EaglePrince

Perhaps it could be the best if we had only few, say three, colors could be better. I mean, color for administrators, color for moderators, and color for all other members..

Thanks for telling me the settings. By the way, you said you played bulls eye - where would you put yourself there? It is an unbalanced map. :)

Now you gave me a challenge! :) I am going to win the Mother of all Wars without losing Sultan. At least, that is my plan now. :) I can see that was an exciting battle! Yeah, Wazir is pretty strong AI lord. Perhaps one of the strongest as well. The only downside of his castle is that his bakeries are exposed to fire, but since Frederick doesn't put enemy buildings to fire, I am not surprised he survived that. He is a stronger version of Caliph to me. :) Emir and Wazir build massive armies, they are both strong if you give them money in beginning. In mission 77. Wall of Death, Emir killed me after I completed my castle, and when I had my archers on my walls and towers, and while I was training swordsmen as well. He wiped out my archers using horse archers, and than his swordsmen came, and they overwhelmed my swordsmen inside my castle, after what my lord was killed as well. That was a battle for remembering - I was killed by Emir just like a human would do. :) Now you gave me another challenge - the one with the Rat! And, speaking about Snake - that doesn't surprise me; he build what he needs pretty quickly, and than he starts sending his catapults to destroy your walls. Could you tell me what are your game settings? How much gold do you give them?

Hmm, today I learned something new. :) I didn't know what happened to Philip. Or at least I don't remember reading much about him, but speaking of his character in Crusader 1, I think he is made too weak, and I find it too unjust to him. I mean, he should be having at least a little bit better tactics that Pig for example, but instead of that he uses spearmen, and his castle is not an impressive one either.

Wow, this is a great map indeed! With maps like this you are really tempering anyone to buy Crusader 2 as soon as possible! :)

Yes, I believe we both have Windows 7, mine is Windows 7 Professional. Also, I think it is hardly possible that he deleted the (un)installer by himself, as it is quite hidden, and it's really hard to be found there. Maybe it has to do something with the discs themselves, but there shouldn't be any difference though.

This one I found by finding Stronghold 1 uninstall file, and this one was in a similar place. If you want to test it online, we could do it today if you want. Still, I remember I did think I could mess with .exe files to change have both, HD and non-HD version, but I did have some problems. In multiplayer I had problems just like I had HD version (version incompatibility). We can try it, to see if it works, I would be online. If what you did didn't work, I guess that's what needs to be done.

As far as I know, this doesn't happen. I mean, I played only few games recently, and I haven't noticed such behavior. Only I believe that each time I got killed in a multiplayer game, I was the last one, but I heard none speaking about what you described. I must also say that I am new to Stronghold 2 multiplayer. :)

Found it! :) It is located inside this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{8C3727F2-8E37-49E4-820C-03B1677F53B6} This is for Stronghold Crusader Extreme. I hope Vetka should be able to find it in the same, or at least in similar folder. The file is called setup.exe. If that file is not at this location, it could be inside another folder under: C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information The file isn't hidden, but it isn't in Crusader Extreme installation folder. I found similar file for Stronghold 1 in similar folder first, and that's how I assumed it could be somewhere here.

I am sorry, I offered Lord Vetka that kind of assistance as I forgot that part of not sending ANY files. Sorry again! Also, I hope you don't look at me as on someone who tries to promote piracy, use piracy, or anything like that. I do own those Stronghold games I play. I do admit though that I was complaining how Firefly only sells HD versions of Stronghold 1 and Crusader 1 :) , even though non-HD versions have many better sides (although I do like the fact of being able to play in different resolutions without stretching the screen), and most of players at GameRanger still play non-HD versions. Once again, I am sorry, and I hope we are still able to help Vetka in another way. :)

I do realize that, but what I am assuming is that this file should be somewhere on Lord Vetkas PC... Also, I am assuming that Lord Vetka may not have that file only because something went wrong during the patching process. Because of this, the only thing that is coming to my mind is that he could re-patch the game, so he could get that needed file, or whatever it is, or, if that doesn't work - he would have to get this file from someone else. I am sure he would be told the same thing at FireFly forum, but the only problem there is that place is pretty much inactive right now. I had similar problem with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars. I was unable to uninstall the game from my PC in any way I could think of, and the only thing that I needed in fact was that uninstall file which, by some mistake, wasn't copied to my hard drive during installation. Luckily, when I figured out that this file being missing might be the problem, I asked my friend who also recommended me the game to send me his uninstall file. I put it where it was supposed to be, and than I was able to uninstall the game from ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS (I had Windows XP back than). Also, I wouldn't call piracy simply by "copying", that ain't that easy. :) I could send all my files of some of my games to someone, but that way the game wouldn't work to the one I gave the files to. I would only try to find the missing file, and send it to him - without modifying anything. Still, I do realize that they made that up in the way so they would be sure that no one would send any illegal item to anyone. It was easier to say "DO NOT COPY ANYTHING", although copying files itself doesn't help to anyone. Anyway, I hope that re-patching Crusader HD would help.

Welcome to Stronghold Nation, Achilleslastand, glad to see another old Stronghold player came here. By the way, if you have some time during this weekend we could make a gaming event, so you could meed some of us on battlefield. We could play Crusader if you want? Of course, we can fight one against the other, or we can fight side by side against AI lords giving them huge advantage.

I'm sorry to bother you, but since PCDania left us, I hope we could figure it out by ourselves. Did you try patching Extreme as well? Also, I hope I'm gonna find out where can I find some uninstall file on my PC, so I could send it to you. Also, even if you "get stuck with Extreme HD", that would be no problem, as I would patch my Extreme as well, and we would still be able to play our games.

