Roma Atani

:D Actually, the storms are mostly random, but have a small attraction to buildable rock. Something to keep you from completely turtling up. Oh, and I"ve seen re-packed Emperor (in the new small PC boxes) at Electronic's Boutique in the US for $5.00 ... WOW. There is no excuse now .. stick'm in your friends Xmas stockings and play a bunch of QM over the holiday school break! **ROMA

:) bit of trivia here ... :) The Harkonnen theme is very industrial, which matches the Harkonnen's 'heavy machinary' motif. However, the composer of that theme is none-other than well-known New Age musician, David Arkenstone. Who knew... **ROMA

:) Actually, if you want to help the cause, do NOT pirate software. Really, its the pirates that killed Emperor, and prevented the sequel from coming out. Emperor actually sold very well for a PC title .. if it were from a smaller publisher (last I checked PCData, it was over 500,000 worldwide). To EA's standards, it wasn't even close to a 'Sims' or 'Red Alert 2', etc. However, if Emperor would have sold another 25% legitimate copies, a sequel would have been done. And if you think piracy doesn't cost at least 25% of game sales, then you are smoking banana peels. :) Some of the Emepror2's ideas were taken and put into Generals, so you'll see some nifty stuff therin. It just won't be with cool Dune universe units. :( **ROMA

:D You say all this like other games don't have bugs. And other games don't have cheats. Counterstrike, Quake, Red Alert, Starcraft, Battlezone, etc. etc. **ROMA

If I recall correctly, you only need the 1st CD for multiplayer. The entire multiplayer game, all 3 houses are on 1CD in Emperor. The CDs 2,3,4 are all music, video & campaign missions. **ROMA