Lord Vetka

I don't have 1.3 installed and probably won't, but this idea of yours has got me thinking of more possibilities. I will wait and see how you liked the map I sent you before getting into any more. I changed the outposts to euro and played it again, this time I only used the gold extra and it was another fun challenge, and that was with the Snake and Richard, giving myself 4000 gold at the start.

OK, now you got me, how did you put an outpost into Crusader, did you mod the game files? Last night I made a simple test map in Extreme, 2 keeps and some resources and 1 Arabian outpost behind one keep, then played with a Caliph, it was interesting so I made a map with you in a semi protected spot and 2 keep close together opposite of you and placed 2 outposts in behind the 2 keeps beside each other. I put your supply of iron and stone out front so you will have to fight for it. I then loaded the map and put in 2 Caliphs and allied them, it was good fun on the second try, I had 4000 gold they had 2000, the corners of their castles were touching and the invasions started from the beginning, but with 4000 gold I managed to stay in the game, as it went along I did need to use some of the extras and when it came to finally winning the game I did use the rocks to remove the outposts, I did try earlier, but not even close. Later in the game the outposts have a lot of troops standing there, more with 2 outposts side by side, and put them in behind 2 castles, the invasions did get heavy but my position saved the day. If you would like to try this map, send me an email or give me yours and I will send it over, I might see about uploading it to the site.

I am a little unsure of what you are doing, have you tried putting an outpost on a Crusader map? Could you make a skirmish map in Extreme and only 1 outpost and still have the same experience of Crusader in version 1.2? I guess I will dig out my Extreme disc and try some of these ideas, thanks.

I'm not troubled by your post at all, just letting you know that if you want people to see your profile it will be lost here. I never cared about SH1, I found SHC first, but I do like SH2 and SHC, the editor is my passion. More maps, great, we can use all of the content we can get.

I did make a300x300 skirmish map for Extreme called "Drumburr" it's posted at Heaven Games. If you go to the stronghold & crusader downloads section and type Sir_Vet into the search box it will show all 24 of the Stronghold and Crusader maps that I have posted there. I put in 3 keeps and gave each keep one of each outpost, the map worked very well, players had good comments about it, and it was played in multi player as well but the tester played against some people that had little experience with outposts. The map itself is a natural looking map with iron and stone mixed in the middle, so you have to fight for it, and the sites are restricted, it sounds like what you were looking for. You know how the outposts work, every time they release new troops it's twice as many as the last time, so they double every time, 2 then 4 then 8 then thousands... Happy gaming!

That is one huge mod for Crusader, thanks for bringing it here! Can any of this be used in the older versions?

Hi Strife, welcome to the site, glad to have you here! Those 2 maps look like we should have them posted here, when your ready, let us know, if you need some help to get them completed, you can always ask. I make a lot of maps but my stories are never very good, maybe we can help each other out some time. Lord Vetka

Welcome to the site EaglePrince, glad to have you! You could make your own intro thread if you want, I did the same as you, then asked to have my comment moved. I've seen some posts and your skirmish map, and will check out the map and make a comment. Nice to have someone more interested in Crusader, I love both SHC and SH2, especially the editors.

This contest will be a little different to most contests, the map has been made and is fully detailed, it is a stunning map with full detail work and setup to make it as varied as possible, only your imagination to restrict you! Your job is to make it into either a war or peace scenario, you will have to color in the borders and script in the events to make it into a playable map, every one will have the same rules, no changing the map for any reason. The map is called "Arden" and is a full size SH2 map, the possibilities are endless, there are 2 sites at the top of the map and 2 more at the bottom that have only one way into them, making for great choke points if you choose, or you could build a large castle almost anywhere on the map and script invasions, there are paths roads lots of resource sites available, the possibilities are endless. What we are looking for is first to promote this contest and for some valued feedback on how we should promote the contest and any rules you would like to see, any suggestions for this contest would be appreciated. Lord_Chris is making a video with screen shots of the map to post on "YouTube" that should be up soon. We have a Kingmaker version and a multi player version of the map and are undecided if we should post it before the contest, any ideas or help would be great!!! Thanks a lot!!! Lord Vetka

I posted a folder of working raised bridge templates in the SH2 miscellaneous section. There are 10 files to choose from, if you don't see what you want, let me know and maybe I can build it for you. Lord Vetka

I thought of an idea for a map contest. Take a map template that is made with detailing all done, but no territories marked out and no scripting. The map could be large or small, I would be willing to make a map for such a contest. Anyone wanting to enter the contest would download the map template and mark out the territories any way they want and then do the scripting, test their work write a story then submit the entry. even the judges could enter if there were enough, each of judges maps could still be judged by the other judges. I think it would be interesting to see what people would come up with on the same map. Any thoughts? Lord Vetka

I think some files are in the windows config file, I did remove the SH2 folders and the /My docs/ folders. I will look for the C:program data file and see if there is something there. This time I will remove the game and then run my registry cleaner and file cleaners and see if they can remove unused files after removing SH2. With the version problems my map definitely needs more time before it would be ready for the contest, a couple of weeks should be enough time. Thanks for clearing the message!

