Buying a second commander

[GreyAreaUK]

Warning: Numpty questions coming up for the PC version.

My wife is getting interested in playing Elite. However, before we go down the 'spending four figures on a gaming rig, monitor and HOTAS' I figure we should just buy a second commander for my PC to see if she likes it in a long-term capacity. I've suggested she does the Training stuff on my account, but those may not be enough to get a real impression (especially as she won't be interested in combat)

I assume that I just purchase a second copy of Horizons and then I'll get an option to switch to the new login? Or how does it work?



Numpty question 2: Is there a way to check if a commander name is available ahead of time?

 

[Cmdr-Wotherspoon]

You need to buy the new CMDR with a different email address from your existing CMDR. You can then log out of one account and into the other. Controller settings are local, so are maintained.

 

[AutoMechancal]

Afaik there is an option to switch out accounts, and you can just search up the name on your account.

 

[Qohen Leth]

You'll simply have to log off/re log with the other email adress on the launcher.

Or duplicate the launcher, one for each.

Or if you have Elite as stand-alone and on Steam, they'll each have their launcher, makes it easier.

 

[Codger]

Yes, I have 2 accounts and just one install. You just log out of one, and log onto the other.

 

[Hooplah]

Here's a solution...Running Multiple Elite Accounts

Of course put a second player in a Sidewinder at a Nav Beacon with your account to start would be a lot cheaper!

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Yes, I have 2 accounts and just one install. You just log out of one, and log onto the other.

Did you need to use a second email address though? That seems like a rather odd limitation if so. Not a deal-breaker by any stretch, just odd.

 

[Qohen Leth]

Did you need to use a second email address though? That seems like a rather odd limitation if so. Not a deal-breaker by any stretch, just odd.

You need a second email adress.

 

[Taranis Dekker]

You can use this - https://github.com/Lasse-B/E-D-Account-Switcher - or search on google for it first... the link is genuine, and comes from here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/137688-Tool-E-D-Account-Switcher

ED Account switcher. I use for my 2 accounts.

You have to have two email accounts to run two accounts.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Thanks all.

Any suggestion re the checking for availability of a name?

 

[Hellakitty]

Thanks all.

Any suggestion re the checking for availability of a name?

The only way I can think of doing it is to fire off a quick message to Frontier support.

 

[BaronDeKalb]

Thanks all.

Any suggestion re the checking for availability of a name?

Actually i think add friend might work, if it doesn't find the name it should not exist (i think)

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Actually i think add friend might work, if it doesn't find the name it should not exist (i think)

I did wonder about that. Thanks.

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The only way I can think of doing it is to fire off a quick message to Frontier support.

Tricksy if you want to check quite a few, and support really have other things to do Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

You don't have a wife, do you? Extra pip! We understand.

 

[Hellakitty]

Tricksy if you want to check quite a few, and support really have other things to do Thanks for the suggestion though.

Yeah the other method seems much more sensible.

 

[Garix]

You can use this - https://github.com/Lasse-B/E-D-Account-Switcher - or search on google for it first... the link is genuine, and comes from here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/137688-Tool-E-D-Account-Switcher

ED Account switcher. I use for my 2 accounts.

You have to have two email accounts to run two accounts.

I can see a reason to use it when FD sent the confirmation email every time you logged out, but why use it now?

 

[GreyAreaUK]

You don't have a wife, do you? Extra pip! We understand.

Heh. No, she's real enough. Used to play as Commander QWERTY back on the Beeb.

 

[bootsam]

+1 rep if when she leaves LHS3447 you gank her.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

+1 rep if when she leaves LHS3447 you gank her.

*laugh!*

 

[Shiro Akai]

Err.. you want your wife to get into ED but yo're unsure if she gets sucked in, right? Wouldn't be easier to buy a Sidewinder, swap seats and just let her play on your account for a while? I know those billions of credits may be tempting and initial income insignificant and barely noticeable but you can sit at her side and work as a tutor. Hint a thing or two and then leave her play on her own. Give yourselves a week of time for example and then ask her whether she wants her own account or not.

Sure, there are drawbacks (like necessity to start all over again when on her own account) but I bet you can have some hatch malfunction and drop few tonnes of highly valuable cargo... By accident of course.