Downloading Patches

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Hi,

I own a DVD copy of Sins, installed on my home PC, where I have no internet connection. Can anyone tell me how I can download a patch executable, to take home and install? The system requirements to play the game do not list an internet connection, so I assume there must be a way for offline players to also acquire the rather large list of bugfixes that seems to have been addressed...?

Thanks,

Kat

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Sorry man your outa luck.  You need to have impulse to get the patches now and seeing how you have no connection impulse is useless to you.  What you could do is get a 2/4gb flash drive, install sins on it, download impulse on the computer with the internet connection, update Sins that is installed on the flash drive and than go home with the updated game on the flash drive and copy and paste the files to the computer.  Yes I know it is a lot of work but impulse stops pirates COMPLETELY so that is why they made it mandatory.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting XselenS, reply 1
Yes I know it is a lot of work but impulse stops pirates COMPLETELY so that is why they made it mandatory.
End of XselenS's quote

Complete and utter cow manure. Sorry, but do a search for latest sins patches, and watch the torrent links scroll down the screen.

I'm in a similar situation to the OP - my gaming machine doesn't have a net connection. In my case, not even your advice will work, since my net machine is a linux box.

I'm ANGRY about this. A system for updating legally bought games is fine, as long as you cover ALL your customers. Leaving some, like me, out in the cold is unacceptable. Stardock/Ironclad ARE YOU LISTENING?

 

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

SD is working on getting some kind of solution for this, but it's not ready yet.

 

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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

If what I've read is correct, then their solution is a change to the impulse client to allow downloading patches for offline installation. It's a step further in improving the situation, but it still doesn't help me! As I said, my net box is running linux, not windows. Unless they release a linux client for impulse I'm still out of luck.

They are simply not considering the possible situations their customers may be in, and how the system will affect them. Here's some free information for Stardock: Not everyone in the world has/wants their windows PC networked, and when they have a network connection available on another machine, it's not necessarily running windows, and/or there may be (e.g. work related) restrictions about installing a program such as impulse!

Having a downloadable patch available is fine for the majority of the software vendors in the world, why isn't it an option from Stardock as well?!?