Lord_Chris

Moved to Stronghold 2. What version did your game originally install? And where are you getting the 1.3.1 patch from?

[colour=#6EA4BF]Days, Months Years and Seasons[/colour] These all happen at different times, and for different lengths on each planet. Ancient Civilisations took note of days months and years by two possibilities: One, the Sun, or two, the Moon. This allowed people to know when to plant crops and search for seasonal foods. Several civilisations including the Mayans and Babylonians developed complex ways to tell seasonal changes. Days We all know what a day is, and every planet has them. But do you actually know what causes them? A day is the amount of time for a planet to spin 365 degrees on its orbit. Because of this fact, there is always one side of a planet facing the sun, while the other half is in darkness - and this is exactly why the night is dark; there is no light making it from the Sun, which makes the opposite side of the planet dark. Most people think that a day is 24 hours, but in fact, it's very slightly less. A day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. The extra four minutes gets added up, and every four years, this is responsible for what becomes a leap year - an extra day gets added into February to make the calendars correct. Interesting fact: The calendar was created by the Romans in 45 BC. Months A month is the amount of time for a moon to orbit the earth. The luna orbit means that one side of the moon is deadlocked towards the Earth, and the "dark side" of the moon will never be shown on the earth due to how the moon rotates. The moon rotates in this manner due to Earth's own gravity. The moon also goes through various stages, such as Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous, Full Moon and New Moon. Years This is the amount of time that a planet takes to orbit the sun. A planet is rotating constantly on its axis (as shown above) but it's also moving around the sun at the same time. This is what is responsible for years. Every 365 and a quarter days (due to a day not being exactly 24 hours) a new year begins. Seasons Seasons are the one thing that people can find confusing. Seasons depend on the tilt of the Earth's axis. You now know that the Earth moves on its axis, and moves around the Sun. The seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter are all caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis. This is also why the opposite side of the Earth has the opposite season. For example, in Australia, it can snow during the Summer, because Australia is on the opposite side of the Earth to the UK. So when we get warn weather, it's Australia's winter even though the season is called Summer still. I'd also like to point out that the tilt of the Earth is in fact caused by the Moon. Due to seasons, Constellations in the night sky can appear at different points in the night sky throughout the year.

[colour=#6EA4BF]The Universe, Galaxies and Nebulae[/colour] What exactly is The Universe? There are lots of similar, confusing terms in space, and this is certainly no exception. The Universe is everything in existence. What is a Galaxy? A galaxy is a system of millions, or billions, of stars, together with gas or dust, which is held together by gravitational pull. A galaxy contains hundreds of solar systems, similar, or not similar to our own. Each solar system contains a central sun, like ours (or mostly bigger) and several planets of several shapes and sizes. Each star inside a galaxy is a sun, and each sun belongs to a unique solar system (in 99% of cases). Our galaxy is called The Milky Way, below is a map of our Galaxy along with the position of our sun. http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0ecf217e39e271c7a6e09a1015e01149?convert_to_webp=true[/img] What is a Nebula? A Nebula (or Nebulae plural) is a cloud of gas and dust in the outer solar system. Many people mix up the difference between Galaxies and Nebulae due to this difference. They are in some ways, similar, but are completely separate things. A Nebula is a region where stars are formed. Every star is born in a Nebula - and they can also contain remains of dead, or dying stars. http://static.giaoducthoidai.vn/uploaded/tranghn/2015_02_22/329801423735560_woyc.jpg?width=500[/img] How many galaxies are there? There are hundreds of billions of galaxies, and in each one is hundreds of billions of stars. That's one to two hundred billion solar systems at least in The Milky Way, including our own. Our sun is just one of the hundreds of billions of stars in The Milky Way alone.

Thanks both of you! I'm going to start today at some point with articles. Stellarium is really good for showing you what stars are in what place - and it's not even limited to Earth either. I've viewed from Mars, and Mars' moon Phobos before. You can have custom landscapes, plugins, star regions .etc.

