I am an avid Stronghold Fan, and have to say this is a great game, and the ability to play with thousands of people expands on STronghold's best aspect the multiplayer combat, and castle building.
Honestly I didn't think it would be anything like this when I joined but for some reason I decided to keep playing, probably the politics with other players since winning the hearts of my parish and denouncing bad parish rulers is entertaining to me! :)That's my favorite part too. Near the beginning of world 2 before I was an Alderman, someone captured on of my parish member's only village forcing him to restart in Ireland. Then he tried to take the steward position from me, so I had to rally the parish members against him and I eventually captured his new village back. It was great fun, now I have two villages in my own parish so I get 6 votes a day for myself, and I have a very loyal vassal and he's the next strongest/active player under me in my parish so I'm basically guaranteed stewardship for at least the near future. :P
downloading now...
is there some kind of bay12 alliance ?
Although most of you guys are in a far away place i'm offering vassalage to you, it'll give you honor boosts and allow me to send troops to station there. This will give bay12 a bit of a helpful start in this new world!
Edit: Feel free to reject it if you wish, no pressure.
Although most of you guys are in a far away place i'm offering vassalage to you, it'll give you honor boosts and allow me to send troops to station there. This will give bay12 a bit of a helpful start in this new world!
Edit: Feel free to reject it if you wish, no pressure.
Hmm .... I don't know how far are you from Ross-shire
How do you get more research pointsRise in the rank or buy them for non-premium (free) currency from the research menu.
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Just click an option and you'll see a price list.
Oh, and you should change/remove the link. It logs in as you.Geez, wtf? Thanks. Please also remove it from your quote.
Why ?
Hmmmm..... how odd so what do we say about a Bay12 alliance guys.
The ai castles will still attack you even if you have beginner protection. I wouldn't worry too much about building a castle while you're new since you won't have access to stone towers yet so it'll just be a waste of your resources having to rebuild after each attack.
You didn't put anything into your economy?Nope but now I am investing 2 points into apple growth.
I'm not much for MMO's or RTSes but if this is something I don't have to spend a lot of time on every day, and there's a Bay12 alliance of some sort, I could try it out.
I remember liking the premise of the Stronghold games.
"Your resolution is too small to play Stronghold Kingdoms."Increase your resolution?
WELL I NEVER
Trying anyways.
EDIT: Yeah, my resolution is too small. Can't play. =/
Ia m almost a serf guys.Not bad. I'm a bondsman.
I'm pretty sure my parish steward has gone inactive. We got attacked around 10 hours ago and he hasn't repaired the walls, nor has he done anything log-worthy (ranking up, upgrading the castle...) since long before I joined. And yet people are still voting for him.
Is this game good for people who don't have a lot of time?
I already downloaded it but I just want to see if I should get really into it.
Considering I have no resources left for now, I set the tax to +320 per day, as I don't need any new villagers anyway ( right? RIGHT? )If nothing needs a worker, and you're not doing anything for a while, then having idle peasants is a bad thing, actually. However, higher taxes(reduced popularity) will cut into your honour income, which might be worse.
Apparently I'm in ross-shire.
Will do a quick summary as soon as everything finished building.You should be able to fairly easily get both of those hovels to 12 each if you move them right next to your... whatever it's called, the central building. Keep.
I blew through all my resources, and I now have 6 apple farms, 4 cheese farms, 4 stone cutters, 5 wood cutters, 2 hovels for 11 each and a market.
Considering I have no resources left for now, I set the tax to +320 per day, as I don't need any new villagers anyway ( right? RIGHT? )
Also, I'm spending LOL amounts of time moving all buildings to pixel-hunt the best spots :D
I have been voted Steward ofYup thats meGondorBottacks. :P
Edit:Apparently I'm in ross-shire.
BluePheonix222? You must be in mine. :P
I wonder why I can't build an iron mine even though I researched iron mining.Does your map have iron? In my village, the iron is the orange-red rocks on the bottom-right of the village screen.
Well, crap.
