Lord_Chris

Just so you guys know, when viewing the forums from a mobile device now, you will be notified about Tapatalk directly, and be able to switch to the app straight away. See the below screenshot for details on this.

No problem. The system stores user accounts that are not registered fully for a certain period of time, and then automatically deletes them if they haven't logged in or completed their registration. Rather than delete it, I've suspended the account for now so that if you change your mind in the meantime, things can be changed. We can also merge accounts by the way, just in case in the future you ever decided you wanted this option as well. In future, if you have any issues logging in or questions about stuff site-related, feel free to send me a PM directly. I don't judge, no matter what the issue is!

I didn't write the software, I just use it. But it only detects the main browsers anyway, it's impossible to detect all of them as there are so many forks. If it's a fork you're using or based on Chromium, then this will be why it's detecting it as Chrome. The two accounts are made by different email addresses (unless you've since changed them). Your current one is a Yahoo address, while your incomplete one is a Gmail one. It should have been sent to your Gmail address, unless you have some kind of forwarder setup or other settings which I'm not aware of. The general rule is one account per user, so it's not a standard situation in that regard. I'm quite happy for you to use Google login if you like, or to keep your current account as it is, but I do need to know which one you'd like to keep as having more than one account is contrary to the site rules, I'm afraid.

I just wanted to let you guys know that in light of Firefly's announcement today, there are no changes to how the competition will be handled or our own deadlines. You can continue to add your entries until September 6th as planned.

Just wanted to let you guys know that today Firefly have released a statement on the release of Stronghold Warlords. This won't change the deadline for our competition at all, at least for the moment.

The PM is usually better for requests such as this as they can contain sensitive information, but since you posted publicly on this occasion, I'll reply here but try to strip out anything that is identifying. I'm sorry to hear this has happened to you, but please do rest assured that we take the security of user accounts extremely seriously. You may wish to enable two-factor authentication or additional protection on your account if you feel that it's at risk in any way. My PMs are always open if you have any concerns about your account security or other questions or concerns. I can assure you that your data is safe and that this was an attempted exploit on the login system, not a hack. A user tried to "guess" your password three times incorrectly, and because of the settings we have configured, it automatically locked your account for security reasons. I can see that your account was locked (it seems twice) on 11th July for failed login attempts from IP address 147.78.31.114. This resolves to a location in Denmark. You later successfully logged in on the 12th July by an IP address of the same first three subnets, but the last one was different. In fairness this is almost identical. Your recent post today was using a similar IP address, but different again. You seem to be using Chrome and Linux on all of these occasions. There are no login attempts from California on this account, which is the one you are currently using now. One of the above IP addresses also attempted to create a new user account on 11th July and tried to link a Google account with it, but the process was never completed, and it does not have a valid username or login credentials yet, i.e. it cannot yet login. This is the account I can see there was some login attempts from California on. I'm not sure why but there are two incidents of this happening, one was August 10th, and the other was 14 hours ago. I've taken a quick search and I'm afraid that this appears to be a proxy or VPN of some kind. In answer to your other questions, this is an isolated login attempt on your account only. The site does and has contacted Internet Service Providers in the past, but these have been isolated cases of serious or prolonged abuse. I can see what I can find for you if you would like to launch a complaint, but please make it known that you are complaining in a personal capacity and not on behalf of the site if you do launch a complaint. I've found a couple of leads I am investigating, but I'm afraid I can't disclose any more in a public setting. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to continue the conversation or get any more specific info about this.

