EaglePrince

That is an interesting document indeed - I downloaded it with pleasure. :) Thanks for that, Chris!

I decided to write few interesting things about this game. I have recently bought it, and after playing it for a while I can say that my impression is that I believe Stronghold 3's reputation is not entirely justified. I agree, it does have some bugs, such as your or enemy soldiers being stuck at some places, but there are similar things in Crusader 1 as well! We all know how it can happen pretty often for our archers in Crusader 1 to get stuck at one peace of crenelation of the wall, after what we would need to remove the crenelation to free the unlucky archer. So, back to my point. :) I was playing those economy and military campaigns - the economic campaign I won with no difficulties, while if you ask me about military campaigns, I'm still fighting my battles there. Right now I am trying to win mission 8: The Sultan mission - it is a tricky one, and one can really easily lose all of his men under those walls. Before that mission, while I was fighting mission 7 Rat in the Night, I did see something that really surprised me! Stronghold 3 DOES have fog of the war that many players were asking about. The thing is that if you set it to night, than you can see only what is near your buildings and near your men. Besides that, you can put some hay bale throwers on your engine towers, and they can be used so you could see what is happening around your castle - you are able to aim with those wherever you want, but within their range, and this way you can set light to area you want. This is one screenshot. :) By the way, it is a pity that Firefly gave up those engine towers, they would be way better in Crusader 2 than those wooden structures. ADDITION: Right now I am assuming that it should be possible to make scenarios within which one would have to fight during the night, which you make a lot of that way harder. Is that possible? Also, I am almost sure that it is not possible to change the time of the day in multiplayer lobby, so, could that be possible in map editor - if it is possible, that one should be able to make a multiplayer map with fog of war as well (it would be night on the map)?

Speaking about the fog, I assumed it is not possible to remove it, or anything like that, but I also concluded that one shouldn't worry about that in fact. Besides that., few more good things came out of this tread, such as those good looking screenshots - one you can see here, and others are in the gallery. :)

Hmm, now I got it! :D It is Sunday the 16th, only in description it is "September 20", which is copied from an older gaming event. :) Indeed - I confused myself. :)

I am sorry, it appears I wasn't paying attention much. I assumed that this gaming event is being scheduled for this Sunday. I am unsure if I am going to be able to come home until 19:00 by Central European timezone, but I hope I should find it out tomorrow, and I am going to let you know a about it. I still hope I should be able to come and play. :)

That's right, so you said before. That's great. thanks you! :) I shall also submit a screenshot of the entire castle. ADDITION: So, this is my mighty castle! :) It looks pretty good with the fog as well though... In fact, this time with the fog it might be looking even better.

I'd say the quality isn't sacrificed. I am doing it that way now. I shall upload my first image again then, and I would like to ask you, if you could not approve the first one then. :)

I have noticed now those are 1.5-2 MB PNG images... Should I convert them to JPG? I think this might be unnecessary question, and the answer is obviously YES? :)

Sure, I was doing just the same thing right now. :D I shall upload some of them now. :) I played a free build game, and I was making some nice screenshots. :) ADDITION: I hope you are able to see those screenshots at Steam? http://steamcommunity.com/id/eagleprince/screenshots/ That was the easiest way to upload them quickly, but I will upload them to SHN Gallery as well right now.

Hi, I meant to ask you guys, if you know anything about the fog in Stronghold 3? Is there a way to remove it, or if there is a way to reduce the fog. The fog I am speaking about is visible when I zoom out as much as I can, or when I play around with free camera. I am posting few screenshots I found on internet to show you what I mean. This is a screenshot without the fog, ad this is where I found it. On the other hand, here is a screenshot with the fog. This is where I found this one.

That's great to hear, xiiMaRcLeoN, I hope to see on the battle field! :)

Off topic - I wish that shields in Stronghold Crusader 1 cause crashes, so that no one would use them. :D

By the way, if there are enough players, how about us playing against Bradley? Only, if we did it that way, I would want Bradley not to spare our lives - it is logical that if Bradley wants to win, he must not let us grow stronger. Also, Bradley did kill Chris and me once, so I deserve a chance to pay my debt. :) I'm just kidding about that - it is not about paying some debt, of course.

Count me in! :) I was thinking about making a Stronghold 2 gaming event myself.

That's nice to hear about the crashes. :)

So, I had played a little with blogspot, and this is what I've done so far. http://sh-nation.blogspot.com/ I hope you'll like it. This way each would be able to enter his email address (which doesn't have to be a gmail account, or doesn't have to be related to google+). Each time a moderator/administrator posts a new article there, you would get an email notification. Also, it has the most important links to Stronghold Nation website, the Blog page, and the About Us (Stronghold Nation) page. If you have any suggestions, feel free to tell.

