Installing from setup.exe dl. Funny you should mention this, I have not backed up like this for ages but I found an old backup from a while back copied it over but its still doing the same thing, I also noticed I don't have the fixlauncher.exe.

Lol you might be right

No RAID Eldren and the game is installed on my OS drive.

Thanks for this quick reply Cawyden. I have done all of the things you suggest previously and no joy, I used to have to install the game in safe mode until recently so I have been in and out of safe mode a couple of times this evening on the off chance it would help, I have also tried starting the game from the launcher icon within the game folder and I get exactly the same behaviour sadly.

I know there are lots of posts about the launcher not working but few about the launcher not working right after running the setup.exe, nothing appears to happen after I click the game icon but on viewing the task manager I can see the launcher there but it only runs for about 30 seconds and then closes. As I have not even installed the game most of the fixes I have read simply do not apply as I don't have any files to play with, has anyone had this problem and fixed it?

I was looking to see if this option had been implemented to the rank permissions my self last night, in my opinion this is a crucial feature for all the reasons stated by the op.

I like what you have done here but I think you need to add more advanced options such as module class suffix as this enables customisation of the specific module, a feature I use a lot on my site.

If player bounties were to be added I have concerns, this is great if you like PVP but if you are a PVE player like myself it would be a distinct disadvantage if expertise was used in bounty PVP fights, so if this was introduced then expertise would have to be void or there would have to be an opt in/opt out otherwise it would be rather biased towards the PVP players. I'm not against the idea as long as its fair.

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I cant say I agree that the game will be ruined by 12 year olds tbh, there may be an influx at the begining almost like the influx when a game is released, there are plenty of disruptive players for a while and then it settles out. If you look at alot of the FTP games which generally are not totally free to play and Im thinking of item hall based games such as Allods, Aion, Runes of Magic etc they actually have a decent community of helpful pleasant players, sure there is the odd idiot but you are going to find that everywhere. As people have said time will tell and we will only be able to judge when FTP is introduced, we are going to see far more of this in online gaming in the near future, I have read lots of articles dicussing this for and manner of gaming genres its the way its going to go so if its not what you want see for the future of online gaming your going to have to get used to it or go back to single player gaming. Online gaming/multiplayer gaming has evolved a great deal over the years, the biggest problem for me is the no effort required side of things, I cant see it going back to how it was back in the day so we have to accept it or stop playing not alot else we can do no matter how disappointed we are. Just my thoughts

Lol yes and many other countries in the west I suspect including my own, the UK.

U.A.E. Income Distribution As of 2003, the CIA World Factbook has 19.5 percent of the country's population under the poverty line. Fewer than 0.2% of the population controls 90% of the population's wealth. Source: Internationalbusiness.wikia.com Way to go UAE

Any excuse to have a whinge about server mergers and cross server lfg tools with some of you isnt it, do you guys really think BW are as stupid as you like to think they are? They are well aware of the server population levels, do you think the BW staff have all had their eyes poked out? They are a very successful company and I think they know how to run a business without your inane advice. Anyway welcome to all those players across europe and the middle east.

For god sake let it go yawn.

I have my own guild in this game and have had in others, I have had no restrictions on age in one game and there have been problems caused by younger members and then no problems in other games, unfortunately its usually a youngster falling out with and older member but to be fair not aways the youngster at fault. In SWTOR i decided to have a loose age restriction of 20+ only, however we do have younger members, we dont have an open invite policy as such so its sort of by invite only or recommendation, if you pug with someone who is looking for a guild and they seem like a good sort and accept what our guild stands for as what they are looking for then fine. We have two members in particular who came to the guild due to one of their parents being with us, as they are both under 18 I expect their parent to have a certain amount of responsibilty for their behaviour but there has been no need as they get on with the game are polite and fun to be with and valued members of our little community. So it can work