Jimatri99

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I would think if any house was removed it would be Ordos.To remove Atreides would be sacreligious any new additions tho should be true to the story I agree with the previous comments.If anything would be possible I would think the guild would be integrated in the game more thoroughly,IE.ships navigablle,buying logistical favors,guild is responsilble for delivering starport stuff right? how about dropping off 20-30 ground troops or multiple armoured units in areas other than starport? that would become a great equallizer as long as the spice flowed! :O

Well now here's my 2$ (inflation).It's all about alliance. There is no best unit as has been said,they all have their strengths and weaknesses,but when combined that's when you see the power of the sum of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.

It's a REAL good read and is developed to a point where the story becomes so compelling that ...I can guarantee if you like sci-fi you won't be able to stop at dune (but you could its complete in and of itself.) Any parallels between spice and oil? Oh,ya. lots of em and the more time goes by the more I wonder.

You can fight fire with fire but you have to be wiiling to let everything that hasn't burned burn.

It's just another word and like all words can be used to covey thoughts.On God,Everything we know about God we learned.Religion is an early form of government and had humans governing other humans.The point of all of this stuff on philosophy and religion has to do w/understanding that which can not be understood,simply because we have to think about it it is corrupted our thoughts ,beliefs , experiences, etc.We are tied to the cosmos we are all potentially "devine",i.e. connected to that which is the universe,our egos will not allow us to believe that something as important as us ( or me ) can be such an infinititesimal part of the overall. "A state cannot observe itself" By the way only kiddin' :O

;)Well went in and removed my copy of map then proceeded to download map from archive.It works online now.Sent in no.2 still can't seem to use mappacker (the map doesn't show up) but zip works.Keep your eys open for "Southern Regions".Thanks for all your help! ;D

Well no I'm on different sides of the state , but we both downloaded pillars and played the other nite no prob ...so i'm deleting my map on my end and going to try to download it from archive. we'll see what happens.

But can we play those that are uploaded to Map archive at Fed? We just want to play 'em

What's the deal now? We can't play "homemade" maps online if we send them to someone?...What if they are downloaded from the download site?(that is this emperor map site) Are there any generic host sites out there that would support westwood style games.? This just doesn't make sense to me.

They should be installed in the "westwood/emperor/data" folder I believe.And if they are the .rfd files they should show up.check in explorer to see they are actually there also there is a readme w/ maps I think. GL

???How can we play on westwood ? you mean if we have maps we can'y play on their site?I just tried a new map with my buddy and it's telling me he doesn't have it and he does ??? ???

I would like to submit map to share but when i open MapPacker and ask it to pack ,I seems to take aliitle while doing something but ,then when I try to open Cmaps to find file to send to Gob. there is nothing there.Game plays, no errors,do Ihave to restart my system?I downloaded MapPacker- installed it and immediately tryed to send map.It ain't happenin any help?

I also have experienced this problem and for what it's worth I will list the things that I have attempted to fix ... so take a deep breath and have a sip and sit back:first there seemed to be two coincidences at the outset 1.up until these two things existed I never had OOS ,first I installed the game on a new computer win98 se,with 700mhz duron proc.,2. I had used an editor to change spice amount to try and beat the last two levels( this is in a stand alone situation non- networked) Shortly there after it all began both on net and local lan w/ two machines connected. This OOS problem occurs consistantly at various times after beginning game in networked mode 8 bit ,16 bit doesn't matter.I can be playing for 5 mins. or twenty mins. but I have noticed that it seems to happen when I begin to battle with opponent, as long as I'm building or exploring and not in visual contact with enemy the game goes.Once a battle begins it will freeze the video but the program is still running ,i.e. I can hear it progress in terms of explosions ,gun sounnds screams of agony as charaters are killed. I have tried all suggestions I could find and no change. These are SOME of them: totally uninstalled game ,editor ,game saves (which really hurt),ethernet card,all protocols in networking, all entries related to dune or westwood in registry. After reinstalling game I tried to run it with and with out version update it did it in both cases. In the ipx protocol I forced even packet length and not and both states didn't change anything. I downloaded ms patch for ipx no change. That's about all I can remember I have called westwood and spent TOO much money on phone bills no help although some of these attempts listed above were suggested by those guys This is the only game I can say that I have become totally addict to ( must be the melange)and IT's really too bad that I can no longer trust it will work in a connected setting. Can't westwood or EA or SOMEONE come up with a new and improved networking code for this classic? PLEASE,PLEASE OH PLEASE ! Shai' Halud !