New Shortcut, or how to log in to game ASAP

[Matkun]

Windows users -> Double- clicking the FINAL FANTASY XI desktop shortcut will take players into the PlayOnline Viewer. By adjusting "shortcut commands" within the viewer's main menu, a player can choose to have the FINAL FANTASY XI desktop shortcut take him/her directly to the FINAL FANTASY XI top page.

So, anybody figure out how to do this yet?

I haven't found any "shortcut commands" menu.

[plake]

I just got in to POL, theres' a whoel new main menu in it. I'm looking around

[Kailo]

You might want to check under the "Global" tab in the Playonline config. I believe there's an option to set a desktop shortcut straight to FFXI. I haven't tried it yet and I could be wrong, but it's worth a shot.

[plake]

Sorry for the double post.

Teh shortcut option in the POL config tool only does a shortcut to the pol.exe

[Cerin]

"By adjusting "shortcut commands" within the viewer's main menu, a player can choose to have the FINAL FANTASY XI desktop shortcut take him/her directly to the FINAL FANTASY XI top page."

I'm looking into this right now...POL is kinda laggy for me, though.

edit - Blah, can't find anything like that. I hope it's not so lame as to only get you into POL where you then press that little "Shortcut" icon on the POL menu and, wow, you're at the FFXI game page and you have to press Play again. Thanks for saving me 10 seconds.

Sidenote: the /shutdown command is really nice. Gets you out of FF11 completely, shuts down POL, and you are back to the desktop all in one step. Very nice.

[icesharc]

A few days ago I asked a GM about this because I couldnt find the shortcut (it was mentioned in june updates I think). The GM responded that this was available only to Chains of Promathia users. I'm not sure if the GM misunderstood that because the PS2 version requires the cd. So maybe this is only for COP?

[Tomoh]

For PS2 users, if you keep the CoP disc in your PS2, you will be taken to FFXI top page.

[Gumbercules]

Start Menu > Programs > Playonline > FFXI > Config > Make shortcut.

[vudoodoodoo]

Nope, still the same thing as using the POL desktop shortcut.

[Ungerpurr]

...except after you do that, it now has a little crystal that appears to the left of the "games" tab in the main menu, that takes you straight to FFXI...saves you all of one click (before it was games -> FFXI, now you can click straight to FFXI from the main menu).

Altogether now they've saved us three clicks out of the original ten or whatever (the first two clicks saved with the auto-logon to POL thing that happened quite a while ago).

[Rones]

Yep, an absolutly worthless shortcut. Seriously, how hard is it to have a desktop shortcut go straight to character selection screen and auto match handle to character with a side option menu to change it instead of having to approve the match every time. Double click desktop icon to enter game, single click to select character, and then you are in game...or at least that's how Iit should be layed out. :sweat:

[Godchain]

So unbelievably useless.

It saves 1 click, really, instead of clicking "Games -> FFXI" you click the little useless crystal and it takes you to the useless FFXI title screen.


Useless.

[CarbonFibre]

Reviving this thread. Basically in order to even use the shortcut on PS2, I need to always log in from the CoP disc which in the end won't really save me any time having to get it out and load it up. Can't they just make it in the update to be in POL anyway? How hard would it be?