The river runs from the top to the bottom of the map and I used cross able water at my castle to get to the 2 villages, the problem I was having is all of the water was cross able, my troops would walk up the river to the villages instead of the nice road I made for them, I replaced most of the water and it's all good now. The building glitch started with 1.4, they had to make 1.4.1 to fix the problem, 1.4 was made for multi player. I think what I will do is reinstall SH2 because I'm still having issues with it, I don't think I cleared every thing when I uninstalled it, I will look deeper. Then I think I will start over with new maps, some of my older maps have been completed and don't need adjustments so I can post those maps to the site. The map I'm working on can be posted when it's done. Well that was strange, I clicked the submit button and got an error, then I could not do anything so I copied my reply and made a new reply, clicked submit with no problem, now there are 2 messages.

Since coming to this site I have happily returned to version 1.3.1 The problem I'm finding out is going back and working on a map in the editor that was made in version 1.4.1 The first problem I encountered is troops crossing my river, I have 2 villages blocked by the river for your own use, I fixed the problem by redoing the water. But soon found a new problem, when I start the game, none of the troops that I placed for the AI castles are on the towers or walls or keep. I had to completely delete all of the enemy troops then delete all of the walls, towers, and the keep. Then redo every thing before the map would work properly. I was planning on using that map for the contest, so I will be posting it at a later date when I've done final tests and write the story.... Just making a few points about using different versions. Lord Vetka

OK, the archive is showing now. I have the map !

I don't know what's up here, I don't see a file. Can't you just email me the map?

Congratulations on your site and getting to this point, Well Done! Looking forward to many years of playing an old favorite. Lord Vetka

Thanks for fixing my mess! I don't know the url. all I can say is I made my comment and clicked the button to upload it and things went down hill from there, it kept asking me to register when I was registered. I did that twice then signed in again on the page asking me to. When I closed everything, logged out, then came back to check the comment there were 3 comments 2 were from guest and one from Lord Vetka. Trust me, with the kind of luck I have I will probably find more bugs, if a restaurant is going to serve 1 bad meal in a month I'm the guy that gets it:-)

Oops, I just made an error, I was trying to reply to the review for Elderby, and I posted my response a few times, I apologize, but could someone fix that for me Please! The comment page was a new page and when I clicked the submit button it asked me to register, so I saved my comment and backed up a few pages and tried again with the same results. when I came out and re registered and checked the download site I found my response posted 3 times, Sorry about that. Thank you Lord Vetka

I think the fields are OK, there was nothing for war or peace scenarios. There is no spot for version #, or map size.

That's cool, I have made well over 100 maps, the 2 hardest parts for me is coming up with a name and writing the story. You are more than welcome to use any name that I have made up for my maps. This made me think of a question- I started using names like Elderby for my maps rather than names like Trading Post or Iron Job... Is there any preference?

Thanks Lord Chris, I just posted my SHC map, it's an Eco-invasion map. I posted it as a castle builder and explained in my post what the map is. It would be good to add in, war scenario, peace scenario, and maybe EcoWar scenario not really necessary as it's covered by the war scenario.

I thought I would let every one know that there is a new SHC Eco-invasion scenario posted. Trading Post is a hard 300X300 map that has you building a trading post/ castle and repelling all of the unwanted invaders, you must rely on your market for goods and weapons will have to be made. Have Fun and Enjoy! Lord Vetka

Thanks Lord Chris, glad to be here, and thanks for the great comments about my maps. 2 Questions, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself and do it through Sir DavidSpys introduction thread, but now when I came back to check, I realized I needed to go through Sir DavidSpys topic to get to it. So it seems that no one else will find my thread. Should I make a new separate thread for my maps, or could you move my comments? Don't mind me it's not that important, just asking. Next question, I have some SHC maps that I could post, any idea of when the SHC site will be back up and running? Lord Vetka

Hello, Thank you for the new site, "Heavengames" has been a bit slow for a while now. You might know me as "Sir_Vet", my favorite games are SH2 and SHC, I have them all but those are my favorites. My passion is for making maps and I like to share my work, there are more than a few maps on my hard drive waiting for a place to upload them, hopefully I've found a new home! If your are reading this and have an idea for a new map but not to sure about how to make one, I would be willing to try and make it for you, whether it's for SH2 or SHC a war or peace scenario maybe a kingmaker... I do have a request, I do write my own stories but I am not a writer and don't like it, if you would like to write some stories for my maps before they are uploaded, I would probably post more maps. Anyway, if you guys like my maps and make favorable comments about them even unfavorable, I will be posting more. Thank You Lord Vetka