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Obtained from Talviah Aliaria in Orsinium. Regalia of the Orsimer King Leveled Gold. A note on the ground The House of Orsimer Glories. Gauntlets of Clan Shatul Leveled Gold. Rigurt's Belt of Courtship Leveled Gold. Trinimac's Blessed Plackart Leveled Gold. Obtained from Cinosarion in Rkindaleft. Old Pack in Bonerock Cavern. Pauldrons of Clan Tumnosh Leveled Gold. I always get the unskippable intro cutscene and have to go through the tutorial everytime I open the game.
Once the temple has been built, I can enter it and load a file form inside the temple. Any way to fix this? Villain is Me 0 point. At first playing this, the game worked beautifully but wouldn't save.
Now I can save the game mostly via running it in compatibility mode but now it won't let me change the keyboard hotkeys! Of all things! Anybody else having this problem? Mahpsy 0 point. If you are having trouble saving on ISO, run the game as administrator under your file directory.
Worked for me. MeMeBigBoy 4 points. Don 0 point. Cant get the creature isle add on to run. Not sure what to do here! Ryder89 0 point. I followed the steps and running into the music issue. And also the game is playing with black borders on the sides instead of full screen.
Any tips? Hey, I did everything that was mentioned in the instructions but the game wont start for me : Tried fidgeting through the Setup stuff to select resolution and other stuff like that but can't figure out why. I just get a black screen which dissapears after a couple of seconds, no error no nothing. I'm running on Windows 10 Pro. Jimmy J 0 point. I downloaded and followed all instructions, game worked perfect, but make sure when loading you run as admin every time or you cant save the game!
Nikolas 1 point. Rakesh 0 point. KoolBreeze -2 points. What in the world am I doing wrong? Can anyone tell me what step I'm missing? It's been so long since I was able to make this game work with all its patches and the addon. I'm missing something I just don't know what.
Best game ever! Reply to this if you need any help. I know every single issue regarding this game!!!! SingingCircleHippie 3 points. So Update. I played my first game with the tiger that could't travel with me to new lands; on land "4" or land 1 again.
I've just started a new game and chose the Ape instead. So the tiger is broken? SingingCircleHippie 0 point. The game loads, saves and runs without crashing.
However, my creature tiger doesn't follow me to new lands. Including skirmish modes. Chiara 1 point. I'm so happy I finally found this game again! It was my favorite as a child but I never managed to finish it due to CD damages. I followed the steps to properly install it and even if I'm no expert I managed : I have no issues with saves, there are just a few graphic problems, as the landscape texture is messed up and sometimes you can't have a sense of depth and see through the mountains, but it's still playable.
Sometimes the creature just disappears, you can only see her shadow and cannot interact with her, but this problem always fixes itself in a few minutes.
The biggest issue is that in Land 2, as soon as I conquer the third village, the game crashes. I still don't have a solution for this :. Just wanted to say I appreciate UnWiselyWords 's effort but I found out the patches, 1 through 4, work if you don't apply the RIP files on top of the iso installation. UnWiselyWords 4 points. Hey guys and gals, building on what Chilly already posted here is a proper step by step guide on installation order: Note that any CD Keys you may need you can pretty easily google.
RIP from this site. Step 2: Download a free ISO mounting program. ISO of the addon Creatures Isle from this site and install it on top fo the Black and white install you just did.
Step 4: extract the. It will think it didnt install properly but it did. Thats it. You can now play Black and White 1. Sadly I could not get either Fan patches or Official patches to work this way however my game has been incredibly stable and hasn't even crashed once. Chilly 1 point. This worked for me I then mounted the ISO and installed the game to confirm the install folder name. After doing that, the game ran fine on my Windows 10 Home 64 bit system. The only thing I've run into is that I have to be sure to create a saved game in the temple during the tutorial, otherwise the saves later in the game are not kept and you have to go through the tutorial again.
Hope this helps! Vessel -6 points. How do you get rid of these InstallShield files so that I can try and restart this - obviously - ambiguous process of getting this set-up? The guide above doesn't even have proper grammar to follow the instructions and it's not even in the context of someone who has begun learning how to get these files to work.
It's worded like people know what to look for. After you install it from the set-up file from the ISO download, it installs it using a fresh install of InstallShield - which doesn't exist on any Windows 10 PC - and it doesn't even let you delete it afterward. The iKernel. Do you people actually know how to communicate?
