EaglePrince

You may have forgotten them, but I did find them at Stronghold Heaven. I'm not sure if I played it, or I just kept it on my PC to play it later, but I remember that name. Well, now these days I have some more time, so I hope I will be able to do all of these - finish Stronghold 1 campaign, play your Stronghold 1 and Stronghold 2 maps, and to finish Stronghold 3 campaign as well. :) On one hand I feel sad when I don't have enough time to finish all those when I want to, but on the other one, if I did have that time, there would be less missions and scenarios I could play now. :)

Congratulations! Especially to Micha, congratulations! :)

Hey, guys! I tried to make a new tread at Stronghold Heaven, and was given this message: "We're sorry but we are currently unable to post your message to the forums.". The same happens if one tried to reply a tread. Does someone know what is this about?

I look forward to it. It's been a while since I played Stronghold 2, so it will be a great experience. These days I have played Stronghold 1 - I installed Steam version of Stronghold 1 which I got with Stronghold 3 when I bought it, and I am fighting to set free the kingdom. :) I have defeated Rat, and now Snake is my next target - I am in front of his final castle, while Pig and Wolf are sending their troops to help him. I'd say resistance is futile! :cool:

Indeed! Oh, and you gave me an idea here. I could try adding some more castles to the game in a way that shouldn't do any harm to other stuff - I may try to make a new castle and name it Richard9 like you said, and hopefully, this way we can get more castles and make it all even more interesting. But, we shall see about that, that remains to be tested. Well, it is certain that it will act differently, and that it wouldn't act as I, or anyone else, would want. :) I will test this as well.

I did get my answers. Right now I am keeping those edited AIV files, now their economy is more efficient, but I still feel sorry for editing them, as it is different than it should be. I shall see what to do - whether to keep them or not. I will also submit those files to our downloads section later. Also, speaking about the one Lionhearts castle that is missing one hovel - for now I decided not to edit anything. The less I mess up with those - better. I didn't try that, but I believe that everything would work pretty well in singleplayer - only Crusader Trail would be messed up I think. Speaking about multiplayer, if one replaces aiv1 and aiv2, but the other players doesn't, than the game would choose one castle among aiv3 to aiv8. That is what I am almost sure that would happen after those testings I made. I could try testing that as well - just out of curiosity. Also, if one would remove all aiv's from 2 to 8, and leave only aiv1, and put there seven copies of it instead of the seven others, than AI lord would build the castle from aiv1.

I forgot about it as well. :) Yes, Stronghold 2 map would be refreshing. :)

I used those buttons to move back as much steps back as I needed, and after he would build the latest building to enclose the castle - I remove part of the wall, and I put the gate then where I want. You are right but the game is also somewhat smarter. If I replace only two castles, than if you have all eight original ones, the game will choose one of the six ones that are the same to both of us.

Thanks, Chris, I'll keep that in mind. :) ADDITION: I have tried it in multiplayer having these two edited AIV files on both PC's. It works great - as far as I have seen!

I apologize for the triple post, but as I was bringing relatively new in each one, and as there was some time between each of them, I felt that was the right thing to do. I played with the AIV editor a little, and after some time I realized that it IS possible to do what I wanted to do in the first place. I added two gatehouses to both of the two large Lionhearts castles, and those gatehouses not being built in the end - I was able to make him build them when I want it to. Like I said, their economy is no larger, nor it is smaller, but peasants will not have to wall all around the castle to bring their good, and they will be less likely to get killed on the way. I am sharing the screenshots of those two edited castles, I hope you like it, and I hope I didn't change them too much. Like I said, I like having don't want to go too far from the original idea of Firefly, but I feel like he really misses those gates. Also, I am still going to check how it acts in multiplayer - just to make sure, and I will let you know! EDIT: Just to let you know, guys... I tried it, and I came to a disappointing result. It seems that if I have five not modified AIV's, and three modified, the game always chooses ones that are not modified. I shall see, but that seems to be the case now. I may find some more stuff later - such as the thing Vetka suggested: to remove all other AIV's, and if that does work, I could modify all other AIV's as well - I could add one more statue to each Richard which wouldn't effect anything but this thing I am trying to accomplish. As soon as I get something, I would upload what I have to our downloads section, but not until I see I got what I wanted: small enhancements to two of his castles, which wouldn't effect anything significantly - Crusader and Warchest trails would remain the same as they were, and everything else. ADDITION: I tested the rest of stuff this evening, it doesn't work. I tried deleting all AIV files on my PC except those I want to use, but no success, the game started, but they weren't building any castles, they were just confused, and they were doing nothing... I believe that it would work if I put the same AIV files on both PC's, but there's no point in that, if I have in mind to play with other people that don't have to put those edited AIV files on their PC's. I didn't test that last thing, but I am almost sure that that doesn't require any testing.

