December is going to be a big month for the Empire Deluxe. This will be the first year where we host our annual tournament on EDCE instead of the 1993 edition. I am putting a lot of additional effort into getting things ready since it will also be our first all remote tournament as well….
The Island of Harn is a rough, hazy, forested isle roughly 100 miles off the northwest coast of the continent of Lythia, on the edge of the Haonic Ocean. Compared to other regions of northwest Lythia, Harn is a wild, barbaric land, where pockets of civilization are surrounded by large tracts of wilderness. Harn’s center…
I put the finishing touches on the Future Units Graphic Set today. You can download it on EDIBLE. This set is a replacement for the default unit graphics and does not include any new units. The graphics focus on futuristic, science fiction versions of each unit type to give a unique touch to your Empire…
With our end of year tournament just a month away, the first draft of the re-written tournament rules has been posted to the website. There is still more to come with this guide, and it still needs proof reading, but it includes 90% of the rule changes needed to move from classic Empire Deluxe to…
I am reviewing the Falklands AI for performance issues after a user reported it no longer works properly after the new release. I don’t know if an update will be coming in the future, given the amount of trouble it gave me last time. If I can make any significant performance improvements with the new…
Welcome to the November Monthly Update. This month promises to see some new uploads to EDIBLE. I want to thank the tournament team for bearing with me through one of the toughest years of my professional career. November is traditionally the time when we start preparing for the end of year tournament which is the…
Back in July, while testing functionality for Random Earth Map (REM), I noticed some peculiar behavior with the AI and decided to take some notes for a future fix. Shortly thereafter, I got bogged down in personal stuff and never picked it back up. With the upcoming patch making some tweaks to the AI, I…
Today I have uploaded the first pass at an AI for MUD. This is posted to EDIBLE in the usual spot. Note that, like MUD, this is an alpha upload as the set is not yet fully functional so lots of future changes are expected. It’s also worth noting that the AI is capable of…
The Movement Sound Pack is a collection of movement sounds for EDCE. The pack includes 68 sounds recorded from several military and civilian vehicles averaging between 5 to 10 seconds per clip. There are trucks, tanks, helicopters, bombers, fighters, watercraft, submersed pings, and electronic noises. The sounds can be mixed and matched to produce a…
This Random Map Generator is used with the standard EDCE unit set with a focus on sea power. All cities will be accessible by sea units. The map will not place any landlocked cities, making each placement along a coastal tile or a river delta.
