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Thanks for this as well! This will be much useful, it is quite handy to guys like me - who makes some economic free build maps, as one member of my family likes playing them and enjoying the landscape and her castle. :)

So last time we spoke I tried to manage spell check in IE to work, but it seems that I didn't need any add on - I only needed to choose English as default language. This way I also have autocorrect which I would have in Microsoft Office as well, it converts "i" to "I", and stuff like that. That could be not so great when I want to write in my native language, but it is great and helpful - I know this thing have never annoyed me, but even if it could, I can always turn in off while I want to write something in Serbian, or I could turn on autocorrect / spell checking in Serbian as well. I just came back here to spread some more good words about Internet Explorer. :)

Thanks Chris!

Hey, guys. this is a short guide for those ones who are having problems with Stronghold or Crusader on Windows 8. I thought this could save much time to people, so I asked Jonesy if it would be ok me to post it here. I also hope it could be sticky, so it would be easily found. If I found some other possible solutions, I would add them to the text.

Now I saw what exactly this is, that's map for the competition. Yes, you can cound me in. Also, I wsn't following much what you were talking about the rules, as I am new Crusader 2 player, so I am still unaware of what might be overpowered, and stuff like that. I will just read the rules later :) , and regading trebuchets, like the idea of being able to unpack your trebuchet only ones like in Crusader 1 or Stronghold 1 and 2...

Welcome, Isaiah, I'm glad to see you here! I also like your tutorial, it's very useful. :)

I didn't have much time to read at this moment, but the map looks really good, and I like how you made the castle! :)

I believe this is the same map; at least that's the one I have. :)

I believe that Island Warefare IS a user made map, only you didn't download it by yourself; it was a map chosen by Firefly to be sent to you by Steam. Now each time someone installs Steam version of Stronghold, he gets those user created maps as well.

Welcome to Stronghold Nation, Nomekopadam! I hope I will make it to play this map this weekend, and I will give you my battle report here. :)

Yes, I did realize that later - about the copyrights. And, yes, I was said the same thing by some others - it would, be much better with the speech. Right now I am on a second Trail mission - I have defeated those two Rats and Slave King in alliance with Sultana, and I have also defeated Sultana and the Rat in alliance with Shah at Iron Hills. Now comes the slave king, and this seems like a nice missions for me to record it, as I have only one enemy here, and it should not lag while I record it. Regarding this free recording program, I have never tried it. It could be possible that I could use it for free as well, but I shall see about that yet. Thanks for mentioning it here, and I also hope to hear some experiences with it.

I am interested. And regarding that article, I am aware of that Vetka might not have much time to do that, so for that reason it could be easier just to give a longer "deadline", so we could ask question at forums; after you answer us some question - then you already have half of your article, if you are able to copy/paste the text. :)

I'm sorry for asking a possibly dull question... Is this contest still up? If it is, I believe that there are enough of us here who would be interesting to make a scenario with this map. At the time when the map was posted I was less into Stronghold 2 and its scenarios, but now I am, and I hope some one else would also be willing to try to make a scenario? I think we should give competitors more time to make a scenario, and enough time to ask some questions (at Stronghold 2 forum) - how to do some specific thing with the map, and to implement it.

Yes, I also tought it would be harder, but it was much easier then I expectet. I guess one should be able to win it even without going around, but either way, it is important to attack silently, from the dark. This does make it possible for us to make interesting war scenarios!

Still, it's nothing compared to Stronghold 3 night battles... :P Right now I have won a campaign mission where I had to capture a castle during the night; so I was moving through areas further from the castle, and I was avoiding file in the wood near which I would be spotted. :) In fact, it is just like Stronghold with fog of war with exception that you can see enemy buildings - only you can't see troops. But, I do realize this is not the subject now, I am glad to know that we are able to play Crusader 2 in night mode even though there is no option called that way. :cool:

I'm glad you made it to solve it! Indeed, as of now, if one starts fighting against you during the night, he's going to have a bad time. :)

