DISCUSSIONS on “Rules for online games in HoMM3 and formulas for calculating player rating.”

Once, when the rules were still being formed, I myself didn't use the "view" function for opponents' castles, and only after talking with several players did I realize that they were using it, and that it was supposedly "allowed." I didn't argue – after all, it's a bug (most likely, just a bug) that can be tracked. And I started using it too. But! In this case, there was absolutely no intention to prohibit viewing castles. We can even add this point to the rules, as suggested by loi, so that there are no misunderstandings. The proposed change does not affect or imply "viewing castles" in any way. Where did you see a hint of this? If in the first part of the rule, "all sorts of 'bugs'," this expression has been in the rules and remains there. If you want to change it, please do. But in this case, we are talking about something else, namely: what new thing is being proposed? Here it is:

... it is forbidden:
- to use any programs, tools, or information that can provide information directly related to the current game, which cannot be obtained without using these programs and tools (such information includes, for example, information about the contents of objects - chests, utopias, etc.; about the hero's skill tree, etc.).

This point was proposed not just like that, because there are reasons to believe that some players may consider the use of such programs to be normal, not seeing their actions as a violation, at the very least thinking "to themselves" that if it is not prohibited, it is allowed, without suspecting, vaguely feeling, or perfectly aware that they are violating the rules. So, no, it is not allowed! And now it is officially known. Those who used it will perfectly understand this point of the rules. And those who didn't, don't need to, and they have nothing to worry about.