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[Winwood]

Hallo,

there are 2 patches for Ascendancy. The 1.6 -> 1.6.5 maintenance Patch and the antagonizer. I think the maintenance Patch is the one, which makes the AI smarter (try "M", it works), and the antagonizer makes it more aggressiv (and cheating).

But how can i activate both patches together?

Greetings, Winwood

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Dec 9 2004, 06:57 PM) [snapback]35367[/snapback]</div>

anyone knwos how to abandon ship that is in warp? i 've mistakinly sent ships with poor warp engines into red warp drive and they kept on bouncing back and fourth but never came out of it (weird).
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I just ran into the same issue as above. I though I knew this game front and back but I guess not. My ships won't leave the red star warp and I can't figure out why or how to get them back. Once my ETA times reach zero the go back up again. Is this some kind of bug or what? :ranting:

[laiocfar]

Nope, i think that you can abandon the ship from fleet control room. The ship wont go out from the red star lane beacause it HASNT be equipped with the proper lane driver. Even when it is SF, most of times star lanes are like gravity holes with a spring at end of it, ships impulse himself deep in the hole to be launched with an amazing speed imposible to get with normal engines. The starlane´s drivers or navcoms or many other SF´s devices are used to get into the gravity holes and control the ship destination. Without the proper driver, your ship will be forever inside the hole coz it lacks of proper devices to use the spring and also lacks of power to get out of the hole.

Hello, IF your ships jumps back to the start of the starlane, bevor it enters ne new starsystem, then there could be two reasons for this problem. First reason could be, that another race has put a block-item on the one end of the starlane, thats an item with which you can equip your ship. Then the ship jumps back to the start, when it reached the blocked system.
And theres another force which can move your ship back to the start. One race has the skill to send all ships in starlanes in the galaxy to its start.

I hope I didnt fool myself, dunno if you already knew this things.
..and sorry for my bad english, i am from germany

[weaverka]

any one know were to get a crack for this game? dosbox wont acknowledge the cd rom.


Also if another race put a block on the starlane the block shows up at both ends. And the ships always came out of the starlane when another race forced the ships back through the starlane but not when the engines couldn't push it through the red links.

[weaverka]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(weavis @ Dec 30 2006, 08:10 PM) [snapback]272836[/snapback]</div>

any one know were to get a crack for this game? dosbox wont acknowledge the cd rom.
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I got it to work on my laptop with xp but it won't work on my pc. The screen goes back and it freezes, ctrl alt del bring up a box that says the driver failed, I have installed directX 9.0 but still won't work any sugestions?

[Cosmonaut_Roger]

This is my all time favorite game, I'm glad to see there is so much discussion of it here, good to know people are still playing it. I know it can be a pain to get running under XP, my suggestion is to use Dosbox. As for the CD problem, I had that to. I can't recall the fix I did, but I know I did not use a crack and I do not use an ISO or CD to play the game. In other words, I dont mount an ISO or use a CD, so there is a solution to install and run the game without a CD. In fact, I don't remember ever having to put in the CD, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, I suggest you search for Ascendancy on The-underdogs.info or Dosgames.com at their tech support forums. That's where I found the solution to my problem with the CD.

Also, I found that the antagonizer AI patch just made the game annoying. Even with a peaceful setting, you will be attacked by every race, so I don't use it. I don't really mind if the enemy is boring, there are ways to handicap yourself to make it more challenging, like waiting 500 years before beginning to colonize, or waiting to research advanced weapons until later in the game to give the AI a head start.

You dont need a crack to play the game! I had once an introduction how to play without the cd, but i lost it.
I'll try to explain:
You only need the 3 COB files which are on the cd. When you download the game here, you get them with the game. Then you have to change a file where the information is stored where the ascend.exe can find this COB-files. You have to change this file (I think its the ascend.cfg) and say where the new COB-files are now. They arent anymore on a cd, now they are on your hdd.
DUnno if this can help you. But make sure you have this files in your ascendancy directory: Ascend00.COB, Ascend01.COB, Ascend02.COB . You need them if you havnt got a cd.

[weaverka]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skipjack @ Jan 3 2007, 06:31 AM) [snapback]273096[/snapback]</div>

You dont need a crack to play the game! I had once an introduction how to play without the cd, but i lost it.
I'll try to explain:
You only need the 3 COB files which are on the cd. When you download the game here, you get them with the game. Then you have to change a file where the information is stored where the ascend.exe can find this COB-files. You have to change this file (I think its the ascend.cfg) and say where the new COB-files are now. They arent anymore on a cd, now they are on your hdd.
DUnno if this can help you. But make sure you have this files in your ascendancy directory: Ascend00.COB, Ascend01.COB, Ascend02.COB . You need them if you havnt got a cd.
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Any one know of a download site that works, I still can't get this game to work with dosbox or with out. I found a download on another site but it had no intall function once I unziped it. I have the cd but my computer crashes or rather the video driver crashes when I try to start the program. This is very frustrating trying to get this game to work!! Please help.

[weaverka]

I don't have an ascend.cfg file but I do have a COB.cfg file. I couldn't download from this site, I spent 26 hours tring. It timed out regularly and finaly at 99% my system crashed and I lost it all.

I copied the cob files off the cd and put them into my ascend folder but it just replaced the existing files. How do I change them to be able to be read with out the cd?