CD Required? And a few more questions...

You don't need to have the CD in the drive to the run the game.

The .pdf manuals are the same, but the box version has a smaller condensed manual but I haven't seen it myself.

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patches are released almost on the same time for cd version and steam one

The Manual is 77 pages A3 size. I would call it adequate. Its not as good as the manual with Space Empires IV. The PDF manual is a lot better. I would have paid more money if the game had been supplied with it in printed form.

scaseman, can you please clarify?

You said that the pdf manual is a lot better, but then in the next sentence said you'd have paid more if it were printed.

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Does this mean you bought the Steam version of the game, but now wish you'd have paid a bit more and bought the box version of the game to get the printed version?

Sorry I could have explained better. I Live in the U.K. I bought a boxed copy direct from Strategy First including a free download of Starfury. What I mean about the PDF manual is it a lot to print out at home. 300 pages would use up £20.00 worth of ink plus the paper. I would rather have paid more money to get it commercially printed in a nice manual. I remember the good old days when games where in huge boxes with large manuals. Now everyone use PDF which although is a good system is not quite the same. Hopefully someone will produce a HTML manual like the one with Space Empires IV.