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52 Weeks of Stronghold Welcome, Lords and Ladies, to Stronghold's biggest ever competition! Real prizes, real contests and real challenges await you! Over the next 52 weeks of 2016, we will challenge you, and you will challenge yourself, to become a better gamer. Each Monday the admin team will post a new challenge in the new forum 52 weeks of Stronghold. The challenges will be fairly open ended and encourage you to explore and create something unique for it. In order to complete the challenge, you could make something very basic to see how the game works using the tutorials and resources that we will provide to you. Whatever you feel comfortable with, but we would like you to at least attempt the challenge and explore some techniques. Prizes! StrongholdNation has teamed up with Firefly Studios, and we can now announce that at the end of 2016, a random member from the full list of winners will receive a steam code for every single Firefly game, all the Stronghold Crusader 2 DLC and a Firefly Studios T-Shirt. Each submission is rated in a scale of 1 to 3, (1 is the lowest and 3 is the highest) and the points are re-calculated on a weekly basis by the admin team. The winner of each week will be the person with the most points - or if multiple people have the same amount of points the member who clearly puts in the most effort. At the end of 2016, the five members with the most number of weeks that they have won will receive a steam code for every Firefly game and all the Stronghold Crusader 2 DLC. Additionally, a random user from all previous winners will be selected, and will win a steam code for every Firefly game and all the Stronghold Crusader 2 DLC. Users can be entered into the draw more than once, e.g. by winning more than one week. So obviously to increase your chance of winning, enter as many weeks as you can! Note: The top five winners who have won the most weeks will not be eligible for the random draw. How do I enter? To enter the contest, simply participate in a challenge for that particular week. Post in the thread and let the team member know you want to get involved, and then follow the instructions for that week. It's as simple as that! There are no restrictions on the amount of weeks you must do - you do what you feel comfortable with. You might choose to enter one single week, or maybe even all of them! The first challenge will be posted on the 4th of January 2016. Follow #52WeeksStronghold on Facebook or Google Plus for instant updates! Promotions! Unrelated to the contest, but we have some more member promotions to announce! @Crusader1307 has been one of the most active members here and it's my pleasure to announce we have now promoted him to the rank of Moderator! His wonderful skills have not gone unnoticed by us, and the amount of quality content he has produced for us every single day of this year is not even on the scale. I'd like to be the first to wish him a hearty congratulations! has really shone a light on some mapping tricks in Stronghold 2, and with the amount of tricks he has already shown us, I feel he should be made a permanent member of the experts group. Congratulations [user]tokamaps], and thank you for providing us with such good quality content! Congratulations and thank you! I'm delighted to see what other mapping tricks you still have to provide!

Thank you for your honesty, and I do appreciate this. However, it is against the site's policies to offer support to users who use cracked versions of the game. I fully understand your situation, however, the only advice I can give is to purchase a new copy of the game that is not cracked. If you would like advice or help on fixing or repairing files on a broken disc, we would be more than happy to give it to you. We would also be more than happy to give advice on where to purchase a new copy. However, piracy is illegal and as such we cannot help you. It is site policy to close topics that ask for pirated support, however in this case I will not be doing so since you did not specifically ask for it. If you know where you received the download from, feel free to shoot me a PM and I'll send the link to Firefly to get it taken down. Nothing is being held against you, and you certainly are not being judged. I will take this time to emphasise the site rules though. I do recommend you fully read them so you are aware of what is/isn't acceptable: http://forums.stronghold-nation.com/rules/ I'm sorry that we are unable to assist further in this situation.

I added you to the list. :)

Can you let me know which exact icon it is from here: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/21-animals-editor Sounds like a versioning issue to me. I'm not sure what version any of them were made on but it definitely seems like this is the problem. First question - is this a legal copy of the game or a cracked one?

Yes - I see no problems with that whatsoever.

Ok. Would be useful to know what exactly the error is ;) You also need 1.4.1 to play online so it has lots of advantages of upgrading. If you let me know what error it is you get, I'll try to resolve it for you.

Have you modified anything? What game version are you running?

Moved to Computer Support.

Moved to computer support. So ... what's the problem here? Do you want to sell these items on something such as Ebay and just don't know how or did you rule that out?

