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Epic Games Accounts - Rules & Considerations
- Thread starter Arsen Cross
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Yes, you have 2 launchers but they look the same. One launches the regular (purchased) game, the other launches the free game. But you have to close one launcher first, before you start the next one. That way I can run both games on the same computer. They interact if both my ships move to the same location - in other words I would see my "free" ship (and I could shoot it down !) if I flew it to the same system as my regular ship.So the link is not mandatory ?
We can have 2 launchers (Frontier and Epic) and run the game without interaction between the two games ? If I understand correctly in English.
Also, I could invite my new commander to ride in my ship as crew. So the two games running are separate, but they can interact if you want them to.
Of course I should imagine if you had two launchers on separate computers, running the two versions on different computers, there would be no need to close one launcher before starting the other. Again, the two games would interact if you want them to.
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The link is not mandatory.So the link is not mandatory ?
We can have 2 launchers (Frontier and Epic) and run the game without interaction between the two games ? If I understand correctly in English.
So I have one account brought from frontier and have got the epic games one, but only the frontier account loads from either launcher, how do I get the new account to work. Set up a new email for epic launcher and a new frontier account as well.
I added a pair of infographic style images to the OP to help explain how the EGS accounts work visually..
I noticed while streaming Elite Week last night that I didn't run into the same performance problems I do streaming with the steam client each week which I found odd. Usually by the end of the 3 hour stream my computer is getting a little sluggish due to running 3x 3440x1440 monitors (I have two, but one is plugged in twice for a workspace to display media on stream) and usually I drop from 100+ FPS to about 40fps by the end and that didn't happen last night with the epic installed Elite client on my new free alt.
Interesting idea... We used to have to do that with Freelancer back in the day to play alts on servers in multiplayer. I'm personally not invested in separating the data between commanders that way though because while some items might be shared, the journals themselves aren't.There are other (cache, logs, visited stars, trade data) things where the options are stored, I'm not so sure it is a good idea to use these with different commanders?
Anyway, I have created different Windows users for my installations and use runas to start them - however I was unable to make it work with Epic Store.
Yep.
Interesting catch. I didn't actually pay attention to my ARX etc when tried to account I intentionally linked to my main during testing. I may go back and look at that again sometime.
Launch the epic game store app, then launch Elite from it, you should be prompted to link the account. If for some reason you canceled out of this prompt you may have to restart the launcher multiple times until it shows up. Make sure to hit "Options" > "Log Out Machine" at the top of the launcher to ensure that the epic version of the elite launcher isn't holding onto credentials so the account link will pop back up.
Still doesn’t work. I get asked to sign in with a frontier account, then asked for a verification code. When I enter this it says please purchase the game.
Are you by any chance using a portable version of FireFox as default browser? I do and had a similar problem. After I made the installed version of FF default, it worked.
Elite launcher attempts to hand off a long string Token to the browser, but the portable browser launcher thingy can't pass it to the browser and it gets truncated.
This is the same reason EDMC can't open Coriolis with your build.
Give it a try.
Errr, think I’m using Microsoft edge, not great on pc things to be honest.
Only with ED does one need several paragraphs along with infographics on how to switch characters. 
I have a stand alone launcher for my main account and now have an EPIC launcher for the free game for my alt account. I am able to run the accounts simultaneously no problem, you just have to close a launcher before launching the other account. My question is, how the hell do i get rid of the Epic store? I only downloaded it to get the free game. Am i now stuck with the Epic store to play the free game, what a PITA. I've tried accessing my new, free alt account using a standard launcher but it keeps saying i need to purchase the game.
Anyone managed to rid themselves of the Epic store??? and still use their free game??
Anyone managed to rid themselves of the Epic store??? and still use their free game??
TINSTAAFL, mate. If something is free, you are the product.
You took a free copy of a game that costs $7.50 on Steam and $20 from FD in exchange for using another game store app on top of whatever else you currently use, which comes with maintaining another friend's lists, linked cards, etc. Whether that is worth it is up to each person. I'd rather pay $7.50, or $20 and avoid all that. Free is usually not worth it, but it sure is shiny and people like shiny.
Epic simply purchased your patronage. I personally avoid business that purchase patrons, doesn't speak well of the business imo.
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