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The New Launcher .. Grr .. Rage ..

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Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2012-03-13 18:58:18 UTC
Flag Bravo wrote:
It reminds me a little of the captains quarters, everyone desperately looking for a way to turn the darn thing off. Cool

except its the same as before unless there is a patch unlike craptains quarters where it was a resource hog AND you couldn't turn it off without losing functionality.. so far my only issue is its taking incredibly long to patch.. the launcher has been working for like 20 minutes now, but maybe its a big file.
Michael Banki
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-03-13 19:08:41 UTC
So I had these 2 shortcuts to run 2 clients made on a folder and its virtual copy. Worked great, 2 types of overviews and all that.

Then a Launcher comes along, I click one of the links it pops up, starts patching... I open settings turn a few things, click hide etc. After patching I click the big PLAY and a normal client launches... okay, so I close it and click on both my old shortcuts and MAGIC! NO LAUNCHER! :) Just the old client normally starting. :D
CCP Donut Golem
C C P
C C P Alliance
#23 - 2012-03-13 19:21:07 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
Flag Bravo wrote:
It reminds me a little of the captains quarters, everyone desperately looking for a way to turn the darn thing off. Cool

except its the same as before unless there is a patch unlike craptains quarters where it was a resource hog AND you couldn't turn it off without losing functionality.. so far my only issue is its taking incredibly long to patch.. the launcher has been working for like 20 minutes now, but maybe its a big file.


On the Launcher's first run, we checksum your client directory to know which files require patching. This information is cached for later runs, but unfortunately, your first run is likely to take a while. Thanks for your patience.
Echo Falls
Adherents of the Repeated Meme
#24 - 2012-03-13 19:22:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Echo Falls
Ammzi wrote:
Echo Falls wrote:
CCP Donut Golem wrote:
Echo Falls wrote:

Why is it still sat there when I click on the extra "play" button I have to click on to start the game (2 clicks rather than 1 now .. why?) .. In fact why does it show at all, it should start up, realise there is no patch and just start eve .. Why the extra step?


Please check out the Settings menu, there is an option for precisely this use-case.


Cheers m8y ... Is there a reason why these are off by default?


So people who have multiple clients won't come to the forums and complain like you do about why you have to launch the launcher several times and then click play to launch multiple clients.

Geez, people. Sometimes you just don't think at all, do you?


"Think" about it again ... You appear to have missed a bit.

The settings tell it to close the launcher after launching eve AND/OR only open with an update .. So if you "think" about it again .. It works just like it used to if the settings were on by default ..

So if you "think" about it .. Why not just have the settings on and it would work just as it did before the launcher ..

Thoughts eh!
Michael Banki
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2012-03-13 19:26:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Michael Banki
Seems that having a shortcut to the EVE.EXE itself bypasses the launcher... Or its just that I disabled so that it only runs when patching is needed... I guess
Valei Khurelem
#26 - 2012-03-13 19:31:17 UTC
CCP Donut Golem wrote:
Starbuck Raider wrote:

It is nothing more than a dressed up way of adding a page of advertising with the default load switched 'on'.

Once again, priorities seem to be rather different to what they were recently so vehemently claimed to once again be.


We'll be tailoring this going forward, thanks for your feedback Smile.


By tailoring do you mean dressing up characters in the nex store?

I appreciate the responses on this issue but the fact that a lot of them immediately turn scripted whenever difficult questions are asked only serves to **** people off, oh and fix your swear filter.

"don't get us wrong, we don't want to screw new players, on the contrary. The core problem here is that tech 1 frigates and cruisers should be appealing enough to be viable platforms in both PvE and PvP."   - CCP Ytterbium
Odizzido
The NTC
#27 - 2012-03-13 19:32:50 UTC
it seems really strange that I can't type in my login info into the launcher and load right to the character select screen.

Infact, it would be sweet if we could actually select a character to log directly into from the new launcher. This of course would need character info, so it would only show up after you have logged in once already.

