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Issue is as follows. I have zero need for this programme and never will have. I don't want several different programmes to open various games, especially when I will never have more than a single game from there....

I have added a short cut to the .exe file for STO which opens up the game just nicely, but my password refuses to stay in the box. Before ARC their was a fast launch option where it kept your pass in there and simply started the game on opening the .exe file.

Anyone know how I can get back to that please ?

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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    Without Arc? You probably can't.

    As they say, you can't have your cake and eat it too. (Not an Arc user myself - which comes in handy whenever the forum decides to log me out, as I've essentially been trained to remember my password very well. :))

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  • nickcastletonnickcastleton Member Posts: 1,212 Arc User
    i dont have arc i got sto through steam.
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  • bejaymacbejaymac Member Posts: 448 Arc User
    Pre Arc install here, for me STO's launcher only remembers the account name and never the password, and that's pretty much how it is for most MMO's I play.​​
  • feiqafeiqa Member Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    bejaymac wrote: »
    Pre Arc install here, for me STO's launcher only remembers the account name and never the password, and that's pretty much how it is for most MMO's I play.​​

    Agreed.
    Was on pre-arc and since and it never remembered the password. Only the user name.

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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    there was chat about sto being only on arc and steam a while back but nothing ever came of it. i use the non steam and non arc version, the cryptic launcher.

    also in 2012 i think it was, cryptic accounts had to be merged with PWI account system, at the time this caused original name issues for the accounts of a number of people. i can not even remember my original account name, however it was not mirrorchaos.
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  • earwigvr6earwigvr6 Member Posts: 293 Arc User
    HHmm strange. I am also certain that before ARC it used to remember my password. Perhaps I was mistaken. I did launch from Steam at one point. Would that have stored the pass maybe ?


    In any case even if I cannot get it to remember the password, I certainly won't be going back to ARC.
  • chastity1337chastity1337 Member Posts: 1,606 Arc User
    i dont have arc i got sto through steam.

    Steam uber alles
  • twg042370twg042370 Member Posts: 2,312 Arc User
    What's the difference between Steam and Arc?

    One is keeping Half-life 3 from being made due to Valve not needing the money. Thus: Stop using Steam.
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  • chastity1337chastity1337 Member Posts: 1,606 Arc User
    twg042370 wrote: »
    What's the difference between Steam and Arc?

    One is keeping Half-life 3 from being made due to Valve not needing the money. Thus: Stop using Steam.

    Let's not derail the thread with irrelevant speculation, hmm?

    Like every other red-blooded gamer, I share your years-long frustration, but let's not go there in this venue, please.

  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,100 Arc User
    azrael605 wrote: »
    twg042370 wrote: »
    What's the difference between Steam and Arc?

    One is keeping Half-life 3 from being made due to Valve not needing the money. Thus: Stop using Steam.

    Let's not derail the thread with irrelevant speculation, hmm?

    Like every other red-blooded gamer, I share your years-long frustration, but let's not go there in this venue, please.

    My blood is quite red, yet I have no interest in the Half-Life series in the slightest.

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  • commandersolacecommandersolace Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    Install using the old stand alone launcher? http://files.startrekonline.com/launcher/Star Trek Online.exe

    Thank god for Google Internet Cache :#

    Found that link HERE
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  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    azrael605 wrote: »
    My blood is quite red, yet I have no interest in the Half-Life series in the slightest.

    something we agree on.... lightning done struck the shithouse
  • lexusk19lexusk19 Member Posts: 1,403 Arc User
    Download it through ARC, then go into program files and make a shortcut of the launcher. You can now launch STO without ARC running. :) Otherwise just use Steam.
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,331 Arc User
    The standalone launcher has never remembered the password. I'm astounded the OP is threatening to quit because it doesn't! It takes 2 seconds to input your password, why is this such an inconvenience for you!?
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  • earwigvr6earwigvr6 Member Posts: 293 Arc User
    leemwatson wrote: »
    The standalone launcher has never remembered the password. I'm astounded the OP is threatening to quit because it doesn't! It takes 2 seconds to input your password, why is this such an inconvenience for you!?

    Please enlighten me as to where I mentioned I was going to quit ?

    All I want to do is remove an annoying programme for which I have no need for.

    As for quitting, I have not mentioned that, although I have to admit that due to the extremely poor state of the game I have not played consistantly for many many months now. But that is due to the endless boring grind of repeating the same things over and over in a groundhog day style and nothing to do with the launcher being unable to hold my password :open_mouth:
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,331 Arc User
    earwigvr6 wrote: »
    HHmm strange. I am also certain that before ARC it used to remember my password. Perhaps I was mistaken. I did launch from Steam at one point. Would that have stored the pass maybe ?


