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KIller Wabbit
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Posted - 2013.05.24 00:12:00 -
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CCP Guard wrote:That's something we're very aware of, we know a lot of people loved the old log-in screen for it's artistic value even if it doesn't serve a technical need any longer. And it's a question we will address. I'm not the right person to go deeper into that at this point though :) But it's one of those things that are noted. The only thing customers get out of this art: 1) Graphics card burn out if you launch more than one client and don't immediately log in. 2) Diversion of resources from the graphics team for something pretty that we saw for maybe 15 secs (if we didn't walk away to get a tea while allowing our graphics card to toast.
Just like WiS - don't waste precious DEV resources for something pretty much useless after the new launcher due to nostalgia.
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.24 00:19:00 -
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Lord Haur wrote:CCP Guard wrote: We weren't early enough with the deployment announcements. We were not happy with our communication on that day in general.
You haven't been early enough with deployment announcements for a little while. This is one of the two that stands out, the other being the deployment of Retribution 1.2 on May 6th, when the announcement was barely 8h ahead of the extended downtime and associated 500MB patch. I would expect at least a couple days warning for such large deployments and significant changes to the login mechanism.
I love how Dust related patches just appear out of nowhere. Someone's team is not on board for sure.
Every patch should have a "this is what we're doing to you and when" announcement. CCP Punkturis-á "I want to get in on the goodposter circle jerk!"
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.24 00:23:00 -
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Smoking Blunts wrote:CCP Atropos
when are you removing the ability to use the bin folder eve.exe?
is it going to be on june the 4th or can we keep using this after the path on that day?
If they remove this within the next 3 months I'm dropping accounts. This was the only back up for a release disaster... given the inability to fully test the architecture in the RL - they need all the backup plans they can muster
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.24 00:33:00 -
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CCP Atropos wrote:Lord Haur wrote:CCP Atropos wrote:Could you tell me your reasons for having more than one installation (either physical or via junctions/symlinks) if you are able to start a client with a given set of settings. Personally, I run multiple installs via junctions to maintain different sets of settings for each install. In my case, the base install is max graphics while the junction is minimal. This gives me the ability to quickly choose between the two sets of settings for each client I launch, considering that my priorities depends on the number of accounts I am going to be logging in and what I am going to be doing with them (spinning in station or getting into an Asakai-level fight). Exactly. If the ability to store, manage, maintain, migrate, modify, whatever with your settings is handled in the EVE Launcher, then there only need exist one underlying installation. I know work was done to enable texture sharing between instances, and having them running the same executable (not just a copy of the same executable) would encourage this, leading to overall better performance for multiboxers, less space used on the hard disk (although I admit this is negligible for those using junctions or symlinks) and the ability to move between computers easily and take your settings with you.
Here's a corner case for you: one account under Steam, one not. How would you handle that?
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.24 10:49:00 -
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CCP Guard wrote:With the deployment of Retribution 1.2.4 and the deployment of the new launcher, we received reports internally and externally that people were unable to connect to Tranquility thanks to some misconfigured servers. While this issue was not universally experienced and over 30,000 pilots were able to log in normally before we fixed the issue, we do feel this special case does require a special thank you (for your patience) from CCP. During tomorrow's downtime we will add 50.000 skillpoints (representing roughly a dayGÇÖs worth of intense skill training) to the character with the highest number of skill points on each active account (the presumed main). HereGÇÖs a quick guide on how to apply those skillpoints. We're sorry for the inconvenience and we hope you can use these skill points on your adventures. Your voices have been heard loud and clear and we've been busy taking notes so we'd like to ask you to help us move forward in this thread and keep the feedback focused and constructive. Thank you.
My most experienced toon on one account is a dead in JF pilot. His training has been done for some time.. Please give us a way to move the SP points around, or sell em! CCP Punkturis-á "I want to get in on the goodposter circle jerk!"
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.24 23:32:00 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:CCP Guard wrote:Sidrat Flush wrote:Thanks for the free 50K skill points, would be really nice if we could have decided which character it was added to though. I agree completely that it would be nice and in the future we may look at options to make that possible. But for these points at this time, this is the best we can do. In the past you have allowed us to use the petition system to move the points. Im guessing thats not being done now as it would be far too much work for the existing ISD folks. In the future maybe you could make any SP a CCP gift that gets redeemed to whatever character we wish to have it redeemed for.
With the PLEX for training in Odessy this might actually be possible through a itty-bitty PLEX - although would that classify it as a micro-transaction?
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.24 23:39:00 -
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Goran Ashihara wrote:CCP Atropos wrote:Spyke Spiegil wrote:i still cannot log in via steam!!! since may 21st!!! I find this outraging!! Why hasn-¦t this been resolved already?? What am I paying 20 bucks a month for???
I expect this to be solved without me digging through files and sending bug reports!! I ******* pay for this game so this should not be an issue that I have to concern myself with!!!