This game is one of the only PC games that doesn't have any sort of port that doesn't require a bunch of people making sporadic suggestions and guides on how to get this to just work. Someone comments saying the 'EASY' way to install this is to replace the audio files from the ISO folder - after it has been mounted from an ISO application which they don't even specify to do begin with and replace the audio filef othe Riped version of the download and you just add files, yet that's not even close to what the guide that leads to the other website with the patches and.
Are you people even remotely intelligible? AJ -5 points. How do I review a book? Anyone who has purchased a Smashwords book is able to review it by clicking back to the book page. Below the different file format options is a link where you can review the book. Remember to select a star rating as well. Once you review a book, a link to your profile page appears in your review, and your review also appears on your personal profile page. If a book is free, anyone can review it. If you do not see the review link, it means you haven't purchased the book yet.
Authors are not able to review their own books. Can I publish book excerpts on my blog? Bloggers can excerpt a small portion of an author's book for review purposes. For further information on excerpts and re-distribution, see the Smashwords Terms of Service. Is it safe to enter my credit card online? When you purchase through Smashwords, we create a secure communications connection between your web browser and our payment processing provider, PayPal.
For your security, Smashwords does not store your credit card information after your purchase. Separate from Smashwords, it is recommended as a general safe computing practice that you maintain current security software on your computer. Good free anti-virus applications include Avast! I'm the author, and although I set a sampling rate, the entire book appears downloadable As the author of book, you're able to access the book as if you purchased it.
If you log out of your account, then visit your book page, you'll see the sampling rates are enforced for your customers. Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, has created a series of comprehensive online video workshops.
These five videos comprising over 8 hours of instructional material will help you learn to publish like a pro. It's like attending an all-day digital publishing seminar for free! Click below to access each video individually at YouTube:. How do I publish on Smashwords?
First, register for a Smashwords account it's free and then carefully study and implement the Smashwords Style Guide for formatting requirements. Once you're confident the book is formatted to the Style Guide, click "Publish" and follow the simple instructions.
You will upload your manuscript or finished work in Microsoft Word's. If you're using Microsoft Word, save your finished manuscript as a. If you're using a different word processor such as Open Office , be sure when you save the document, you select "save as: file type: Microsoft Word. Is your publishing agreement exclusive? It's non-exclusive, so you maintain all rights to your work and have the freedom to publish anywhere else you like.
Why can't I find any information about what Smashwords costs? Because we're free! We work on commission. We don't charge for our ebook publishing, conversion and distribution services, and we don't sell publishing packages.
Who can publish on Smashwords? If you're the original author and you control the digital rights to the book, or if you're the exclusive digital publisher, you can publish and distribute the work with Smashwords.
Your work must be original, written by you or an author to which you have exclusive rights to publish. See our Terms of Service for more information. What can I publish? Smashwords is for finished, complete and original written works only no drafts, works-in-progress or partial works. It's great for short and long form fiction, personal memoirs, essays, poetry, screenplays or anything else you can write in a word processor. See our Terms of Service for additional content guidelines.
In Step 3 on the Publish page, it's asking me if my book contains adult content. What's the definition? If your book contains language, situations or images that are inappropriate for children under 18 years of age, you can tag your book as having adult content.
This voluntary label helps us protect minors from viewing inappropriate material. Books labeled as adult will not appear in Smashwords site search results if the customer or web site visitor has activated the Adult Filter. In the future, this label will also help our retail partners keep your book out of any kid-centric areas of their stores while maintaining full listings elsewhere in their store.
If you tagged your book as adult at the time of your upload, but later decided it's not truly adult by the definition here, you can click to Dashboard: Settings and remove the label. I uploaded my book direct on Amazon or some other retailer. Can I still work with Smashwords? After you publish, click to your Dashboard's Channel Manager and opt out of any Smashwords retail partners you're already reaching direct or through another distributor.
This will prevent us from double-distributing your work. How do I choose between Amazon and Smashwords? This is a common question, and the answer is, "You should work with both of us at the same time! The more stores that carry your book, the greater your opportunity to reach readers. Amazon only reaches ebook readers in about 14 countries, whereas Apple Books reaches 51 countries and dominates the Australian ebook market , Kobo reaches about countries and the Smashwords store reaches almost countries.
I heard Amazon requires exclusivity. Is this true? No, it's not true but this is a common misperception, and it's a misperception Amazon does little to clarify. Amazon offers two ebook self-publishing options. Exclusivity is dangerous and risky.
It's like putting all your retirement savings in a single Internet stock. Although there's a chance it works for you, there's also a good chance you cause long term harm to your career. It's much safer and sensible for you to diversify your portfolio of retail distribution.
Some authors are drawn to KDP Select because they see it as their fast track to success. The truth of the matter is that for most authors, there's no shortcut.
