Weekend Impulse Buy: Dawn of Discovery™ Gold - 50% OFF

Thanks for the headsup Gravedancer. Played the Demo when it first came out then decided to wait until they fixed some of the issues. And then just forgot all about it. Now gathering info; this is a darn good deal!

There is now an Anno 1404 Wiki which should help a lot learning and playing the game.

Only snake in the garden I see at the moment is the DRM which remains TAGES with 3 activation limit. But there seems to be a "way around that" for sneaky people should it prove necessary.

Hmmm ... so I get the Demo of Civilization V and wait for them to fix inevitable release issues and finally get all the Civs and Maps into one DLC. This should take what ... six months? By then there should be cool mods too. Doesn't matter, I've got Civ IV and III anyway.

By then I should just be learning how to play this rather complex game.

Only snake in the garden I see at the moment is the DRM which remains TAGES with 3 activation limit. But there seems to be a "way around that" for sneaky people should it prove necessary.

I know, right! Heck, take TAGES off it and I'll buy it at FULL price.

Quoting mbaron888,

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Only snake in the garden I see at the moment is the DRM which remains TAGES with 3 activation limit. But there seems to be a "way around that" for sneaky people should it prove necessary.

I know, right! Heck, take TAGES off it and I'll buy it at FULL price.

Yep agree with you there. Impulse is fucked and the tages combination is a nightmare!

Is there a full description of TAGES somewhere?

Quoting mbaron888,

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Only snake in the garden I see at the moment is the DRM which remains TAGES with 3 activation limit. But there seems to be a "way around that" for sneaky people should it prove necessary.

I know, right! Heck, take TAGES off it and I'll buy it at FULL price.

In that case, unless you're the "digital distribution is the future and boxes are evil" kind of person, I strongly suggest that you buy the retail version and apply the 1.1 patch. It removes TAGES activation completely.

Quoting VonVentrue,

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In that case, unless you're the "digital distribution is the future and boxes are evil" kind of person, I strongly suggest that you buy the retail version and apply the 1.1 patch. It removes TAGES activation completely.

If you can find a copy of the game in retail.

Quoting mbaron888,

reply 2

Only snake in the garden I see at the moment is the DRM which remains TAGES with 3 activation limit. But there seems to be a "way around that" for sneaky people should it prove necessary.
I know, right! Heck, take TAGES off it and I'll buy it at FULL price.

Tages is the reason I refuse to buy this game. I am not a pirate, and do not expect to be treated as one. If everyone boycotts these companies with these outrageous copy protection scams, then the world would be a much better place. After all I'm sure you can download the hacked version of this game somewhere, so why punish the people that legally purchased this game, and want to play it on several computers. I own two laptops and 4 desktops, all in different parts of the house. Too bad, it looks like a game I could really get into.

Gravedancer, is there a digital download patch that remedies this?

At least according to Wikipedia, Ubisoft will give you more activations if you ask for them, but still seems like a pain and who knows how long that will take.

Still I only have 1 computer I doubt I'll be activating it multiple places so I'm more concernted about who good the game itself is. The getting started wiki isn't exactly organized in a way that gives you any kind of overview of the game.

Quoting VonVentrue,

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In that case, unless you're the "digital distribution is the future and boxes are evil" kind of person, I strongly suggest that you buy the retail version and apply the 1.1 patch. It removes TAGES activation completely.

Hmm...I wonder since the version Impulse is selling is v1.2 if TAGES has been removed from it and it's mislabled in the catalog.

Not that I'm going to try and find out the hard way.

I played it for a bit last night.

The version was 1.2 which is the most current version.

I know that if you had the DVD version, the patch was supposed to remove the activation limit or requirement. From what I had read, this didn't apply to digital downloads. The wiki doesn't make the distinction but I'm not going to put faith into the wiki.

When I installed it, there was a prompt specific to TAGES. I also checked and there is information stored in the directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Tages. However I imagine if you installed from the DVD that TAGES would still be there. I think the patch just removes the activation requirement from the game itself.

From what else I read, it doesn't sound like it's going to be a big deal to get more activations. Yes, there may be an inconvenience as you might have to wait. It doesn't sound like it's too picky - changing video cards doesn't count, it's the motherboard and one or two other elements. So if you're going to only use it on 1 or 2 PCs, probably not a problem. If you have 4, then yeah, it's going to be a problem.

I understand that people will refuse to buy the game out of a matter of principle. I respect that. I think seeing the fact that they removed it (at least for the DVD) in the later patch is good enough for me that they got the message. Although it could be that enough time had passed from the games release that TAGES had served it's purpose. I don't know and honestly I don't care.

From the little bit of time I spent with the game, so far it looks really good. Definitely worth the sale price! Seriously, I think this is something that I can definitely get into and play for a long time. Until something new and shiny my way comes, lol.

I'm more concernted about who good the game itself is. The getting started wiki isn't exactly organized in a way that gives you any kind of overview of the game.

FadedC the first missions of the campaign are very tutorial. Maybe the whole campaign is tutorial. Continuous game is more of a sandbox builder that you set up like you like. There is a game speed control and a pause command. Like Sins or Sim City, get in and dink around.

As to whether it is a good game, check player reviews on gamespot and such. Youtube has lots and lots of videos under Dawn of Discovery and Anno 1404 which may be helpful. This is a builder game in which combat plays a minor role.

Quoting wilebill,

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I'm more concernted about who good the game itself is. The getting started wiki isn't exactly organized in a way that gives you any kind of overview of the game.

FadedC the first missions of the campaign are very tutorial. Maybe the whole campaign is tutorial. Continuous game is more of a sandbox builder that you set up like you like. There is a game speed control and a pause command. Like Sins or Sim City, get in and dink around.

As to whether it is a good game, check player reviews on gamespot and such. Youtube has lots and lots of videos under Dawn of Discovery and Anno 1404 which may be helpful. This is a builder game in which combat plays a minor role.

Actually I found there is a demo for it which was helpful to play. Kind of reminds me a bit of the Caesar games but without as much emphasis on roads.

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