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I think, Stronghold Crusader (and Stronghold1) is the best Stronghold game. The grafic is not very good but the gameplay.. i don't know i like it so much, you can play one match more than 2 hours or in 30 mins...

Okey Stronghold 3 need some patches to be playable but the best is to think about a new game(after the patches), with this Titel: Stronghold Crusader 2?

And @Firefly the next time a "Beta-Test" for 20-30 Gamers would be good

What Hyundai Motor always say?> New Thinking. New Possibilities.

This game needs a Recall throwing it in the bin and starting again quite simPly! I have a computer worth around £1300 with dues graphics, quad core the job lot and Still in crashes me saying stronghold3.exe has stopped working right after I get some serious lag on the game ! Men are getting stuck on ladders which prevent other men climbing them!? Men can nock stone walls down and wooden with a ****** sword??? My stockpile yesterday was full of my worker Ai because they all got stuck on the way in which ment I had to start from ****** new! Firefly you've let the whole world down with your overrated over publicised reviews and trailers for stronghold 3, I play to this day strong hold 2 and have been an avid fan through all your Develmentd but now like 70% of SH users you've lost our trust. Sort this **** out Rob Dogs! Kind Regards.... Ashley

I like how you quickly brushed aside the fact that SH3 is out and that it is a DISASTER, lets fix SH3 and not talk about future Games, because if SH3 is not fixed to the satisfaction of STANDARD of 2011, "FireFly" wont have a future game.

I think you should do the next stronghold atleast a bit more realistic.

- you should be able to build your house in whatever materials you whant, if i only have stone, why cant i build a house in stone? most old houses in cities where in stone so they whouldnt burn down.

- you should be able to vary the size of houses and producing building, and what they produce. if i build a big smithy more blacksmiths whould have room to work and could use the same deliveryboy. and why couldnt i use the same house a year later to bake bread or live in?
- you should be able to build more floors to houses, maby you whants to live on the second floor.
- You should be able to vary the height and thickness of walls. some siges in reality took years but in sh3 the walls goes down the first day, often by a footsoldier hacking away.

- only have one stockpile and one grainary is just stupid, sure its a bit more tactic but just stupid if you see it for building a city to the castle. the grainary should be used during sieges and during winters.

- It should take time to build buildings, now it takes like one sec to build 100m stonewall but it takes like 5 days to walk the same wall with your lord.

- you should be able to build streets for faster transports. better streets = faster transport

- bigger maps!!

- it should be more of city building, a big castle needs ALOT of money and more than like 60 people to build. with todays foodconsumption in sh3 60 pesants is somewhat the limit for your stronghold.

just some thoughts, good luck

I see a lot of ideas here, but those are wished. I wish to build a stone house too! But let's be realistic: what were the two most successful games from Stronghold series..? Of course: Stronghold 1 and Stronghold Crusader! And none of future games didn't make it beat one of those two. People still play them, and enjoy those games more than playing SH 2, SH L, and even SH 3! Of course, SH 3 is a new game, and there is a lot to be fixed...

But what is the most important in those two games is that they are not just castle building game: there you have castle building, running economy (which is not too complicated), you don't have rats, gong criminals, candles and other things. You have food, inns, weapon production... Most of players would be pleased to see a new Stronghold Crusader game, with only few modifications, and I hope it would not be too hard for FireFly, and it would also bring you money.

What would these few things be..? For example, larger maps! 800x800 for example... That would be great in skirmish! Also, many would like to see more options for resolution. Most of players who play SH:C play it on new monitors, and picture is stretched, that would also be "fixed". Maybe some more options in map editor... You could publish it just like Stronghold Extreme, but without those stones falling from the sky, and other powers... Just the old good Stronghold Crusader with few modifications...

I didn't write here all my ideas, I could do that later, but this is not only my opinion, this is what most of players think...

Hello all. Sorry for my bad English. I am writing on behalf of me and all my friends who do not speak English and could not register on this forum. Stronghold of the entire series we liked the Stronghold Crusader and we believe that the next game should be about a crusade, a war the Arabs and Europeans.
We want the maps will bigger.
We want very much to be able to build buildings tightly as in a part and Crusader. We do not like the fact that between the buildings very much blank space, which can not be built.
We want to fight were the same scale as in the Stronghold Crusader. We are missing the Stronghold Crusader.
PS: Today I bought a steam strongold3 and I very much hope that the next game will be about the Crusaders.
Thank you

Yeah, but we don't need some extra graphics - it doesn't have to be a 3D game at all. In Stronghold Crusader it's camera controls are the best: we have those for types of views (including that one in which all buildings are flat, and it's convenient for building a castle), and we can rotate the view, so we can see the world from four directions. That is really enough. I'm getting an opinion how attempting to make a 3D game makes here problems... It can be 2D, we would be satisfied.

Oh, and one more thing, but this is not my opinion... Nevertheless I want to say it: some people who don't like Stronghold Crusader, they don't like it because of the way units move in this game, and I hope that could be easily solved..? Units could be moving not in 8 directions, they could move in 16 directions, and that would make a large difference, and better animations would be added. But design of soldiers should stay, only it would be more detailed! And buildings: when we rotate the camera, and look at a church for example, it looks the same from all directions. That thing with building could be fixed too....

It wouldn't look like an old game, because you don't make the terrain and all in 3D, it's 2D, and in that case it is easier to make a good looking graphics in 2D.

By the way, does anyone from firefly read this?

Next Stronghold should be in Ancient Greece.

I can't see any reason for that: Stronghold (any Stronghold) is a medieval strategy game... Also ancient Greek fortifications can not compare to medieval castles. Beside that, during Medieval Age people were using more attacking and defensive tactics, more siege engines... all that makes medieval Stronghold games attractive: you have so many way to everything.

Sorry lads, there'll be no new/next Stronghold game. At least not in your lifetime...