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#4413973 - 03/31/18 01:38 PM Launcher issues  
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My Elite Dangerous launcher is back ot orange color and is asking me to purchase the game. It says my name on the welcome screen so it knows my account, so why is it asking me to buy the game? Anyone else having these issues?

I had this recently but it resolved itself after a few seconds so I figured it just might be the launcher sync-ing with their servers, but it's been on for over 2 minutes now so that's no longer a reasonable explanation.


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#4413976 - 03/31/18 01:40 PM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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Last time I started Elite, it wanted me to "Install" it... which it already is of course. After a few moments, I restarted the launcher and it worked OK for that session.

My launcher was still blue, though no orange. So at least it still was detecting my correct product.


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#4413993 - 03/31/18 04:07 PM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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I've had it today too. Launched this morning, and the launcher asked me to purchase. I restarted and it was fine, but when I ended the session the launcher was asking me to install. This went away after a restart also. I noticed the mission boards were very slow this morning too,


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#4413998 - 03/31/18 04:42 PM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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Server status: Issues detected

Must be Thargoids hacking them.


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#4414016 - 03/31/18 06:25 PM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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Hmmm.... it's back to normal now. Funny how server-side issues affects the launcher. It should be able to detect whether Elite is installed and what versions regardless of server status. frown


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#4414041 - 03/31/18 09:49 PM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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Going to suck for solo games if the player base shrinks one day and servers go bye-bye.


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#4414049 - 03/31/18 10:09 PM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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If that were to happen, wouldn't it suck for ALL game modes?


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#4414093 - 04/01/18 03:44 AM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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Sure, but to not even have solo as an option like most games with SP & MP would be twice the loss. Most games eventually lose the big MP population but you may still have SP to fall back on.


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#4414127 - 04/01/18 12:59 PM Re: Launcher issues [Re: - Ice]  
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I see what you're saying. The game will have to change a bit anyway as even on Solo, it connects to servers to update stations and other nearby instances so if it were to lose servers, the BGS would have to be re-worked to function offline.


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