I can't seem to play Elemental when my internet is down.

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Yesterday there was an Internet outage in my neiborhood. So I tried to start Elemental from it's .exe file as I usally do (I don't go to Impulse then start the game) but I kept getting an error that said I could not access a file due to the internet being down. Once the internt came back up several hours later I could get back into it.

So in the mean time I played Age of Wonders Shadow Magic (Have not played this since Elemental came out.) Well after playing AOW:SM for several hours the internet came back on so I tried playing ELemental and I just could not play it for more than 10 minutes before I went back to AOW:SM. I was kinda surprise how really bland and unfun Elemental still is when compared to AOW:SM. I mean yes I knew it was not as good and I've said as much on the forums before but when played back to back it was really showed how fair Elemental has yet to go.

Anyway does Elemental need the internet to be played?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

It nees the internet only if you upgraded to the beta. 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Only during the Beta patches (like now). If your Net goes away, add the \localdataonly command line cmd on your .exe for Elemental.

So your .exe would look like this...

"C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental\Elemental.exe" /localdataonly

then hit ESC when the error pops up and you good to go with the local copy on your disk.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Only during the Beta patches (like now). If your Net goes away, add the \localdataonly command line cmd on your .exe for Elemental.

So your .exe would look like this...

"C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental\Elemental.exe" /localdataonly

then hit ESC when the error pops up and you good to go with the local copy on your disk.
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Ah thank you very much.  Wanted to down load some of these mods I keep hearing about yeterday but couldn't.