These upgrades will increase the rate at which resources are gathered.Įmpire Earth has 21 civilizations, (with two additional ones in The Art of Conquest). Economic upgrades are found in the Town Center or Capitol. Education upgrades are found in the University, which can protect units from being converted. Technologies researched at the hospital improve the hit points, speed, and attack of a civilization's citizens, a hospital's healing rate and range, or the population capacity. Health related technologies can be researched at a Hospital. Technologies to improve farming can be researched at the Granary. Like many real-time strategy games, there are technologies available to improve a player's civilization. In the Digital age Cyber Factories and Laboratories are available and can produce many types of mechs, which are known as Cybers in Empire Earth. In the Atomic Age-WW1 epoch some new buildings are made available to the player, such as Airports, Tank Factories and Naval Yards where certain planes, tanks and submarines, etc., can be produced. Siege weapons such as Catapults are produced at Siege Factories, they are available starting from the Bronze Age until the Dark Ages and are later substituted by the Trebuchet in the Middle Ages throughout the Renaissance, finally being replaced by cannons in the Imperial Age. Horsemen are available from the Copper Age to the Industrial Age and are created at Stables. Other units such as archers are available from the Stone age to the Renaissance and are created at the Archery Range. Some units such as infantry are available in every epoch and can be created at the Barracks. Several different units are available in each epoch, each being produced in a different building. The Space Age from Art of Conquest also fits in this category. The Digital Age and Nano Age, where 'cybers' are first made and the setting becomes futuristic. The World War I, World War II and Modern ages, where gunmen have completely replaced melee fighting and the first planes and submarines are created. The Renaissance Age, Imperial Age and Industrial Age, in which the first gunmen are introduced. The Bronze Age, Dark Age and Middle Age, in which the combat system becomes much more complete. The Prehistoric Age, Stone Age, and Copper Age, in which few units are available and limited research can be done. The game spans 500,000 years of human history, in 14 different epochs. With new epochs, some new units are available at the cost of having to abandon the ability to produce old units, though any old units still alive are kept. Epoch advancement requires additional buildings to be built and the costs of advancing increases as more epochs are attained, although the ability to gather the required resources greatly increases as well. Each epoch brings new technologies and units. Each of these epochs represents an age within history. However, players can still play online by connecting directly to the IP address of the game host, provided that the firewall of the host has ports 33334-33336 forwarded.Įpochs are the ages of history a player passes through in Empire Earth. Until November 2008, multiplayer gameplay was played on the official Sierra servers, but these were shut down by Activision which had bought the company. The game is a basic war between all sides, unless diplomacy is involved.
Multiplayer consists of online and network play with up to 8 people simultaneously. Finally, the player has the option of creating their own civilization with unique bonuses.
There are two types of heroes, Strategist heroes who heal surrounding units and can demoralize enemy units while Warrior heroes give morale to surrounding units and have a greater attack power. Heroes can be built at the Town Center or Capitol. The game itself contains many unique and innovative features, including a " morale" system, which directly affects individual units statistics. To do this, the player must create both an army to invade enemy cities, citizens who will work collecting resources and buildings to create units and defend the player's own cities. The player must attempt to destroy every opposing civilization on the map, thus conquering the world. The gameplay of Empire Earth is similar to that of other real time strategy games like Age of Empires II.
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