    In any case even if I cannot get it to remember the password, I certainly won't be going back to ARC.

    Forgive me if i misunderstood, however that is an 'I'll quit if the launcher won't remember my password' statement.

    Let me make this clear. For best security, never have anything on your computer 'remember password'.

    You're making a huge fuss for the fact you can't save 2 seconds typing in the password via the original launcher, never mind the Arc program, which by the way brings up the original launcher when you start the game up.

    If you want to, you can move the strekonline.exe to an new directory, it will however have to reinstall the game. Then you can delete ARC. However, there still will be no option to remember your password.
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    leemwatson wrote: »
    earwigvr6 wrote: »
    HHmm strange. I am also certain that before ARC it used to remember my password. Perhaps I was mistaken. I did launch from Steam at one point. Would that have stored the pass maybe ?


    In any case even if I cannot get it to remember the password, I certainly won't be going back to ARC.

    Forgive me if i misunderstood, however that is an 'I'll quit if the launcher won't remember my password' statement.

    Let me make this clear. For best security, never have anything on your computer 'remember password'.

    You're making a huge fuss for the fact you can't save 2 seconds typing in the password via the original launcher, never mind the Arc program, which by the way brings up the original launcher when you start the game up.

    If you want to, you can move the strekonline.exe to an new directory, it will however have to reinstall the game. Then you can delete ARC. However, there still will be no option to remember your password.

    Actually, his statement is quite clear. He establishes the following:

    1. He thought Steam or the original launcher stored his password like Arc does.

    2. He launched his game from Steam at one point.

    3. Even if he can't convince the original launcher to remember his password, he won't continue using Arc, but he will NOT stop playing the game. (At any rate, he won't stop playing the game because of this particular issue - as elaborated by his next post, he's not too satisfied by the state of the game, however this is completely separate from his not wanting to use Arc anymore.)

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  • earwigvr6earwigvr6 Member Posts: 293 Arc User
    That post simply states that I will not be going back to using ARC to launch the game if the standalone launcher does not save the password.

    And it's more than saving 2 seconds. In an ideal world you should be able to simply click on the game to launch, then go make a coffee or something and when you come back it's loaded. As with most other games :D
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    i dont use password save, my memory at the best of times is fuzzy, so forcing myself to remember the password helps, besides it increases security without needing to keep the password logged somewhere.
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  • caldannachcaldannach Member Posts: 485 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    Im not paranoid, im not a drama queen, i dont care if someone knows what i am doing on my computer, and i don't care where my games are stored.

    I have been using it since launch, yet i launch my game through steam. I have to input my password each time and guess what, its not the biggest issue in my life, hard as that may be to believe on these forums.

    Also note, no Korean assassins have dropped into my room. No funds have gone missing from my account. Nothing has been tampered with on my computer. If they want to watch me wanking to pornhub, they can fill their boots.

    I dont get why people have such an issue with ARC even now. Some people need to get over themselves and grow up.
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    caldannach wrote: »
    Im not paranoid, im not a drama queen, i dont care if someone knows what i am doing on my computer, and i don't care where my games are stored.

    I have been using it since launch, yet i launch my game through steam. I have to input my password each time and guess what, its not the biggest issue in my life, hard as that may be to believe on these forums.

    Also note, no Korean assassins have dropped into my room. No funds have gone missing from my account. Nothing has been tampered with on my computer. If they want to watch me wanking to pornhub, they can fill their boots.

    I dont get why people have such an issue with ARC even now. Some people need to get over themselves and grow up.

    you should look at your own avatar and realise where you just placed yourself when you wrote this.
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  • jslynjslyn Member Posts: 1,784 Arc User
    Ooooh. THAT Arc. From the title I thought that they were complain about about the Weapon Mod ARC.

    No, the program doesn't see to be there for much other as an ad for other games.
  • earwigvr6earwigvr6 Member Posts: 293 Arc User
    My problem with ARC is that I am tired of being forced to install a programme to allow me to play a game ?

    If I want to play a game, that is ALL i should have. I should not need a separate programme in order for me to play it.

    We have Steam, Origin, Uplay, ARC, Rockstar etc.... Why do we need all these things to just play a game ? It was ok I guess in the beginning where we just had steam and could have ALL games in Steam, but then everyone else started jumping on the bandwagon. It's beyond silly now. I don't want my PC clogged up with garbage that I don't want. I already Boycott Ubisoft games altogether alongside EA's Origin. Although that has mostly to do with their poor games and treatment of their customer base.
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