A noobish question – is TE-full and TE-light the same game with different settings, or do you need to download each one separately?
Main differences between full and light (SoD):
1) heroes are different
2) buildings are different
3) magic is different
4) in full there are some classes
About full. Generally, the creators decided to make it so that in Heroes, all towns are equal in strength (they are still balancing them) and the game is more interesting.
For example, the Dungeon has fewer Troglodytes at start; Grindan has a different spell instead of Slow at start; Conflux mages start with 0022 (instead of 0033), Town Portal is in Fire, Slow is in the 2nd level; for Necro, building Liches requires 8 Sulfur (not 10 as in SoD/TE-light), the Tower has the Lookout already built in the town, Barbarian 2nd level troops can be upgraded at 111 (Tyraxor is popular because of this), building Cyclopes requires 5 Sulfur and 5 Mercury (instead of 20 Crystals), etc. And naturally, the convenient interface.
Vic kept the convenient interface but abolished all the "innovations". And the result was SoD with a TE interface and possible settings (e.g., building 2nd level troops, necropatch, etc.)
I can't be bothered to learn TE-full (although I play it sometimes :) with a small limit), even though it's also interesting, but the settings in TE allow us to say that TE-light is better than SoD.
P.S. Don't bother with the DATA folders. Better copy TE (TE-full) and make light from it. And let you have both light and full. And you won't have to bother with settings. Or play only TE-light. And then you also won't need to change the DATA folders.
