Playing with my CD from several computers with patch 2.11

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
It used to just declare you a cheater (no, turning cheating off in the menu doesnt affect that).

You can turn cheating on/off in the menu? I know the patch said you now could, but I found it humorous to notice that this was not, in fact, something you could actually turn off, but merely something that sat there mocking the would-be cheaters.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
It used to just declare you a cheater (no, turning cheating off in the menu doesnt affect that).

You can turn cheating on/off in the menu? I know the patch said you now could, but I found it humorous to notice that this was not, in fact, something you could actually turn off, but merely something that sat there mocking the would-be cheaters.

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I asked for it to turn off the god check that kept maps (and maybe mods) from creating gods outside of the normal rules. That also generated a "has cheated" message. (I wonder how many people tohught it would turn off the CD-Key check)
While the button not making any change is irritating, apparently other changes also happened which make me quite happy. Apparently (hard to verify but Im working on it) AI's are no longer checked. If a map creates a cheating god, and has that nation automatically AI then it seems to work. If a map creates a cheating god but leaves the AI/Human selection open, and the player selects that nation as an AI then it works.

What bombs now (and apparently that switch is supposed to change) is that the map cannot give a cheating god and let a human player play it. I did consider that maybe the button worked but the screen didnt update. I tested that and it doesnt seem true. The button actually does not seem to work. But for all I know I might be the only person really testing it.

[Johan K]

Some people seems to be concerned with Dominions making a connection to illwinter, so I'll explain why that may happen. We like to offer a bonus for our paying customers and that bonus is being able to patch without having to bother with getting hold of a newly cracked cd-key as well. This bonus has become increasinly harder to provide so we now have to connect to illwinter to verify the key. If it is a legal key you will not notice any difference at all from the Last Version (regarding the cd key). It only checks whether your key is legal or not, it does nothing else, Dominions II never reads any files on your computer that are not Dominions related. Once again to clarify, it only checks if your cd-key is a cracked one.

BTW, I'm on vacation.

[ April 09, 2004, 17:33: Message edited by: Johan K ]