When a city with an opposite alignment to your wizard is conquered, you no longer become neutral automatically. US Manual - Owners of the US version of the game should note that a full appendix containing unit and spell listings is on the game CD in the form of a PDF file. Turn off Resolution Switches in aowSMSetup.exe. Run the game after a fresh reboot, with all background tasks shut down using the Ctrl-Alt-Del menu. In some cases, older video drivers may work better. Make sure all drivers (video / sound / motherboard / etc) are up-to-date. Make sure DirectX 9b or later is installed. Lockups, Random Crashes, or Corrupt Video - Users experiencing any of these issues are urged to try the following: In case those links are unavailable, try the alternative Take 2 Patches page or their direct link to the 1.3 patch. Alternatively, here's a direct link to the 1.3 patch. Detail documentation can be found here.įew people still use the official v13 patch (since v14 is largely the same, but offers more content) from Gathering's official site. Sidenote: This has been addressed slightly in the upcoming sequel, by adding a PBEM-like mode that allows hot-join into Live MP.Download the unofficial patch v1.4 from our downloads section. There's been a couple of threads about *why* this is, but I still find this one from back in 2014 to be the most concise:Ĥth post down by Tombles, one of Triumph's devs. I assume most of them revolve around 'don't be a ♥♥♥♥' types of things. There's at least one MP group around that has a set of rules to minimize abuses of each mode's flaws, though I'm not well acquainted with what they are. Live MP: Auto-battle all independent fights, manual battle all fights between players. But combats with other players are impossible.Ģ. PBEM: take all the time you want on independent turns, it's not like your opponent is sitting there waiting for you. So there are basically 2 ways people play:ġ. It's unfortunate, but necessary (see bottom). While a battle is occurring, the rest of the game has to lock up.

I don't play MP, but I've seen this explained often enough to have a good idea of it.

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