Also crap: That AI attack succeeded, mainly because they attacked from a flank and my peasant guards just stood there looking like idiotes while the enemy knocked down an entire side of my wall, 10 feet away from them. Now I spent all my wood rebuilding it, making a second layer, and adding new woodcutters to try and get more wood for tomorrow.
Yeah, I see iron but I think I only researched iron smelting and not the actual building.I wonder why I can't build an iron mine even though I researched iron mining.Does your map have iron? In my village, the iron is the orange-red rocks on the bottom-right of the village screen.
The starting village should have some iron. Some landscape types don't, but the one you start in definitely should.
Is everyone in one area? If I join I'd like to ally with you guys.Most of us seem to be in Ross-Shire Scotland.
I just realized that focusing on Food probably wasn't a very good idea being right next to what I can only assume is a enemy country.You don't really have enemies until you join a faction. When you capture a village, you lose honour proportional to the difference between the attacker's rank and yours. So if you're low level you probably won't get attacked by other players. That being said, if you plan on doing a lot of warmongering, then max out army speed, captain speed, archer hp, swordsman hp and Eucharist(for interdiction) and diplomacy eventually.
Is everyone in one area? If I join I'd like to ally with you guys.I'm in East Anglia, there's two in Ireland, 1 in wales, and the rest in Scotland I believe. I'm not to sure how a Bay12 alliance would work out due to our low numbers. Myself, and Tyler are already members of factions and I don't know about him but I'm not really prepared to leave them for a Bay12 faction.
Bows require Weapon making and Fletching I believe, then 4000 Wood + 1900 Stone to build the workshopThe cost for the workshop depends on what you have researched in tools. Tools reduces building cost. To make archers you need level 2 command and level 1 long bow in the military tab. You need to be rank 6 to research fletching and longbow.
It also appears that no one else wants any cheese.I find that people usually don't go after food since it's so common.
Joined as Ssiissuu. Ross-Shire.Same parish as me.
Which parish?Joined as Ssiissuu. Ross-Shire.Same parish as me.
Foulis Castle.Player name?
Great. Some guy pulled 21 votes out of his arse and made himself the steward. It will now take an additional few days for me to have any hope of taking over.You get 3 votes a day per village in the parish, the amount you can have caps I think, but I'm not sure at what. You probably won't be able to out vote him now unless you have support or a 2nd village in the same parish.
EDIT: Great, he's a barely-literate moron, too.
I have a confirmed 9 votes per day, and I just sent a message explaining why I would make a superior candidate for Steward to most of the people in my parish. Odds are, one or two of them will vote for me.Great. Some guy pulled 21 votes out of his arse and made himself the steward. It will now take an additional few days for me to have any hope of taking over.You get 3 votes a day per village in the parish, the amount you can have caps I think, but I'm not sure at what. You probably won't be able to out vote him now unless you have support or a 2nd village in the same parish.
EDIT: Great, he's a barely-literate moron, too.
Kenthor is the one who took the stewardship? He looks a bit more developed maybe you should just let him be steward? Unless he's not gonna do anything.I have a confirmed 9 votes per day, and I just sent a message explaining why I would make a superior candidate for Steward to most of the people in my parish. Odds are, one or two of them will vote for me.Great. Some guy pulled 21 votes out of his arse and made himself the steward. It will now take an additional few days for me to have any hope of taking over.You get 3 votes a day per village in the parish, the amount you can have caps I think, but I'm not sure at what. You probably won't be able to out vote him now unless you have support or a 2nd village in the same parish.
EDIT: Great, he's a barely-literate moron, too.
I know at least one person is missingI'm in Clwyd North Wales.
Oh, he's doing things, but he isn't that active and he's not exactly doing what I'd call the best decisions. His troops placement in our castle is horrible, for example.Kenthor is the one who took the stewardship? He looks a bit more developed maybe you should just let him be steward? Unless he's not gonna do anything.I have a confirmed 9 votes per day, and I just sent a message explaining why I would make a superior candidate for Steward to most of the people in my parish. Odds are, one or two of them will vote for me.Great. Some guy pulled 21 votes out of his arse and made himself the steward. It will now take an additional few days for me to have any hope of taking over.You get 3 votes a day per village in the parish, the amount you can have caps I think, but I'm not sure at what. You probably won't be able to out vote him now unless you have support or a 2nd village in the same parish.
