Contacting MR. Westwood Online? (Greg Underwood)

[mendelbop]

Long story short. I contacted a former Westwood Employee Jani Penttinen in a finnish forum and further discussed in e-mail. He was coding Emperor when the project was being finished.

I was talking about possibly adding some patch to emperor to allow easier continuation of online play after westwood online goes down.

He no longer had access to any of emperor code and also informed me that Intelligent Games, who mostly made the game as a subcontract deal to Westwood (!!!) has also faced bankruptcy some time ago.

One thing though that might be useful... He gave me personal e-mail address of some guy named Greg Underwood, who is claimed to have gone by the title "Mr Westwood Online" and I was told he might be able to help us, on the other hand he might not...

I can't share this e-mail address to you unfortunately, cause i was asked not to, but I will however e-mail and ask him something. Problem is I don't know what I should say actually that might help us most. Gob and Olaf might have some ideas?

[Gobalopper]

I've talked to Greg before, although that was still when WW was around, he might be able to help but I doubt they have the time or money to do anything. Does Greg still work for EA?

[mendelbop]

Im not sure. I will ask. But I was told that majority of online staff lost their jobs when westwood was merged to other parts of EA.