desktop shortcut for specific characters

[qubit]

I just found a nice little way of making a desktop/startmenu shortcut that'll load directly to a specified char, no patcher, no slow character select. The one thing is you still have to type your password unfortunately.

The way to do it, make a shortcut to everquest2.exe. Then on the 'shortcut' tab of its properties, change target to include: cl_autoplay_world <server>; cl_autoplay_char <charname>; cl_username <accountname>

like on my computer, the entire shortcut is:
"D:\everquest 2\EverQuest2.exe" cl_autoplay_world Najena; cl_autoplay_char Vergere; cl_username imnottelling

(no imnottelling isnt my account name, so dont try to start guessing my password :-)

You can actually add whatever command you want, those 3 are the only ones I could see anyone wanting though. You might be able to make a shortcut for various UI's, havent tried. The entire list of / commands can be found here http://eq2interface.com/forums/showt...hp?t=982&pp=25

The reason you still have to enter the password, is the way the patcher does it, when you log into the patcher, it creates a session, and when the patcher launches everquest2.exe it passes that session's id. The session id expires though, so you cant use it permanently. If someone can find a way to get around entering the password, by all means, share :-)

[Deathbane27]

So you can add gamesettings directly to the shortcut, eh? Nice.

You can use Mook Login or a derivative to remember your password. Not aware of any faster method at the moment. I wish you luck in getting it to work in the shortcut.

[Dark_Matter]

Awesome tip! Thanks! That really save a lot of time.

[Rurik]

Doesn't work for me, still loads the login screen and patch screen as normal. I wonder if it has something to do with my version. Like a lot of people that are running the UK version I get the Accept screen twice when logging in.
Thoughts?

[Deathbane27]

Originally Posted by Rurik

patch screen

Are you linking to EQ2.exe or everquest2.exe?

[qubit]

Ya, check what deathbane said :-)
Also, for anyone else that might be having trouble with it, server name and other stuff is case sensitive, that means "Najena" is not the same as "najena", the latter of which will not work.

[Rurik]

Now I feel stupid, as guessed I was linking to eq2.exe

All is good

[adorya]

This kind of shortcut also bypass the eq2.ini character settings if there was any, for sure it is very usefull

[qubit]

doesnt bypass mine. ive got a ui set in my eq2.ini and it loads it

[edit]
wait, you mean overrides, took me a sec to figure that out.

[Drumstix42]

Very odd that the shortcut uses semi-colons instead of dashes for delimiters (or whatever you want to call it), but very cool indeed.

[qubit]

the "standard" in bsd based os's is a dash. in windows its a slash. but that is just a standard, you can make your program use whatever you want