If that was in fact Stardock's August 23, I'm not sure either.

Well, I thought I had pre-ordered the game but found out by looking at my purchase history that I bought it on the 25th.  What a BUMMER!!!!!  I even paid $60 total to get the DVD--that should count for something!!!!!  (other than me being a wanker!)

To be fair, I think Stardock needs to create a simple algorithm for those who purchased it after the release date but still in 2010.  Why should a guy who bought the game on December 31st, 2010 be allowed to download it the same time as someone who purchased it the day after it was released?!?!?  <grin>  Essentially, instead of having to wait the full week to download the beta, they need to divide the time, in minutes of the week (10080), by the nuber of days from August 24th through December 31st in 2010 (129), and multiply that answer by the number of days AFTER the 24th to get your time (in minutes) to give you the time period after 3:00 today when you can download the beta.  For instance, I purchased it 1 day after the release, so...

(10080 mins/129 days) * 1 day = 78.14 minutes

Thus, I should be eligibale for downloading it at roughly 4:20 this afternoon EST. 

Come on, Brad, there's still 4 hours and 45 minutes before the beta release... you can do this!!!!!!  Of course, if it's too difficult to do this now for everyone, you can always just set me up for a 4:20 download since I've done the math for you

I got a little question:

Will the Beta also ba available on my Impulse account? I know that Impulse is now owned by GameStop but I thought/hoped that the integration would still be good so that I don't have to install it from the stardock page but rather from Impulse? Actually Elemental WOM has shown me how cool Impulse is and I'm now more of a digital game purchaser...

No.  The FE beta will be available from Stardock only.  However the full release is likely to be available from multiple DD providers.

The email was sent to whatever email address you registered War of Magic with.

@SD_Skittles - I didnt get one. Will be interesting to see if the download appear. And I have not changed email

JOA

No, as the other poster said it will only be available via the Stardock download links.  For final release (whenever that may be) I'm sure there will be digital options, but this is just a beta.

Thanks for the quick answer (also to the other user) - just checking because the original WOM Beta was also handled by Impulse (if I recall correctly) but well seperate client is also fine for me. Even better, I can download it on Linux and switch to Windows when fully downloaded which means I can be productive *yay*

The WoM beta was handled by Impulse; that was when Stardock still owned Impulse. I like simply using the site better; it means there's one less piece of software on my computer.

Question! Frogboy said to email bugs to [email protected] but the FAQ says to post them in the support section; the only support section is in the WoM subforum. What do we do with bugs?

Updated the bug reporting section:

To make it easier for us, please tag your post title with [BUG], [CRASH], etc.

there is supposed to be a serial number in my invite? where???

You need to login to the Stardock Store, that's where you get your code for FE ("Show Serial Number" or somesuch).

Well I hope Im asking in the right thread. Im unable to move through the map except by pressing on the minimap ?? How can i fix this.

This is what you will be looking for in your account. 

ya ya in a week or so.

On the bright side maybe the pre order crowd will find the worst of the bugs and they will be fixed by the time I dive into testing.

2nd question what do crystals do ? . Nothing I can find to understand that ando how do u gain metals ?

Overall the game is much slicker then WoM. I am liking it.

While it crashes less it still crashes. Reloading causes out of memory crashes so if I want to reload I exit the game, run it again, and then load. Haven't crashed since I started that policy.

No reason for it to even happen though what with my massive 8GB of ram and x64 windows.

Also, keyboard/mouse input should be disabled while loading... it causes weird issues. Obviously I don't press anything while its obviously "thinking" but sometimes it looks like it finished loading / calculating a turn end but it didn't really... so I click and instead of moving nothing happens... then 10 seconds later a popup of something important (city levelup, etc) appears and instantly closes with either selecting nothing or selecting some random thing.

Also, it should be impossible to end turn without an active research. sometimes (especially when reloading autosave) you get stuck with no active research and can spend many turns not researching anything without noticing.

Is this version of the game the only beta or will there be updates? 

How do we get the updates, does this version update itself or do we need to use impulse, or keep re-downloading and re-installing?

So far it is not showing up on impulse. So I think we are gonna have to manually redownload

It's never going to show up on impulse.  Stardock doesn't own impulse any more.  You have to go to the stardock store.

Ryansee:

Far as I can tell there is a zoom lock feature.  Zoom your mouse out, then point where you want to zoom in and the screen will zoom to the cursor.  It;s a little weird but it works well.  Also you can drag the main map by click-and-drag.

I preordered the Limited edition of E:WoM on August 4, 2010.  I received and registered my copy 12/13/2010 but I do not have anything on my Stardock account about the FE beta, and I never received an email although my email hasn't changed on my Stardock account ever.