The new EVE Online launcher Beta

[CCP_Stroopwafel]

@Ancient_Desire

The new launcher needs a download full game or all resources spot in the settings tab so its not lagging in game trying to download resources.

@Vixen_Vix

The new launcher impose FULL client download too, contrary to the old launcher where you could mark full and partial client download.

This will be part of the next release (0.4.7)

@Ragnar_STS

Double clicking on the character picture or name doesn’t do anything. It probably should.

We had this in an earlier version of the beta launcher, but it proved to be problematic and unintended logins, so we removed this in 0.4.0

@Ragnar_STS

What is the deal with the giant window to the right of the characters? The whole thing needs to be reworked. Ready/plex/Omega/Settings I understand I guess.

This panel will show character-specific information. We aim to add more (useful) information once it becomes available for us to use in the launcher.

@Ragnar_STS

The selection of ‘launch to character selection window’ doesn’t seem to do anything unless using the giant button on the right. I guess this is intentional?

That is correct.

@Vortigern_Vitalis

This is hugely important. If the new launcher insists on downloading the client all over again

The launcher will detect the settings as from the legacy launcher and suggest the Shared Cache directory when you launch it for the first time. It should not attempt to install a second copy of the shared cache unless a different folder was selected than where the actual shared cache was located.

This also includes migrating the logged-in accounts from the legacy launcher to the beta launcher.

It bears repeating that your profile settings are stored with a reference to your shared cache location, so if you change the shared cache location while installing the beta launcher you will also lose these profiles.
If you do want to use a new shared cache location, you can move your current profiles over by opening a file explorer window to %LocalAppData%/CCP/EVE/. In that folder you will find folders named after the shared cache location, you can simply copy the files from the old to the new location.

Also note that there is a #launcher-beta channel on the EVE Online discord, where you can find me and other launcher devs lurking (and sometimes memeing) for questions/remarks.