To make it as a successful author, it can take years. Each of the major retailers reaches millions of readers that can't be reached anywhere else. Authors who make their books exclusive to Amazon will have a much more difficult time breaking out at other retailers. Much of the confusion about whether Amazon requires exclusivity or not arises from the fact that Amazon has designed their KDP platform to make it look like your account setup is incomplete unless you enroll in KDP Select.
At every step of the upload process they prompt you to enroll in KDP Select. If you enroll in KDP Select, you must commit to make your book exclusive to them for at least three months. The enrollment automatically renews unless you opt back out. Authors who enroll in KDP Select are taking a gamble, and they'll miss out on the broader global distribution enabled by Smashwords and its retail and library partners.
KDP Select is also like quicksand. Once you step into it, it's tough to get out. It destroys your readership at other retailers, and limits your platform-building. It makes your earnings entirely dependent upon Amazon. Who cannot publish on Smashwords? Do not upload content or books that appear elsewhere on the Internet authored by people other than yourself or by other pen names. If we do a query on Google of a random text strings in your book and yes, we do this to test the originality of your work , and we discover the same content under other author names, or associated with private label article also called " Private Label Rights or PLR" or ebook licensing systems, your account will be closed without warning and all earnings will be forfeited, per the Terms of Service.
We have a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism, copyright infringement, underage erotica erotica featuring children under the age of 18 and PLR. Where will my book be sold? As an ebook publishing and distribution platform, Smashwords will distribute your books via multiple online channels, including but not limited to the Smashwords. See the Distribution section below for more information on how Smashwords distributes books, or visit our Distribution Information page.
How does Smashwords work with multi-author publishers? Hundreds of publishing companies publish and distribute their authors' books through Smashwords.
Publishers can list an unlimited number of authors and their authors' books in their own co-branded Smashwords bookstore page. Learn more about whether the free Publisher status upgrade is right for you by reading the Publisher Account documentation.
How do I sell my books in the Apple Books Store? Smashwords is one of the few authorized aggregators that distributes ebooks to Apple Books. On the first day of the launch of the iPad in April , Smashwords had over 2, books in their store, and today we distribute over , books to Apple Books in 51 countries including the US, Canada, U. K, Australia, France, Italy, Germany and more. We've created a handy checklist here of Apple Books store requirements - How to Publish an Ebook on the Apple Books to make it fast, simple and easy to publish your book to the Apple Books Store.
Smashwords offers free ISBNs. How do I sell my ebooks in the Nook store? I live outside the U. Please see the Royalties section below to learn how to qualify for reduced or eliminated tax withholdings.
What languages do you publish and distribute? We support most languages. When you upload you book, you'll tag it with the book's language, and this will help us distribute it to retailers that support that language. We publish many other books in Japanese, Korean and Chinese, and as our retailers expand their language support, we'll distribute these books to them as well. What languages does Apple Books not support? Apple Books store does not support the following languages: Persian, Old ca.
How much money can I expect to make on Smashwords? You should keep your expectations low because most authors - whether self-published or traditionally published - don't sell many books. Some authors don't sell a single book. Others sell thousands of books each week.
The ebook market is still in its infancy. Just like in traditional print publishing, book sales depend to a great degree on word of mouth, driven by the quality of your book and your personal marketing efforts Read our free Smashwords Book Marketing Guid e for tips on how to promote your Smashwords book.
If readers love your book and tell their friends, and their friends tell more people, you could have a best seller. At Smashwords, we structured our business to make our authors and publishers as successful as possible. Royalty rates may differ based on the country, retailer or VAT taxes.
See the Channel Manager page for a fine-tuned breakdown. In some cases, you'll earn a higher earnings-share rate going through Smashwords than if you were to work directly with the retailer. Please see the earnings section below for more information, because your earnings will vary from retailer to retailer. How is price determined?
You can control pricing country by country as well using our Global Pricing Control feature, accessible in your Dashboard. In instances where your book is distributed to other online retailers, the retailers do not discount your work. If you choose the RSP option at Smashwords and would like to set a separate default price for retailers only, go to Dashboard: Settings. Once you make a price change at Smashwords, we will automatically notify Smashwords retailers of the price change in our once-weekly updates to them some retailers receive more frequent updates.
Please allow anywhere from one to three business days for price updates to reflect at retailers it's usually same-day for Apple Books and Kobo, instant for the Smashwords store, and business days at others. How should I price my book? This is a personal decision for the author or publisher. When you sell a book, you receive two benefits. The first is you get a sale, which means you earn income. The second benefit is that you gain a reader, and a reader is a potential fan, and a fan will search out and purchase your other books and future books.
