Music in Empire

[ThePianist]

I really hope some more effort is put into this. I´d like to see, or hear ;), faction specific music for each faction. Why they bother to hire an composer for each game is beyond me however good the music has been this far. The only prob, I guess, with my request, is the sheer volume that is needed to have authentic music for each faction.

Separate music pack given as option during installation, in case people have lots of things on their hard drive and want to save some Mb. And/or also have the music files made into the most compact versions (either .wav or .ram or .flv) and of the least audio quality (which could decrease the file size) as long as it is not noticeable to the common ear. In other words, as long as the music doesn't have statics in it, it's good. I have played with some audio softwares, the very simple ones, and a 2 mb audio file can have the same sound as a 1mb audio file.

[Sir Beane]

Separate music pack given as option during installation, in case people have lots of things on their hard drive and want to save some Mb. And/or also have the music files made into the most compact versions (either .wav or .ram or .flv) and of the least audio quality (which could decrease the file size) as long as it is not noticeable to the common ear. In other words, as long as the music doesn't have statics in it, it's good. I have played with some audio softwares, the very simple ones, and a 2 mb audio file can have the same sound as a 1mb audio file.

This is an extremely good an idea. And it makes me wonder. If CA don't put much historical, classical music in the game then perhaps the modding community could.

Since all of these songs are well out of copyrite there would be no problem with modders releasing a music mod aimed at giving each faction its own specific songs and tunes.

What do we think? Good idea or bad? I'm not a modder so I don't know how feasible this is.

[quadalpha]

Reviving this thread to complain about the lack of campaign map music. There's only the (rather medieval sounding) mood music. If a small company like Paradox could license a few hours of the Naxos catalogue, I don't see why CA/Sega couldn't have managed. Need mod or something.

Do appreciate the Bach events though.

And the College of New Jersey!