People with copies of PTW (post here) - Page 3

Beta · December 19, 2002, 19:22

Witt - you are right. We all have copies.

Which means we should win by default for being the first team to hit 100% ownership.

Admiral PJ · December 20, 2002, 15:37

I've got PTW in britain, but I'm wanting to install the 1.14patch , though its not released here. (i've got 1.01 )
Any idea when it will be released?

Theres a lso some errors in 1.14 on PBEM, that allow cheating , I won't say them in case people dont know about them.

alva · December 20, 2002, 15:59

Me thinks this thread is kind offf reduntant.

Admiral: there is more then one way to cheat in a PBEM, even by accident

Odin · December 24, 2002, 18:14

I finnally got it!

Wittlich · December 27, 2002, 02:23

Congrats Odin!

trickey · December 27, 2002, 22:14

I got a copy for Christmas, and im all patched uo now!

Kuciwalker · December 30, 2002, 09:08

I've got it.

Eli · December 30, 2002, 10:12

I have it for a while.

Randolph · December 30, 2002, 10:33

I don't think it really matters anymore; we just wanted to make sure that enough people had the game to start playing (which has long since been established).

But if you really want to announce it, more power to you.

Kuciwalker · December 30, 2002, 16:32

Power to me!

Panag · December 31, 2002, 22:39

hi ,

had it for a while

still waiting for MAC

have a nice day

lmtoops · January 3, 2003, 00:25

Shameless post count reply....I have it!!

Barfus · January 6, 2003, 22:42

what %^

alva · January 6, 2003, 23:03

Maybe we should make a thread for people who don't have it

Shiber · February 3, 2003, 10:46

The game finally arrived at my door yesterday.
Well, not really at my door, more like at the local post office, but who minds the details anyway.

Dis · February 3, 2003, 14:09

I have my copy!

Although I'm worried about it. Sometimes it has trouble starting up. Too many smudges on the cd I guess.

GhengisFarb™ · February 3, 2003, 14:52

Quote:

Originally posted by Dissident
I have my copy!

Although I'm worried about it. Sometimes it has trouble starting up. Too many smudges on the cd I guess.

That's due to the fact that Infogrames standard policy is to use low grade CDs for its products.

Infrogrames has a reputation for extremely poor customer service and product quality. Of course it looks good on the bottom line, when your paying $.01 per CD and the rest of the industry is paying 10 times that to provide CDs that will always work.

WarriorPoet · February 3, 2003, 15:23

so...do you improve quality/reliability by burning a copy, using a higher quality cd, like a TDK for instance?

Aro · February 3, 2003, 15:27

I have tried to burn backup copies of my Civ CD's, including PTW. Those copies never worked.

ThePlagueRat · February 4, 2003, 10:06

I ain't got it anymore.

We had a break and enter at the office...
Only thing stolen: my PTW and Civ3 CDs.

Can you believe it?!

Panag · February 4, 2003, 10:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Aro
I have tried to burn backup copies of my Civ CD's, including PTW. Those copies never worked.

hi ,

, thats strange , .....

well there was someone who had a solution to that , but thats a whole caseload of threads ago , ......

you can do it , and it should not be that hard to find someone with the experience here at apolyton , .....

bring it up in the chatroom next time , ..... (!)

have a nice day

Aro · February 4, 2003, 11:44

Thanks, panag.

Shiber · February 4, 2003, 12:07

In the past few years, there has been much development in the area of anti-piracy mechanisms. These days, corporates actually have ways to prevent you from burning their product even if you make an exact replica rawdata-wise. For example, I've read about a mechanism that does not allow the game to run if the CD it's loading from is not coated with the same material that the original CDs are. I think it can tell by the intensity of the returning signal that the drive picks up, or by the condensity of read errors returned.
Anyway, every lock has a key. Check Game Copy World, they have cracks and burning instructions per-game.

Good luck!

Shiber · February 4, 2003, 12:08

Quote:

Originally posted by ThePlagueRat
I ain't got it anymore.

We had a break and enter at the office...
Only thing stolen: my PTW and Civ3 CDs.

Can you believe it?!

Are you serious???

ThePlagueRat · February 4, 2003, 12:17

Yep, and I suspect the criminal(s) to be a student.
It happened in a student org. office,
and I assume the door was locked. A very odd incident indeed.
(i think i need to start some investigations)

Aro · February 4, 2003, 12:29

I can forgive almost everything, but... this? ThePlaguerat, catch those bastards and shot them!
How can someone do a thing like that???

Edit: typos

Panag · February 4, 2003, 12:42

Quote:

Originally posted by Aro
I can forgive almost everything, but... this? ThePlaguerat, catch those bastards and shot them!
How can someone do a thing like that???

hi ,

well a good investigation should lead to the criminal , ....

change those locks plaguerat (!)

and next time put those disks in a save place , ....

in a box in the fridge with the label ; biohazard , .....

have a nice day

Beta · February 4, 2003, 13:06

So if someone called "studentatplagueratsschool' tries to join Apolyton, we can nail him.

(btw - bummer PlagueRat.

)

ThePlagueRat · February 4, 2003, 16:04

If the Civ-thief really dare to join here, I will need to ask Markos to track down his IP so I can go visit the criminal some day,

, and tie him to a chair and post the civ3-pics of Catharina the Great inside his glasses... So he has something really ugly to watch while I am deleting all his savegames.

E_T · February 16, 2003, 18:41

I just got a copy of PTW from a freind, for Imbolc (a pagan holiday), so I need to start figuring this out....

E_T