Foreword:
When I started to write this little application, it was only thought to enable players who have Gameforge Live installed, to start aion without the need of starting GF Live too. While writing and testing, I found out that there are much more usefull possibilities with this sort of starting the game. Here they are:
Features:
-Enables starting the game multiple times on the same Computer. (This way you can play on one computer with the same user with different accounts multiple times at once. What this is usefull for? For example if you want to give something from your 1. Account to your 2. Account.)
-Enables GF Live users to avoid the starting of GF Live.
-Disables the game's versions Checking and also skips the Starting Client
-Enables you to run the game even if your Client is outdated.
-Disables FileChecking of the game. (Files are no more checked for their trueness before the game starts)
Known Issues:
It might happen that players sometimes loose the gold-paket effect. This means, if you have GP active and run the game with this starter, the GP effect won't be active. If you start the game after that normal again you will have your GP effect as always - it doesn't delete it, just sometimes miss or ignores it when starting with the Starter.
Usage:
1. Run the Aion Starter and check your language (for now, it only has German and English, let me know if you need any other languages, too).
2. Click the Browse button and select the Path to your Aion.bin. It can be found in your installationsdirectory, depending on if you have GF Live or not.
Exampledirectory for GF Live:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GameforgeLive\Games\DEU_deu\AION\Download\bi n32\aion.bin
(Varies, depending on where you installed it and what language you use)
3. Click "Start" and wait until the game started.
Additional Information:
This program was written by me in C# with Visual Studio 2012 for Desktop.
Download:
Ideas for Later Versions
Please let me know if you want one of the below listed features (or any other features) in a later version.
-Add remember settings option to avoid annoying repeats of setting up the Starter.
-Add autorun setting (skip the setting window and just start the game with the before set settings from the last execution of the programm)
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64 Bit Version
-Added checkbox to enable 64 bit client usage.
-Remember checkbox is already there but not useable yet, I'm working on that. Please have some patience, I'll be away for 2 weeks now and do this when I'm back home.
Version 1.3
-Added support for any language
-Added support for private servers
-Added support for NA players
-Remember function has been implanted but is still not useable yet because of some issues that still appear.
-Changed window style
Version 1.4
-Fixed issues with remember function
-Enabled remember function
-updated code (replaced some code to make it work better)
-Added Settings Save function
-Adjusted button styles