I also posted the GCF's here. I put the ones that are normally deleted and this has worked for me and a couple other ppl: GCF Files Note - this will not fix Invalid Steam UserID issue. From what I've seen - no one has been able to join Viper or Epic in a couple days, maybe longer.
So my corrupted empires gcf files compress down to 532kb (as an exe) and expand to 2.12 gb. MAN, thats good stuff. Files on DB Empires GCF Source SDK 1.03gb (nanozip saved me 200+mb over 7zip) Source 2007 SDK 423mb(nanozip saves me 33mb over 7zip at a cost of 45 mins to compress its going to take that long to uncompress too. lol) Nanozip compresses things down even more then 7zip and that says A TON. Problem is that it is much slower in both compression and expanding. It takes the same amount of time to expand if you use max compress. Viki... you sure your zips are around 300 and 400?
The userid ticket issue is fixed only issue we have is the gcfs, once they are installed you can launch empires the normal way through library or steams server list
I changed my first post of my thread and gave a link to the page with viromans and just go fly's posts with their links.