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There is also nothing ridiculous about the current cheating mechanism, it only reduces the unfair losses it makes in quick-combat compared to human players.

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Is the treasure bank difficulty description static or dynamic, comparing the creature strength with the attackers army ? If static, is it possible to make it dynamic like the open neutral stacks ?

Currenty we are saving in our hotseat games each time before entering as we have no real evaluation of the threat and losing your army by chance is no fun.

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Currenty we are saving in our hotseat games each time before entering as we have no real evaluation of the threat and losing your army by chance is no fun.

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magnomagus said:

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@stachnie: this is mainly Quantomas work, but I'm not sure his goal is to make the AI work on custom maps with unusual large stacks.

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@Gidoza: your complaints are based on 'feelings' that are not supported by the real numbers, first of all in TOE (heroic) everything was worse: neutral stacks were even bigger at the start but growing slower, experience was also hampered even more. I have compared many different graphs for various settings over up to 20 months of gameplay to come with the most ideal numbers. If growth would be boosted to for example 1.18 it would go totally out of control.

You only have these ideas because I gave you info that wasn't available to you before. also this has nothing to do with the AI cheating.

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The number on Impossible says 1.4, which is higher than 1.18, yet we don't complain about the 1.4 being out of control.

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Nothing you said addresses starting with too much resources and how that relates to other settings.

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Currenty we are saving in our hotseat games each time before entering as we have no real evaluation of the threat and losing your army by chance is no fun.

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That is completely unnecessary since you can set the resistance very weak, even weaker than 'on map neutrals' if desired in the H55-Settings.lua

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anything below impossible is just lame and not worth playing

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anything below impossible is just lame and not worth playing

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These levels do not exist for you, but for players who don't play as well as you.

If I could make resources separate setting I would like to do it but it isn't possible, therefore I still follow the same system as was followed in TOE. The low res/ small monster setting didn't exist in TOE either, so I have no idea why I'm supposed to be the receiver of those complaints. You will have to make your own mod for this in any case.

H3 AI is pathetic as well as the adventure map resistance from midgame forward. H3 requires conquistador mod and/or custom build armies to be challenging. So certainly not an example I should follow.

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ackjilmo said:

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How does luck and morale factor into damage and initiative calculation? Right now I'm not sure what the chances are for a critical hit based on the Luck value (I also don't know what the critical hit multiplier is). For morale, I also don't know exactly how the Morale value affects the chance for a stack to get good morale and also how much it affects the stack's effective Initiative.

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ackjilmo said:

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Any chance to see the formula for how Spellpower and stack numbers scales with spells in this mod? In ToTE I usually split my caster stacks into 3-4 while creeping. But I don't know what good stack numbers and Spellpower are in this mod.

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ackjilmo said:

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Is there a changelog for creature changes from ToTE -> RC6? I saw the changelogs of RC6 and RC5, but I think you made most of the tweaks to creatures in RC2 and RC3, which I haven't found the changelog for.

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ackjilmo said:

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Did you nerf the costs of training troops for Haven? Or was training Priests -> Cavaliers always so expensive? I'm always broke. I was even using Isabel with her speciality of reduced costs for troop training.

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ackjilmo said:

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Suggestions-

1. When a hero levels up and you can select the skills and perks to level up, add a button that allows the player to see the perk dependencies. Especially for players still new to the mod (like myself), it's easy to forget which perks depend on which other perks, and that can lead to things like leveling up perk B1, when actually had the player known perk A3 were so good, they would have chosen to skill A1 instead (where A1->A2->A3). Hope that made sense.

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2. If it is possible, allow the player to see what the starting skills/spells of heroes are at the game lobby/start game menu.

