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Thank you for participating in the trial period for Omega Pro Max and the New Eden Recreational Feed. We had a lot of fun dreaming up these apps, and we hope you’ve found the NERF entertaining!

When we introduced the beta for EVE Online’s new launcher last year, we took our first steps on a journey of iterative improvements to increase security, enhance user experience, and incorporate many long-requested features, such as launching directly to characters.

The apps we implemented in NERF were part of our exploration to test the new launcher’s possibilities, both in terms of function and value to the players. We were very excited to share some of these tests with you and are very happy to see the feedback we received from the community. Tests like these are immensely valuable and will help us as we continue developing the launcher.

For those sad to no longer have access to Rebel Radio, Instalock, or Readnought, if you’ve accessed them before, you can still access...

Just to confirm, the issues you’re encountering (screenshot) are on the MacBook Air M1?
Does the issue persist if you uninstall via Steam and re-install the game?

There are several Linux users, that participated in the early beta, and can be found both in the Linux section of the forums and in the official EVE Online Discord. They may be able to provide you with some guidance regarding getting the launcher/game running under those environments.

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If you know what you’re looking for (i.e. user / character name for launch groups), you can start typing as soon as you’ve selected the field to narrow down the options.

When making launch groups, if you’re wanting it to start up characters, you don’t have to start by picking the username, you can go directly to picking a character, and it will auto-fill the user for it as well.

When prompted, just confirm the directory, then click install.

For users with the old launcher default directory it should show as C:/EVE/SharedCache

If you’ve partaken in the beta previously, check if you have the “Download the full client” option enabled in the settings, you can then disable it and restart the launcher to prevent it from downloading the full game client.

If the [install] button is clicked when prompted without changing the directory, it will use the previous install directory, then check for any updates and apply them if necessary. If you change the directory that was suggested, it may result in a new instance of the client being downloaded & installed.

Note: 33+GB is the expected size for a full game client, which if you don’t let the launcher download, the client will download it for you while playing. The old launcher was not transparent about this expected requirement for a full game client.

CTRL+F (MacOS ⌘+F) → Search for characters | Search for account

The relevant account/character will be selected in the list. You can also opt for directly starting characters/accounts from the search.

Did you change the location of the client installation, when prompted by the new launcher? Or did you immediately click [Install]?

If the latter, and you’re not seeing the profiles in the drop-down to apply them per account, you may…

• Open the Settings (cog icon top right)
• Select Tools / Cache
• Click on the Look for Profiles button

This should populate your dropdowns with profiles that have previously been used when starting clients.

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It will suggest the location where it believes the existing installation is.

If that is where you client files have been installed before, just click the blue install button and it should continue on without re-downloading the entire client.

If you’re uncertain, open that path in Windows Explorer, and if you see a ResFiles directory, then you’re good!

This would be a limitation of the game client, rather than the launcher, as starting the same user account multiple times would cause the previous instances to get disconnected.

Changes for v0.2.3

• The launcher should now handle folder permissions better when moving the shared cache
• Cache verification has been enabled in the Tool settings menu

Bugfixes:

• Fix: Launch groups should only be visible when users have assigned one or more accounts to a group
• Fix (MacOS): Bug report form could fail in certain cases on MacOS
• Fix: Game client should now start with the correct display settings (maximized, etc.)
• Fix (Windows): The launcher update button should now correctly restart the launcher, when minimize to tray is enabled

The new launcher follows the “download everything” behavior, so it’s downloading the remaining resources that you would have to opt-in for on the current launcher.