Topic: Stronghold Kingdoms The NWR take over

[ThePerm]

For the last month I have been playing Stronghold Kingdoms. I had originally played it 4 years ago. I played it constantly for a month only to get bored with it.  It is an incredibly slow paced game. However, when I returned after my long hiatus I found I had a ton of research points left. I am back into it.

I have a dream though.

I want NWR to make a big impact on the game. I want us to take over a region in the game. With your help we can make NWR the leaders of the area.

Right now I am stationed in a county called Stirlingshire. I have a little triangle of villages in a parish called Bannockburn. I have five villages total. The way I have set up my current game is I have built a ton of buildings that would cause anyone to level up fast. I'll send anyone from nwr good to make them level up fast.

What I want NWR people to do is start some accounts in world 1 and pick your location to be in Stirlingshire, Scotland(the middle of Scotland. Contact me. My handle is Permethius.

When you log on research banqueting, and hall capacity. I can send you honor good types that can make you level up fast. Every time you level up you get 3 new research points. Some advice. The first couple of days I wouldn't focus on building your castle, you cannot be attacked, and most people farm rather than attack.

This should be fun. Who's in?

[Stratos]

Interested. How do I join?

[Wah]

Is it a steam game or what?

[ThePerm]

just type stronghold kingdoms in google

http://www.strongholdkingdoms.com/

make an account and then download the client

[Stratos]

I'm on as Chronocast. Looks like I need to boost honor to research those things. I finished the tutorial and got basic production up with stone, wood, apples, and cheese.


I'll peek at it tomorrow and see where I am at.

[ThePerm]

i sent you some food for now. I'm low on stone and wood at the moment though. When you have banqueting all researched I'll send you loads of stuff.

[azeke]

I remember playing Stronghold and especially Stronghold Crusaders. I even played few matches with my friends on LAN.

Good games, funny voice acting, it's up there with Sierra city-building games (Caesar 3, Pharaoh, Emperor).

But i don't feel like playing this MMO or whatever it is, i'd rather boot up these old games instead.

[ThePerm]

i sent over a bunch of spice and salt, i might have sent some more stuff. I'm trying to get production to 2 people to make 200k honor.

[ThePerm]

a bunch of honor goods coming your way

[Stratos]

Seems kind of easy to rank up at first.

Though I wasn't safe, got attacked twice. First I repelled, second got through it seems. Built some towers and extra walls which should work for the time being.

[ThePerm]

well theres a rank up wall, unless you have friends that are above you. You'll probably get near me where it took me 2 months of constant playing to get to. Every time you level up it takes more and more experience to level up. Luckily I built an empire on banqueting.

The game is set up to be so time intensive that most people quit, or pay real money into it.



for me to level up for instance I have to raise 3.5 million honor and go up 10 rungs

[Stratos]

Well this is more of a casual thing for me, so I'll just got at my own pace and support your empire.

[ThePerm]

oh yeah, take your time. We need like 4-8 people to take over anyhow.

[ShyGuy]

Can I do a MLG 420 noscope in this game?

[ThePerm]

whenever you kill someone its always a no scope

[Stratos]

Can you seize other people's cities at all?

[ThePerm]

Yeah, I've purchased two and seized two. I have five cities right now. I have to level up to the next level before I can have six.

[Stratos]

I really want to get to where I can seize that big town right next to me. I know it is one of the biggest in the area, but I still want to try.

[ShyGuy]

bummer, Windows and MAC only. IOS and Android are coming this summer though.

[Stratos]

Glad it will go mobile. Kills me I can't check in during the day to set my queues.

[ThePerm]

How are the upgrades coming along?

[Stratos]

Someone stormed into my area. My castle got attacked several times and finally fell. Not sure what I lost other than 500 honor and my defense towers and troops. I think they seized up some of the nearby charters I was hoping to expand to.


I got a 2 day premium token for completing a quest and grinded research. I maxed out some food, mathematics (for faster research) and some wood and stone gathering. I'm beginning to get some trading going and am half-way to 10k for my first charter...only that one got gobbled up and I'll need to save more for another one.

[Stratos]

So the lead guy in my area dropped out and all of his charters are ripe for the taking. I'm going to try and rush into getting a third and fourth city to get the land. If we can control each of our parishes then it will make our future work easier.


On the negative side I'm really getting hammered ever since I build my second city. I'm trying to invest a bit more on defenses.

[ThePerm]

I get annoyed by enemy AI. I just built a city with a stone resource boost. I'll share the wealth pretty soon when I get that part built up. The key is to make so much there is an excess.

