Bunch O' Stuff

[Gobalopper]

First off a big welcome to all of the new visitors we seem to be getting recently, I think we broke a record today in hits, feel free to ask any questions or tell us ways we can improve the site. Speaking of the site I have setup the strategies section so start posting. This time I am going to be using the messageboards instead of posting everything myself and then one of us will pick the best strategies and post them on the strategy page. I will also have review and "idea" pages setup shortly. Feel free to use the messageboard in the meantime though.

For those of you having technical problems with the game I suggest checking out Westwood's tech support section. They have really improved it recently and it will be a lot easier to get/find answers then it was back during Dune 2000. You could also try the messageboard but they don't have a tech support board setup yet... *hint* *hint*. :)

Since I pre-ordered the game I got the sheet that gives you the 3 "execlusive" units. Basically how the real method works, not unlocking via Rules.txt, is that you logon to EmperorUnits.com and type in your WW-Online user name and after that type in the special serial number you get. I guess once you do that WW-Online will automatically recognize that you have them unlocked. This leaves me to wonder if the units will work online when you use the Rules.txt method of unlocking or if they only work in skirmish games, has anyone tried? BTW, according to the page where you sign up the exclusive unit deal will last about a month.

You may have seen the Emperor ads in gaming magazines recently so, as I did with the last three, I got ahold of it from Westwood. Check it out below and for the other three check the misc images page, this last one is from Dune:

Some people have been asking where they put the Rules.txt and ArtIni.txt files since they don't have a datamodel directory. What seems to be working is just creating that directory and then adding those to files to it.

Last up is some info by Manic Devlin on the pre-order units, the Guild, and those large windtraps I mentioned earlier. Since it was a little long I posted it on the messageboard so feel free to comment on it.

That is about it, one last thing though. If you are interested I updated the units info pages while waiting for my serial number. The structures info is almost done, should be finished later today. It is taken from the manual so if you have that you really don't need to read it unless you want to see the unit pictures in colour. :)