Client Extender Auto Connect

[Ewe]

This trick has saved me a lot of time, you can create shortcuts that will launch the client extender and automatically connect to a server. This skips a lot of clicking and automates the process. You simply click the shortcut and wait and eventually it will automatically bring you to the select/create character screen for the server.

The way it works is you first create a shortcut to the NWLauncher.exe, then right click the shortcut and click properties.

Once there, in the Target: field enter at the end: +connect game.bgtscc.net

So it should look something like this:

C:\path\to\my\NWLauncher.exe +connect game.bgtscc.net

I made other shortcuts, like the one to my local test server, or to others servers, for instance I can make another shortcut to connect to IP 1.1.1.1 on port 5123 by copying a new shortcut and changing the Target:
NWLauncher.exe +connect 1.1.1.1:5123

This way I have several shortcuts named for each server and I can click them accordingly. This saves a lot of time when I have to restart my local test server and rejoin over and over during bug investigations.