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Questions about LAN and Impulse

April 21, 2011 10:11:25 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I have Trinity (on a physical disc), and I've registered and updated it with Impulse. Is it possible/legal for me to have a LAN game with a friend who doesn't own the game, or does he have to buy a copy? I read in the manual I can play on 2 connected machines using the same serial, but would he need Impulse for updates? I'm a bit confused.

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Reply #1 April 21, 2011 10:26:37 PM
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It is possible, the only time the game cares about your registration is for updates and online multiplayer. Legally its more of a gray zone, if they are both your computers its probably okay. Otherwise well its debatable but you can certainly do it.

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Reply #2 April 21, 2011 10:29:50 PM
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Do both games need to be fully updated to play LAN multiplayer?

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Reply #3 April 21, 2011 10:34:47 PM
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For LAN you just need to have the same version, whatever it is. Doesn't have to me the most recent one.

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Reply #4 April 22, 2011 10:25:50 AM
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So since I'm on 1.2, he has to be too? How will he get the update if he isn't registered?

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Reply #5 April 22, 2011 10:50:53 AM
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for some reason it reposted my edit

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Reply #6 April 22, 2011 10:52:16 AM
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You can download the game onto another computer with no issues (at least I have never found one). The biggest issue is Stardock may want to stop the pirates but they know not to punish the customer and any future customers like their friends. I believe the limit of downloads is like 1,000 times in an hour so you might want to be careful there.

The only issue with registration is when getting online.

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Reply #7 April 22, 2011 1:54:20 PM
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If I download the game onto another computer, can I update it too? Do I even need to?

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Reply #8 April 22, 2011 2:35:02 PM
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If you download a game though impulse it should download the latest version.

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Reply #9 April 22, 2011 3:29:46 PM
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Oh ok, cool, thanks for the info everybody.

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