The Heroes Round Table

Well, Pitsu, you can't win the mask.

Hideous Mask 15000.

Possibly. I don't play Equilibris. I do wonder why people choose not to play Equilibris. I practically can see no downside to it, and in hindsight, I appreciate Equilibris even more considering some vast incosistencies of Heroes IV, such as the grossly overpowered necromancy skill. 1) Unless I use ...

Hideous Mask 8000

... Oh, exploits or super-hero fights. My bad. You call it exploits, I call it strategy. If the goal is to win, I will prefer a strategy that works to one that is fair. But is it really possible for a single vampire to beat 100 ice demons? Yes, I did it in Trapped Inside the Beast to get 60 points ...

Quick combat not good enough for you? Quick Combat will often lose a clearly-won fight. Consider one Vampire against 100 Ice Demons: With quickcombat, Ice Demons win. And unless it's the final battle i'm pretty sure that the extra creatures you get with nwcares will give you an unfair advantage. If...

I wonder where my bid of 15000 for Hideous Mask went...

Never mind, I will bid at the last moment and save...

Let's get serious, people. 15000 for Hideous Mask.

Constant usage at PIO, caused the devices to break down. The rest of your post is feasible, but THIS is an utter nonsense. I don't know where this myth came from, probably from somebody who has no idea what a DMA or PIO means, but it is still a nonsense. But audio cds still skip terribly, even when...

Well u forgot about optimalisation ... and that's what this game really needs ... ask any beta tester and he will confirm that the game needs it... Sure there are some parts of code that will be not changed .... but hearing how music and graphics works in beta I'm sure this are not final ... My poi...

Well ... it's the fastest that it can be :P ... Logicaly they can start the work on the port only when the code is final ... So they are ready to work , but wait for the code :) ... That's not quite true. Most of the code could be converted right away - certainly all of the technical stuff (graphic...

the AI IS one of the most important aspects of a computer game, when viewed as a whole) That's a very unique opinion. Do you know of anyone who shares it? It surely isn't the mainstream market (where the genre and the graphics seem to be the most important aspects). In fact, there is only _one_ gen...

Well the thing is that mac port team will start working when the code of h5 is gold ... that means that mac version will be realesed not much latter then windows h5 ... I wonder where your assumption ("... not much later") comes from. I should think that such a delayed porting process wou...

Gravyluvr, did you update the amounts of gold of each player? It seems you didn't for Sir William S Titan or any of the lot-4 winners.

No, it's because of the new rule. If I bid 1010 for the Chainmail and I get it, I've actually made a profit of 3990 (versus the case I don't bid for anything). That's why I don't like the rule. My understanding is that you only have to win any item in any of the first five lots to get the 5000 bonu...

I wonder, why are you guys bidding so much on items from lot #3? I mean, chainmail sold for 1010 and Longbow for 1000 - how does it compare to Wizard Ring for 200 or Apprentice's Handbook for 500? Scarab of Summoning seems rather expensive, too, as do many others. Are these your real estimates of th...

It has even banned people who have had first-hand knowledge and experiences of damaged computers caused by StarForce. Yhea sure. And all of them passed on a oppertunity off getting 10000$ for free. The "opportunity" was formulated in such a way to make it virtually impossible to "win...

In H3, the AI is competent because the code was built around the system. In H4 it is not (for whatever reason). I don't think you can refute that. Indeed. But I can use this to make a claim that it doesn't have to be a game programmer who makes the AI overcome its inherent deficiencies. In case of ...

Another example is the AI being unable to leave its castle area - every day a new batch of creatures is available for buying, so it just returns to the castle to recruit them. It wasn't a problem in H3 thanks to its weekly growth of creatures, but the flaw is rather apparent in H4...

Oh well, make it 500 on the Apprentice Spellbook. No point in bidding slowly, really.

None of your examples (the effects of artifacts on tactics, for example) have anything to do with the AI. Oh yes, they do. They simply make the deficiencies, present in the series at least since H3, so much more visible in H4. Those aren't new issues - those are old issues made evident by the massi...