Thanks for the reply. Well, that is more complicated that I though it would be. I though I should be able to put one gate, say, "between steps 23 and 24", and the other gate "between steps 38 and 39". I will see if there are some fixes like that at SHG already - if not, I'll see if I find some time to remake that castle with two more gates. EDIT: It appears that it is possible to make small modifications. Sadly, after modifying the castle, those gates I had on mind will be almost the latest thing he is going to build, but I still believe that this will make him stronger, as his main problem in such situations was bad economy, which is going to be fixed. Also, I am not going to give him any more workshops, or something like that, I am only adding gates to his huge castles. Oh, and I just remembered - there is one Lionhearts castle with a problem with insufficient number hovels - he had just enough hovels while he is being attacked, but when he attacks and when he has all workplaces active he has 0 peasants. He needs one more hovels. I could do something else, such as removing one building from his economy, but I believe this is better solution.

Hm, also, you didn't tell what version your friends have? Maybe you are fine - maybe you have 1.4.1, but your friends may have 1.4. Did you try to play with anyone else? I have 1.4.1, if you want, I could come online at some moment, so you could try it with me? You would only need to tell me when - we could meat at 21:00 for example, Central European timezone (Belgrade/Berlin).

Hey, guys, I meant to ask if you have any experiences with edited AI castles in multiplayer? I mean, if the host has edited AI, and the others have original castles on their machines, what would happen? Would that AI build the castle from hosts AIV file, or the game would crash, or something like that? I've been playing few skirmish games, and mother did as well, and what bothers me is that large Lionhearts castle. He has great economy in there, but he also has only two gates - one inner and one outer, and if he has some farms, mines, or quarries on the other side of the castle, those people would have to go all way around the castle, and it is very likely for them to be killed - besides the fact they they need too much time to bring the necessary good to the stockpile or granary. I don't like to mess up with AIV files - I like to play the game the way it was meant to be played, but I still meant to fix only this thing is this looks like an omission of Firefly. I don't want to change entire castle, I would only add two gates, but I am interesting to know what you think about it, and if you have any experiences with this matter (would it work in multiplayer)?

Yes, there are players who play Stronghold 2 on Windows 8. I think Chris is one of them. Maybe running Windows 7 compatibility might help? Whenever I had such problems, I tried all options available.

Haha, that's a good one, Chris! :D I guess I could do something like that, none could beat me than. :D Oh, and Xiimarcleon, I see you have San Andreas map on your wall, if I am not mistaken, really nice. :) Keep up with this stuff, I am getting some great ideas how I could decorate my own room. :D

You are right, only I assumed that, if he has two versions of Stronghold 2, he should be aware of that. I mean, one needs to put some effort to install two versions of any game. And, yeah, GameRanger doesn't care about almost anything. I am able to play Stronghold Europe using GameRanger by "tricking" GR to think it is Crusader actually. :)

That is interesting, if you have 1.4.1, it should be the only reason GR could possibly run. :)

Also, what is interesting here is that, one can see Templars set up on Mathews monitor. :) I didn't want to take a picture of entire desk of mine, but I am keeping this "setupception". :) Oh, and I see that Vetka sent his desk before me, but what the hell. :)

I believe that the best we could do is publish maps in Workshop as well, and put a link "visit Stronghold Nation downloads central for more any Stronghold maps" at the bottom of description. Something like that.

It is very interesting indeed - at least for me whose native language isn't English. :) Thanks for sharing this with us. :)

Well, that happens to me as well now and then, but we all come back to Stronghold at one point. :D The first strategy game I ever played, and the one that has been holding my attention for all this time besides all those newer games. :)

It is no problem, we can play it as soon as you are ready! No need to rush. :)

It looks really good! I hope you won that battle? :) By the way, you are able to post more images here, only you are unable to post more than one attachment. You could upload images you want to show us to photobucket, or you could also upload it to our Photo Gallery. :)

Oh, now I saw it - I didn't notice that the link is different than the real steam communities one. Thanks for reminding us of these things! I did know there are scams like this one - but it is good to be reminded now and then about these - not to be fooled like this.

Thanks for lettings us know! I did come to my mind that stealing those accounts is possible, and that is one thing that could really create some problems considering that you didn't put only time into that - you putted your money as well. By the way, do you know what exactly they need to do to steal an account? Why does adding them to friends helps them? Also, is there a way to verify our accounts in some way in order to secure ourselves? Could recovering by email work, or something like that? I didn't know that one could steal someones account this way, although some other things did cross my mind before...