I have have seen this issue for a few years now, UI designers that design for pretty for pretty sake at the cost of functionality. And this is another such case! Unclear UI, more clicks to get the same thing done, things missing, etc.
I’m currently on an EVE ‘break’ so to say, not actively playing, but logging in daily. That now takes way more clicks to get the same thing done, way more time and I’m at the point of throwing up my hands and saying “Fine! You win! I’ll uninstall!”…
And that’s probably what I’ll do, first setup my Omega accounts so they’ll gracefully expire their Omega time, then uninstall. I’ll probably be back at one point, but with this client, that might be many years into the future…
So am I
I can log in on the website,but I cant log in one the client
Every time input the verification code then I will get back to original page
None of my account can be logged successfully
well, I missed that update button in the launcher, and I’m without a startable launcher.
At a loss what I need to do to install the new one on a linux …
so i got a tech guy to come and translate CCPs launcher stuff…i can play, thankfully i have access to tech help…CCP needs to realise we’re not all computer geeks and to not complicate our lives when things aren’t broken.
good luck.
Added to this, the new format makees me go into a specific charcater to see what today’s free gift is; then, if I want it assigned to a different chara, I have to come out to “log Off”, select that chara and redeem it.
Nor does the new format tell me where a chara is, and in what ship, before I select a chara.
This, clearly, is fine for somewone who has only one chara, or who knows exectly where they qent to be going. For the casual payer, it’s less useful. IMHO. YMMV. etc.
The rollout on 7 February is permanent, and the old launcher will be deprecated. Rest assured, however, that the new one does everything the old one did, and more.
So, like others have said: if it does everything and more, then why can’t I see where each character is, what skill they are training and what login rewards I have available to my account?
-1 vote for the new launcher. It’s shite and does not meet my needs.
Or you could look around the new launcher options and instead of complaining here just activate the option “Launch EVE Online to the Character Selection screen by default”
This, please. I don’t need to see my list of characters expanded in the launcher, that’s what the Character Select screen is for.
I’ll put up with the extra screen bloat and the unwanted ads and links (I’ve been playing for almost 2 decades, I don’t need to “Find My Purpose”, thanks). Because I guess CCP desperately needs more ways to cadge players for money.
(Note: the following complaint is based on my current usage of the launcher. If it is wrong, or if I have missed something obvious in launcher function that isn’t apparent, please do correct and inform me.)
But I want my functionality back. Old launcher had a series of icons beside the useful, small, compact list of accounts. I could use those to launch any series of accounts I wanted, quickly, with one click per account, in any combination or order. And the little icon beside the account would change to show me when it started loading.
I’m sure someone will come along and say “Just use launch groups”. Which doesn’t give me any selection I want, with one click per account, in any order. Which is slow and clumsy to set up and change. And for instance, let’s say I wanted to start up 8 accounts. Let’s say further I had set up Launch Groups for those accounts in 2 groups of 4.
Previously, I could do 8 clicks on the account icon and walk away from the PC, grab a drink, look at the window, stretch or whatever. Come back, and all 8 accounts would be loaded and ready for me to check. Also, if I noted that I clicked an extra one or two that I didn’t need (and I can see this by their icon), I could click those again and turn them off, so they don’t waste time loading.
Now, I click X to clear the previous launch group, click Alpha on the list, click Launch and… nothing happens. Nothing changes on screen to let me know which accounts are being loaded. No icons change state, or allow me to click them OFF if I don’t want that account in this launch. So hey, I figure “well, they all must be loading now right? So I’ll click X, then Beta on the list, then Launch, and I’ll get all 8 accounts ready!” Right?
WRONG. The launcher appears slower, so all 4 accounts in Alpha hadn’t loaded. And apparently when I clicked Beta - Launch, it cancels the launching of the rest of Alpha, so I only get 6 accounts loaded - 2 from Alpha, and the 4 from Beta. And no indication during any of this stage as to which ones loaded and which were missing, I have to check them one by one.
@CCP_Arcade , and anyone else from CCP, please note:
The key words for UIs are useful, useable, flexible, reliable, informative, efficient, purpose-driven.
The “UI Guide” that CCP bought into does not include these words. Instead CCP has focused on things like “bloated, extra text, wasted screen space, more clicks, less function, our way is better than your way”.
While I have seen some very small improvements after the fact in some UI elements that were egregiously bad, so far CCP has just shoveled crap onto the screen and left it there. Please pay more attention to the good words in UI design, and give up your foolish addiction to wasted bloat.
You can go to the Account Settings options (Right side panel when you select an account in the list) and under that there is the Launch Settings which you can set to Yes which will then start into the usual Screen showing the Daily Rewards (If that’s set to show) and then the character selection screen.
Still takes one more click on the initial Launch as you need to click the account and then Launch
Please, remove THIS Vanguard icon from the list of characters - freaking lowskil dirt trick to lure unawared customers into some fast-fetched project of yours, Jesus!!!111
And… in compact mode (shrink the window) where only character portraits are visible, the glow around the character portrait to launch, is faint and might be even more indistinct on a cheap or older monitor.
CCPls increase the contrast between a selected character and the others: use a bold outline, not a faint glow.
@CCP_Arcade ,
can we have some of old launcher’s features back?
STOP USING CPU by the launcher. Old rancher used almost 0%, while new one constantly renders everything and eats 50% of CPU. This is a shame in 21s century.
2)Can we have account names back as labels? My toons are mostly the same face, I simply don’t distinguish them visually. Old feature when account name was visible next to launch button worked just fine.
Can we have little table next to account name ( used to add comments ) back? It was super useful and now I can’t add any notes on specific account - the are mostly things not to forget about it.
Mine works relatively well with adding 4 seconds to client startup delay. It starts up all clients and even in the correct order (very nice to have them always sorted in the same way on the taskbar).
Please fix the Launcher, bring back the old launcher feature, so we can see where our characters are before logging in, are they in space or in station etc!
Also now when logging in, its fraught with problems; get a continuous black screen and ship has been static in space for too long, before we finally get any control… not very good for nullsec or losec.
Even undocking a ship it stays as a black screen for too long, before I get any vision or control, the docking timer has disappeared and my ship is outside the docking ring.