Glad you like it Paul! About time we had an upgrade I thought

I'll admit, I think it's a neat app and I can see why you like it. To be honest, if there was the demand for it and we had the traffic (members, not views- we're getting them anyway) I would consider getting a guy I know to create an official SHN app for us which would cover the main site as well. I nearly worked with him on a project a year or so ago but unfortunately it fell through at the last moment. I will be (at some point) creating a responsive mobile design for the main site though, because I can see that a little under half our traffic comes from mobile devices. But, the priority for now is getting more articles and info out there. The other thing to consider about Apps though is that they're incredibly expensive to maintain. Apple charges $100 a year just for listing your app on the App Store. So unless there was significant demand for this (I'm talking about several hundred people as a minimum), I really don't think it would be worth it. Yeah, sadly there are some ads on there. I haven't seen any as of yet myself, but I did try to disable the setting for them and Tapatalk wouldn't let me unless I started a $10 a month subscription. Since Tapatalk is just a platform for accessing the site, and not the site itself, it's out of our control so there's no way realistically I could prevent them from doing this. But the actual site of SHN will remain ad-free, that I can promise everyone. I just don't see any benefit of putting ads on here, this is a community site for public good, there's no way I should be profiting from this. Plus, virtually everybody uses adblockers these days anyway (including myself) so for what crumbs it would make anyway, it would probably end up turning more people away. Ads are distracting and annoying, and not the kind of thing we want to achieve here.

Fixed and verified as working. Try searching for us now and you'll be able to use it via the Tapatalk app

Well done @EaglePrince! That's some achievement, take a well earned break!

I was under the impression that you could just use it. I haven't configured anything specifically for it yet. I'll take a look today and see if I can sort something out.

I'm really not sure what's going on here but it sounds like there is some kind of caching issue with your browser. Do you use any browser extensions or anything which modifies the page source or behaviour of a website? The issues you're talking about, particularly when submitting your file, don't seem to be happening to anyone else and when I've tried it myself after you mentioned, it's all working fine for me. The behaviour isn't really that different either from when I do it to when any other user does it. Your file is available here, and has been since approved: https://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/file/625-the-mamluk-siege-of-acre-1291/ I've checked it again just now and the reason it's not appearing within the download categories is because the category is showing as invalid. However, it is still available from the downloads index on the 'last file' header for Stronghold Crusader, and you can get it from the 'Latest Downloads' sidebar on the main site as well. I also noticed that it doesn't have a preview image when I approved it, so I checked all of the server logs and it appears as if you just.. didn't upload a one. Despite rigorous testing I've been unable to re-create either of these issues, which is why I think it must be down to some extension or browser issue. If you can let me know what browser you use, what extensions you have and what's actually happening when you try to do this stuff, I'll investigate more into the issue. Probably best if you send me a PM. Feel free to send your email in now if you haven't already using the link above. That won't change.

Pleased to announce you can now sign into your Stronghold Nation account using Microsoft or by Twitter. We're working on adding Facebook integration too, but unfortunately Facebook have stopped verifying developer apps indefinitely because of Covid, so there's no telling how long away this might be yet. Hopefully this all helps you out, though! ☺️

Thank you, notified and the file uploaded! Approved Remember that if this is for the contest you will also need to send the email- full details are provided above in the Competition Guidelines PDF.

When did you submit it? I can't find any unapproved files there. There are no logs in the error log that I can find, and when I submit a file there it works for me. We haven't been notified there are any new files either. Can you please send me a PM containing the name of your submission, a submission number you received if it was successful, and any errors you received?

I don't think you can download it anymore now sadly, I think it was only available for a limited time. You could contact Firefly though and ask for a beta code, Nick gave me one a while back, though granted that's because I couldn't get the demo working on my new machine. It's only a single mission to play in the demo, but by am I impressed with the work and background that's gone into it. I'm particularly interested in the concept of Peace Consulates, because it allows you (in theory) to peacefully annexe an estate instead of taking it by force. It also seems that while in previous versions of Stronghold you could just walk straight up to a neutral estate and claim it, you now need to fight off the Warlord and any army around the estate. I haven't tried using Peace Consulates yet because I'm still not quite sure how they work, but I might go back into the demo and try it again.

This document has been updated, and can now be found here: https://www.stronghold-nation.com/competitions/

That's a very nice remake of Acre @artofmath! I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with for your entry (and playing it of course!) Looking forward to it @Andreas9541! There's some serious competition going on here already, you guys are going to produce some really exciting maps by the sounds of it.

