually respond to the OP, I dont have alts but this still looks like a really good idea


As I wrote that I was wondering how cool it would be if I could track how many login attempts took place from then till now. I'll just assume its 178.

If anyone ever looks at you and says,_ "Hold my beer, watch this,"_  you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Bloody Wench
#4 - 2011-11-12 10:13:18 UTC
Cmon man how hard is it to find the text box and have the mouse move over it and click then enter the text.

Your scripting Fu is very weak.

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Cave Lord
Workers' Compensation
Sukyoko-Moussa Ltd.
#5 - 2011-11-12 10:22:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Cave Lord
Of course, as a general rule, storing passwords in plaintext anywhere is generally a bad idea. So I'm against the username/password arguments.

I used to have 3 accounts that I ran at the same time, but only one EVE installation.

Here's what I did:
1) Installed EVE
2) Downloaded and installed this: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
3) Created 3 folders (eve-a) (eve-b) (eve-c) and created a junction to my eve folder.
From there, I could open "eve-a" and run EVE, etc.. Shouldn't be too hard from this point to create a batch file that launches instances of EVE from those folders. All you have to do is type in the password for each account since the username is already saved.

EVE thinks that it is running from another directory with each instance, and stores username/settings for each instance separate from each other. This setup has worked flawlessly for me for over 2 years.

*edit*
...forgot to mention why I do this.
8.72GB vs. 26.xGB :)
Famble
Three's a Crowd
#6 - 2011-11-12 15:50:55 UTC
Cave Lord wrote:
Of course, as a general rule, storing passwords in plaintext anywhere is generally a bad idea. So I'm against the username/password arguments.

I used to have 3 accounts that I ran at the same time, but only one EVE installation.

Here's what I did:
1) Installed EVE
2) Downloaded and installed this: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
3) Created 3 folders (eve-a) (eve-b) (eve-c) and created a junction to my eve folder.
From there, I could open "eve-a" and run EVE, etc.. Shouldn't be too hard from this point to create a batch file that launches instances of EVE from those folders. All you have to do is type in the password for each account since the username is already saved.

EVE thinks that it is running from another directory with each instance, and stores username/settings for each instance separate from each other. This setup has worked flawlessly for me for over 2 years.

*edit*
...forgot to mention why I do this.
8.72GB vs. 26.xGB :)


While I would typically agree about storing passwords in plain text I don't see a problem here.

A baddie would literally have to be in my home and in front of my PC to compromise my account. If a baddie has made it that far, then my Eve account would be the least of my worries. Heck my Amazon account's user/pass credentials are auto populated by Chrome without any entry from my home PC.

If anyone ever looks at you and says,_ "Hold my beer, watch this,"_  you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Tanya Powers
Doomheim
#7 - 2011-11-12 15:53:37 UTC
Make life easier for bots?

NOES !! Lol
Arillle
#8 - 2012-01-02 04:51:46 UTC
I also agree that storing passwords in plain text is really not a good idea,
but now that the eve directory is about 10Gb, making a copy for every account is such loss ...

For me, it would be enuf if eve.exe accept -username argument .
Myxx
The Scope
#9 - 2012-01-02 06:10:17 UTC
Arillle wrote:
I also agree that storing passwords in plain text is really not a good idea,
but now that the eve directory is about 10Gb, making a copy for every account is such loss ...

For me, it would be enuf if eve.exe accept -username argument .



I have 2 TB~ worth of storage in my new computer. 10gb isn't a huge deal to me at the moment. Though I agree, OP should add this to the little things post.
Koppite
UK Corp
Goonswarm Federation
#10 - 2012-01-02 06:12:52 UTC
too feckin cold Shocked
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#11 - 2012-01-02 16:26:15 UTC
Arillle wrote:
I also agree that storing passwords in plain text is really not a good idea,
but now that the eve directory is about 10Gb, making a copy for every account is such loss ...


The whole point of using Windows "junctions" is so that the other EVE installs *don't* actually consume X gigabytes each. (Plus, when you patch one, they all get patched.)

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Multiple_clients
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#12 - 2012-01-02 18:20:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Xercodo
A dev liked my post in the comment thread for this dev blog so maybe they're already working on implementing the launcher to do this sorta thing for you? :P

Edit: here's my post so you don't have to search

The Drake is a Lie
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2012-01-02 18:43:49 UTC
Stupid question: I do know that in the past if you ran multiple copies of a client out of one directory (by just starting same EVE several times) there were some oddball issues due to that, but with the settings going to per-account directories under users folder, is that still true?

I'm currently running 2 accounts on my 2nd PC out of one directory and I haven't seen any immediate ill effects. Are there any still? What are they?