A fan is also a potential evangelist who will recommend your book to their friends. When examining these two benefits, the second - gaining a reader - is actually more important to your long term success as an author, especially if you plan to continue writing and publishing books. Here are some considerations on price: 1. Your ebook should be priced less than the print equivalent. Customers expect this, because they know your production cost paper, printing, shipping, middlemen is less.
Lower priced books almost always sell more copies than higher priced books. A longer book deserves a higher price than a short book. Consider the value of your book to the customer.
As self-publishing guru Dan Poynter notes in his Self Publishing Manual, for a customer to buy your book at any price, they must believe the value of the book is greater than the cost of the book. Just as over-pricing can be bad, so too can under-pricing. Consider the likely market of your book, and the cost of competitive books, and then price accordingly. A higher price is a double-edged sword. It implies potential value and worth, yet it can also price the customer out of purchasing it.
Set a fair list price, and then consider using Smashwords coupons to let the customer feel like they're getting a discount on a valuable product. If you write series, price the first book in the series at FREE. We've found that series with free series starters earn more income for the author than series with a priced series starter. Give it a try, you might be surprised! You can change your price at Smashwords at any time, so feel free to experiment Apple usually updates same-day, others are generally business days.
There are multiple other factors that can influence how your potential readers judge your price. Click here for an interview with Mark Coker where he examines other factors to consider. Click here to learn how ebook buyers discover ebooks they purchase links to the Smashwords Blog.
The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success , our free ebook that examines the best practices of the most successful Smashwords authors, also explores different strategies for pricing. How do I change the price? Simply go to your Dashboard, click Settings, and then change the price on the next page. Once you make a price change at Smashwords, we will automatically notify Smashwords retailers of the price change in our updates to them.
If your book is Premium Catalog approved, and it's not pending review, most price updates occur in business days. Apple Books is usually same day, often within hours of the update at Smashwords. I notice some authors give their books away for free. Do you recommend this? Yes, if you can use it strategically. We think FREE has a place in every author's marketing toolbox. FREE books receive, on average, about 30 times more downloads than priced books.
Free gets you the most readers because it eliminates the financial barrier that might prevent a reader from taking a chance on you, an author unknown to them. How does sampling work? On the Publish page, in Step 2, authors determine what percentage of their book they want to make available as a free sample.
Our online retailing partners may have sampling practices that differ from Smashwords. Remember, as the author, you're able to view and download your entire book. If you want to view your book as others will view it, click the logout button at the bottom of the screen, return to your book page, and you'll see how the sampling percentage is enforced. I set a sampling percentage, yet it looks like my entire book is downloadable for free.
Since you're the author, you're able to download your entire book. If you log out of your account then return to your book page, you'll see how your sampling percentage is strictly enforced.
What sampling percentage do you recommend? For a full-length book, 10 percent is generous and usually sufficient. For a shorter book, you should probably choose a higher percentage so the reader can get a good sense of your writing before they buy.
I've written several full-length books. Is there an advantage to publishing more than one book on Smashwords? Yes, definitely. Think of each book as a fish hook in the ocean.
Smashwords connects the hooks and creates a net by networking the books together. You're casting a wider net. How do coupons work? Smashwords authors can use the Smashwords Coupon Generator to create custom coupon codes for readers, reviewers or contest participants.
It's easy to create coupons. You can set coupons for cents or dollars off, or percentage off, free, and also set an expiration date. Coupons are a great way to build urgency for the customer to act. You can promote your coupon codes to your personal mailing list, your website, blog and social networks. Go to your Dashboard to find the coupon generator. Smashwords Coupons work only at the Smashwords store. How can I participate in the "Special Deals" merchandising feature on the Smashwords home page?
Special Deals is a continuous, automated merchandising promotion that features books on sale at Smashwords. To particiapte, visit Smashwords Coupons in your Dashboard, create a coupon for your book, and choose the option to make your coupon "public. What is Smashwords Alerts, and how does it work? Smashwords Alerts is an exciting feature first announced August 24, Read the announcement here.
Smashwords Alerts allows readers to receive automated email alerts whenever their favorite authors upload a new book. It's a great way for readers to never again miss a new book from their favorite authors. If you're an author, you can encourage your fans to subscribe to your alerts.
Subscribing is easy - the reader simply visits the author's profile page at Smashwords and clicks the "Subscribe to Author Alerts" option. Authors and publishers can track how many readers are subscribed to their alerts by visiting the Smashwords Dashboard under the "Marketing and Distribution Tools" column. Please note that due to Smashwords's strict email privacy rules, the reader's email address is never disclosed to the author or anyone else.
