Maybe the serial is somewhere in the magazine, most times in a section dedicated to the game, some mags simply put a paper sheet with the Cd-Key writen on it between 2 pages (in this case they write the page number on the DVD inlay). If it says Full Version the CD-Key is delivered with the mag.
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With the 1.191 Patch for Sins of a solar empire (I started with a German Version at 1.05) I get the same issue as IHaTeD2 with ships which wont move anymore after having played for a while. I had a situation where 1 of my fleets jumped to an ennemy planet (after loading a savegame from v1.191) and stood still after reaching its attack position and doing nothing (not even attacking) but parking. Only the ennemy turrets were firing and crippling some of my smaller ships. I als