Re: Help?
 

Nope. The 300 page manual by Bruce Geryk is the only official one. If you don't have it you probably have been decieved by an evil e-bayer.

Research is easy, just give your mages the research order and chose what school to research in the magics menu. After a couple of turns you have access to a bunc of new spells.

The game would be a lot more understandable if you had a manual http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'd imagine if I did indeed have that Necronomicon-wannabe that I would be able to play the game easier..

Well, I'm sorry for buying a pirated version of the game. The game came in the box, with it's CD key on a sheet of paper. I've gotten games like this before, thought nothing of it because it said it had been used, and hey, people lose manuals. Hell, that's the first thing I tend to lose.

But, thanks for being so helpful. The game *is* fun..

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We all make mistakes, and yours is an understandable one. The game actually does not come in a box at all, it just comes with a 300-page manual (ring binder type), with the CD-key attached inside the front cover and the CD itself in between the manual somewhere. That's how mine arrived. If you really like the game, you can get one through Shrapnel. We'd be glad to have you here if you do that.

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So..what do I do? I mean, the game works with 3.08.

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I would recommend buying a legit copy from ShrapnelGames... otherwise all future patches/fixes beyond 3.08 will not work.
Personally I never purchase anything from EBay unless it's never been opened and the seller has lots of sales with a high rating.

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As NT Jedi said. You should buy a legit copy. That's actually a fairly big deal, since people who use pirated copies after they know about them being pirated, even if they did not get them on purpose like you, will be banned from the forums.

It's been Shrapnel policy that if you use a pirated copy, you will be forcibly denied the support these forums offer. The mods here are required to bring your situation to the attention of the admins, who tend to be rather swift and straightforward in this kind of cases. In your case, they would probably want to talk to you by PM or email to sort some details out and resolve the issue.

Any further discussion in this thread is going to be rather useless, so it should be taken to PM and the issue raised with the admins, who will then take over the arrangements.

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I'm also locking this thread now, since there is nothing more to discuss in public.