If I do not get any compensation for the lost days I will leave this game!! I understand your frustration but you have to provide us something to go on; a screenshot showing any error messages, or a copy paste or something, anything would be helpful. Dear CCP Atropos and CCP Guard OK. Let us be rational and systematic in bug error fixing if that is what you need to fix launcher. 1.. THIS is my screenshot: http://s23.postimg.org/4t60nosbf/WTF_01.jpg- in the lower right corner you can see launcher that after 3 reinstalls of the WHOLE GAME (one on the second computer that never had EVE to begin with) still shows that I am OFFLINE. - in the upper left corner you can see the v3 launcher opened in Chrome. I never get the launch button. I never even get the PLAY that I can click on !!! 2. What have I done until this moment - USED: repair.exe: - RESULT: - Repair downloads 23mb "of something" and sends NO ERROR MASSAGES !!! - Launcher updates after clicking EVE.exe (or eve.exe (Safe Mode).lnk / eve.exe) - Launcher launches the screen that you can see in the lower right corner of the screen shot. I AM OFFLINE :-) - USED ExeFile.exe - RESULT: After couple of instances of bad updates and premature exits, today I finally managed to update the client and play the game. - USED: complete reinstall of the EVE/ - RESULT (look at the section 1. and the screenshot): - USED: complete reinstall of the EVE on the new computer - RESULT (look at the section 1. and the screenshot) + I can't use the ExeFile.exe to play the game on that computer because it is suck in the endless repair / update loop (if I repair - the launcher needs to update. if it gets update then repair again downloads 23 MB "of something" and I have to update again). END result is wurse then in previous case. 3. This are all the logs I could find. If you need any other log - please tell me from where I could get it to you http://www.mediafire.com/download/z1fpz1m5wkyx3ax/LOGS.rarConsidering that I have given everything a rational person can give you and will provide you with everything else you need I thing that it is very logical to receive answer form you in the next 24 hours and the solution for my problem in the next 48 hours. Thanks in advance
Dunno if you got some help in the meantime, but:
1) Make dang sure all zombie launcher.exe's are killed (maybe someone can come up with a mini-game for that, android enabled if possible please)
2) Run repair tool from the command line as this: repair.exe --safemode
This two items got me out of a stupid 3 hour cycle of escaping hell yesterday.
CCP Punkturis-á "I want to get in on the goodposter circle jerk!"
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.25 19:54:00 -
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CCP Atropos wrote:
The Singularity testing thread was run for almost four weeks, and to begin with was a goodwill opt in test. The logs we were seeing and the feedback we were getting, we felt that we were in a good position to release. One thing I have learnt is that goodwill testing isn't enough; for a change to the Launcher we should have made it a mandatory switch from the very beginning.
Given the cave in of the Web Server - a tick box to the QA list for any feature change should be MASS testing. If more than 100 customers can do something with the feature at the same instance (like lock, fire, jump, LOGIN) then it needs to be mass tested.
Note: TBH 100 pulled out of the air... maybe it's really like 20.
Maybe if the test server had some sort of real reward you would get more participation CCP Punkturis-á "I want to get in on the goodposter circle jerk!"
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.25 20:00:00 -
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CCP Atropos wrote:Par'Gellen wrote:Dzen Avi wrote:Finally!!! Found the way to skip the launcher! In the "bin" folder of EVE there is a file ExeFile.exe - it throws you directly to the old window when you choose your account and click play. Enjoy! Only for a few more days. CCP has already confirmed that the ability to do this will be removed. We've never given a date, so I don't know where you've come across the idea that it will be in a few days. In many threads so far I've stated that it won't be before Odyssey, and I even stated only a few posts previously in this very thread "Whilst I can't give you an estimated time of arrival on when we will remove the old login screen, it will be at a point in time after people are comfortable with our new login paradigm and feel that the Launcher is offering them comparable functionality." That won't be in a "few days"
As said by others - removing this functionality entirely is being silly. It's a built in backup that requires no code changes going forward. Just more work to take it out. Given that it is a work around for a number of failure scenarios, really?
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.25 20:05:00 -
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MaRU2760 133 wrote:James Amril-Kesh wrote:To all the people who say they're going to unsubscribe over added effort to log in or similar issues (not talking to the people who can't get into the game at all):
Do you seriously believe that this threat actually means anything in this context? Do you not realize that the more you use it over such trivial matters (especially when there are easy workarounds) the more it weakens your position in the future?
Sometimes I wonder how many people who threaten to unsubscribe actually end up doing it. After Incarna, I shut down three of my 5 accounts. I didn't totally unsubscribe, but I never threatened to, either.
This mess definitely put on hold my plans to add accounts.
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.31 13:27:00 -
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Did you re-write the validation code? Why is it taking @!%^!(!^!% so long? 10 times or more longer?
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KIller Wabbit
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.05 08:02:00 -
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I want my 125MB of memory back. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING...
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