Multiple game copies question
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Probably not, but I bet you can just use different windows accounts to avoid it.
Of course if we had access to the multiple save slots that were discussed as far back as 2012 there would be no need for such hoop-jumping. Any ETA on that feature arriving I wonder, or has the fact that people are paying twice as a workaround pretty much ensured its demise?
Yeah im with ya there. When I bought in in early beta I was expecting multiple character slots. at least 3. But I just want to try another career without loosing everything I have in the current one. But i'm so tired of not having convenient options in ED that exist in every other game I pay for. And i'm tired of hearing "but the game isn't complete" If you are selling it a full price then it is complete. Or complete enough that it should have everything expected/ promised.
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I did this. And yes, you still have to submit an auth code when switching account. This is because of the differences in builds. My PB1 game build differs from the Beta build I bought later on.
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Didn't mean game builds, but product codes :\
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If it's Windows you can easily run two ED accounts from just one copy of the game files.
Install ED launcher in Program Files (x86) as normal. Then create a directory/folder inside the EDLaunch folder called "Products".
After that the game, betas, training stuff gets installed in there.
By using different Windows user accounts they can each have their own settings (stored in their 'home' folder in "Users").
So, because each Windows user has their own settings, you can still have the system 'remember' your ED id and p/w for the two accounts - so no typing them in every time.
PS. This also neatly avoids having two copies of the game files which (obviously) wastes space (likely on your SSD) AND means you only need to update one copy of your program when Frontier update things.
Install ED launcher in Program Files (x86) as normal. Then create a directory/folder inside the EDLaunch folder called "Products".
After that the game, betas, training stuff gets installed in there.
By using different Windows user accounts they can each have their own settings (stored in their 'home' folder in "Users").
So, because each Windows user has their own settings, you can still have the system 'remember' your ED id and p/w for the two accounts - so no typing them in every time.
PS. This also neatly avoids having two copies of the game files which (obviously) wastes space (likely on your SSD) AND means you only need to update one copy of your program when Frontier update things.
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I think I read somewhere If you have a standard version form the ED store and a steam version via steam they don't conflict, could try that I guess
there is definatley a way around it somewhere cause I read it in a thread
Enty
Considering that a second commander slot is $60 a pop, I don't think it is any kind of priority for FDev now
Hi
There's been a few ways around emails etc, even an additional launcher thing someone wrote. I went for the option of getting a second copy via steam. Has a completely different path and in my computer steam isn't on my filling ssd.
There doesn't seem to be conflict at all. But been a while since I used the alpha account; I've been exploring with the steam one.
Hopefully, soon support for multiple accounts will come or the expected multiple commanders on one account, I'd like an ironman option too. All been discussed in many posts before.
John
There appears to be a solution in post #8, but I don't get why you need to? If you want to try a different career, just do it, no? Why do you need a separate account for that? What am I missing here? Help an old fella understand.
It's expensive for a Commander
There appears to be a solution in post #8, but I don't get why you need to? If you want to try a different career, just do it, no? Why do you need a separate account for that? What am I missing here? Help an old fella understand.
For most people you're probably right, no real need.
For me ... originally backed at a higher level, then decided to split into two rewards, partly for different extras but also so I could have an extra account for friends/relatives/myself (didn't really believe they'd get the extra game slots per account).
Have it on one machine for now till I get another HOTAS and then I'll setup the extra account on another machine.
There appears to be a solution in post #8, but I don't get why you need to? If you want to try a different career, just do it, no? Why do you need a separate account for that? What am I missing here? Help an old fella understand.
I get Ronin's view but I also understand Gumbleweed's point as well.
One of the things I like about Elite Dangerous is it's not like other "GAMES".
It actually is a very open ended sandbox in which you choose your own path. In real life, I just don't get to clone myself and hang it in a closet why I try my hand at dentistry. I have to choose a career path, and if I change paths I change paths. There are no "saves" so to speak. Time moves forward without you. The travel system is so that the clock is always running. No time compression cheats, no "pause while I eat 200 biscuits to regenerate health in the heat of battle".
Other open ended games also make you "the star" "the hero" "the villian". The game is all about YOU, even in it's open-endedness. Skyrim is a perfect example. When I was done with Skyrim the only thing I had left to do was walk on water and feed the 5000.
Elite isn't like that at all. You are a part of a much bigger whole, and while you do have limited control over local events around you, you don't single handedly bring down a capital ship, or start out as the lowest rookie to become the Imperial Navy's top ACE and personal back washer of the Emperor.
What people see as being incomplete, is not so much a bug, but more of a design decision. We have become so used to the common MMORPG or Online Squad based FPS's that we often call foul when a game goes against the grain or our own precepts. (that being said, I still hate kill stealing in combat zones.....grr...)
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