MMORTS in beta: Stronghold Kingdoms

[Fake from State Jarm]

did you guys know about this? it's a medieval mmo with rts and simulation elements, the graphics are based on the first stronghold but there's some gameplay from the second stronghold game too. it's free to play with a downloadable client and a lot of bonuses available if you pay some money. I'm surprised I didn't hear about it before. it's in beta, but there's no plan to reset the worlds after beta. it's kind of a browser game, much faster than CN but still slow enough to be a low maintenance background game. there's a gap between those who play for free and those who pay, but it seems like the whole game is accessible to free2players and they are probably the majority.

webpage: http://www.strongholdkingdoms.com/

wiki: http://help.strongholdkingdoms.com/index.php/Main_Page

I mentioned it in IRC and some dude said he played it too. there don't seem to be a lot of players (a few thousand?) but the maps are filling up because you can acquire multiple villages (rules say you cannot have multiple accounts, 1 account per server) and they just launched a new server (world 2)

maybe you guys should look into it. I'm in ireland, leitrim county. running around with scouts getting honor by being the first to raid stashes. I'm not sure how good of a game it is yet but it's a lot more interesting than CN and could be a lot of fun if we get a lot of RIAers playing it together.

[Koorosheh Kabir]

 :derp1:

[Snowbound Milk]

Whoa. Whoaaaaaa

Stronghold!>?



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[Rezin99]

for reals, bring on the boiling oil. I am so there

[Snowbound Milk]

Bears x:

[Fake from State Jarm]

Whoa. Whoaaaaaa

Stronghold!>?



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yeah, I was pretty excited when I found it too.

[Rezin99]

which world

[Fake from State Jarm]

I'm in world 1 for starters. parish of mohil, which is in the county(?) of leitrim. which is on the west coast of ireland.

I thought when I got a good idea of how to play I'd start something on world 2, and if we got enough people we could all try and get to the same area.

[Rezin99]

I started on world two in a country bordered by as few others as possible. I dont think it matters though since its my neighbors I guess I need to worry about.

[Agent Lemon]

I'm on world 2 in Connemara, Galway.

[Snowbound Milk]

I'm on world 2 in Connemara, Galway.

I'll be your neighbor.

[Fake from State Jarm]

christ. it doesn't let you pick your starting location at will... or maybe it's just that those were filled up. I can get into teh county adjacent to galway county but it could still be quite a distance. I need to test this out with someone who hasn't picked their location in world 2 yet

[Agent Lemon]

I was going to pick Leitrim since you were there(though I didn't know you were world 1) but the closest I could get was Galway.

[Fake from State Jarm]

well as time goes on you can start new cities and capture old ones, so eventually if we have a few people working together we should be able to link up

[Fake from State Jarm]

anyone starting out that wants to play with us, we're in world 2, tiperrary county.

[Rezin99]

restarted in said county
 

[Arsenal 10]

I'll play.

[Rezin99]

just keep that huge epeen away from my villagers.

[Fake from State Jarm]

restarted in said county
 

yeah... how do you restart? I might need to

[Rezin99]

click on settings. it doesnt reload the tutorial though. but you start with all your supplies I think.

better hurry I think its filling fast. there were a lot more counties open earlier today.