Each map should really be submitted separately. This would then mean that firstly, we have more variety of files for users to choose form, but secondly, when downloading it is faster for the end user. If several maps are combined and they only want one, depending on their connection it could take a good while to download. I understand that this is harder to submit them, but it's easier both for the person approving them (they'll get done faster) and for the users looking for them as they'll show up individually in search results .etc. Saying that though - just use your best judgement when you come to upload them and you'll be fine. :)

As long as a single line is added to the description stating you used an existing landscape, there are no problems in submitting any of your maps. We'd love to be able to show them off in our download section. Scripting to me is more important than the landscape - and it's scripting that people tend to struggle with. So by uploading some of these maps, you may well be showing other people tips about scripting that you never thought about. :) It's up to you, but I wouldn't let that put you off uploading them.

Yes, that's very possible. But I would strongly recommend you make sure the previous mission has been uninstalled before you allow the next mission to be installed - this is because if they just install and install, when a user comes to uninstall, they will likely end up removing or replacing the actual files that are needed. Anyway - let me know if you need any help with this. :)

Inno Setup behaves just like a normal installer, and as an example of this - installing the game. So as an example of what it would be like, see this music pack I made for SH2: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/file/15-custom-music-pack/ You download, run the installer, it backs up any files that are changed, then simply adds new files with the same name to that location. On uninstall, it deletes the added files and moves the backup files into the original folder again. So for your use - you would make the campaigns, then reference the file names in the Inno Setup code. Once you've finished, you click "Build", then "Compile" and it will make the exe for you. The official documentation is somewhat lacking on this, perhaps it might be worth me making something specific to Stronghold applications sometime. On a side note - once the game has loaded to the main menu, you can't change anything such as crests without exiting and loading the game again. This is because the initial loading screen of the game gathers, loads and parses everything, all files, crests, images .etc. and these can't be changed without reloading them.

You can't visit a person's profile because you are a new member ( I've gone ahead and sent him a PM on steam so he knows to expect you. :)

I can understand what the use you want it for is, and I don't know any other way you could approach this properly. The only solution which I can think of that might make it easier for other people to play your campaign, is to make an executable application (.exe.) file in Inno Setup Compiler. This would make the changes automatically so users don't need to change the files themselves. On uninstall, it could roll them back so their game is exactly the same way it was prior. This is the only way I know that would not let users edit the files manually themselves. Glad you're enjoying the forum so far! :)

Hi @buddha737, and welcome to StrongholdNation. If I understand you correctly, you want to add new AI lords into the game. While there are probably certain elements you may be able to add into the game by itself, I do not believe that you have the ability to completely add new AI lords, which is why in the video you saw I just changed an AI lord instead. Most of the lord's actions including colour, sound effects, mark-up (e.g. their physical body) are all hard coded into the exe, DLLs or some other file and I do not know of how to get around this. @Tokamaps recently found a way to change the player colour which was until then thought an impossible task. Perhaps something similar may well be an option. While you can't physically add new units and lords to the game, in my knowledge, you can base new lords off existing ones and switch them. This is the only thing I know that will work. Sorry that what you wanted doesn't really work - and let me know if I wasn't clear or you want to know more. :) ** Edit ** Back to part of the question - and hopefully a backup solution - why do you need to create new characters in your campaign? Why can't you replace Lords for your situation?

Great! Looking forward to it :)

Yes, playing times and the date to play is all I think I need to know - at least at the moment. But if there is a choice of only me or @Andreas9541 I'm quite happy to step aside and let Andreas play instead.

Saves can be found in the folder C:\Users\\Documents\stronghold crusader 2\saved games. You can upload via this link: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/submit/ Thanks! :) That sounds like it's a very hard mission - thanks for the detailed guide, I'm sure it will help many other people. :)

This is a very good idea - and the screenshots are excellent. I'll certainly try to attend this - but I think I'd probably need more details to confirm this.

Well, at least we found some use for OneDrive. Thanks for sharing! :)

Oops. Sorry about that! Must have missed/mis-read it somehow :S

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Have any tips you'd like to share now you've beat it? Also if you could upload a saved game (if you have one) that would be awesome. I'm sure other people in your position would love to have one. :)

That sounds like a good idea, I may well join in with that. Depending on time frame of course - but I'm certainly quite happy to give it a go. :)