Just wondering which of you guys have played the Stronghold Warlords Demo yet and what you thought of it? I've had it downloaded for a while but only just got a chance to have a look at it. I have to say, Firefly have really impressed me with how they've managed to put everything together. There's a lot of depth to the game, and it's really stable, especially considering it's just a beta/demo version. They've combined all of the best parts from both Stronghold 3 and Crusader 2 and really built on things. Got a few screenies attached for you all

Yes that's fine @EaglePrince Since you aren't entering the contest it won't prejudice the result of it in any way. Enjoy!

Hey @artofmath, just wanted to let you know that under normal circumstances I would test your map, but as I'm the Judge and Administrator of the Competition I won't be on this occasion as it could prejudice the result. Keep patient, & I'm sure someone will come along soon!

We already have member titles based on your post count (see here for a list) but with the forum upgrade the other week, we now have reputation titles as well! These are titles which are displayed on your profile underneath the total number of reputation points you have. They are: Exiled -20 Disgraced -10 Shunned -5 Dishonoured -1 Serf 0 Peasant 5 Commoner 10 Worker 15 Tradesman 20 Craftsman 35 Mercer 50 Squire 60 Knight 70 Chevalier 100 Baronet 150 Count 250 Marquis 400 Archduke 500 Overlord 650 Monarch 800 Deity 900 Legendary 1,000 Happy rep'ing, folks!

This sounds very nice! I'll look forward to hearing more about it No worries @Krarilotus, it's fine it's easy to misinterpret things sometimes! Sorry @EaglePrince ..... but as a staff member the site rules prevent you from entering the contest you can still make an entry though, and submit it to the downloads as well. And I can still let you know how I would have graded it if you like. Just not officially enter it, I'm afraid. You should give it a try @Isaiah! You never know what can come out of it, some of my best maps in the past have been total "trials". Plus, we have a whole load of tutorials on the site to give you some advanced design ideas Like I said to @Krarilotus earlier, I'm sorry about this but it was due to a programming error that repeatedly sent it a number of times only to certain users throughout the night. As soon as I found out about this, it was stopped.

I'm pleased you like it! You are correct in what you say that the notifications system only works on the forum, however there is now an option to subscribe to files as well. Before on the old forum, you were only ever subscribed to files automatically if in your profile you had the "Automatically subscribe me to every topic I post in" checked. When I built the site from the ground up again for the new forum, I added a new checkbox when you go to submit your file now, which gives you the choice of whether to subscribe or not. If you subscribe, you will automatically be sent an email when your file is approved or rejected. You will also receive an email on every new post which is made on your download. This behaviour doesn't actually change as it's the same as before, but it's more the way that it's done that has changed. I get the benefit of choosing whether it's an internal of external notification, but this will probably be a lot of work to do so with the amount I have on my plate at the moment, I can't see it happening for a few months at least. P.S. If you want to subscribe to a file that you've already uploaded, but haven't already subscribed to, you can visit it in the downloads section and click on the "subscribe to this file" link. You can unsubscribe at any time. The same thing is also true for download categories, you can visit them on the site and click the subscribe link, and you'll receive emails for all the files that are posted in that category. This is a setting in the admin panel which is globally changed, I did notice when the site was upgraded that this was happening, but I need to try and choose an exact colour to use (in hex, in case you're wondering) instead of the one which was picked, and it needs to be a colour that doesn't clash with anything. It's more a timing issue really, I just really haven't had time yet to iron out some of the smaller bugs

I've replied to your email. Please keep in mind that you only sent it to me at midnight last night - only just over 12 hours ago - and I've been busy all morning. It's impossible for me to provide an instant reply to everything. With regards to the announcement, I'm sorry about that. I set it away last night to send one email out to all members and due to a programming error it continued sending the last batch on through the night and into this morning, or I would have found it sooner. As soon as I found out about this, I've stopped it from happening. I'm not sure how long ago exactly this was, or what the error even was, but the download section is indeed working and has been for some time now. But please note that I only find out about errors if people tell me about them or I stumble across them myself. The site has just been through a big upgrade where it was offline for several days. Despite what things may seem we are actually the most active Stronghold community, we regularly post new articles and content all of the time, and there are active downloads regularly added as well. There is more than just a forum here