If it is so, it is a nice idea. Although I hope that those crashes in multiplayer do no occur anymore? On the other hand, if they do occur, players do have the autosave, but still - that's not it. On the other hand, as long as competitors think the same way Nigel does, it should be a great fun. :) I would join it as well if I had my own copy! The most important thing here is to have fun.

Sure, no problem. Thanks for quick reply!

Hey, guys! I just meant to let you know. Few days ago I met one guy at Steam discussions. Today he tried to register here, but he faced some problems. After the password would be sent to his email address, he would type it in, or copy/paste, after what the password wouldn't be accepted. regards!

Well, seeing Crusader 2, and Stronghold 3, I can only say that Crusader 2 is a better version of Stronghold 3 - just like Crusader 1 is a better version of Stronghold 1. I say "better", but by that I mean - it has more options, and one can see that Crusader 1 (2) has some options that were not put into Stronghold 1 (3), and of course - less bugs. I don't want to say Stronghold 1 is better than Crusader or vice versa - most of us have our own opinions, but I hope you all understand what I mean to say. Maybe it would be better if I said "enhanced version" or something like that. For now I am finishing the campaigns - first I started the economic campaign, and I shall start military campaign later. After my Stronghold 3 skills improve I shall start with other custom missions - starting with the one you suggested. :) Speaking of a war scenario - that does sound interesting. Only I should finish those campaigns first, and some other custom scenarios as well. Than it will be more interesting. :)

And I shall say - everything what Vetka says! :) I'm kidding a little, but I think we are all grateful to you for all this effort - this is indeed a pleasant place. Thanks you for that! :)

Hey, guys, I just meant to let you know I did buy Stronghold 3. :) So far I like it, after I would finish the campaigns, I would see other scenarios made for this game to play them as well, and I may play some multiplayer games. I have noticed that it is a lot like Crusader 2 - many stuff that were introduced in Crusader 2 were in fact introduced in Stronghold 3, so I can say that this way I will prepare myself for Crusader 2 as well. I know many people dislike this game, so I cannot be disappointed, or something like that - I don't have high expectations. :) Also, I didn't pay it much. Besides those, I hope I could play a multiplayer game now and then - I do have a feeling that it is possible to find some opponents. Also, it is sad that they gave up this game, and that they had left some stuff unfinished... There are still some bugs, and the game can freeze now and than (so I heard, but it hasn't happened to me yet). Also, speaking about those bugs, such as troops being stuck - I agree this is pretty bad thing, but I could tell that we all know how Crusader 1 also has some similar bugs (an archer being stuck at crenelation wall). Still, it is the fact that Stronghold 3 has more bugs, but like I said - I got the game with no high expectations. Everything good I notice while playing this game is a bonus to me. :) I shall get Crusader 2 as well, but right now it is too expensive for me. It's not that it means I should have spared some money for Crusader 2 - that is not my problem, I do have the money now (if that is what Vetka meant), it's just that anything above 20-30 euro is too much for Crusader 2 to me. I shall wait until some sale, or something. Also it would be the best if those guys in my town get the boxed version, so I could buy it there, just like I got Stronghold 3 there. :) So, here it is! :cool:

In fact, Blogspot works in similar way as Google+. It is one of Google's services, and if you are logged into your Gmail account, if you visit http://www.blogger.com, you will log in automatically. I do know about facebook page, but still, if someone wants to follow us on facebook he needs to have a facebook account. Website on blogspot is a blog, and one doesn't need to register anywhere to follow it. He would only need an email account. :) I am sending you my blogspot website, so you could see how it can look like. :)

Hi, I wanted to suggest that we may use Blogspot instead of Google+ for our announcements, or for, say, our backup. The good sides about it is that is easily customizable, it can be done in a way that it can resemble to this website; one can subscribe to Blogspot website, so he/she would receive an email notification each time one of administrators makes a new post there. A already have a Blogspot website, so I have some experience with it. Also, it is Google's service just like Google+. Also, many people avoid to have Google+. I'm not saying that Google+ is not good enough and that we need to go to Blogspot, I am only showing another option. :)

Hmm, that shall be the challenge number one. :) I mean, one has no resources there. Still, it is possible to win against rat, while against another opponents who use catapults - it would be way more difficult. I am going to try that. If I face a problem, I may call someone from here to aid. :) We could try to win that one together in multiplayer.