We have a history thread, so why not an astronomy thread too? ;) I've got to say, this thread was kind of inspired by Crusader's history thread, I'll keep this thread updated with all the things to look out for in the night sky, and I'll try to add some articles every now and then about what is what, how you can tell and what the features of the different things are .etc. But before we get started, I'd recommend downloading the program Stellarium. This can be configured to show the stars where you live, and is available on Windows, Linux, MacOS as well as Ubuntu for free. It's also available on Android and iOS for a small price. I'd like to start with the full moon (or this time, Super Moon - I'll let you know more about that at some other point ;) ) which will be available in four days time (August 29th). The moon will be on the opposite side of the earth to the sun, and this will occur approximately 18:35 UTC. That's one hour later here in the UK due to DST. The moon will be on one of its closest approaches to earth, and will probably look brighter and larger compared to usual.

This explains why it's detected as a virus; from what I can tell myself, and you've explained there, it's injecting something into the game - this explains why all anti viruses start screaming and attempt to quarantine it. And since we can only play online in 1.4.1, this pretty much makes this redundant, unfortunately. I contacted the creator of this tool yesterday asking him for information on how it was done, and whether or not it can be upgraded or not. I'd be more than happy to attempt to upgrade it to be compatible with 1.4.1 myself, but I would need the source code first - and know how it was done in the first place. And I'm guessing that the email I sent to will probably be abandoned by now, after all, he was last active in 2007.

I've ran the program myself and MalwareBytes also gave a false positive to me. However: I've only ran the program, I haven't tested it yet. I'll test it at some point, and if I deem that it doesn't have anything inside it (which I really don't think it will have, otherwise it will have been executed as soon as I ran it probably) then I'm happy for it to be uploaded. It does have an unknown publisher which means windows smart screen attempts to block it, but it seems to be fine so far. Anyway, you can upload it now if you'd like, and it can sit in the queue for a bit until I get the chance to review it, there's no harm in it sitting there a few days.

... And, it depends on how the mod is configured. Adding to what Charles said, some exe files do things based on your system architecture (i.e x64 or x86). I'm downloading it now and seeing what it does, perhaps you might want to upload it to the download section - if you get permission as Charles says.

Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, this is still off moving forum software, I've been unable to update that page yet. There are three more pages (I think) in the download section that haven't been updated yet, I'm trying to push ahead but I just don't have the time at the moment :( I'll try to expedite this and get it done within the next few days if I can, but I can't make promises. I have been fixing several other things in the download section such as the comment system and ratings, and they are massively enhanced now, but as of yet, I honestly haven't had a chance to do it.

So you won't be playing?

Absolutely. Just as Charles would say - A hobbit need never leave his hobbit hole.

Well, do what you have to do, I say :D

Foe @EaglePrince who never came yesterday (and anyone else who may be interested) we're holding another game tonight at the same time.

I've opened a room on GameRanger.

You mean today ;) Congratulations on passing your exam! :)

Ok then , postponed until tomorrow. :)

Well, in that case, how about we postpone it until tomorrow? That way @EaglePrince can join in too and we can have teams. Is this alright with you @infinitysuns or would you rather continue just the two of us?

A reminder to everyone that the battle is today. Don't want anyone forgetting! :)

Just as they were about to pounce, there was a sounds of a horse galloping a few clearings behind them. Then the sound of a sword hitting steel, and a scream of pain to follow. A few seconds later, a messenger appeared next to the trees behind them still on horseback, and started screaming. "Goodman! Quickly! We're under attack!" He had galloped closer to the group now, and continued shouting. "The Duke ..." Suddenly an arrow came straight from the fire in the middle of the clearing, and killed the man dead instantly. Within half a second, another landed just inches away from Goodman's face, skimming the right side of his head and hitting a nearby tree instead. The group were not the only ones who had heard the messenger.

You'll certainly not be short of apps on there now then ;) I used to have an Android phone and I think Android has a lot of good features, but after using iOS personally I think the interface is better.

I'm guessing about a month. Kingdoms was announced on Mac about a month before they released it, so maybe something similar.

I'm on the server Europe 1, if you want I'll send you a map where I am over the PM, and I can help you :)

Firefly has just today announced that Stronghold Kingdoms, our favourite MMO is coming to iOS! As an iOS user myself, I can say this is outstandingly good news!

Added you to the list. :)

Not at all! We'd be glad to have an extra player joining in the fight. Added you to the list. :) The map which I was talking about earlier is here: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/file/352-mediterranean-1/ I've also added a new one today, here: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/file/353-coastal-1/