The reader is in full control of their subscription and can unsubscribe at any time. Can you describe the Smashwords Interviews feature? The interview is cross-linked across the Smashwords site, including your book pages, your profile page, and the Smashwords home page.
You can read the original announcement at the Smashwords Blog. View other authors' interviews on the Interviews page. To create your own Smashwords Interview, click to your Account tab, then scroll down to the option that reads, " Create or edit your interview.
How long does it take my book to show up after I upload it? Depending on the length of the ebook conversion queue, it usually takes about five minutes from the time you upload your book until it appears for sale on the Smashwords home page. The book goes live on the home page the minute the conversion completes, and then within 10 minutes the book is fully indexed within the Smashwords on-site search engine.
There's no need to watch the spinning wheel on the conversion page. You'll receive an email the moment conversion completes, and you can always check your conversion status by visiting your Dashboard. Can I publish public domain books? If you don't control the copyright, you can't publish at Smashwords. Should I enable the Kindle format. The beauty of Smashwords from your customer's perspective is they can purchase the book once and access it in multiple formats.
If they purchase direct off of their Kindle, they only get one format, and that format is burdened with DRM protection. Many Kindle users shop at Smashwords because they appreciate our unique book selection, and they appreciate that all our books are DRM-free. So therefore, you want to make it convenient for them to purchase at Smashwords as well. What is your publishing policy regarding sexually explicit scenes, profanity or other material?
Smashwords allows the publishing of written depictions of sexually explicit scenes, but we do not allow pornographic images within the books, and we do not allow erotica that depicts minors engaged willingly or unwillingly in sexual acts. Fictional scenes of rape-for-titillation are strongly discouraged.
We also prohibit the publishing of material that contains hate speech, or material that advocates violence against other people; or material that promotes racism, homophobia or xenophobia; or written materials that advocate destructive or illegal activities. For all matter of an adult nature intended for mature audiences only, all characters depicted should clearly be adults age 18 or over, and the author should designate during the publishing process on the Publish page that the work is intended for adults only.
Authors are also well-advised to include such warnings at the beginning of the book so customers are notified before reading further. For more information, please see the Smashwords Terms of Service agreement. Retailers have cracked down on some categories of erotica. What are the guidelines to ensure maximum distribution of my erotic works? Please note that these are guidelines only.
Smashwords and every Smashwords retailer maintains the right to carry or remove titles for any reason or combination of reasons. Every retailer struggles with grey areas, and since erotic fiction runs a spectrum, no retailer can fully delineate the boundaries of acceptability because every work is different, and boundaries may shift over time. Authors who try to push the boundaries of grey are the ones who will invariably face the most scrutiny, and are the most likely to see retailers penalize their entire list.
At Smashwords, we support legal erotic fiction and want to help our authors maintain maximum distribution. Unfortunately, the small number of erotic authors and publishers who pushed the line too far have resulted in a general trend toward increased crackdowns against legal erotic fiction at some retailers. Here are our tips to maintain maximum distribution: First, carefully review the Smashwords Terms of Service. If your book doesn't meet the Smashwords ToS, it won't meet retailer requirements.
However, the Smashwords ToS is more permissive than the standards set by some retailers which means that books that might be acceptable to Smashwords' Premium Catalog requirements will not be acceptable to all Smashwords retailers. For example, not all Smashwords retailers will take erotic fiction where the primary theme is incest or pseudo-incest.
These retailers don't want incest, PI, or bestiality. They don't want books where the dominant theme is rape, sexual violence, non-consent or gang bang with unwilling participants. None Smashwords included want extreme taboo erotica. Barely legal characters who recently turned 18 years of age , while generally allowed at most retailers, will always receive special scrutiny. Similar to the Smashwords Terms of Service, no characters can be under the age of If characters are just 18 or barely over, the book's description should explicitly state that all characters are 18 or over, and the book must remain true to this claim.
Authors who try to push the lines of acceptability will invariably receive extra scrutiny for their entire list, and risk having all their books removed from Smashwords retailers, and from Smashwords as well. Most stores accept mainstream erotica, but they don't want erotica that pushes the line. When you upload erotic fiction, Smashwords will present you a supplemental questionaire which asks about the absence or present of certain taboo themes.
You must answer the questionaire honestly, otherwise you risk immediate account termination. What are examples of pushing the line? Here are the most common we see: 1. Barely legal erotica that is really targeted at readers who desire underage erotic fiction. Excessive profanity or sexually explicit language in book descriptions. Keep book descriptions PG
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