Lord_Chris

I've split the thread, edited my main post above to make sense in the new thread & added a less off-topic reply to the other thread.

I'm getting a boxed version. But I would recommend not buying online after what I've heard about ShellShock (the newest super computer virus) over the weekend. You can follow the link for more info.

The food gets consumed in the same amount of time. The only difference is the honour bonus - on normal rations I think off-hand it's 1 honour per food type given on a monthly basis.

Bread slows food production down. If you think about it, wheat gets taken to the stockpile, taken to the mill, turned into flour, taken back.etc. While in that time, an apple farmer may have taken one or two loads of apples to the granary. Also, bread takes up far more workers with little to no advantage over other food. The main thing that is taken into effect is the variety of food. Not what types, just how many and of what types. This is exactly what the honour bonus from the granary is based on - how many types of food you have. From what I remember happens (off hand) Apples are the quickest, second to Meat, Cheese and then Bread.

You're always at risk online - even on Google. One of my friends told me about people doing a test on Google, they reloaded it something like every five seconds for 24 hours, and for every X attempts, they got malware on their computer. The reason being that Google knows about the malware that people attempt to upload and are always checking for it - be clearly not every five seconds. I'll have to ask him about it again, I can't remember exactly now. What I recommend is to (as always) use caution. The rules of the internet: Never use sites you don't know Before you visit a site, check it with phishtank. Some types of malware can download instantly just by viewing a web page. There are other places you can check the safety of website such as Norton safe web. Make sure you have a great anti-virus. While windows defender is alright, it's by no means the best prevention against malware & virus'. MalwareBytesPro is free software that even picked up some kind of virus in the registry on my computer - which Windows Defender seems incapable of doing. Use downloads with caution. Don't download things from other sites unless you trust the source. And most importantly: Never just 'hand out' credit card details to surveys.etc. They are always scams - especially from 'getmeatticket'. I won't post a link, if anyone viewing this thread searches it & anything happens, I'm not responsible. TL; DR: Basically, to sum up, you are always at risk from malware on the internet, as long as you have a good firewall and anti-virus regularly running scans you should be fine. The shellshock virus only affects Linux systems, those people who have Windows X, don't worry. It mainly affects purchases, but in reality, everything you post (i.e. even your email). If you have any more questions, or anyone wants to add any comments do and I'll split the thread into The Open Castle Inn. :)

This isn't "just some virus", it's probably the worst exploit in Linux yet (which is what 99.9% of websites use). It's worse than the heart bleed bug a few months back, it is a vulnerability in Linux operating systems that allow hackers to inject software to remotely control the websites on that server, so it's pretty bad.

Well, that is pretty weird. :)

I would strongly recommend not buying online after what I've heard about ShellShock (the newest super computer virus) over the weekend. What are your thoughts, opinions.etc on ShellShock? You can follow the link for more info. EDIT: Edited post to make sense in new thread.

This sounds pretty good! I'll have to download it sometime and play it soon. Challenge accepted! :)

That does sound good, I must admit it's something I've greatly wanted since I first played Legends when it came out.

You knew I would answer before I even read the thread, didn't you? ;) It could be implemented fairly easily, but it's not at the top of the list right now, there are lots of more important things to get completed (such as the merging of the gallery and the main site for example) That's a minor job, but I'll add it to the ever growing queue for you.

Yes, you can manually install the patches from our download section. You're only forced to using steam. However, you do have to reinstall the game in order to alter patches added.

Thanks David, this really is, very helpful! :) I think this is probably the most detailed review I've read on it, it definitely deserves a rep point from me. The bbcode for tables is something that the forum by default, just doesn't have and there are no mods for it either so we're kind of stuck at lists.

I've split posts #14 and #15. There is no real cut-off point between on topic & off topic for the rest so I'll leave them here as it would be otherwise too tricky. Split thread: http://forums.stronghold-nation.com/topic/285-population-limit-for-players-castle/

I've bought it but haven't received it yet. I'll post in this thread when it comes.

Off-topic, isn't this thread going? Let's keep this on topic folks, it's not going anywhere. ;)

Maybe player created maps would be better for playing SHC2 then, since you can add estates in those but can't use estates when they aren't there... Personally, I'm looking forward to see what maps people can come up with.

Well, I can see good and bad in that - it stops players from mass producing in one estate (like me) but it's too standard and would be better just putting a limit on carter posts.

What time is this event in Germany so we can add that to the list of Global start times?

In SH2 I only really used moats for stopping enemy troops from getting too close to my walls, I rarely used them, only if I had enough gold and space. But they were certainly very good, and something which I hope firefly add in to some update later on down the line. The walls I have heard somewhere (I can't remember where) can be broken down by troops.

I like pitch, I use it 80% more than moats, so it's not much of a disappointment to me - though obviously moat is better than nothing, just for the sake of variety.

It wasn't so much the thread content, it was the way it was phrased which made it harder for anyone else to respond or discuss it as it was a single statement.

Can you place extra carters in estates or not?

I think that's pretty disappointing actually. I much prefer the carters from SH2.

Please post threads that don't have much discussion value over the PM in future. :)