Its on the style of NS but bigger (and no aliens

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I can say it has real potental, there are minor bugs, balance issues and net-code lag (but that what happened with the BF titles).
The Official Website is:
www.empiresmod.com
I recommend you try before you say "It looks kind of crap". Keep in mind it is still in beta.
These are the recommended settings to put into the autoexec.cfg file in Empires directory.
Client Settings:
For autoexec.cfg
rate 30000
cl_cmdrate 33
cl_updaterate 33