[slimemold]

Just to be clear, you are setting the *application bundle* to writeable, and pointing the patch to same? There are 2 icons both labeled "dominions2", one is the application, and one is the folder for game settings, etc.

I successfully patched from 2.02 to 2.14, and from there to 2.15. I'm not sure if that might help. (As stated elsewhere, you can get older patches from the illwinter site by changing, for example, both instances of "215" to "214" in the download URL.)

Now if only I could figure out how to apply the Oceania mod...