Smagd
Encina Technologies Namtz' aar K'in
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Posted - 2012.04.26 14:45:00 -
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Hello,
I'd like to give a little feedback on how the new launcher experience works for me.
First of all, I have some internet issues, which means a general low bandwidth with occasional connection stalls when more than one connection tries to transmit data concurrently.
That's not so bad for actually playing EVE: I can go whole evenings without problems, and the client itself is streamlined so well now that very little data is actually exchanged even in laggy situations - I've helped kill Incursion motherships.
The launcher however, let me tell you how that works for me:
1) New launcher version appears. Small update window. Takes a few minutes to attempt to download new launcher version. Hangs. Starts over from 0%. Three attempts and the better part of an hour later:
2) Launcher downloads more launcher updates in a bigger window, with progress bar. Fortunately, it seems to know of "ftp reget" so that's only half as painful as 1). Success!
3) Launcher launches, detects new version, starts 4 downloads at once. Instant halt. I found the setting to configure it to use only one connection at the same time. Works better, but every once in a while the player count is updated creating a second connection. About once per hour that stalls the whole process. Fortunately, it knows of "ftp reget", too. Takes manual intervention every once in a while to restart, and won't run through the night on its own.
4) Next day I discover a new patch has been created. Launcher scraps whole download so far and starts a new one to update to the new patch directly.
5) The repair tool failed to start either from launcher or directly opened in Explorer.
6) Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to install EVE on a friend or work computer just to run the launcher there to export successive patch sets.
It's been like this for the last few patches and I'm getting a little annoyed.
In the end, I found it easiest to do a full client download in at least one case, because, you know, I can set a RELIABLE download client to chug along on its own for a night or weekend, or from work - even with bandwidth limitations so it doesn't much bother other internet uses.
Now, since the launcher is able to export and import patches, would it be kindly possible to provide those exports directly somewhere so I can download them say from the old patches download page that's still being referenced from the Evelopedia?
http://community.eveonline.com/patches/patches.asp
Also, Step 1) and Step 2) are highly annoying considering the launcher is being hailed as the tool the get RID of problems like downloads restarting from 0% when they fail half way through.
Thank you for listening.
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