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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted January 29, 2019 09:09 PM |
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Yep, first week scouts with expert Armageddon hurts.
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Rakso
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 30, 2019 02:37 AM |
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@phoenix4ever Is there anywhere I can download your map? You seem pretty much always mention it on every possible post I see you, whenever I'm reading your thoughts.
I'm just curious, so much toking about it but dunno if anyone has ever seen it, or me at the least did not.
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted January 30, 2019 04:48 AM |
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Salamandre said: Combined with speed advantage and mass slow, which are super easy conditions to reunite, + battle bait knowledge
Plus shooters or No Retaliation creature.
If battle against neutrals is completely disproportionate you need one of the two. If you want to do it with the damage made by your creatures, I mean.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 30, 2019 08:09 AM |
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@Rakso
No it's not public, I update the map constantly and play it with my own rules.
I think the map is supposed to be played with those rules only, but they are probably not for everyone...
So only I and a few friends play it.
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Rakso
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 30, 2019 01:58 PM |
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phoenix4ever said: @Rakso
No it's not public, I update the map constantly and play it with my own rules.
I think the map is supposed to be played with those rules only, but they are probably not for everyone...
So only I and a few friends play it.
I'd write the rules(or wog modify the map with scripts in order to build them into the map), and share it on a new topic if I was You. Perhaps it will be an interesting unordinary experience to play it for everyone, and I'd like to see the ideas behind it. It's, with full respect, imo stupid, to not post a map, just beacuse it's for "chosen" only.
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted January 30, 2019 02:12 PM |
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@Rakso you came late to this discussion... I've been saying that for years. The worst part is he's always complaining about how things go bad in his map because of this and that but no one knows what he is talking about, cause he never thinks the map is ready for publishing.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 30, 2019 02:38 PM |
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LOL I'm flattered people wants to play my map and maybe also with my rules, but like I said they are probably not for everyone.
All the debate about changing things refer to original game, I can't expect you guys to know what the heck I'm talking about if it refers to my own rules.
@Bloodsucker The only thing I have "complained" about is that it is frustrating AI can go anywhere with Town Portal, while I am limited to nearest town, but that is my own decision, as original Town Portal makes the game extremely easy and boring imo. I do wish Town Portal worked differently though, both for human and AI.
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Rakso
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 30, 2019 02:38 PM |
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Edited by Rakso at 14:48, 30 Jan 2019.
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bloodsucker said: @Rakso you came late to this discussion... I've been saying that for years. The worst part is he's always complaining about how things go bad in his map because of this and that but no one knows what he is talking about, cause he never thinks the map is ready for publishing.
Oh, well. Didn't knew that. I'm quite new to HC, registered half year ago. I believe I must have skipped those conversations of you two, beacuse tl;dr. I'm glad you have the same thoughts as me regard that.
phoenix4ever said:
@Bloodsucker The only thing I have "complained" about is that it is frustrating AI can go anywhere with Town Portal, while I am limited to nearest town, but that is my own decision, as original Town Portal makes the game extremely easy and boring imo. I do wish Town Portal worked differently though, both for human and AI.
You can overwork that using Inferno gateway's. Removing alliances between AI's(so that they shouldn't town portal into eachother's towns or plan ahead carefully(if you're on HotA), Town portals map objects placement.
I'm used to overpass some HoMM3 standard mechanics on my own Gothic 2 map from quite over a year, so you're not the only mapmaker who doesn't limit himself to HoMM3 mechanics in mapcraft.
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Rakso
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 30, 2019 02:51 PM |
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Edited by Rakso at 14:51, 30 Jan 2019.
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@phoenix4ever
Read up, I've edited my comment, beacuse we wrote at the same time. rofl
First of all: Is that a SoD, SoD+WoG, WoG, WoG + selfmade scripting, HotA or VCMI map?
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 30, 2019 02:53 PM |
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@Rakso I play HotA with HD Mod. Looking forward to their new Factory faction.
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Rakso
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 30, 2019 03:09 PM |
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Edited by Rakso at 15:11, 30 Jan 2019.
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phoenix4ever said: @Rakso I play HotA with HD Mod. Looking forward to their new Factory faction.
I heard there is supposed to come a whole magic rework. Nerf of slow etc. but that's after 1 year time from now I believe, alltogether with the new faction.
I'm also making a map for HotA, but I "WoGify" it a bit, but only a little.
