If you buy the Architect Edition box set, the DVD in it will be updated through Issue 14. We're currently on Issue 16, so you will have to download and fix some portions of the piggs. However, you won't have to do it all.
Only the Architect Edition is updated enough to qualify as much of a shortcut to downloading. Even if you got the Good vs Evil edition DVD, that's only updated to Issue 7, several years ago.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
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Yup.
You WILL have to update.
I have bought every boxed set of this game since day one.
I have re-installed in several cases.
By the time the disks from the most recent boxed release hits your computer,
I have never seen one yet, that did not already need updating, no matter how new.
The first install is always the worst, but no install is update free.
Never had one that even took 10 hours, but good luck!
and you will have fun when it is done.
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Originally Posted by pyra_night
ok then here goes,
if i buy the game disc's, will it have to do all these "piggs" updates etc.? because they have been going for 48 hours now and still not done  and i really want to play  , so will i need to do these updates like i am from when i downloaded the game from the net?? |
48 HOURS? That's insane.
If your download is that slow, you may have problems playing as well. Even on my old, not-even-minimum-requirement system I NEVER had a patch download that took more than 3 hours. That was with 256 megs of RAM and a 1.6 processor.
On that system I was extremely laggy anytime there was more than just me in the area. You may want to look into a system upgrade.
Also, are you on dial-up or cable?
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Naming a game port when starting the client could possibly speed things up. See here:
paragonwiki.com/wiki/Client#Game_Ports
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Plus, the game is constantly being improved and adjusted. You'll always have some degree of patching, no matter how up to date your client is. Heck, when Going Rogue comes out? It's pretty much going to be an empty box--the game will still patch itself and our account permissions will sort out the haves from the have nots.
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Originally Posted by pyra_night
ok then here goes,
if i buy the game disc's, will it have to do all these "piggs" updates etc.? because they have been going for 48 hours now and still not done and i really want to play , so will i need to do these updates like i am from when i downloaded the game from the net?? |
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The slow slow patch updates seems to be a pretty common problem, most likely related to ISP's and bandwidth throttling not speed of connection or computer.|
Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
48 HOURS? That's insane.
If your download is that slow, you may have problems playing as well. Even on my old, not-even-minimum-requirement system I NEVER had a patch download that took more than 3 hours. That was with 256 megs of RAM and a 1.6 processor. On that system I was extremely laggy anytime there was more than just me in the area. You may want to look into a system upgrade. Also, are you on dial-up or cable? |
Seen lots of rage posts about it, experienced it myself and on other computers I've installed Heroes on.
I've never been able to install the game from scratch in less than 24 hours.
I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
Whenever I am given a long download, I find that restarting the patcher often fixes the problem for whatever reason.
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ok then here goes,
and i really want to play 
, so will i need to do these updates like i am from when i downloaded the game from the net??
if i buy the game disc's, will it have to do all these "piggs" updates etc.?
because they have been going for 48 hours now and still not done