In keeping with the “CCP Hates Me” theme, I would like to regale you with my trials and tribulations with the EVE client. A few months ago, about a month before the launch of Odyssey, my EVE client decided to shit on me (like after a night of Mexican food and Budweiser). I was already feeling like I was fighting the White Whale known as CCP, but the launcher really put the thundercloud over my head.
Some of you may have heard me reference the fact that I was having severe issues. At first, I was able to run EVE from the bin folder (which while I could still get into EVE, I thought was Busche-League). That continued for about a month, all the while, hoping CCP would fix the launcher. Perhaps they did. All I know is that it did not work for me. After Odyssey was released, things got worse. The launcher was still FUBAR and every time I launched EVE from the bin folder, it would try to update and then get stuck in some sort of quantum loop. Finally, resigned to the fact that CCP hates me. I decided to redownload the client and try a clean install. Boy was I in for a good time. First, the launcher still didn’t work (I wasn’t really surprised at this point). Second, I was able to launch from the bin folder, but only twice before it started playing dead again. So not only was it not working, I had all new settings (factory defaults if you will) as well as a temperamental client.
Undeterred, I tried to do a clean install again. Same result. I was getting “really” pissed. It was after midnight and I was weary with all the horse-shit I was going through. I finally buckled down, rolled up my sleeves, put on some arm-length latex gloves and began to reach inside the client like a vet checks for a baby in an elephant. I found a [very] obscure reference to a “beta” launcher that was being tested. “Why the fuck not?” I asked myself. I downloaded and installed it and set it up to log into Singularity. I failed to mention in the begging of this blog that I was also trying to get SiSi to work at the same time. While I would normally focus on only one major issue at a time, it turned out that my side-project to get SiSi running turned out to be the very solution of Tranquility's brick wall. Oddly enough, SiSi loaded right up. I was awarded all the super-caps in the game (I was so out of it (being 2am), I accepted them all in Orvolle (a high sec system) under my market alt (there were no portrait captures on SiSi) so I didn’t even notice my market toon loaded instead of Trunhe.
I then gave Tranquility the old “college try” and low and behold, it worked!
Every now and then I still have an issue (which ended my game time last night) where the launcher couldn’t connect to the server (I think the content server). Need less to say, I have still had to reinstall the beta launcher a few times, but other than that...I was able to fully grasp the inequities of Odyssey.
Oh well. Thanks CCP for making my life more “challenging” than it has to be. I have never had to work so hard to be able to play a computer game in my life. Spread sheets, 3rd Party apps, ect. Such is the life of an EVE player, but multiply that by 10 for being a CEO. Anyway. That's my two ISK.
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