New Mod Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Babies!

[jorko80]

Hi Matt , Fatt Shade!

So if you have units with a speed of 2, you need a 50% increase to get them up to 3. I like the rounding approach (i.e. 2.5 will get you up to 3 so you can just have a 25% increase in stats).

Ok, I understand that,but that means that later in the game units with just 4 base speed will get to my side on the first turn if they have +2 speed boost ability and if they are combined with good shooters and fliers and it becomes impossible to stop them. That's only an estimate ofcourse,because I didn't played the game to that point. And I guess that dragons and some other creatures will have speeds of 11-12 ,making them absolutely unstoppable. I think that just +1 speed bonus to a creature is more then enough to make it much harder,but I guess I'll try your version and see what happens .

I'm a big fan of stronger units and leaving the impossible 170% leadership increase alone because I think it gets a bit boring when you give the computer insane numbers, but that's me. Why not set this value to 1000 if you really want a challenge? That just seems tedious to me, though, and so I left alead at 170 and decided to make the game harder in other ways. So to that end I created the new bonus modifiers in the difficulty_k section in LOGIC.TXT to implement this design philosophy:

I like this idea.

So you can see that I've added quite a few knobs you can twist if you find the game too easy / difficult. So I encourage you to play around with these knobs if you're finding my mod to not be satisfying as I think you can see here that you can literally make it impossible if you give too much bonus to enemy unit statistics or shorten the number of rounds where you have nominal mana and rage regeneration.

Those knobs are really nice.Thanks for the explanation also.

@Fatt_Shade pretty much brought up all the points about the spirit abilities and really there is not much I can do because of the game's nonlinearity with respect to skipping things that are too difficult and returning to them later.

The nonlinearity is something good in my opinion. I don't want to fight everything I meet in the second I meet it, I want to be challenged and to have to think harder. I like to compare it with HOMM games ,when you see a difficult army you return later for it. But still I'll try playing with a different approach to see the overall feeling. I think I will start a new game with 170% or 200% max as you intended it to be,because later such high number of creatures with such speed will be awful. And ofcourse I need to finish one game to the end to be able to make more complete comments .
And about sacrifice, it is of little use in late game,because the player already have access to many different creatures ,almost always in unlimited numbers, so it is usable in early game, when you find some creatures that are not enough to fill your leadership and with carefull planning you can increase them to the number you like with sacrifice, I just think the initial % should be higher.

Simple increase in `meat %` as you said it, means nothing in tactical approach to battle. In Red sands mod for Ap/Cw they made something similar but every stack you fight along the way have different increase of stats by random generator. Bad thing they did there is minimal increase in low number stats : speed for slow units, and hp for weak units. So later in game on Elon for example you find 10000 fairies 10th lvl with 35hp each. Or thousands of barbarians with speed 6 and initiative 12. Increase is good, but not in absolute numbers, but percentages. I agree that +1 speed is allot when you have no units/items/spells ... but that lasts only for a little while(first 3-4 areas).

I agree percentage increase is better. I played version 1.8 of red sands(russian) and with Grandmaster on top of it. It is really well balanced ,provides much challenge and the levels of the units are well thought. I never saw a barbarian with 12 init, or maybe when they use their special they receive 12 ,but thats normal. I don't know which is the latest english version, but maybe it is not balanced so good.

P.S. Can you guys tell me how to find a specific hero in order to edit him? It was a lot a of searching in order to edit the werewolf hero and now if the game crashes when I fight Butori , I have to search again. I know the numbers are area related somehow,but if you know some specifics I will be thankful.