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).

We weren't early enough with the deployment announcements. We were not happy with our communication on that day in general.

Or simply have each account represented by a drop-down box displaying the 1-3 characters on that account with a checkbox to launch a client for that account.

Or with amalgamated accounts, simply have two columns: one for number of paid login slots (aka "subscriptions"), the other with all the characters associated with this account. Player drags characters into login slots, clicks "Play", launcher spawns the required clients, connected to the selected character(s).

We're actively working on these issues and if you check against Singularity you should see that switching user accounts resets the 'Launching...' state of the button.

The question remains, though, "If a significant percentage of the playerbase is still having problems after three days, why didn't you roll it back?" That really seems strange to me.

while i personally wasn't disrupted too much by the change, the free SP will be awesome, and this just really does illustrate why CCP are so loved and why EVE is as good as it is.

although i still have no idea why people bother with the launcher, it's completely useless and redundant.

Is this a joke? The launcher update pushed out for Sisi today is broken even worse than yesterday's debacle. It hangs up at "downloading launcher update" and you'll never even see the "Play" button without jumping through a few more hoops. Triple facepalm well deserved!

Drop boxes are good for occasional, not repeating data entry. We are talking about gamers that want a smooth experience, not office workers.
What I propose does not cause issue with people using keyboard, those who like to TAB through controls, those who like to "point and click" without rolling in and out stuff and even - for the future - those who will use a touch screen to select the characters.

Anyway, almost any approach including yours is going to be quicker and more practical than the current implementation.

Making software ready for a possible rollback is a task with challenges and cost and also requires a specific, conservative corporate attitude.

I.e. I developed such kind of software for the military. Their budgets were not tight, their delivery schedule was not super-tight, they knew that things *can* go wrong.


CCP budget is not of such size, they timed this delivery with a very small window (right before Odyssey, it HAS to be pushed out before it, as Odyssey prolly don't even have a log in screen coded at all) and CCP management are very, VERY overconfident and prone to these incidents.

You always apologise afterwards and promise to do things better in the future, but surprise surprise it happens again, and again, and again. You never seem to learn by past mistakes and never keep your word about changing your procedures.

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.

On the original threadnaught, the first post was by CCP Phantom and he said:
"The main change is a new and improved landing page and a new login mechanism which will allow you to log into EVE Online using our SSO (single sign on) service. "

I ran the new launcher, signed on, and entered the game no problems. The launcher was still open, so I gated from the launcher to Account Management and clicked the Login button. My credentials were not passed to account management. I had to enter my name and password manually.
The only non-cosmetic reason for rolling out this disaster of a launcher was to allow the SSO credentials to pass to other Eve websites that use SSO. In your Dev Blog, you specifically mentioned that Account Management was one of the new SSO websited.

Why doesn't the SSO launcher pass my SSO login information to the other SSO websites?

Put SP on the actively training character. You know they want the SP - just logical.

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?

It won't be before Odyssey. I don't have an exact date for it, since it's tied into a much larger engineering project to improve client boot times, asset preloading and getting into the game in general.

I'm still waiting to find out if the new launcher will indeed provide SSO capability as you claimed it would. Can I expect this promised functionality to be implemented soon?

You're saying it isn't as simple as just going back to the previous version of the Login screen? I didn't know that. TY

I am more concerned with the ghost launchers populating my computer

CCP needs more Web Devs for sure.