A nice long game of Empire Earth?

[cheatking]

[Empire Earth](http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/empire_earth_gold_edition/)

It's like Age of empires but with a much longer tech-tree.

I want to play this again. I was thinking 1-2 hours every weekend saving progress along the way of course. I'm not to sure about network code at the moment so it might have to be played over [GArena](http://intl.garena.com/)

So… Who's up for it?

[Anna Comnena]

I might reinstall it. I did a couple months ago because I was in the mood, and I liked the game in general. But the main problem, is the camera is horrible and frankly game-breaking. If the camera wasn't complete garbage that could've possibly have been the best RTS game of all time.

[DrNova]

I just spent about 7 and a half hours conquering the world in Civ 4-beyond the sword. Awesome game

[Anna Comnena]

Yeah I need to get that. Played Civ4 at my friends when I was housesitting, best of the series I think. I never bought it because Civ3 was such a disappointment.

[DrNova]

Civ 4 is the first of the series I've ever played. At first I thought the turn based idea would be lame, but I got a copy for cheap at a used game shop. glad I bought it

[Jeff]

Fuck yeah, Empire Earth.

Haven't played it in forever. I don't even remember how to play.
I just remember that game was awesome.

[cheatking]

So what would be the best time( to play?

I hate timezones, xD

[cheatking]

Ba-bump?

[Anna Comnena]

Ok I'll install it again.

Edit: for awhile I prefer playing alliance vs. computer games; I'm not Korean.

[cheatking]

@Anna:

> Ok I'll install it again.
>
> Edit: for awhile I prefer playing alliance vs. computer games; I'm not Korean.

:D Happiness!

[Keebler Elf]

I fucking love empire earth. Except only the empire earth clasic. Their expansions and such sucked balls.

[Anna Comnena]

Yeah after jumping through tons of hoops me and Mr. Sean played a game of the classic and proceeded to get stomped by the AI (although for a little bit there we were looking good, but then nope they stomped both of our forward settlements and armies).

A lot of hoops to jump through to get multiplayer working, now though. Since the old Sierra / WON servers are long dead you first gotta get the game to accept direct connects without worrying about that; and to ensure the patches are all the same version is a pain (and you have to use a save-ee custom lobby program to finalize a patch to ensure its synched).

http://www.save-ee.com/

Anyway, playing the game again, the camera is probably still my main complaint. Other than that, the Rock-Paper-Scissors combat style is fucking annoying and makes combat pretty micro-managy (although as far as I know this is a game mechanic common in almost all RTS games since Age of Empires). The only thing economically I don't like of Empire Earth is the lack of an oil resource.

[Keebler Elf]

Save ee sucks. Iv been actively playing ee since servers were shut down. Save ee imposes many crap mods to the game. Ill get you a link to a safe no.cd one me and my friend currently use to play if you want.

[Anna Comnena]

The only mods I've seen are custom maps which are entirely optional. And I don't even use the lobby, it was just a way to syncronize clients (since I had default retail CD release, plus the 1.04 patch, plus the 2.0 "Difficulty Setting and Multiplayer Lobby Add-On"), but yet it was a different client version than Mr. Sean's. Using the save-ee custom lobby client patched our games with optional stuff so it's synced.

[Fogger]

Theres an AOE on steam that would be great to play as well.

[Anna Comnena]

Age of Empires is for babbys.

[evilbunnie]

@Fogger:

> Theres an AOE on steam that would be great to play as well.

My 5 year old cousin completed AOE.

[Keebler Elf]

@Anna:

> The only mods I've seen are custom maps which are entirely optional. And I don't even use the lobby, it was just a way to syncronize clients (since I had default retail CD release, plus the 1.04 patch, plus the 2.0 "Difficulty Setting and Multiplayer Lobby Add-On"), but yet it was a different client version than Mr. Sean's. Using the save-ee custom lobby client patched our games with optional stuff so it's synced.

They changes a lot of values for unit costs and some other things that pissed many of the old players off. Plus they "attempted to fix gliches" even though they accomplished nothing since i can still use civs tgat give me 70% unit cost reduction.

[Anna Comnena]

Well I wouldn't know about that. Do you play with the difficulty settings and multiplayer lobby add-on patch (2.0)?

It seems to be hard to syncronize individual client versions from that point, on.

[Keebler Elf]

I play with all the legit patches from sierra. Theres a site eehaven? That has all the actual patches which is where I go if I ever need to get them.

[DrNova]

Give Civ 4 a shot

[Anna Comnena]

Civilization isn't that great multiplayer, though. Also you might as well make a new thread about it as they aren't the same genre.

For something more similar to Empire Earth, Rise Of Nations is interesting too.

Anyway, I'm doing a clean reinstall of Empire Earth (original retail CD, 1.04 patch, and 2.0 patch). See how it works out.

Edit: ok well I did both of those and now my game version is 2.00.3466

[Anna Comnena]

Hey Keebler Elf, if you don't use anything, what is your max Unit Cap for games? Only 1200? That's bs. It was 2400 with the save-ee patch, I'm assuming.

I reinstalled once again to make sure its a clean clean install, its back to 2.00.3466; I've noticed the unit cap is only 1200 now. Stupid limit, if there is no way to increase that I'm just gonna go back to the save-ee patch anyway.

[Keebler Elf]

1200 is way more then enough if your playing correctly. You should not be sitting in your base whoring units the whole time.

[Anna Comnena]

Oh thanks for being the gameplay police. I don't whore units, I only play on gigantic maps where you have multiple cities and fronts to fight on. Otherwise the game is just another RTS boring piece of micromanagy shit.

1200 units / 8 factions = worthless.