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How to update to 1.13

January 31, 2009 1:24:57 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I bought Entrenchment, but before I installed it I copied my sins directory and then installed Entrenchment. This allowed me to play Entrenchment and Vanilla sins. I've successfully updated Entrenchment, but have failed to update my vanilla sins version to 1.13. I've tried renaming the directories, but Impulse still thinks I have Entrenchment installed and up to date, even though when I ask it to open the application directory, it opens the diretcory for vanilla sins.

I find Impulse intensely frustrating, and I believe Stardock / Ironclad are guilty of putting sales very much first over ease of use for existing users. I think they should do the decent thing and make the updates available in the normal straightforward way, and not thorugh Impulse which just makes it very hard to update.

I feel that having bought Sins and Entrenchment Stardocks / Ironclads policies are defrauding me of legimate updates.

 

 

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Reply #1 January 31, 2009 1:46:40 PM
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When the Entrenchment Beta is installed, it installs over Sins. Thus, as far as Impulse knows, you only have Entrenchment. This is to be changed in the final release, or at least so that you will be able to play both.

You'll have to uninstall Entrenchment and reinstall Sins to get the 1.13 patch. I assume patching will work differently once Entrenchment final is released.

 

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Reply #2 January 31, 2009 6:44:31 PM
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What happens if you CAN'T remove Entrenchment???

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Reply #3 February 1, 2009 8:05:59 AM
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It's a load of unnecessary hassle and downloading of data, even assuming Impulse does do the uninstall - update - install process correctly. Personally I'd be lot more sanguine about that process if I had an installer on a CD, depending on the black magic and superstition that is Impulse is a step too far.

I just don't understand why Stardock is so wedded to Impulse,  I understand they can use it to advertise their other products, but I'm already getting spam from them about their other products, so I'd be much happier if they gave it up Impulse during the Entrenchment beta, and allowed us access to both versions. Yes I'm happy to test the beta, but sometimes I like to be able to play a long game to completion, something I've failed to do with beta 2 so far.

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Reply #4 February 1, 2009 9:28:32 PM
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I would be happy with having two program folders patching indpendently via Impulse - that way I could patch a vanilla Sins install AND a Entrenchment install. I don't have an issue with the extra download - just with not being able to have both at the same time...

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