Usage

Close EVE first. Every mutating action is blocked while a client is running, and the toolbar warns you as soon as it detects one.

Copy to characters

  1. Open the Characters tab.
  2. Click the character whose settings you want to spread. It is marked as the source.
  3. Select one or more targets.
  4. Copy.

The source character's core_char_<id>.dat is written over each target's, and the app reports exactly what it wrote and what it skipped, with a reason for each skip.

Account-level settings

Alongside the per-character file, EVE keeps a core_user_<userId>.dat per account. Replicator Redux copies the source character's user file too, when it can work out which account that character belongs to.

There is no mapping between characters and accounts inside the settings files themselves, so the app reads it out of the EVE launcher's logs, which record userId / characterId pairs at login. Two consequences worth knowing:

  • A character you have never logged in since installing the launcher may not have a known account, so only its character file gets copied.
  • Log parsing is incremental. It remembers how far it read, so it does not chew through gigabytes of logs on every copy.

Groups

A group is a named set of characters, and it exists so you can stop ctrl-clicking the same eleven alts every time.

In the Groups tab, create a group, name it, and set its members. Then from Characters, pick a source and copy to the group: every member is treated as a target in a single run.

Deleting a group deletes only the grouping. It never touches settings files.

Templates

A template is a saved copy of one character's settings, stored inside the app's own database rather than on top of a live character.

Use them when the profile matters more than the character it came from: a tuned combat overview, a hauling layout, a clean baseline you hand to every new alt.

  • Save from the Characters or Templates tab, naming it as you go.
  • Apply to any number of characters later.
  • Delete removes the stored template. Characters you already applied it to are untouched.

A template captures the character file at the moment you saved it. It does not track the character afterwards. If you re-tune the source, save a new template.

Reading the copy report

Every copy returns two lists: what was written, and what was skipped along with why. Skips are normal, not failures. Common reasons:

  • The target is also the source.
  • The target character's file could not be found in any detected settings directory.
  • The source account's user file does not exist on disk.

Next: Version Control.