Option to disable "Entrenchment"?

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Though I welcome the new rules, there may be times when I want to play "old school"-style Sins without the new additions. Will be an option to disable the new Entrenchment expansion during the game setup?

 

thanks

 

-g

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Well, you can just reinstall the game. I did that once, when an expansion to a game was so terrible that i just had to uninstall or stop playing it. But on the other hand, i would appreciate all games having a little checkbox thing that could disable patches.

 

FYI, if that ever does happen, disabling patches will most likely not allow you to play online.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I don't imagine there will be a quick toggle, but you should just be able to make a copy of your 1.1 install to another location and then launch the vanilla 1.1 from that after your actual install is patched to Entrenchment.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

well seeing as how people with the expansion can prob. play against people without it, i think there might be new options, though it prob. wont be one check box, you can prob. manually diasable the entrenchhment feats..

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting naterd00d, reply 3
well seeing as how people with the expansion can prob. play against people without it, i think there might be new options, though it prob. wont be one check box, you can prob. manually diasable the entrenchhment feats..
Yeah, prob. ;P

I think it would be nice to have an option to disable the expantion if you feel like playing vanilla for whatever reason

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

From the way it's been described, it sounds like Entrenchment will turn itself off when playing against people without it.

Thanks, Cataclysm, that drove me nuts too :P

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Now that Entrenchment is in Beta, I thought I'd bump this to see if anyone had any further thoughts...

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 5
From the way it's been described, it sounds like Entrenchment will turn itself off when playing against people without it.

Thanks, Cataclysm, that drove me nuts too

 

If only it were that simple.

Entrenchment people can only see entrenchment games, and 1.12 people can only see 1.12. so you cant joing vanilla sins.

2 installs is the only way to play both atm. I think it will be switchable when its out of beta.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, but that's only for the beta, that was expressly mentioned :)

The final is supposed to be fully compatible with non-expansioned games :P

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 8
Yeah, but that's only for the beta, that was expressly mentioned

The final is supposed to be fully compatible with non-expansioned games

 

Cool, but how about this:

 

It's a few months down the road and both my friend and I have the expansion.  We want to "play vanilla" for a night just to switch it up.  Do we need to have installed copies of Sins that aren't updated or can we toggle the expansion in our updated versions?  Sure, we can "play vanilla" against people who dont' have the expansion, but what about a head-to-head for people who do?

 

I only ask because my friend is concerned that Entrenchment might make games longer and cause him to switch up his honed-in strategies.  We both welcome change and new strategic twists of the expansion, but we also like having the option to scale back, even after we've scaled forward.

 

thanks for the dialog,

-g

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting gumbomasta, reply 9

Quoting Annatar11, reply 8Yeah, but that's only for the beta, that was expressly mentioned

The final is supposed to be fully compatible with non-expansioned games

 

Cool, but how about this:

 

It's a few months down the road and both my friend and I have the expansion.  We want to "play vanilla" for a night just to switch it up.  Do we need to have installed copies of Sins that aren't updated or can we toggle the expansion in our updated versions?  Sure, we can "play vanilla" against people who dont' have the expansion, but what about a head-to-head for people who do?

 

I only ask because my friend is concerned that Entrenchment might make games longer and cause him to switch up his honed-in strategies.  We both welcome change and new strategic twists of the expansion, but we also like having the option to scale back, even after we've scaled forward.

 

thanks for the dialog,

-g

 

No. There's no reason Ironclad wouldn't allow you to play the original if it's already capable of doing it when facing other people with the original game.