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Its all a point of view, really.  As I've said, Ubisofts' DRM never bothered me, and like 95% of people in teh world, I have a full-time high-speed internet connection (cable), that I'm on with EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, ALWAYS.  A DRM that requires that I'm online all the time? So what? I'm already doing it!    Now it can be a hassle with people that have to move around alot and whatnot, but shit, just about anywhere you go you can get free wifi connections and the like. It isn't that big of a deal; and people make a mountain out of a mole hole.

And the fact of the matter is, people are still buying the software and the games, Settlers 7, Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood are all making a killin', even with the DRM.  If you want to complain about something, complain about the ever-rising costs of buying the games. *Sighs* I remember when a PC game was still worth 30$ instead of 60$. 

That's the whole point of it being a 'Beta' patch.  They are making significant changes, and none of it is optimized yet.  If you don't want to have to deal with it on an older PC, then don't install the beta patch.  That's a failure on your part, not Stardock, or even Brad Wardell; sense he's passed it to the new guy and is strictly AI coding now. lol.

Okay, first off, the DRM system has had most of the kinks worked out of it, anyway.  Secondly, Lordcooper, that's a graphic-engine failure that I've seen before.  The game latest patch is 1.10.233 or something like it.  1.10 for sure; not 1.1.     You might want to go ahead and re-install the game from Steam, making sure to delete all the files related to it and the TBYB you had installed earlier.  Also, there aren't any cracks for the newest patch, and Settlers 7 has so many features intigrated directly online that you wouldn't want to flip Ubisoft off, anyway.

Take it from someone who knows.    I pre-ordered S7 nearly six months before its release, got it and installed it the same time. I'd beaten the campaign within 74 hours of continious play; during which they had released three patches to fix in-game screw ups.  Of course, the DRM was an up-and-down rollercoaster ride, but I didn't have too many problems.  Atleast until I'd uninstalled it and decided to get a crack copy of Assassin's Creed 2 with a private server.  It ran and played great and I beat it, uninstalled, then went back to S7 only to find it wouldn't work. 

Come to find out, the cracked launcher changed the Ubisoft DRM host parameters for every program that used it, fucking with every other game.  Problem's solved now, but let it be a lesson to you! Mwahaha. Anyway, I hope you get the game working agian, and if you have any specific  questions, PM me. 

P.S. I'm the user Ryanhenning in the Ubisoft forums; and used to be very active, even to the point of providing a point-by-point starters guide for everyone who needed help in getting into the game. lol. C'ya later.

Sadly, Strategy First has dumped its entire forum, including those for Diggles.  None of them work anymore.  Its like they wiped the game off the map. 

I have played them both before, I enjoyed them. lol. The ability to go out and control several different systems all at once, you have to be strategic in your thinking or otherwise you'll get overrun.  The resource management could be a bit better, but its still good. lol.

The sequel adds a new set of custom game options, as well as a decent add-on to the origins campaign.  Its alright, pretty cool.

I miss games like this.  Its more realistic than say, Sins of a Solar Empire, but it doesn't have many of the building options people are used to in a real-time strategy game.  lol.  Too bad though.  In my opinion, games like this are almost as abscure as Dungeon Keeper is to the new generation of games. This is the quintisenail(sp?) PC gaming experience, how its meant to be. 

Technically, Diggles is in 3D.  Everything has depth to it, and you have nearly full zoom control.  The difference is is that they made it look almost like a side-scrolling game.  But then, I like the uniqueness of it myself.  lol.   As for using Diggles as a DF port... No. I don't think it'd work.  There's just too much programming that'd have to go into it and you'd end up having to tear everything out, anyway.  You'd probably spend less effort building one from scratch.

Creating a massive arena and dropped dwarves into it one by one to be slaughtered by captured goblins or even a mega-beast isn't the sort of evil I was thinking about.  Then again, its always fun to screw up and kill everyone. Haha.

Lol. I checked that myself.  Whatever FPS hardcoding that should have gone into it is just as messed up as the rest of it, especially when everyone is stuck with only 5FPS. But I set it as 60 in my registry and tested it, just to make sure.  Was getting 58-60FPS.