MEMORY USAGE WITH THE BETA LAUNCHER
Always a favourite with people this one.
One thing to notice about this Launcher is that it's not 100% designed for your pleasure right now, with it still being in the beta stages.
If you're running it on stand-by mode (hidden away on your toolbar) it will use 55Mb, however, if you're running it full pelt, with the friends window open too, it uses a shockingly impressive 120Mb.
Compare this to a fully operational version of xfire, which runs at ~5Mb.
By the way, when you log into the "Friends" thing for offline chat, it will show all of the MXO characters on your account as online. If you don't want them showing, toggle the thingy in the upper right corner of the Friends window to "Invisible."EDIT: However, it will default back to "Visible" each time you log in. =P
Wow, thats pretty nifty. Thanks for the heads up.And Whoa! it totally imports your in game friend list, holy ---- that pretty d4amn cool.
Ok, a few more pointers on here.
Guess what folks? This Launcher imports your in-game friends list, neat huh? Well, maybe not right now.
It imports your friends list of every single character you have on that account you're logged in with. If 2 characters on that account have some same friends, then you'll find it listing your friend for each time they come up on a list. It's basically repeating the name of your friend, but under your different character names. Clear? Good.
Moving on, once you've added someone, the "online" "offline" doesn't work exactly the same as other chat programs. Lets say, for example, you added me. Now, if you added me using my Launcher friends name (shadow_mxo) what the launcher then does from now on is track me for you regardless of what game and character I'm playing on.
Now, I don't play on any other game (yet) however, lets just say I had a character called Bob on SWG and a character called Dave on EQII. I could log off mxo and go onto SWG and it will still show you that I'm online, just now playing a character called Bob on SWG.
I'm not sure what of these features will still remain come end of beta, yet it needs to be made clear for now.
As Rarebit nicely points out, there are a lot of chat options for which characters you have visible and private and alsorts, so have a look on those settings and set it to how you'd like it.
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Hmm i wonder would it be possible to create a custom GUI for this as even though it looks nice i still prefer the "feel" of MxO's launcher and it would be nice to be able to create a GUI similar to it.
Hmmm... much like SWG's custom version of the current SoE launcher.
Could the possibility for custom GUI's also be a way for players to download different GUI's for different Organisations? Stretching a little further, player made GUI's?
A couple of notes here folks, firstly the new station launcher shouldn't have been available but since it is let me say that it is in the BETA stage. They want feedback, like the broken bits, functionality that doesnt seem to makes sense for the "overall" product, not just for MxO, though MxO specific stuff is useful also.
I dont think they have a method as of yet for the general public to send in feedback so save it up for when they do.
Feedback should be constructive in nature and be worded politely because "it sucks" isnt going to get anyone's attention.
They are looking for well thought out and verbalized comments.
Using it now, i have to say it is really good, apart from the bit where it loads all your friends and crashes, (i had over 1000+ friend, it adds every alts you ever made and there friends)