Maybe it is not night as night, maybe it's just something about graphics? I mean, maybe whole picture is darker, so it looks like it's night? I do realize this is most likely pretty stupid suggestion though :D , and I believe that it's more likely to be something else. Still, I will try to see some stuff in my game this evening - after I get some my work done. :)

Thanks, Nigel. :) Wow, now you reminded me of that great movie, I remember how I was watching it is a kid. I am unsure when I watched it, but that was the time when I started watching my first movies, and I was amazed by this one, I think I was about 7-9 years old. :) We got the tape from some videoteka (that how we called in in Serbian, a place where one is able to get few movies, and return it after some time; just like library, but this was for movies. There are few of those left nowadays, how are they called in English?). I know this is off topic, but I am replaying the music now, I will have to watch the movie again as well. :D Yes, about that attack, you are right about that. If everything went smoothly it wouldn't be that good... :) Also those few swordsmen of Shah that made it to reach my stone quarries top destroy them, we could say the same thing about that I guess as well. Hmm, and now when you mentioned cropping the video, yes, I do know how to do that. I could just cut out those parts after I build up my economy, and when I prepare my new troops for another assault; that would make the video even more interesting. I could also put 1492: Conquest of Paradise Theme ? Vangelis in the background, I'm not sure how to do it using this converter I use, but I am pretty sure I could do that as well. :) By the way, this is another great music from another great movie. :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cXcS49D64

This does sound interesting. :)

I meant to ask what exactly those adventures are? What exactly does one do when he plays this game? I don't remember this from Stronghold Knights so I am unsure.

That does make some more sense to me now. :) Regarding Bandicam, if one uses free version of Bandicam, he can resume the record after those ten minutes are over, and then to merge those several recordings together. I know there would be a gap of few seconds though...

Hey, it's great to see you here! Welcome to Stronghold Nation, community much similar to Stronghold Knight by its hospitality. :) I am sure you're going to like this place where we like to spend some of out time. :) I'm also hoping to see you on some battle field during one of our gaming events here.

Well, one thing I did forget about when I was giving the answer to Vetka's question. I was playing in the lowest resolution which would fit my monitor, so that is another reason why does my 40 minutes long video takes 1.03 GB (now I checked it) while in AVI format, and 586 MB after converting to mp4 format. Still, if you are used to play in higher resolutions, then you can go to Video\Settings (under Format), and under Size you can choose Half Size, or any size you want. You may also go to Presets within Video and under Format, and choose an option that could fit your needs, such as YouTube (480p). This is about Bandicam by the way.

Well, that doesn't sound so great to me, but I hope that they were expecting that players who have low popularity will lose population anyway - due to fire or being killed by enemy troops... But one can easily see that they wanted to make this game as easy as possible to play - at least that is my impression. I do realize that, but... you know me well... :D I am a stubborn man at some moments, you just need to let me to my headbanging on my own, and then I will learn. :D Just kidding, this with houses is indeed a good reason not to build granary, stockpile, the economy, and houses the way I did. :) It works pretty well to me (Wondershare), only after installation it will install Wondershare player as well, which I uninstall immediately after installing the converter. But it's free! :)

This one is 586MB, or at least that is how much it is after I converted it to mp4 format. For that I used Wondershare Video converter. The original avi file was nearly 1GB. Yes, I do realize that about efficiency here, but I'm still learning stuff here. I do realize that is more efficient to put it closer to farms, but still I just like to build a castle around my stone keep, and for that reason my stockpile is always close to the stone keep, and the granary is somewhere near as well. I believe that with Wondershare Video converter (which is free) one can also crop some parts of the video (at least to crop the beginning part and ending part of the video), and also to merge several videos into one. Wouldn't villagers leave the castle that way? Or they would leave the castle, but if you have enough peasants around the campfire, you still can give them smaller taxes before you start missing workers? I was always looking at popularity to be positive while I don't have entire housing capacity filled for example, and after I do have that, I leave popularity to be around -3, which would grow up to positive numbers as soon as I build another house, or I train some soldiers.