EDIT: Great, he's a barely-literate moron, too.
Joined as Ssiissuu. Ross-Shire.Same parish as me.
It sucks being away from everyone else. I almost wish I could just start over in Scotland or something =(Can you use settings > Abandon Current Village to start over? It's worth a try if you're serious about moving to Scotland.
Joined server 2, followed the tutorial, spent honor points and burnt all but one card then logged out for a bit. Returned to the game and someone had already steamrolled my village and everything was gone, lost L3 title and all previously trained skills/honor points and even a rank 6 Keep card (+20 furniture).People can't attacking for the first few days only ai can and they don't usually target your village unless your parish is high ranked. Also I don't think you can lose cards other then by using them so that seems like a major bug or something, you should probably report it.
I'd be better off restarting on a new account than rebuilding but its not worth the hassle.
Hmm, the parish doesn't like me selling it my pitch.
Wait you do have over 200 right? You can only sell in groups, like 1000 Wood/Stone or 200 Iron/Pitch.No, that might be it, I only managed to take 75 pitch from all the way over there.
I dont want to make a new thread for this, quick question:
Whats the best stronghold game? Crusader or Stronghold 2? Stonghold 2 seems to get bad review while Crusader gets high marks.
Advize?
I dont want to make a new thread for this, quick question:
Whats the best stronghold game? Crusader or Stronghold 2? Stonghold 2 seems to get bad review while Crusader gets high marks.
Advize?
I liked both, admittedly 2 more then crusader (I hate having to build on grass). I don't know why 2 got such bad reviews. It had nicer graphics but the gameplay didn't seem to suffer too much.
In case nobody else knows, you can freely move buildings around, except the village hall, but including the Stockpile and Granary, which can help you fine-tune your resource production.
My liege is tyler so I am good.
Can't choose the parish...
We have to abandon our current villages...
A good number of us are in Ross-Shire.A: the bugger sends an attack 24 hours before the spawn. B: Can't use it if I'm offline...
Also I think there is a good deal of luck in how fast villages can grow... I know Fanofgaming is almost like double the points of me even though he started a bit after me. Either that or he's just better at this game then me. :P
Edit:Most parish attacks are for flags... Since flags spawn once at a random time every 24 hours some people just spam 5-unit attacks on every newby-looking parish. Solution: Use the flag the moment it spawns.
Okay, Does going up a sub-rank give you research points?
Maybe he does not know what he is doing, my guy in the castle seems to be doing a good job. If I don't get raided to hell I might try and stay here but there are allot of large villages right next to me in surrey/dorking.
Maybe he does not know what he is doing, my guy in the castle seems to be doing a good job. If I don't get raided to hell I might try and stay here but there are allot of large villages right next to me in surrey/dorking.
What do you mean by sub-ranks?
So, if I abandon my village I'll lose everything?
I thought when you abandoned your village you got placed on the map randomly.
Maybe he does not know what he is doing, my guy in the castle seems to be doing a good job. If I don't get raided to hell I might try and stay here but there are allot of large villages right next to me in surrey/dorking.
The guy his higher ranked, started before me and has more points then me (in spite of having a village apparently weaker then mine if the sprites are right) In addition he doesn't communicate at all, not by mail or by parish-info-chat, Nor parish forum. *Shrug*
How do you get these sub-ranks?Just rank up like normal, you'll go through all the sub ranks before getting your new title.
Also I think there is a good deal of luck in how fast villages can grow... I know Fanofgaming is almost like double the points of me even though he started a bit after me. Either that or he's just better at this game then me. :PI'm just good like that. You're two ranks behind me now, man. ^^
Also I think there is a good deal of luck in how fast villages can grow... I know Fanofgaming is almost like double the points of me even though he started a bit after me. Either that or he's just better at this game then me. :PI'm just good like that. You're two ranks behind me now, man. ^^
Son of a cockbite! That pitch stash had over 1600 left in it, two scouts come, both fast, and now it's gone.
Question about the sub-ranks, does going up sub-ranks give research points as well?
