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What do you need to participate in the Tournament?
1. Read the tournament rules here /topic/102/ and the assignment.
2. Install the required versions of Heroes for the game (TE 1.03p or SOD 3.2).
3. Register on the forum and download the assignment.
4. Place the starting save file in the "games" folder, load it, and complete the assigned task while making saves at the end of each day.
5. Within the time limit set for this round, send your final save file to my email address: [email protected].
6. View the results of the rounds and changes in the ranking in the official tournament summary: /topic/113/.
7. Also, for your convenience, subscribe to the tournament topic and make your email open to messages from forum users.
Now, a little more detail:
About the tournament rules and assignments
The rules for offline tournaments are almost identical across all Heroes resources. The essence is as follows: you download the starting save, play, and upon completing the assignment, send it to the tournament coordinator. At the same time, there are some restrictions; in particular, you cannot play on other versions of the game except those required; you cannot restart the game from the map; the game must only be played from the starting save; you cannot use cheat codes during gameplay (only for scouting before the game!), etc.
About the Tournament Versions of Heroes
Required game versions. Over the years that Heroes has existed, many errors (bugs) have been discovered in the game, which patches serve to eliminate. That is why the game uses them. We use version 3.2 for SOD and a new modification TE 1.03p – because they are the most balanced.
You can download the patch for SOD here: http://www.hmmm.narod.ru/files.htm
WOG and TE 1.03p – here /files/10043/> /post/31226/
If installing the patch for SOD usually does not cause difficulties, then installing TE is more difficult. The main difficulty is the need to download a 30-megabyte file.
Instructions for installing WOG are here: /post/264/
The instructions for installing TE are in the archive in the Readme file!
It is impossible to install TE without WOG!
Directly about the game.
Everything is clear about playing against the clock without comment. This is a normal game against the computer; the faster you achieve your goal, the better!
Arena tournaments are new to many, so let's talk about them in more detail.
An arena tournament is essentially the closest approximation to the final stage of an online match. We have the final battle of the main heroes!
Accordingly, the task of completing the map is to correctly choose the main hero, gather as many troops as possible, buy or conquer the necessary artifacts, and learn the most important spells for combat. A joint arena is created for the main heroes according to the following instructions: http://www.heroesleague.ru/tournaments/homm3/Arena/arena.html
Then the winner is determined – the one whose hero wins with the best tactics in the battle on both sides.
About the Tournament Scheme
The tournament takes place using a combined system. The first round is a thematic assignment. The remaining rounds are arena matches based on the Olympic system. The difference from the usual Olympic system is that if you lose your match, you do not drop out of the tournament but continue to compete for places in the lower half of the table.