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April 23rd, 2004, 12:33 AM
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Surreal, buglike experience
Begin first ever stream-of-consciousness bug report:
Browsing Star Control II shrine. Dominions 2 craving. Run Dominions 2, Version 2.11, CherryScales, Machaka vs. 4 AIs on Aran. Play. Do well. Do not so well. Play some more. Blink. No CD in drive. Blink. Exit application, restart. Game still works. Blink. Insert GTA III: Vice City CD, restart computer, run Dominions 2. Game still works.
Blink.
Not that I'm complaining, or anything.
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April 23rd, 2004, 12:47 AM
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Re: Surreal, buglike experience
Dom2 does not require the CD to play. There's no useless, annoying CD check, and that would be mostly impossible anyway, if anyone was going to ever be able to run a Dom2 server. The CDkey works better than any stupid Safedisc/SecuROM crap anyway, which only causes problems for people who actually bought the game.
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April 23rd, 2004, 02:30 AM
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Re: Surreal, buglike experience
Quote:
Originally posted by Norfleet:
Dom2 does not require the CD to play. There's no useless, annoying CD check, and that would be mostly impossible anyway, if anyone was going to ever be able to run a Dom2 server. The CDkey works better than any stupid Safedisc/SecuROM crap anyway, which only causes problems for people who actually bought the game.
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That type of protection is what I refer to in fear when I say I hope they dont buy into one of the pre-packaged protections.
However, the CD check wouldnt affect hosts servers. The CD-key isnt even checked for host server. Thats why I can use my one CD to install both my Windows machine to play with, and my linux machine to host with.
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April 23rd, 2004, 03:30 PM
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Re: Surreal, buglike experience
Wouldn't it be also hard to implement a CD-check for all four OS where Dominions runs on?
I always presumed that the missing CD-check was another big benefit of a Multi-OS game. Its so annoying to swap CDs all the time...
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April 23rd, 2004, 11:42 PM
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Re: Surreal, buglike experience
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Originally posted by Chazar:
I always presumed that the missing CD-check was another big benefit of a Multi-OS game. Its so annoying to swap CDs all the time...
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Not to mention, sometimes when playing on a laptop you don't even have a CD drive. When traveling, I'll typically leave the CD in favor of a second battery. |
April 24th, 2004, 01:28 AM
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Re: Surreal, buglike experience
Oh.
Deblink.
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April 26th, 2004, 06:31 PM
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Re: Surreal, buglike experience
And even when you do CD checks leave the CD running too long, wasting precious power.
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