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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.11.04 10:07:54 -
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Tried it - hate it. The EVE Clonemaker works find and I prefer having the stand-alone apps, so I'll stick with that. Access to SiSi would be nice, but the Mac version that's deployed for SiSi is usually so bugged by the time it's fixed the testing aspect is basically over.
GÇó Didn't properly import my profiles (this should be an automatic function), and I honestly have no idea what the two coded files are supposed to reference since I actually had 5 characters. So both my main character and the second one I added had everything reset to scratch. Been there - done that (more than several times) - so not going through that hassle again. GÇó Second account I added prompted me for a stupidly lengthy user agreement which conveniently had the "Accept" button hidden behind various advertisements (it wasn't immediately apparent you could re-size the launcher). Why this doesn't appear in the forefront is completely beyond me. GÇó There were various downloads (including a Cider one) that were in excess of 150MB - excluding the download for the beta launcher (no idea what these were for since I thought with Parallax everything was up-to-date).
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.11.04 22:27:28 -
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Amarisen Gream wrote:Third - The Mac client is a special baby, seeing as most of the support has to be handed off to some ****y third party. Now that we have easy access to Sisi, it will become CCPs responsibility to make sure we have a reason to get on there to test things out on our side.
I don't mean to seem like I'm attacking you, but I ask that you step back and take your time with this. Get in the ingame OS X chat channel and talk to people. I spent like 3 hours talking to CCP Maxwell about issue with the launcher. Started it up today, and I already see a number of updates and tweaks.
CCP could easily stop supporting the Mac OS if they felt like it - please take time to work with CCP to make it so we have ability to keep playing the greatest game ever on the greatest OS ever. Thank you! I've had access to SiSi by downloading a separate build and tweaking the server parameters through the command line. The problem isn't that Mac users cannot access SiSi - it's that the first few updates usually break the Mac client such that we can't offer much in the way of feedback beyond 'the Mac client is broken'. By the time the issues are resolved (if they're resolved, because we've had a few instances where the Mac client was effectively out during an entire cycle) - the testing/feedback portion has usually expired. After enduring this for the better part of 6 months and basically feeling like I had a non-esistent contribution, I decided to finally throw in the towel.
And while I realize the Mac EVE Launcher is a beta, my point is that for the hassle involved in configuring and getting it setup it provides a minimal advantage over my existing method of double-clicking on two icons. In fact, for clones this bypasses the launcher altogether. And unless things change with the QA for Mac-related SiSi participation, there's no benefit in having access to the test servers, either.
I have been in limited correspondence with some of the devs on other Mac-related issues and provided some feedback and testing where I could, so it's not really a question of taking a step back. It's rather waiting for CCP to take a step forward and finally address these issues to the point where the game becomes enjoyable from a Mac standpoint again.
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.11.06 05:02:46 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:Doesn't come with the new Cider update, that's still in internal testing. Can connect to TQ and Test Servers. Any idea when we're going to see an update for these huge lag issues? I took me almost a minute to swap a module in and out from inventory while docked... (I'm not exaggerating). It also takes about 20-30 seconds for market purchases to appear in your Item Hangar once completed.
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.11.14 04:20:05 -
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So I gave the Mac launcher another try and it seems to be running better with the latest update. I was actually able to connect to SiSi for the first time in a long time (!). It doesn't seem that there is any way to import the settings of clones, so you have to reconfigure everything manually (my only gripe at this point).
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.11.14 05:51:27 -
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Amarisen Gream wrote:There is a way - long version I posted in this thread (like point 3 or 4) CCP Snorlax (check spelling) is aware of the issue and is looking into a way importing them.
My method requires a least one toon logging in to create the new settings folder - and then becomes a game of copy and past. It imported the main one fine. I did use the main .tranquility file for the clones, but it didn't work.
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.11.14 09:06:05 -
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Amarisen Gream wrote:Hold option/alt and click go in the finder menu bar > click Library > Application Support > (you will have EVE **** folders, one for Main EVE, and one for each clone > (to make this easy open the main folder in a separate window > then navigate into the Appication support folders for your clones - the path goes through local storage, CCP etc *** the steps on on page one of this forum, and as I am not at my computer, I don't remember them all. *** but once you get there, just copy and paste the settings that have Numbers in them - those numbers relate to the toons and to the account (one per toon and one per account) the toon settings are related to you UI settings. The account one controls you graphic/general settings. It's fine - I already went in and changed all my settings (including importing a new Overview). While the Beta Launcher seems to remember individual settings (including graphics), it doesn't seem to retain screen size for windowed setups (it defaults to the size of the main client when launched).
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.11.15 00:40:11 -
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Amarisen Gream wrote:edit: p.s. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to start over from scratch when it comes to the UI... lets you try things a little differently!!! 50th time's the charm is it?
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.12.11 11:08:48 -
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Could anyone shed any insight into what the "Run Game on DirectX 9" option has on game performance and/or graphics? (if any) Thanks.
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Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2015.12.11 12:37:08 -
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CCP Snorlax wrote:On the Mac, the client always runs under DX9. It was an oversight having that option available for Mac. Appreciated, thanks. Will we have the option for DX11 at some point in the future?
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