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3. I noticed quite a few creature changes (some that were really noticeable like Crossbowmen losing their no range penalty) and I think creature balance is better than in ToTE. There are still some odd creatures where I think picking the upgrade isn't much of a choice, like Shadow Matriarch vs. Mistress (I don't think Mistress is worth it mid/late game because their speed is too slow relative to Dragons and Riders. By the time Mistresses reach the target, a Matriarch stack could potentially shoot twice. And if the Mistresses use Invisibility, then that's another turn lost. And I don't think Mistresses in early game is possible or the best use of resources). But I think that's much less of a worry than hero balance: Some hero specialties are really subpar or too situational compared to others.

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Heroes like Agrael and Wyngaal with %Initiative bonus already have a significant advantage by Level 20 (which is very easy to achieve on most maps). Windspeaker, Stormwalker/Windrider, Agressor, Rusher, Tracker, Pathfinder are also powerful (maybe scale too well?). All these types of specialties scale well while also being useful in 99% of situations.

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Heroes that have specialties based on conserving mana like Catalyst and Mystic aren't as useful in the late game I think when you have a huge mana pool anyway from high knowledge + Intelligence and might also have Arcane Training or Erratic Mana. Not to mention mana wells and full mana heal from sitting in any city for one day.

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Swarm Queen seems underpowered just because there's just so many other good spells to cast in this game.

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Embalmer seems weak (doesn't scale too well).

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Demonic Rage is too dependent on taking down stacks quickly (I would rather just have the speciality that gives +1 Attack per 7 hero levels).

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Inga's Master of Runes is too luck dependent (25% chance per hero level and you can't pick the rune either).

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For unit speciality heroes, I think some are clearly superior to others. In Dungeon, for example, +1/+1 on Blood Furies (Yrwanna) or Assassins/Stalkers (Vayshan) per 2 hero levels is going to be much more useful than +1/+1 on Minotaurs (Kythra). I know Vayshan is an Assassin so it's hard to compare between him and Kythra, but between Yrwanna and Kythra, I would pick Yrwanna every time because just like in ToTE, Minotaurs still have too much of a problem getting into the fight. Low speed, low initiative, and the enemy has higher priority targets.

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Meanwhile, in Sylvan, Ossir might be the most impactful unit specialist with Arcane Archers still a beast unit with their No Range Penalty.

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For the unit specialty heroes that allow for more recruitment of a certain creature type at the start of a new week, I think it's only good on super large maps (lots of towns) with tons of resources. But for the maps I play on where there aren't a ton of gold mines/gold purse artifacts, I easily go broke just trying to buy all the troops in a town. I would rather have other types of boosts to the creature type instead of growth because growth means paying extra for it so it doesn't seem like much of a specialty to me. Especially for heroes like Ranleth in Dungeon, where just buying the week's growth of Black/Red Dragons and Shadow Matriarchs is already tough, I don't want to have to pay for an extra Matriarch to justify having picked a hero with that specialty.

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Eruina's specialty is one of the most interesting ones mechanically. But it seems too situational. She's required to use a single target damage spell (do hero normal attacks count by the way?) and even then, the Matriarch stack only has a 50% chance to attack at Level 20, and 70% chance to attack at Level 30. 90% chance at Level 40 is nice but my games usually end before I hit Level 30. I understand people play all different types of scenarios and maps, but it would be nice to make some heroes more universally pickable. Maybe increase the flat bonus part of the formula and decrease the percentage increase? Also, her specialty seems to force her--an Assassin--to skillbuild like a Warlock with at least Destructive + Sorcery (and maybe Occultism or Luck) to get the most of the specialty and justify picking her over a different hero. For this reason, I think she should start with Destructive instead of Dark.

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Heroes that gain 1 point in X primary attribute per 7 levels are on the borderline. Maybe make it per 6 levels? Especially for Knowledge. I know you made some changes to Spellpower and Knowledge to make them more useful and scale better into lategame. But based on the games I've played so far, I still think Attack and Defense is worth more late game.

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@Gidoza: I meant I cannot add a separate slider into the menu for resources, but the amounts themselves are modifyable in GamemechanicsRPGstatsdefaultstats.xdb or by using map scripts.

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