[Stratos]

So I guess you vote each county's steward to take control of the area. It has been going back an forth between two of the other players in my district. But I keep voting for myself and am gaining ground.


I wonder if we could each build a town in each other's area and help vote each other into stewardship.


I'm running into the issue of maxing out my storage capacity. I'll have to expand that a bit or spend excess stone and wood on extra town defenses.

[Stratos]

Guys! I'm now the Stewart of Strathblane! Moving up in the world!

[Stratos]

So I have all banquet material unlocked. I just need a town for the last two, spices and silk. I'll probably get my 4th city in the next week at the rate I am going.

[ThePerm]

I'll help you get up. When I get new Vienna rolling we'll have a lot of points. Right now I'm researching leadership for an 8th city. Thanks to your wine, i just reached duke.

[Stratos]

So I got to a point where I could control the parish and the malte guy threatened to raze my cities. I negotiated with him that he will relinquish control of the parish to me in a week because he "needs the troops" for the war his team is embroiled in. I promised to support him for county sheriff for the time being. He added a clause that he "can take it back at any time" but I just ignored that and said the deal would work for the time being.


Because of the rampant attacks from AI bandits and raiders I've been focusing on shoring up my defenses in the mean time. This has left me with limited stone supply. So my silk production has been gimped and I can't build more trader buildings to keep up with some of the other goods I have in good supply.


After the week of waiting I'm going to use the parish army to route the remainder of the raiders, bandits, and wolves and see where I stand. I'll probably be able to build a town in Fintry by next week unless you think we should focus somewhere else.

[ThePerm]

Were almost there. My secondary stronghold account is a chaos account now. All his hopes and dreams were taken away repeatedly. Now he is just a wondering soul. He's also getting theology leveled up.

[lesavit7]

Very interesting to read this thread. Thank you for that!

[ThePerm]

oh all old plans are out the window

[Stratos]

Sorry, I've been busy in real life so I've been on auto pilot in the game choosing new research and using capped resources. I have some time now so we should determine our next course of action. I took my parish as agreed with the other guy, we'll see if he follows through in agreement or throws another fit.

[ThePerm]

Yeah I saw you had control of that parish. I' trying to double on honor goods villages so I can both level up faster and also help others level up faster. I'm a Prince now. Had to sell apples and cheese to buy honor goods to buy upgrades. I have a new silk city and will have 2 wine, 2 spice, and 2 silk. I need redundancies in case one of them gets captured. I'm also upgrading defenses so its harder to take out the city.

[ThePerm]

Alright I got my silk going again. I got 2 wine villages now. I need a redundant spice and a redundant silk village. Then I will help you level up. Then we will move out into new parishes.

[Stratos]

There is one to the far right of our county with only one small village. But it costs more to setup a village there (~77k). I'm about halfway to that total and I'm also well on my way to getting another city slot so I may dive in there with two cities to get a more firm grip on the territory.

[ThePerm]

If you take over lancevlad's village it will only cost you honor. I raised 3 million honor yesterday. If my honor cities don't get wiped I can keep this up. I was going to take over some bumpkins town and then my mom took over the computer, when I went to go check on it again it was abandoned and for purchase only. I missed my window. Check you messages I have an idea.

Do you have your honor goods storage capacity researched, and do you have access to all the types of goods? If so, I can send you a huge shipment.

[Stratos]

I have some research done in space. I can hold about 450 in each. I have access to all of the goods.


How many troops will I need to take the city?

[Wah]

OVER
9000!

[ThePerm]

oh yeah research honor goods space higher than that. One time I took over a village it cost me 2 million honor. You need goods space for at least 800 to get anywhere. 

Theres a rubrik to how much honor you get times goods. If you have 800 good of each type than you get 1600 times that. That's 1.28 million honor. The most you can get now is 720,000. At midnight I'll go ahead and send you 450 of each.

[Stratos]

I went into the negatives on that capture by 200k. I'm just getting back into the positive.

[ThePerm]

I created the faction New World Revolution. Drop Sertegeck they are inactive.

[Stratos]

Already joined, make me an officer!


So I got a little carried away with my parish army and got them all killed by Snake Tower. I thought I had enough to take it but it did not go as expected. So I'll be licking my wounds for the next couple of days while I rebuild my army and tax fund.


After that I can help you kill off any wolf packs or bandit camps in your areas to help with your town happiness. I've also got a pretty good personal standing army of about 100, and I could easily double it once I build enough weapons.


Just about to rank up to Marquis. Thinking I'll move into Dunmore in the far east of our county and setup a city or two there.