Question about the sub-ranks, does going up sub-ranks give research points as well?
Yes
Also, hitting two unscouted stashes in a row.
*SuccessKid*
Question about the sub-ranks, does going up sub-ranks give research points as well?
Yes
Also, hitting two unscouted stashes in a row.
*SuccessKid*5 irritated peasantsMassive army inbound. Prepare yourself for destruction.
Question about the sub-ranks, does going up sub-ranks give research points as well?
I installed SH2 for a couple days a few days ago but just couldn't get back into it like I used to.
Players are the only ones that can do anything drastic to your town.So if they attack your village, win and don't destroy anything besides your walls in the castle they are just being nice?
You are steward again rilder, you better use that flag when it spawns :P
AI siege camps will only make you lose honor, while AI castles will pillage a certain amount of resources. Players are the only ones that can do anything drastic to your town.Ai castles can also destroy village buildings. But I only think that happens when your parish's average rank is pretty high.
Awesome I have eight orchards, and maxed out orchard managment !!!!!Total waste of research points. Apples are nowhere near as important as wood and/or stone.
Hm.. I'm producing 21k cheese and 23k apples, but I always seem to have 0 cheese in my granary, and so never get that 2x food bonus. Am I doing something wrong?
Hey i am over in Ireland, about halfway across the island almost directly West of Dublin. How do i get in on the B12 fun from over here?
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"Your resolution is too small to play Stronghold Kingdoms."
WELL I NEVER
Trying anyways.
EDIT: Yeah, my resolution is too small. Can't play. =/
Btw can I be added to the OP post so maybe a friend will join me in Surrey?
King Cow, New Cow Land village
England>South East England> Surrey> Dorking> In the North
Highlands ^^ I know its a great name, tbh I had hoped to land in a less active area after my last one but you have got to love the name....
I need stone and wood badly if anyone has some spare to make 2 fletchers D:
fletchers are fucking expensive+20
+100fletchers are fucking expensive+20
Yay for stone walls.
see above. fletchers=expensiv.Yay for stone walls.
No Yay for Archers, and stone walls
Having fun so far... currently I'm a Thane in the Winchelsea province in East Sussex. My name's Peripheral. I just managed to start getting a modest amount of bowmen, but am still mostly focused on bettering my economy.I'm similar to that, except Commoner 1st Grade in Middle Wales, village of Pontardulais(I looked up my location on Google Earth, and that RL town is right there or pretty close).
Eh, I get 599 from Tyler :D
You are a horrid man you. Booze is a good happyness modifier. and it takes up room that you'll never use.I can't produce enough to drink, so I sell all I can make.
Personally, I dislike the economy system. The price of everything is capped at 150 gold a shipment(+25% if buying), and the price only goes down from there. And since it's unlikely(possible, such as higher-tier banquet goods) to need/want something before you can produce it, there's not much buying, which means the price never goes up.The parish stewards does a lot of buying for wood, stone, iron, and pitch but he can only buy it if people sell it to the parish. Also, all goods slowly diminish over time so the price does go up but very slowly.
I've six...
And why the hell did my village hall change graphics when I reached yeoman?!
I've six...
And why the hell did my village hall change graphics when I reached yeoman?!
Because the previous hall was trashed from the Reaching-Yeoman-Party.
X5 bonus card to dairy production? What am I looking at.
But do you really need that much food...
if he has good merchants, he can get lots of gold from all that cheese. He could also give quad rations, but seeing the little honor gained, he isn't doing that
But do you really need that much food... Also you get a parish bonus to cheese production, that migth also be a factor.Only if they've got a dairy guild. Mine doesn't, we've got an orchard guild. And a woodcutter's guild I've helped upgrade more than once.
if he has good merchants, he can get lots of gold from all that cheese. He could also give quad rations, but seeing the little honor gained, he isn't doing thatHe's making twice the honor I am at the moment at 4x rations(mostly bread), though I've increased taxes for now(and have a bad weather event).
If he sells all that cheese he'll fry market prices, however and make it so he can only get like 20 gold a load off it. :P
Rain shouldn't be a bad event!I know, right?
