Hollow Man

Hollow Man

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Reply to The learning curve, in my opinion, is *punishing* =( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

There is some good information here, but I will add two things: 1. If you already know something about RTS games, you can begin by choosing a smallish galaxy and doing 1v1 vs. an easy AI. This will be enough to have an idea of how to use the interface and give you enough time to decide what to build. If you don't have experience with RTS games, going for a larger map will buy even more time. 2. Use the pause button on your keyboard any time you feel overwhelmed. In a singl

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Reply to login/join woes - AFTER 1.04 update in Technical Sins Forums

Hully-M: one of the people in your party probably got the update from Impulse, so it's causing trouble for all of you. The Impulse update person can reinstall, but I would say that if they just download the standalone patch, it'll probably rewrite the files and they'll be fine. Anyone who got the update standalone or from SDC does not need to do anything. CptSiddy: I was just able to login to ICO fine. Frogboy: is there a file, with date and time parameters, or maybe a lack o

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Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.04 released! in Sins News Sins Forums

Ok, good. But for the heck of it, I downloaded and ran the standalone patch from the "update" URL over my Impulse patching. It ran fine. With luck it just went over the top of the Impulse patch and put back anything that may have been missing or not updated. I can still get on ICO, so I assume I'm still good. EDIT: I went to SDC after I ran the standalone patch, and it said I had 1.04, and 1.04.022 was available. I assume they're really the same thing, but I decided to run

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Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.04 released! in Sins News Sins Forums

But what if we already downloaded through Impulse? I did that with a friend, and we played a game together fine. Should we expect another patch? EDIT: Hrm, now Sins isn't showing up in Impulse. -HM

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Reply to Impulse BETA download in Impulse Beta GalCiv2 Forums

Zargon, that's cool. But what do you recommend for those folks that already have installed the GalCiv2 expansions with an older version of SDC? What should they do to ensure Impulse recognizes the installation(s)? Is their only recourse to add the needed registry values? Or reinstall the expansions? -HM

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Reply to 1.04 ?!? in Technical Sins Forums

It baffles me that you guys would release another standalone patch after 1.03 easily got on the respectable file sites (Fileshack, Filefront, etc.). Now the pirates will be able to update their game as well... -HM

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Reply to 1.04 ?!? in Technical Sins Forums

I see it in Impulse. Grr, it deleted my screen settings again. -HM

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Reply to Impulse BETA download in Impulse Beta GalCiv2 Forums

There's a bug with Impulse not recognizing the GalCiv2 expansions because it seems that SDC is not putting all the key values in place for them. If you are handy with the registry, you can manually fix it by following what I said in reply #5 [link="https://forums.stardock.com/305467"]here[/link]. I've mentioned it in various threads around the Stardock forums, but it seems that Stardock has yet to come up with a fix to get those registry key values inserted. As to why Impulse

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Reply to Beta in Demigod Stardock Forums

Oh noes, looks like kryo got hit by the "forums go boom" problem. :) Thanks kryo, -HM

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Reply to Beta in Demigod Stardock Forums

Thanks for checking. I passed a message to sales, because even if it's not available, it should still show up as something I paid for. Otherwise I could forget I ordered it and order it again! Oh wait, hrm, conspiracy theories... :) -HM

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Reply to Beta in Demigod Stardock Forums

Well I preordered, and while I got a confirmation email, it's not showing up in my account (although my previous purchases do) at store.stardock.com. Am I just being impatient? -HM

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Reply to When will the preorder be charged? in Demigod Stardock Forums

That's what I thought happened when I preordered Twilight and Dark Avatar, but I couldn't remember. I'm trying to get a friend to preorder this with me, and he wanted to know for sure. Thanks guys! -HM

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Reply to I take it I shouldn't bother with the beta... in Demigod Demigod Forums

The problem is if your motherboard is AGP (which I suspect it is), it's just better to scrap it and finally go PCI Express. Spending the extra money to attempt to get an AGP system up to snuff is just money wasted. -HM

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