[ThePerm]

I did the same thing recently. I have the ability to build a full army. I wasted a bunch of dudes on a gold castle.

[Stratos]

Was it worth it?

[Stratos]

I saw your note Perm, but I cannot move for a few more hours. I need to finish researching my next leadership rating.

[ThePerm]

what happened? All your cities got abandoned?

[Stratos]

All of my cities were just wiped out because someone got offended I was healing disease in a parish where I had a town.


Not sure what to do now...

[ThePerm]

The only thing we can do. Get revenge. I am a prince 16 in line to crown now. So my need to upgrade is minimal at the moment. Right now you have some good upgrades to start all over. I'll continue to send supplies now. It pisses me off because I helped you with this stuff. You did most the work, but I had a hand in this. I will wait about 18 hours to start sending you stuff. Just to avoid Tyranno. Also note, He's the king of Scotland.

[Stratos]

I talked to Malte-Abdul and he set the other guys straight and got them all to agree to help restore my position.


I'll see how fast I can rebuild. I am worried that growth on our part could lead to us getting attacked like this again because we re not part of their house. What are your thoughts on joining house black?

[ThePerm]

I would join house black, but I would not feel I accomplished anything. However, if we were to take over another country from a strengthened position in house black that would be acceptable. I have control of Banockburn, but I am intentionally not the steward. Being the steward would put me at risk of attack.

[Stratos]

So I just was given a 500+ firefly crown package by my attacker along with an apology.


So I figure we are all good. I still have my research level and a fair stash of gold so I could be somewhat back on my feet sooner than expected.

[ThePerm]

Stratos and I are  now powerful players.

[Stratos]

Yeah, but I just don't have the time with school to do much more. Nice that I'm big enough no one is messing with me, but the size is difficult to manage.


I feel like we are close to taking Kinross for our own.

[ThePerm]

I think it'll happen pretty soon. CTbaw as usual is not holding his end up. Lancevlad is designed to take on far bigger opponents.

[ThePerm]

I don't know what you've been up to lately, but this carolmary character is causing issues. You've lost dunning.

[Stratos]

Sorry Perm, life this week took me far away from the game. Because of this I'm officially done. If you need me to log in and send you some stuff or voice support for you taking my cities and parishes then let me know.

[ThePerm]

Well, how about this. I'll let you know when I got a million gold. Then we'll figure something out. I'm just about where I was whenever I had my setback. Unfortunately, with this game it takes months to recover from a setback.

We're at that point where we can farm and gain experience, or rage destroy things. Have you heard from Barbiz?

Also, I could use some your cities. I would rather they stay in allied hands then get stolen by invaders. I only have room for 2 more cities at the moment though. The ranking up amount is getting ridiculous. However, I've got a decently managed banquet setup again which can net me 4million a day, plus whatever I'll get from cities.

Also, Gerbertron became more active, so if we divide out your cities he could build off that as well.

[ThePerm]

you might get a chuckle out of this.

[ThePerm]

I finally researched all trees.

[ThePerm]

The World is over

That was a lot of time spent to build up... nothing.

[Stratos]

Yeah, games like this are too damn addicting to me, so I'm glad I cut them off. Stronghold Kingdoms was fun, but too time intensive because of the real-time nature. It goes on the pile with games like O-Game and Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, and a number of other games I just can't play part-time.

Big flag for me was that after I quit each game (some of them multiple times! Quitters of these kinds of games sound like addicts getting on and off the wagon) I experienced a breath of fresh air and a bit of a personal gaming renaissance. I pull my head up to interact with people and get more important things done in life, and I go back to the games I truly love instead of the ones I felt obligated to carry on.

This feeling isn't present when I am playing a genuinely good non-addictive title like Monster Hunter Generations or Minecraft or Call of Duty. There is a specific type of hook in the games like Stronghold that I just can't control.

I don't regret some of my time playing Stronghold Kingdoms, there were fun things that happened (mostly scheming for dominance with Perm), but I hated how other parts of my gaming life and non-gaming life took a backseat when I did play.

[ThePerm]

It was an incredibly slow paced game. It had some balance issues. Like I had 2 million gold and like 200 million honor in the end, but expanding past that point might require real money. I was somewhat bored with it after I finished my research tree, which took years. Another problem was you couldn't make alliances with anyone you didn't know outside of Stronghold. Once you and Barbiz left it became really quiet. I also couldn't get into a house after a while. I had a faction that I was leader of, but communication was low because I don't think they were the most skilled at speaking English.