I'm trying to be double account pilot

AtomEddy

AtomEddy
Hi, guys. Please help me make sense of it:

I'm trying to use the EPIC giveaway copy as my second account.
First one being the opulent explorer and a trader, the second one being a mercenary scraping by.

I have a Frontier account and Steam account with ELITE - my main.
I have an EPIC account where I redeemed the free copy.
I've created the second Frontier account to link EPIC copy to it. Haven't figured out how to do this yet.

What I'm trying to achieve:
• When I start from Steam, I log in through my launcher as usual and play the explorer type.
• When I start EPIC, I log in with the second account into my launcher and play the merc type.

And all that without having two copies of ELITE Dangerous on my PC.

But for the love of Raxxla, I can't figure out how to pull this off.
Any ideas?
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Arkendight said:
Hi, guys. Please help me make sense of it:

I'm trying to use the EPIC giveaway copy as my second account.
First one being the opulent explorer and a trader, the second one being a mercenary scraping by.

I have a Frontier account and Steam account with ELITE - my main.
I have an EPIC account where I redeemed the free copy.
I've created the second Frontier account to link EPIC copy to it. Haven't figured out how to do this yet.

What I'm trying to achieve:
• When I start from Steam, I log in through my launcher as usual and play the explorer type.
• When I start EPIC, I log in with the second account into my launcher and play the merc type.

And all that without having two copies of ELITE Dangerous on my PC.

But for the love of Raxxla, I can't figure out how to pull this off.
Any ideas?
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You'll need to set up elite using the epic games launcher. The Launcher for Epic is different.

You can install the game using epic, and you'll need to get the launcher installed there.

You can use a "symbolic link" (a windows thing) to point the installation location of the epic version to the installation of your other version - the "products" directory is what you want to symbolically link NOT the entire launcher directory.

Hopefully someone else can give you more detailed instructions if that doesn't help you enough, reading it... I'm not sure it's that useful if you don't already understand most of what I'm on about.

Basically - install from Epic, then remove the products directory from the epic install, and replace with a symbolic link to your other products directory installation.

(You can get around having to fully install from Epic though)
 

AtomEddy

AtomEddy
Drelthar said:
You'll need to set up elite using the epic games launcher. The Launcher for Epic is different.

You can install the game using epic, and you'll need to get the launcher installed there.

You can use a "symbolic link" (a windows thing) to point the installation location of the epic version to the installation of your other version - the "products" directory is what you want to symbolically link NOT the entire launcher directory.

Hopefully someone else can give you more detailed instructions if that doesn't help you enough, reading it... I'm not sure it's that useful if you don't already understand most of what I'm on about.

Basically - install from Epic, then remove the products directory from the epic install, and replace with a symbolic link to your other products directory installation.

(You can get around having to fully install from Epic though)
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I have no idea what symbolic link is, but I'm going to research it, thank you
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Arkendight said:
I have no idea what symbolic link is, but I'm going to research it, thank you
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MS docs

docs.microsoft.com

mklink

Reference article for the mklink command, which creates a directory or file symbolic or hard link.
docs.microsoft.com

Random internet guide

www.howtogeek.com

The Complete Guide to Creating Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks) on Windows

Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, and Vista all support symbolic links — also known as symlinks — that point to a file or folder on your system. You can create them using the Command Prompt or a third-party tool called Link Shell Extension.
www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
 

norlin

norlin
Arkendight said:
What I'm trying to achieve:
• When I start from Steam, I log in through my launcher as usual and play the explorer type.
• When I start EPIC, I log in with the second account into my launcher and play the merc type.
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That's working with no additional effort.

Arkendight said:
And all that without having two copies of ELITE Dangerous on my PC.
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Not sure if it's possible, maybe with some virtual machine/sandboxing. All in all, try to make it work with the ED install from Epics - to launch your main account from there. Because for now there is no way you can launch the Epic's account without EGS.
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
norlin said:
That's working with no additional effort.


Not sure if it's possible, maybe with some virtual machine/sandboxing. All in all, try to make it work with the ED install from Epics - to launch your main account from there. Because for now there is no way you can launch the Epic's account without EGS.
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Yep, you do need to run the epic games store, then launch the epic launcher - but, the actual installation files of the game itself, you can just have one copy of, and link to those using symbolic linking in windows. I only have one install of the game, and run two frontier accounts and one epic account from that.

Means if you update with one, they are all up to date too.
 
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AtomEddy

AtomEddy
Drelthar said:
Yep, you do need to run the epic games store, then launch the epic launcher - but, the actual installation files of the game itself, you can just have one copy of, and link to those using symbolic linking in windows. I only have one install of the game, and run two frontier accounts and one epic account from that.

Means if you update with one, they are all up to date too.
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Thanks to you, Drelthar, I'm finally making sense of it all.
The Symbolic Link seems simple enough to do.

Just to make sure I got it all right:

• I have my <Steam version> installed, with a Frontier Account 1 linked with it.
• I install <EPIC version> fully to its own location, register Frontier Account 2.
• I remove the Products folder content (!) at <EPIC version> folder, which contains most of the data
• I create a hard symbolic link between now empty <EPIC version> Products folder and the <Steam version> Products folder

• I play Frontier Account 1 by starting from Steam, the Elite launcher pops up and I proceed as usual.
• I play Frontier Account 2 launching from EPIC. The Elite launcher pops up, I log out Frontier Account 1 and log in with Frontier Account 2, proceed.

Is that right?
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Arkendight said:
Thanks to you, Drelthar, I'm finally making sense of it all.
The Symbolic Link seems simple enough to do.

Just to make sure I got it all right:

• I have my <Steam version> installed, with a Frontier Account 1 linked with it.
• I install <EPIC version> fully to its own location, register Frontier Account 2.
• I remove the Products folder content (!) at <EPIC version> folder, which contains most of the data
• I create a hard symbolic link between now empty <EPIC version> Products folder and the <Steam version> Products folder

• I play Frontier Account 1 by starting from Steam, the Elite launcher pops up and I proceed as usual.
• I play Frontier Account 2 launching from EPIC. The Elite launcher pops up, I log out Frontier Account 1 and log in with Frontier Account 2, proceed.

Is that right?
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That's right, except! when you load up from Epic, you won't need to log out, and back in. You'll automatically be logged into your Epic account, as it's a totally separate account (or should be!) and is linked, and the launcher knows all of this, as it has to be a separate install of the launcher to work with Epic.

Arkendight said:
What happens when the game has to update something outside the Products folder?
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The only stuff it will need to update outside of the products folder, is the launcher - which has to be handled separately to work with the epic store.
So, the Epic launcher will keep the launcher up to date (and the same with steam for it's own launcher)

You don't need to worry about it.
 

BinakAlgo

BinakAlgo
Ok, I think I screw it up. I linked my Epic account to my Frontier account -_- Is there a way to have a second commander still? Some friends got into this and I want to help them by creating a video with a brand new commander, anyone knows how can I reverse this?
 
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