I've solved it in a way. :) Well, the thing it there was no problem. The thing is that the two PC's I was testing Skype calls with are close to each other, and speakers of the second one are close to the microphone (which is integrated inside the camera) of the first one. This was causing interference I guess, that that is why I was hearing that sound after I would cough or something. The sound was gone when I plugged in a headset to the other PC instead of speakers, and than the noise was gone. So, this sound shouldn't appear during any other call - at least not from my side.

Hi, I have recently bought a webcam with an integrated microphone. I have tried making a video call with someone, and he wasn't able to see me, while I was able to see him. Still, I hope this will get fixed next time, as I called myself as well, and I did see myself on the other computer. Another thing is bothering me right now though... Whenever I try making a test video call I hear some sound, like creaking... Also, it doesn't show up by itself, it shows after I start speaking for example, or especially if I cough. It would appear after that. I also noticed - if I mute the microphone, the noise would disappear. Also, it happens almost as soon as I would start talking. Still, it wasn't frequent while talking to that person, it was happening during my test calls to myself. Do you have any experiences with those webcams with integrated microphone? Have you faced such issues with Skype lately?

Great! Thanks, Chris! :)

There are two sub-cases here: 1. I build those carts in advance - I bring them, and set an ambush. That would be fair in my opinion; 2. I see your army marshes, I build a siege camp as close to your army as possible and instantly train 24 burning carts to send them on your troops to set them on fire. I think this would be taking advantage of the game that let us build 24 burning carts instantly in front of your troops. 3. Sending burning carts on enemy castle is fine by me, as it is realistic. We could only limit number of those carts though. I like this proposal.

I think we all have only uninstall for Extreme. Hopefully it would remove Crusader and Extreme at once, after what you would be able to install Stronghold Crusader Extreme again (along with Stronghold Crusader 1.2). ADDITION: I tried to recreate the problem by installing Stronghold Crusader HD, and not installing Extreme HD. In other words I applied HD patch only to Crusader. Unfortunately I didn't make it to recreate the problem. I was able to uninstall Crusader and Extreme with no difficulties, although there was one difference though - in "Uninstall a program" I had "Stronghold Crusader HD", not "Stronghold Crusader Extreme". Still, this should be solvable by clean install I think. I do have another suggestion. I'm guessing that this is being caused by some problem while installing HD patch. Did you try to run Crusader HD patch again - this time it might add what it didn't add last time by some mistake or something.

Thanks, Mathew! :)

Well, I agree with Vetka, but I only don't want someone to spend his time making this code of honor, since almost any player that want's to play for fun and wants to play a fair game would obey that code anyway (not even knowing about it). I guess it would be enough to add "no intentional using many of burning charts against army", and we could also add "no intentional catapult aiming on troops"? In that case, if someone burns an army inside a burning village or inside a burning town - that wouldn't be wrong because the attacker was trying to burn the city, and there is nothing wrong with that. Similar with catapults. Perhaps it would be simpler to add those two among the rules, but I will let you decide that. :)

Did you try to insert the disc and select "Uninstall" from the autorun? Also, if you run setup.exe from the disc, it should start uninstalling process. It would ask you if you are sure you want to uninstall the game first.

Maybe you need to patch Extreme first to HD version? Maybe than you would get an option to uninstall Crusader? I have Crusader and Extreme both non-HD and I have only one option in Add remove programs: Stronghold Crusader Extreme. Maybe having different versions of the game "confuses" the system. Also, I am going to have a look in my Crusader installation folder, to see if I can find the uninstall file.

Sure, I will PM you about that matter today I hope. Yes, I did know that it is possible in Stronghold 2, but I wasn't sure that this option is available in Stronghold 3, as I know it is not present in Crusader 2. Still, I hope it is possible in map editor (to change the angle of the view), and if it possible there, it could be used for making some nice signatures. Thanks, Chris! From now on I think I could start helping other make some nice signatures - I hope those templates will help other make cool looking banners. :)

I saw it is something that is possible to do, and no mod is needed. I found the answer at Stronghold Heaven in this tread. So it is possible but it would cause some performance issues.

That's right, and that is not just any building... Those are three stockpiles which cannot be destroyed by any mean, and an armory which cannot be destroyed by melee troops. I don't know what should be the number of burning charts, but perhaps we could leave it as it is for now, until Bradley sees this. Maybe he has a better suggestion. For now, I can say that none of you were doing the same thing as this opponent of mine, so we could leave it as it is - as long as we try to play fair, we shall not be doing this. That is my impression at least. I still have feeling like you didn't understand what I wanted to say, so I will give an example. :) In our first Stronghold 2 multiplayer game (when we fought 1v1) you were attacking me with burning charts, but you were sending them only on my buildings which is fine. Now, if I used those charts to defend myself from your attacks, that wouldn't be right. You train about 40 knights, and I send burning charts onto them. This way I give very little resources for the charts, but you lose way much. On the other hand, if your knights are mounted, than you could escape from my charts, but I don't think that should be the case. If your knights are not mounted then they stand no chance - I will easily put them all to fire. I could also say that this opponent was also attacking my swordsmen with catapults - swordsmen are slow, and my swordsmen army was devastated. On the other hand not using catapults would make the game boring maybe. My point is that those should not be rules perhaps - we could look at those as at our code of honor. Unless you disagree with me about this matter, of course. :)