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So, is there any substitution that can be done at all? I'm sure that some people have built civilian buildings before.

Yeah, I just changed 'Incidental' to 'Atreides' under the 'House' selection. What must I do, exactly? Including those other few references?

I have TibEd, and I was wondering if you could make it so that you can build civilian buildings in single player campaign and skirmish. I've tried allocating each of the buildings to a particular house in the editing program, (Atreides, in my attempt) but none of them showed up in the building bar once the game was started. Is there something else I have to do?

No, I meant as in the single player campaign when you destroy the computer's harvester/carryall and a reinforcement arrives from somewhere off the map. I was asking if that was the value it stood for. Is that the case?

One last thing, what does 'harvreplacement delay' stand for? Is that how long it takes for an enemy to be reinforced with a new harvester/carryall?

I hope this is the right board to do this on. :O So yes, I have TibEd, and the main thing I want to edit is the occurence of dust storms. Essentially, to make them as infrequent/non-existant as I can for campaigns. This is the display under 'general,' regarding it: StormKillChance = 127 StormMinWait = 7500 StormMaxWait = 1500 StormMaxLife = 2500 StormMinLife = 2000 Now, I've tried playing with these before, but I learned quickly that I was seriously playing with fucking fire; as I watched in stark horror as 10..11..12..13 tornadoes started spawning in my base. ??? Can anyone tell me what each of those 5 properties stand for, and what I could edit to get the above-stated desire of mine? Thanks.

Well guys, I think it's solved. Mom and I called tech support in New Delhi and it turns out to be a defective video card. Since we're signed up with a warranty, we get a free replacement. I think I'll end up just fine. Who knows...I might be playing against you guys soon, for the first time! :) Thanks again for the long period you have been helpful for. 8)

Now my computer won't boot up at all! Maybe the comp is just fried and needs fixing?

...Actually, no. The problem is a device failure of some kind. Probably a video card/display feature? Because Emperor has crashed before, forcing me to reboot my computer, saying something to the effect of 'Windows has experienced a device failure and you must reboot, yada yada yada.' When I restarted Windows, it had the whole shpeel of 'Windows has recovered from a device failure' and it mentioned something about a display device, about how perhaps I should go to the provider for an update? I dunno. I don't understand why it's failing -now.- Ya know? What to do, now?

Hey dudes and dudettes, I tried exactly what was stated above, and it worked! I'm back to playing Dune!!! ;D My only problem now is a very buggy comp, and I would really like some help on that: I have a Dell Pentium 2 (or is it 3?) with Windows XP (obviously) and there seems to be something amiss. I know it can't be a virus, and the memory space on my computer is just great. What's wrong is that during Emperor (or anything else that is more 'modern' in the gaming world that happens to be on my comp, like Jedi Academy, Warcraft 3, etc) the game keeps freezing at odd intervals. I don't understand, because I have put the game graphics/display at minimal levels, and have even uninstalled several space-hogging programs off of my computer. I even had the thing defragged not too long ago. All of these games worked fine a while ago. And back then, my computer had EVEN MORE shit on it. It's just perplexing. Do I need more ram, or what? It just very recently (like past month/s) started acting very slow and freezy. >:(

I used to be Christian, myself. But to me, I simply realized that no one particular religion has a monopoly on the nature of Truth and God. No diss to Christians, or Muslims, or anyone: it is in my own belief structure that Christianity is one of many paths. Though I strongly disagree that democracy is unattainable without Christianity. First off, the textbook definition of democracy has actually never been documented ever in history. Much like communism, it is just a theory that has been aspired to. (Republic to democracy, socialism to communism) Though if you mean 'democracy' as in the Western ideal of a modernized, representitive democracy (republic) government with the persuit of general well-being for the majority of the population, I have one word for you: Turkey. ;D Verymuch so an Islamic country, a man named Attaturk transformed Turkey into a modern day 'Westernized,' secularized (as in the government cannot technically endorse a religion by say for example, punishing people according to the Koran, as some Islamic extremists do, and generally maintains a seperation between church and state that most Western countries aspire for) country in the early 20th century.

