[HMM IV OFF TOURNAMENT] The fourth stage of the John Van Canigem tournament

from now on all offline tournaments will be held on Equilibris!!!![/B]

...it's a pity.

Equilibris, in comparison with WoW, has both advantages and disadvantages. And both are insignificant. But the fact of switching from WoW to Equilibris is a serious disadvantage in itself, as it will reduce the number of players.
New players, who have just dropped by HWorld, will not be happy with the need to download and install something else. They are usually lazy, and this can be understood - a person came in by chance to see how people play, and he might have wanted to play himself, but it turns out that they are playing something else...
Old players, those who are already well-versed in Heroes 4, will experience unnecessary stress - they will have to additionally check each planned path - what if it doesn't work in Equilibris?
And, thinking about it, both a beginner and an experienced player would go to play Equilibris on the League. The contingent there is quite convincing. It's a pity that, due to Equilibris and other traditions, they are switching to a slightly different game.

Regarding the "advantages and disadvantages" I mentioned, I can continue the conversation if you want. Just without arguments in the style of "cool!" or "sucks!".

And one more thing. Equilibris has one feature. This feature can be seen as positive or negative. I didn't like it, and I made an effort to cancel the meaning of this feature - the inequality of players in obtaining information.
In short, Equilibris subtly spies on the player "for the benefit of third parties". :) Extra data is written to the save file, namely - the number of saves and loads made by the player since the start, as well as the date and time of creation of this save. That is, if you simply change the creation time of the file (save), a person with a certain program can easily see this.
As far as I understand, few people knew about this feature, and I haven't heard any stories about it. Until one idiot boasted that he had such a program and even tried to attack a player who is friendly to me.
This additional data is written to the save in encrypted form, and a simple viewing of the file will not give anything. I remember spending a month figuring out the mask of this encoding. I think I figured it out.
But now I'm posting a program that reads this data. So that all players are on equal terms, even if "something terrible happens" and HW switches to Equilibris.
*I sent it to several people in May 2007, if it was useful, I recommend updating it from here. The new version is more convenient, I've added unGZip.