EaglePrince

Multiplayer games in Stronghold 1 are great too! For example, that's the only Stronghold game in which you can make allies in a multiplayer game. That's an awesome thing if you play the game with the right company, such as the one from here. ;)

I think most of us here would prefer missions, but is it possible to easily make both? By changing map types, or somehow like that? Oh, yeah, but you can make it a "free build" by giving some insane goal, and by removing all events... That could work as well. :)

Hmm, I don't know when did you try to play Stronghold 2, but if it was years and years ago, the version 1.4.1 is far better than the older ones. I used to play the version 1.0 for years because I didn't have internet, and I didn't even know that there were patches available to download from internet. :P If I knew, I would begged somebody who had internet to download it for me. :D The 1.0 version was bad for me, it had some bugs which which effected the gameplay a lot (such as having several criminals stuck in the court house, which I mentioned earlier), and some very much needed features were missing such as no easy way to separate mounted from unmounted knights. But even that didn't stop me from playing it. :P Later I came to enjoy Stronghold 2 much more, especially after playing it on some really beautiful and well designed custom maps, and some really great scenarios! Indeed, Firefly should have employed some of these people to make maps for them. It's so lame that they haven't. (As far as I know, they haven't.) But in general - Stronghold Crusader and Stronghold 1 are the best Stronghold games. Too bad Firefly never tried to revamp these two (with their warfare and castle defenses) in 3D, and with unit collision. That way we would have epic field battles, and you wouldn't be able to pass somebodies troops by clicking fast. :)

Sure, I'll do it later today, now I'm not home. :)

I think CET and BST are not the same. I'm posting this at 18:38, while I think it's 17:38 in Britain, and what I believe is that we're going to play in 22 minutes. :)

Actually, what you approved is Stronghold Crusader Extreme patch, and that's the one which worked smoothly, and Stronghold HD which I apparently uploaded the first time I tried, but I didn't know it because of the first error message. That's just my guess. The Extreme patch is 54 MB, the Stronghold patch is 108 MB, and the lastly the Crusader patch is 142 MB. That is why I cannot submit it then. It gave me no error message, it just returned me to the blank "Stronghold Crusader submit file" page. I could the zip archive though, and submit the two parts separately? But that may not be the perfect solution.

Did you get any notifications for the Crusader patch now? It again acted somewhat weird, it was submitting the file, and then it just returned me to the blank "Submit Stronghold Crusader File" page. :/ EDIT: Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD 1.3 patch has been successfully submitted. Now I'm trying again with Stronghold Crusader HD 1.3 patch, just in case.

I hope the upload process went right... :)

Now I got this error message. I'm not going to touch anything, maybe this one has been uploaded, and maybe Chris can approve it. Won't reload the page, and I'm moving on with Crusader and Crusader Extreme.

Now I got some error message after trying to submit the patch for Stronghold HD. I'm trying to submit it again. If I don't make it, if somebody else wants to give it a try, he could use these preview images. They should look fine with the background there.

I can do it. Thanks for your offer. :) By the way, I checked the other PC, and it's the same situation. The Stronghold HD patch has this "2", and the Crusader patches don't have that. How's with your patches? :) EDIT: I am uploading these right now. Chris, we're going to need new options in the Stronghold, Crusader, and Crusader Extreme sections for 1.4 version. :)

I will upload all three, Stronghold HD patch, Crusader HD patch, and Crusader Extreme HD patch. One thing is bothering me... The Stronghold HD patch is called Stronghold_HD_Update_2, while the other two are Stronghold_Crusader_Extreme_HD_Update and Stronghold_Crusader_HD_Update. Why does the Stronghold HD one has the "2"... It appears that there were two HD patches, but was it the case with Crusader as well? I'll have a look at my other computer as well. Maybe it would be better to see what we all have before uploading, and to upload what is the best. For example, if we had Stronghold_HD_Update and Stronghold_HD_Update_2, my suggestion would be to upload Stronghold_HD_Update_2. What do you say? EDIT: Now I saw Mathews post. Sure, I have no issues with Mathew doing this. ;) But we should see about what I said about these different HD patches I guess?

That's great (the thing with subscription to a category in the downloads section)! An awesome feature if you ask me!

They have already released patches 1.4 for both Stronghold HD and Stronghold Crusader HD. It has been pushed to Steam users, and others can download it from here. You see, maybe it would be a smart thing to save the 1.3 patches as well. Chris, could we upload these patches to Stronghold Nation? I ask this because it is an exe file? I think this patch should stay available to people because who knows, maybe the new versions are actually less stable than the new ones... While I have to admit that having some players forcing the play with 1.3 would be troublesome to players with 1.4 who might not be able to play with them. It is already troublesome to many, as most of players on GameRanger play the game with non-HD versions, so those who buy the game from Steam cannot play with any of them. Players with HD versions are already minority in multiplayer community.