I'm tellin you man, 10,000 Harkonnen engineers - bam. 8) Someone should make a mod allowing them to -pistol whip- other units for an instant kill. The Harkonnen would have a whole new dimension about them. ;)

The contaminator kills all infantry (except for other contaminators - wouldn't that be a spectacle? :)) in one hit.

That's a good point, yes. But the main problem with Tleilaxu units is their relative slowness. If it was any infantry other than Sardaukar or any other infantry type with BRUTAL firepower, it would matter not if only -one- contaminator could 'infect' one of the others...everything else would just follow in place. Aw hell, at least it would give you and your opponent a good laugh.

There's kind of a mystique about playing as the Empire, as opposed to just another hum-drum, galactic fief.

Ok, I'm kind of a newbie, and I haven't been playing Dune for about half a year now, (damned comp and its Norton; although there's a possibility that I might be, once this comp has Norton 2004 on it!) but what about this: I know that the contaminator unit isn't the most appraised unit on this board... ::) That's understandable. Even in those missions in the campaign when you're being assaulted by columns of them, you just mow them all down, one way or another. Waaayy too slow. But what if you used the Atreides APC and (slowly and in increments, to keep the cloak in effect) you deployed it in the midst of groups of infantry long before they can react, and effectively bash the Be-Jesus out of any infantry masses (assuming you're playing against an infantry-heavy player) that you encounter?

Hrrmm...to respond to the classic Fremen vs. Sardaukar tangent: what if you just took a handfull of SCOUTS with your vicious, fanatical, cuddly-wuddly Sardaukar legion? They're capable of seeing cloaked units, ya know. :)

How about 10,000 Harkonnen engineers with their pistols?! :D

Ok, since it is the family computer, a complete overhaul of Norton seems unlikely. However, the new Norton (2004?) is coming out relatively soon. Perhaps that would make a difference?

Ok, I'll do that. It might take a while to implement those changes, but I'll be sure to post in this thread once I see what's what. Thank you so much to everyone for being so gosh darn supportive. :)

Like I've said though, I have tried the replacement. Numerous times. I copy the EMPEROR.EXE (which is a mysterious 92 KB) over the game's, (which is 926, I think?!) and there is still no load of Dune. Only difference in this situation is that there is a very noticable freeze for about half a minute, something vaguely resembling a window appears at the bottom of my screen, and then it says something to the effect of 'game.exe has experienced a problem and needs to close.' :(

I have tried numerous uninstallations/re-installations, so I don't think that's the answer. Thanks, though. Uninstalling Norton is a pickle for me because mainly it's not my computer to begin with. :-[ But I'm sure that Norton is the culprit. I remember Emperor running perfectly on this machine in the exact same setup, (hell, even without any updates - I think the game's version was a piddly 1.02?) smoothe as all everything. Then Norton was updated, and the game out of nowhere refused to cooperate. Are there any ways around Norton? Or even in the worst-case scenario, if I -had- to resort to uninstalling NAV, is there any chance that the uninstallation would be temporary? Like, for example, uninstall the game, uninstall Norton, re-install the game, re-install Norton, with a whole bunch of technical stuff in between?

Uhhh...I followed those directions and installed XP SP1, then restarted the computer. I returned, tried to restart Emperor and it still won't go into the game! Is there anything else to troubleshoot?

Also...I tried it. And it didn't seem to work for me. I have Windows XP with I believe Norton AV 2003. It was last updated about half a year ago, so I think that would be it. Version 1.0 for Dune. Anyway, (I didn't initially do anything with Norton, [i don't want to do anything like uninstall; that would just get too complicated] though the second time I tried disabling auto-protect, which didn't do anything) I got the file, pasted the EMPEROR.EXE file from the download to C:WestwoodEmperor, and all that happened was I start Dune, and before anything can load up, the screen freezes for about a minute, something vaguely resembling a window appears on the lower bar of the screen, and something pops up saying 'game.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.' What am I to do?

But there's a huge difference in file size between both of the Emperor.EXE files! The original is 926 KB whereas the downloadable replacement is only 92! Are you sure that replacing a 926 KB game file with something a digit less will work? Not to poo poo the idea, I'm just saying...will it?