If he sells all that cheese he'll fry market prices, however and make it so he can only get like 20 gold a load off it. :P
tomorrow I'll research commerce, then I'll be able to swarm the entire world with cheese! :D :D
Right!Rain shouldn't be a bad event!I know, right?
Just vote yourself in.How do you vote?
Which rank are you?Nope, Thane(rank 10). And yeah, quests aren't in yet. I'm not sure how they plan to implement them, maybe like Lacuna's quest system? There's a lot of thing that say that they're going to be implemented, but I'm not sure what they are yet.
I can vassal you if you are below 9.
And how do you get quests, i remeber having one in the tutorial and that was it, nothing ever since.
EDIT3: Enemy attack was successful, but I killed their captain during the battle, so I only incurred wall damage and causualties from the attack, with no other damage. I've learned a few things from this. One: Knights are WORTHLESS. Two: Archers prioritize Pikemen over enemy Archers, thus getting killed by them. Three: Command, along with more guardhouses, is a very good idea. Four: Knights are worthless, the only good thing about them is if you research Sally Forth, they're free(but worthless).I watched the replay and you're lucky he didn't put his captain way at the back otherwise you would have lost your village. You really need stone walls and towers. Troops can't attack towers so once you can build them, use them in place of walls as much as possible.
I think you can't build towers next to each other anyway, you have to leave wall between. Or I misread the wiki.You are correct. Whether or not it's exploity, everyone that spends any time attacking and being attacked does it, myself included. It's necessary once you're a higher level and being attacked by multiple 500 strong armies all at once.
Card????
As for the enclosed part, walls that are queued to be built count to the enclosure so he may have some walls being build.Enqueued constructions are transparent. There are no transparent walls or gatehouses in that pic, ergo, no queued constructions to make it enclosed.
I'm pretty sure only the owner of the castle(the steward in this case) can see the queued constructions.As for the enclosed part, walls that are queued to be built count to the enclosure so he may have some walls being build.Enqueued constructions are transparent. There are no transparent walls or gatehouses in that pic, ergo, no queued constructions to make it enclosed.
Hmmm, I could use some more people in my parish. Everyone else is pretty much inactive, and I'm getting constant attacks from the parish north of mine(which is ruled by a H13 faction), so I need people who can (at least eventually) send troops to the capital both for defense and eventual retaliation.Woo for pyrrhic victories?
NOTEDIT: Son of a fuck, I(the capital) just got hit with a massive attack(for a flag) which took out almost all my troops(all of which were supplied by me) along with most of the walls(which were goddamn expensive), with another one on the way(probably for a gold raid, but the joke's on them, since I just spent all the gold the capital had).
That's it, if I don't get any new, active, blood in the next week, I quit. I'm nobody's fucking farm bitch. I'm gonna raze every village in the parish, then abandon mine.
Why are you trying to raze at a low level? Raze is different then capture.
That's it, if I don't get any new, active, blood in the next week, I quit. I'm nobody's fucking farm bitch. I'm gonna raze every village in the parish, then abandon mine.
Great, some faction/H19 Earl barges into my parish and is trying to get votes for himself. Joke's on him though, I'm the only active person in this parish.
Card????
I haven't seen any buyable cards that give RPs, and frankly I'm surprised they're a free random and not just (presumably) one you can get from a Crown pack.
I'm guessing I'm wrong here, but Stronghold isn't that intense, graphical game I saw my friend playing once, where you could actually see EVERY SINGLE one of his subjects going about their business, through incredibly detailed buildings and such?? Also, in a dwarf-y touch, you could launch plague-ridden cows at your enemies.
'Cause that, as a free MMO, would get me scrambling for a new PC. :P
I'm guessing it isn't, though?...
I'm at lvl 14
I think you have to be lvl14 to even join a faction, so I guess we are in no hurry.
I'm also in the middle of a faction made by Mr. "I'm 20th in the global leaderboards and I'm punching everyone I want to", so waiting doesn't look so bad after all.
I wonder if you lose honor when a player attacks and you lose?I think the Vandalize attack reduces honor if you lose.
He'll probably just monk the vote though, unless you have your own monks...I called it. Sorry to hear you're quitting.