About the current fire magic on my own map I've used to max out sp on magical heroes going up ahead faster than any other stat available, so that + considering the ending stage of the map, where armies tier 7 creatures count as such: around~200. Armageddon killing 50 of them in a stack at one blow is definately something worth considering to cast. All fire magic damage spells can proof effective if you're likely to go ahead meeting on the map heroes with alot of sp, but it proofs more to be like a "texture pack only" if a fireball is used dealing equal damage to an Ice ring.
Frenzy(200% attack 0 defense) spell is really good on ranged creatures also, if your map is relying on gathering sharpshooters/enchanters.
Berserk is overpowered obviously, but AI on HotA works differently than the regular SOD one, so it's smart enough to dispell it and use itself too.
Fire shield is a situational spell worth use on a creature that's supposed to block an enemy ranged creature for a few turns, and get resurrected once it dies. Probably most of the enemy army should run on that creature in that case, prooving the fire shield to be of excellent use.
Curse is good against some towns with large damage output. Conflux too... Depends if you're having the resistance orb artifact.
Not a big fan of Sacrifice, so can't say too much, but I've heard it proofs to be really good too.
Blind is obviously a great spell that can give tactical advantages.
That's imo.
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Winox
Tavern Dweller
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posted February 19, 2019 12:30 AM |
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i moved Dimension Door to fire magic its fits much better there. makes all magic skills useful not only earth & air viable
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Gandalf196
Disgraceful
Supreme Hero
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posted February 19, 2019 12:35 AM |
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Winox said: i moved Dimension Door to fire magic its fits much better there. makes all magic skills useful not only earth & air viable
Also, it is way more consistent with Inferno's Castle Gate:
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted February 19, 2019 04:47 AM |
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Rakso said: Removing alliances between AI's(so that they shouldn't town portal into eachother's towns
This never happens, RoseCavalier made some tests about it.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted February 19, 2019 08:03 AM |
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Winox said: i moved Dimension Door to fire magic its fits much better there. makes all magic skills useful not only earth & air viable
Do you allow 4 casts per day or just 1 or 2? Remember that Beastmasters and Rangers can't learn Fire Magic, so you might have f***** them up? But yeah I kinda agree with DD being Fire (But only 1 cast per day) then all schools have useful adventure spells, only problem is Air Magic becomes very weak, if you "steal" DD from it, it might be better stealing from Earth which is definitely the strongest school...
I am also really annoyed by the Disguise (Air) spell, as it's completely useless VS AI, I could of course just ban it, but that will make learning Blind (Fire) too easy imo.
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Winox
Tavern Dweller
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posted February 19, 2019 08:43 AM |
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phoenix4ever said:
Winox said: i moved Dimension Door to fire magic its fits much better there. makes all magic skills useful not only earth & air viable
Do you allow 4 casts per day or just 1 or 2? Remember that Beastmasters and Rangers can't learn Fire Magic, so you might have f***** them up? But yeah I kinda agree with DD being Fire (But only 1 cast per day) then all schools have useful adventure spells, only problem is Air Magic becomes very weak, if you "steal" DD from it, it might be better stealing from Earth which is definitely the strongest school...
I am also really annoyed by the Disguise (Air) spell, as it's completely useless VS AI, I could of course just ban it, but that will make learning Blind (Fire) too easy imo.
haha yeah i knew that so i actually also made every class able to learn all skills. like anyone can learn necromancy and even a overlord can get navigation
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted February 19, 2019 08:53 AM |
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Okay, I guess that's fair then. Necromancy for non-necro heroes and Leadership for necro heroes is perhaps a bit odd though.
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Lth3
Known Hero
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posted February 19, 2019 12:26 PM |
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Fly fits better in Fire Magic balance-wise
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Otuken
Famous Hero
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posted March 05, 2019 02:38 AM |
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By far the worst magic school. Blind does already work well without learning fire. Theese damage spells are all mess. Armageddon is not a spell that winner side uses it. Curse is just worse version of bless and bloodlust, frenzy, slayer, sacrifice are all useless only mass berserk is op but I always ban it my games.
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RerryR
Promising
Supreme Hero
Researching Magic
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posted March 05, 2019 08:58 AM |
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You say its the worst school. What if you could buff Fire Magic by saying one hero is specialized in Fire Magic, what would you improve and how? The spells itself? Cast fire spells more often? Costs less spell points?
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