First, delete the file sig.bin in the directory on the drive where you installed GC2 at. To then activate the game on a computer that is not connected, follow these steps:

1) Start the game; you will get a prompt for your serial and email. Provide them and continue.
2) It will fail to activate (of course) and ask if you'd like to activate by email. Click Yes.
3) Copy the subject line and big block of letters into a text file, or into your email program, and save it off to portable media (CDR, USB drive, floppy, etc).
4) Take it to a web-connected PC and send an email to activate@stardock.com with that subject line and content.
5) You should receive a reply with a file and some instructions; take the file back to the non-connected PC and you should be set to go.

Doing the steps noted above is neccessary because when you activate, it generates that sig.bin file to tell the game it is in fact activated. However, any particular activation will only work on the computer you did it on. So you can activate it all you like on other computers, but it won't run on yours unless you actually go through the process above (or get internet on your computer).

If you can get internet on your computer, that would work just as well. You can install it direct to your machine with SDC (though that means redownloading it), or just plug in the drive, delete the sig.bin off it, then run and activate the game ON YOUR COMPUTER.

If you install online through SDC it activates it automatically.

It bears repeating: if you activate GC2 on a particular computer, it iwll then be able to run only on *that* computer. If you want to activate the same installation elsewhere, you need to delete sig.bin and activate it there, be it online or the slow way outlined above.

aaaah thanks SO much. email activating now so I can kick DreadLord butt.

Good luck those Dread Lords are some tough bastards.