Lord_Chris

Today it my pleasure and duty to inform you that after several months of work, the StrongholdNation Members Area is now open! Though I am currently working on editing articles, everything else is working so far. Enjoy adding your own articles for the site as well as gaining access to StrongholdNation's TeamSpeak 3 channel (thanks to Charles of Tours) If you have any further requests as to what content you would like in the members area please post them below and I will try to accommodate them.

Well, this is certainly some excellent news! It's too bad I've finally installed my mods again though :/ We can certainly play SHL for a bit while I create a few maps and scenarios though. Speaking of which... http://forums.stronghold-nation.com/topic/157-stronghold-legends-8th-9th-14th-june/

As a result of multiplayer now working again, we will be playing several SHL matches once more! This event will take place at 6 PM GMT all times. Please post if you intend to join as unlike stronghold 2, the stronghold legends matches have much less users per lobby. We must know how many lobbies to setup!

Last Month, the winner was EaglePrince for our "Firefly Studios" themed contest. EaglePrince has thought about, and decided upon the following theme: kingdoms and empires of medieval Europe and Middle East Your signature will have to contain some kind of symbol or icon depicting some kingdom or empire from middle east or medieval Europe. Flag, Coat of Arms, anything that represents this. An image such as a king, emperor.etc. And if you are considering joining in, it wouldn't hurt to drop in a note so I hurry along those "last minute" sort of people. The contest will run until the 20th of June, and after this date the voting will begin. But do remember... the longer you have your signature posted, the more likely people will notice it! Basic Rules: http://forums.stronghold-nation.com/topic/94-announcing-signature-of-the-month/ Good luck! **Voting** Lord_Chris EaglePrince Charles of Tours

Poll closed. As it is a draw, this month's winner is EaglePrince. Congratulations! Feel free to shoot me a PM with your theme for this month at any time :)

We have recently installed a new feature in our download central. All users who upload files have a 'files page' in which they can promote their files via several means and get subscribers. Subscribers in our download central are people who get notified about future files you upload. Users can individually choose whether to display a subscriber button on their page as well as display a slideshow gallery with screenshots of their maps to show other users when they are browsing through. To change your settings for this, once logged in click the "my files" heading in a site sidebar. You will then be redirected to your page, where if you click the "edit" button" you can change yours. Users who do not set any options will be given the default ones. These are that the subscribe button appears as well as the gallery but with several wallpapers such as space backgrounds and those from planet Earth. Users can have a total of 12 slides to show off their map making skills. We are currently looking for ways to increase the number of settings so if anyone has any ideas please share them below.

Though I can't be fully sure this is true with stronghold 1 as I've never played it, most of the game versions for the others are forwards compatible but not backwards compatible - so if anything it would be the 1.1 version that would have the difficulties playing your file.

Hmm, I don't fully believe them on that either. I know loads of people who despise Steam (including myself) and have explicitly said they aren't getting it because of it. You know how much I hate steam, I'm sure I've told you via PM before, the only reason I might get it (still undecided) is for the site. SH3 is an alright game, it's on the way to becoming a good one (if only it hadn't have been abandoned it might have been) but I just hate the steam element of it. It makes the game run incredibly slow - just looking at the time for the game to initially start up, the game takes about thirty seconds more to load than if it wasn't on steam, you connect to a server thousands of miles away, when in reality it was probably easier to just install the game on your system and be done with it. Then of course there's the old issue with bringing in a third part - you have to give steam your details for a 'free steam account' when in reality all you want to do is play the game, and it becomes more and more of a task to do just that. But, they aren't to be criticised, they're doing a great job, and this one will turn out to be a masterpiece! :) The game generally looks very good, I'll also point people in the direction of this video as it's pretty informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nx2jwT9CRM

Stronghold Crusader 2 will be released on the 2nd of September 2014 as revealed by Firefly Studios recently.

On the 31st of May 2014, multiplayer for both stronghold 2 and legends will cease to work as GameSpy are shutting off all remaining servers.

Now our news has been replaced by topics from our announcements forum on our homepage, here is this announcement on stronghold crusader 2.

The news has been replaced on our homepage by topics from the announcements forum. So rather than this being lost I thought I would add this into the stronghold crusader forum.

Topic stickified. :)

** This was originally taken from Stronghold-Knights.com. ** There is also an attached word document below - this is on scenario design and eye candy taken from stronghold heaven. Scenario Design.doc

For each month from now on, the moderation team will take everything into consideration a user does on the site (I.E. Forum Posts, Downloads Submitted, Articles Written.etc) and the user who they believe has put the most effort into helping the site, or has submitted the most things in total, generally, the most active member, will receive the following reward added to their signature: This month, the winner is EaglePrince for his excellent contributions to both our downloads section and our forums. He really has put a lot of effort in to making these places great places to hang out. Congratulations EaglePrince, and well done!

Categories reorganised, they now appear in order of release date. The game versions have also been added in. You can now submit a stronghold 1 file here: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/submit/stronghold-1/

Ok, those have been added thanks :) What about game versions? There will be 1, but any updates? The next step is to organise them so they aren't all over the place and actually have structure...

Stronghold 1 is currently not an option to upload files for in our download central. However, I will add one in for it. But since I have never played the game I do not know what categories to make for it. Would you be able to tell me which game modes exist in it?

The lobby is now up! stronghold nations and the password is shnations

I must be honest, I haven't really had much time to look and those that I have found could have been better. There re however some excellent ones built into the game itself: The Snake Dragon Island A couple of other good ones are there as well, I'll show you them in the game.

A stronghold 2 event will take place at 6PM both of these days and they will both have a username of stronghold nations and a password of shnations

The voting has now begun - I apologise for it being two days late, two days will be added onto next month.

Topic stuck as requested :)

Not at all, you post where you want. The worst that will happen is that it gets moved to another forum, and that's not that bad is it? :) Lord Vetka only meant that he would split the topic so you could have your own if you'd rather than having to go through his to get to yours.

Rather than a 'mission', think of it as a scenario, that's how I think of it, a skirmish always has one scenario, whereas a custom war can have as many scenarios as you create for it (each scenario is a mission of it's own) No, there isn't that option at the minute, again just the number of estates. I can understand where you're coming from, a field for all the possible opponents on the map. I will try and add it in at some point (I can't say how long that will be as I'm extremely busy with other stuff at the moment) but it will require slightly more time to do because there isn't a field for it yet so I would have to completely create it from scratch. It certainly would help, I'll give you that. Hopefully some day in the near future I'll add it in.