and another question, could someone xplain me how this metaverse thingy works?
them empires and such....
Metaverse lets you track your score online. It provides a fixed, secured set of datafiles (no mods allowed), so the scores actually mean something.
Simply use the 'Metaverse' button in the main menu, create a character (you can have up to three at the same time) and play. You don't have to play the whole game in one session, saving and loading works as normal. Also, when finished, you can choose to submit the score or not. You can even load, play again and resubmit
once if you're not happy with the outcome.
Empires are just groups of players. No real advantage being in one, but it can give you one or two more medals to show off and add a bit of flavour to your characters.
For more detailed discussion of the Metaverse and Empires, use the search function of the forum.