But you shouldn't hesitate to submit to both Stronghold Heaven and Stronghold Nation. You would be surprised how many people still download custom maps from these two websites. Only they are quite, they don't register, they don't comment nor rate these maps. But if you look at the downloads numbers, then you can see that these websites are being visited. So you just save your map, and upload it. Don't forget to submit your minimap as well. With that one others can quickly see how does your map look like. You can use this tool called Stronghold Map PNGer to easily make minimaps by the way. By the way, is there a way to subscribe at SHN downloads section, so that when something is approved in a section for a game I like, I would be notified by email for example? Do we have something like that? Like Strife said, you can send your maps to others via the lobby, but keep in mind that you could send them the link to these maps. Oh, and one more thing. You can look at Stronghold Nation and Stronghold Heaven as a way to backup your maps as well. ;) I used to make many maps which I lost due to hard drive failure, or something like that, and I didn't have internet at that time, so naturally, I wasn't able to submit it to Stronghold Heaven. Well, if I was aware of the danger I would have at least burned those on a CD or DVD, or wherever possible.

Hey guys, check out this video. https://youtu.be/560UuJstw6k Several days ago we were discussing about the engine they used to use for Stronghold 2. After 4:15 they even say few things about the engine. Apparently it they picked some engine, and they made a lot of changes into it. I thought you might find this video interesting cause we were mentioning the engine recently.

I can only wish that the new Crusader 2 was an improved Stronghold 2. That would be an epic game.

By the way, this is where I got this list from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System I keep receiving some error when I hit the Preview button, so I had to do it by editing the post several times... As I understand it, the main purpose of the central bank is to control the countries currency, which is essential for its trade relations. I think it also dictates stuff such as interest rates, or exchange rates, so banks wouldn't be able to do basically whatever they want, and screw over entire country or its people intentionally or with their bad decisions. (I'm not sure about anything mentioned after interest rates though.) Plasticly explained... A lot of that has to do with the fact that mostly companies and countries don't rely on cash, most of things are uncertain, and a lot of that works on trust. And if you want others to trust you, you need to have your reserves just in case... But when it comes to US in specific, as I got it, now it is much more based on trust and Tomahawks (at least so they say...), and the fact that USD is being used for trade with oil so it must not go down (petrodollar). This first part of this paragraph is about keeping the currency stable. And, the other part is that a country needs to be ready to clean up the mess of private banks. EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank SECOND EDIT: I'm just giving you some sources, but I do understand that there's a lot to read about this matter. I hope that I'm quoting enough so you don't actually need to read the rest of it. But it's not that I understand the entire story. I just think that I understand the basic idea. Also, when it comes to this topic, while I do understand how currencies work, and why is that important (because that's what my country used to struggle with since the beginning of 90's), I know far less about interests. Mostly because I have learned from my father and my grandfather that it's simply the best to avoid taking any loans from a bank. Now that is the case even more over here, because many people here work for 200-300 euro, people worry that they could lose even those jobs because of high unemployment rate.

Well, it's not something that is specific only to United States. I would say that all countries work like that. Well, except North Korea maybe, or some other country in a similar state. :D I'm not an economist, but as I understand it, countries need it to keep things stable... I haven't thought about it for a while, even though at some moment I felt like I understood it relatively well. Anyway, this is what I found at Wikipedia, and I think that this short list gives us the answers.

Welcome! Happy to see another fellow Yugoslav joining our company! ;) You may also want to try Stronghold (1) and Stronghold Crusader (1). These two are epic games! Unless you've tried to play those as well? It is not clear to me from your message. Oh, and you have another Empire Earth player over here! SHC and EE1 are the games of my childhood! And when we only look at the gameplay, most of those new games are complete garbage compared to those two. They were just improving graphics, while the gameplay has been becoming more or less worse and worse.

Wow, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing that with us. I do know that even Stronghold HD and Stronghold Crusader HD support high resolutions, higher than 1920x1080, but that's less interesting because it works differently in these games. Higher resolutions in these two means wider view, and not simply the picture being less blocky. Well, one more reason why I think should Firefly make a Stronghold 2 Definitive Edition! They could give us more detailed models, etc., while keeping the gameplay as it is, and give us few more stuff such as AI in multiplayer. Ha, I used another chance to wine about Stronghold 2 Steam Edition not bringing AI in multiplayer. :D

Maybe Tokamaps would like to join us as well. :) I'm going to send him a PM. :)

19:00 CET is 13:00 EST if I'm not mistaken? And it is also 18:00 in UK.

19:00 CET is fine by me. And by that we wouldn't go past 21:00 EST, as that would be 3:00 CET. :D (If I understood that correctly, Charles would want the game to be finished by 21 EST?)

I feel the same, I don't get it why would that be so hard for them to look into that, and make Stronghold 2 with AI lords in multiplayer, and perhaps even sell it as a DLC. Like I said before, I would pay for it, but as long as at least host has this possibility, so do others. I mean, same as DLC AI characters in Crusader 2 - when you added some AI lords which I didn't own at that moment. Or they could make it like they did with Crusader Extreme at least...