Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
All compression programs look for repeated patterns to reduce the size. If the textures from ED are not compressing as much as the textures from BC, then they can not be the same.
Excluding ED textures being badly formatted, I would guess that ED is either making them to a higher detail or maybe its using a different DDS format ( as there is about 5 )
I tell you what did puzzle me, I thought the textures made one big picture that overlade the terrain. However on battle park, when I removed the alternative texture path from the Init.con, it has the same design in terms of grass, mud, sand, but the textures were changed to the default ones, which I can see only being possible with if they are tiled.