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windupmerchant · May 12, 2003, 18:11

Thats right, the demo is out, check it out at www.riseofnations.com

windupmerchant · May 12, 2003, 18:14

by the way, im back in the forums after about 6 months of being away. i can't wait for this game ive been following it for about a year...

Rolfski · May 12, 2003, 19:14

Yep, according to CET it just went up (1 hour later from GMT) . Waiting all day, downloading it right now. Thx Solver for the info, you were right. It came available only days after Fileplanet.

HuangShang · May 12, 2003, 20:53

thanx guys

Mahdimael · May 12, 2003, 21:27

I think Fileplanet has it too for every member (not just subscribers)

Solver · May 13, 2003, 02:12

Quite nice, downloading it now for installation later, just to compare with the betas.

They just HAD to put it up late in the evening American time, so that Euros get it on Tuesday

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Solver · May 13, 2003, 04:00

Hmm, the game doesn't even care to modifications done in rise.ini and rise2.ini and refuses to take any of those sound/graphics settings into account.

alva · May 13, 2003, 05:16

Nice speed aswell, downloaded in just under 5 minutes

windupmerchant · May 13, 2003, 07:28

AHHRG, ive fallen in love with RON in two hours. I have just finished playing a 4 player battle. Like many, on first glance i was dissapointed. However when you really get the hang of it, it doesn't fail to please, in fact it rules. The borders are brilliant, the whole taking of cities idea is brilliant. The only part i found challenging was managing the whole empire, especially when I had aqquired 8-10 cities. Overall, an extremely enjoyable expirience.

handyandy · May 13, 2003, 16:35

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Originally posted by alva
Nice speed aswell, downloaded in just under 5 minutes

I'm sorry 5 min how one earth did you get it downloaded in 5 min its 194meg are you shor you did it in 5 min? thats 0.65meg per SEC!

Locutus · May 13, 2003, 20:54

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Originally posted by windupmerchant
Like many, on first glance i was dissapointed. However when you really get the hang of it, it doesn't fail to please, in fact it rules. The borders are brilliant, the whole taking of cities idea is brilliant. The only part i found challenging was managing the whole empire, especially when I had aqquired 8-10 cities. Overall, an extremely enjoyable expirience.

My sentiments exactly!

FrostyBoy · May 13, 2003, 21:00

yep the game is brilliant, the atmosphere of everything, sound, colours, the flow of the game, the voice overs, everything, fits the mood of civ-building perfectly, well done, didn't think there was anyone out there who could pull it off.

Brian Reynolds is the civ-king now.

Locutus · May 13, 2003, 21:04

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Originally posted by Sn00py
Brian Reynolds is the civ-king now.

You mean he wasn't already?

HuangShang · May 13, 2003, 21:17

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Originally posted by handyandy

I'm sorry 5 min how one earth did you get it downloaded in 5 min its 194meg are you shor you did it in 5 min? thats 0.65meg per SEC!

i need to know where!!!!

FrostyBoy · May 13, 2003, 21:28

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Originally posted by Locutus

You mean he wasn't already?

I guess you're right

Locutus · May 13, 2003, 21:41

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Originally posted by handyandy
I'm sorry 5 min how one earth did you get it downloaded in 5 min its 194meg are you shor you did it in 5 min? thats 0.65meg per SEC!

So? That's only about 5 Mbit/s, that's not much. The fastest ADSL provider in my neighbourhood offers up to 8 Mbit/s. And on my uni all students who live on campus have a 300 Mbit/s connection (backbone is currently 2.5 Gbit/s, with plans to upgrade to 10 Gbit/s), which could theoretically download the demo in about 5 seconds. Obviously, the bottleneck there tends to be the server

FrostyBoy · May 13, 2003, 22:15

fast connections ruin the anticipation

I'm on dsl, took me 4 hours

August Borms · May 13, 2003, 22:17

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Originally posted by handyandy

I'm sorry 5 min how one earth did you get it downloaded in 5 min its 194meg are you shor you did it in 5 min? thats 0.65meg per SEC!

I downloaded it in 6 minutes

I think alva has the same (cable) ISP as me (Telenet); they force us to surf through a proxy server and if a Telenet user recently downloaded a large file it is put in the proxy cache so that every other Telenet user can download it much faster... atleast, that's how I think it works

alva · May 14, 2003, 09:35

Yep, telenet

You don't have to use a proxy though August, in fact it's better not to.
I was stupid enough to click cancel by accident when the DL reached 99% though

Telenet isn't the best one to play on-line (rather slow upload and alot of closed ports (?), but for downloading it is

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