Terminal Dogma
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Posted - 2008.06.12 01:10:00 -
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A new tool for EVE Online: EVE Settings Manager
Given how popular multi-boxing / accounting is in EVE, I've been rather surprised for a while that there was no player-created tool to synchronize files between accounts. This meant that it had to be done by manual copy, by batch files, or my other 3rd party general file synchronization tools. All of those have their problems and are clunky solutions, so I decided to write a settings manager specifically for EVE that simplifies the process of keeping settings exactly the same between characters and accounts.
This is the first program I've ever written and released. It was done in VS 2008 in C# with .net 3.5. In fact, it was my way of teaching myself C#, and programming in general since i hadn't written anything since i was much younger.
Get it here (version 0.3b): http://eve-files.com/dl/163483
Screenshot: http://eve-files.com/dl/163488
...you will need .net Framework 3.5 found here to run this.
Features:
- Handles up to 5 characters
- Each can be selected as active or inactive, inactive characters / accounts will not have their settings overwritten
- Each can be selected as a "main" account, the account whose settings are copied to the others
- Locations of the files are saved on exit and restored on program start, so they only have to be entered once
- Tested on XP & Vista
Since I'm new at this, there are some limitations and ideas I had that didn't make it in yet:
- You have to know the char_.dat and user_.dat filenames for each character. I wanted to be really slick and search for the files, pull out the character names and such but decided that could wait for a future release as it was basically beyond my abilities for now.
- You have to know where your settings files are depending on your OS (Vista or XP). To be improved.
- There is no backup feature yet. PLEASE BACK UP YOUR SETTINGS BEFORE USING THIS. Its a beta and although i have crunched over my settings and test files many times without incident, back up in case it doesn't like you. I plan to put in a backup feature very soon.
- The terminology calls each pair of char and user files "accounts", I was thinking along the lines of 1 character per account due to skill training restrictions, but it should work the same for different characters on the same account.
So try it out and please reply to me here to via evemail with bugs / comments / suggestions.
Thanks.
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