"Legally Downloaded" link for TS3?

[WildPigeonChase]

After searching many threads, I have found references to but have not been able to find any verified links to torrents for TS3 (base game). I can find some via google, but I wanted to see if anyone knew of any safer non-virus ones that others have used beforehand. Any one know of any? (ISO, BIN/CUE format)

After consideration, I decided to post this here rather than in the The "Where Can I Find This CC?" thread because, well, this isn't CC. In case anyone was thinking that.

[SendMeLies]

If Google failed you, try Bing.

[Jeebus]

Haven't you tried TPB store?

[WildPigeonChase]

Yeah, I can find a lot of links both from TPB and others using Google, but I just wanted to see if anyone had used a link before and could confirm it was safe, rather than just download one at random and hope it's virus/spam free.

Anyone use one before or have a friend use one that they can confirm is safe? I figured it couldn't hurt to do some research before downloading.

[jezzer]

If you're so timid that you freeze up in terror at the thought of clicking a torrent, and have no idea how to protect yourself from computer viruses, you're better off just buying the game.

[Mirelly]

The OP can consider itself let off lightly. FWIW. Base game torrentz are not easy to find. I've been trying, on and off for months without success. I either find one with so few seeds and poor download speed that completion is scheduled for another geological age, or else -- as happened over the last weekend -- I get one which downloads at blistering pace and arrives impossible to open/use with any program.

I've concluded that the base game is old hat and is low priority on the torrents market. Either that or my benighted ISP (Sir Dickie Branson's) -- which has already blocked access to TPB (as if I couldn't find my way there by stealth) -- is doing other stuffs to my connection I am helpless to counter.

[WildPigeonChase]

Blindly downloading stuff and depending 100% of your anti-virus scan isn't the smart way to avoid bugs. It's worth taking the two minutes to type out a question to double check.

[Tever]

Blindly downloading stuff and depending 100% of your anti-virus scan isn't the smart way to avoid bugs. It's worth taking the two minutes to type out a question to double check.

Do you honestly trust other people more than your virus scan? Just read the comments on a torrent, then, and run your virus scan anyway.

[Sigmund]

Blindly downloading stuff and depending 100% of your anti-virus scan isn't the smart way to avoid bugs. It's worth taking the two minutes to type out a question to double check.

That would be why you read the comments. If you're that terrified of trusting an anti-virus program, buy it used off Amazon.