It also seems very odd that I had to download a patch with the launcher, and then another patch once I loaded into the login screen.
CCP Donut Golem
C C P
C C P Alliance
#28 - 2012-03-13 19:53:48 UTC
Odizzido wrote:
it seems really strange that I can't type in my login info into the launcher and load right to the character select screen.

Infact, it would be sweet if we could actually select a character to log directly into from the new launcher. This of course would need character info, so it would only show up after you have logged in once already.

It also seems very odd that I had to download a patch with the launcher, and then another patch once I loaded into the login screen.


This near the top of our roadmap, but there are quite few moving pieces involved Smile.
CCP Donut Golem
C C P
C C P Alliance
#29 - 2012-03-13 19:54:31 UTC
Valei Khurelem wrote:
CCP Donut Golem wrote:
Starbuck Raider wrote:

It is nothing more than a dressed up way of adding a page of advertising with the default load switched 'on'.

Once again, priorities seem to be rather different to what they were recently so vehemently claimed to once again be.


We'll be tailoring this going forward, thanks for your feedback Smile.


By tailoring do you mean dressing up characters in the nex store?

I appreciate the responses on this issue but the fact that a lot of them immediately turn scripted whenever difficult questions are asked only serves to **** people off, oh and fix your swear filter.


I didn't mean to come off like a suit, I take your criticism seriously.
Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#30 - 2012-03-13 20:07:42 UTC
CCP Donut Golem wrote:
Odizzido wrote:
it seems really strange that I can't type in my login info into the launcher and load right to the character select screen.

Infact, it would be sweet if we could actually select a character to log directly into from the new launcher. This of course would need character info, so it would only show up after you have logged in once already.

It also seems very odd that I had to download a patch with the launcher, and then another patch once I loaded into the login screen.


This near the top of our roadmap, but there are quite few moving pieces involved Smile.


Would we lose the animated login screen? I love that :( Would totally break my heart.

If you can login optionally... that's cool, but losing the animated login would be losing a trademark of EVE.

Where I am.
Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#31 - 2012-03-13 20:38:34 UTC
Oh, another thing... can we get a minimize to toolbar option?

I like having the option to get to the various websites/account management/open window, but it can get in the way, so just a thought for some of us that may want the launcher open more regularly, and ESPECIALLY if you add things like corp chat in there, or whatever.


Pirate

Where I am.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#32 - 2012-03-13 20:58:28 UTC
Just a little curio: the Windows version of the launcher boldly advertises "FANFEST 2012: Inferno/ Dust 514 / The future of EVE" and has three little adverts for Power of 2, PLEX Services & Buddy Program. In the meantime the Mac version not-so boldly proclaims "Player Organizsations / Connect and Share / EVE Blog Pack".

Is there a reason for this difference?

I'm looking forward to the launch / character select / enter game process being streamlined. Having the game patching happening outside the game is handy. Now I can do the patching without my computers screaming at me (the start screen with that cool animation is the heaviest graphics load that EVE presents to my computer, except for environments involving multiple transparent glowing clouds).

So straight up, here are the benefits I have already reaped from the Launcher project:

  • it doesn't consume as much processor time or generate as much heat as patching within the game,
  • it's a smaller window so I can work around it rather than the constant switching back and forth between full screen and windowed mode (when is the patch coming that allows Mac version to work in windowed mode with 44 fewer vertical pixels?), and
  • it moves the useful links & news to the launcher instead of the character selection page (by the time I get to the character selection page, I just want to get into the game).


Thanks for the work so far, CCP.

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Lord Helghast
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2012-03-13 21:37:42 UTC
lord people like to rage... its 1.05, they've already said more will come hell they've even said that down the road we may be able to use it to do things like chat with people or switch from TQ to SISI and more. It's a good first step, wow it has CCP ads, its not like there frigging showing coca cola and ford commercials why your patch loads shesh
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#34 - 2012-03-14 03:55:50 UTC
CCP Donut Golem wrote:

This near the top of our roadmap, but there are quite few moving pieces involved Smile.


Personally, my fingers are crossed that work on the Launcher means that we can finally buy and use key-fob authenticators soon.
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