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[A Very Super Market]

Hmm...

I think you could buy the boxed version, hook up your gaming computer to dial-up, and steam will be able to verify it. Then you can set it to offline mode, and disconnect your gaming computer forever. And play Empire. You simply need to have steam running, and offline mode needs no connection (obviously)

You won't be able to patch, but do you think you can manage to download them?

[CountMRVHS]

Thanks for the reply.

I assume getting later patches and the like would be no problem for me, provided they are released in the same way they've always been. I've been downloading patches and mods from my wife's work computer, then just zipping them over to the gaming computer.

Your approach sounds promising, but I'm worried about a couple of issues:

1) We got our gaming computer a year ago. To be honest, I'm not sure if it even *can* be connected to the internet, because I'm not sure if it even has a modem. Do new computers even come with modems these days? I get the feeling most computers aren't made with dial-up connections in mind.

2) Assuming it's possible to get it online, what exactly is involved with getting steam to verify everything? Do we need to download something, and if so, how big? With our dial-up connection, I worry that any downloading would take hours, and we'd lose the connection before the download was completed (this has happened several times to me -- hence my current practice of using my wife's better work connection).

[A Very Super Market]

You need to download steam, and that is it. I'm not sure how big of a file it is, but I suppose you could just download the setup on your wife's computer and whisk it over to the unconnected one.

As for verification, it shouldn't take too long, since all it does is check if your game is legit or not.

[Suraknar]

Thanks for the Info, I know steam is a popular thing and some have been using for a long time.

Yet what happens if I uninstall Steam after installing the game? Will it uninstall the game too?

It is just that I like my solo games to be...well...solo and installed where I want them, it did not even give me a choice of where to install the game it installed it where steam was.

[A Very Super Market]

You cannot choose where you install your games. It must be in the steamapps folder for steam to let you play. I think uninstalling steam will also uninstall your games, but you can just move the game folders somewhere else and not need to download them again. You just can't play them

[pevergreen]

Yes you can register the game at another computer.

And as AVSM said, you must have steam running to play this game, to do so otherwise is illegal.

[Suraknar]

You cannot choose where you install your games. It must be in the steamapps folder for steam to let you play. I think uninstalling steam will also uninstall your games, but you can just move the game folders somewhere else and not need to download them again. You just can't play them

Thank you. I guess I have to get used to Steam then.