[MANUALS] How to start playing Heroes of Might and Magic Online

This manual will tell you in sufficient detail how to start playing Heroes of Might and Magic Online, from account registration to character creation.

The first thing you need to do is open the page at the following link:

http://account.homm.91.com/reg/

A registration form will be opened (see screenshot). You need to fill in all the fields of the form; if one of the fields is filled out incorrectly, a warning and information about the rules that the information in this field must comply with will be shown to the right of that field. Correct fields are marked as "Filled out correctly" (as shown in the screenshot).

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After that, a page with registration congratulations will appear and a button which, when clicked, allows you to save some of your registration data to a text file (this specifically includes the Security Code, which will likely be needed in case of password recovery).

Your Account ID is:YourAccountId
Password: **********
Security Question: What city were you born in?
Answer: **********
Real Name:YourRealName
Security Code:0123456789

Next, go to the game client download page (see screenshot):

http://homm.91.com/download/

On the opened page, there are several download options:

• P2P High Speed Download
• FTP Download
• BT Speed Download
• BT Seed Download

In the case of P2P High Speed Download (see screenshot) and BT Seed Download (see screenshot), you will be prompted to download a small program that will handle the further downloading of the client. In the case of FTP Download, there is a direct link to the client on FTP. In the case of BT Speed Download, you will be prompted to download a torrent file intended for downloading using BitTorrent programs.

After completing the download (in the case of P2P High Speed Download, you can simply click the Install button in the program), run the installation file hommonline_vXXXX.exe (where XXXX is the number of the downloaded client version). A fairly standard installation dialog will be offered (License Agreement, installation folder, and so on).

After completing the installation, you need to run play.exe in the folder with the installed client (if you created a shortcut on the desktop, then naturally you can launch it from the shortcut).

Upon launching, a window similar to the one shown in the screenshot below will appear (images may change as they are loaded from the game servers):



The window contains buttons: Exit, Register (opens the registration page in the browser), Home (opens the official game website), L and H (Affects image quality in the game, H is best quality), Start (Launch client).

Select H or L (if you believe your computer cannot handle the game and will lag) and click the "Start" button.

If not the latest version of the client was downloaded, there will be an automatic download and installation of patches.



If problems occurred during patch downloading in automatic mode during installation, you can download patches in manual mode; they are located here.

Once the client meets the requirements (i.e., has the latest version), the game server connection menu will launch.



You need to select a group of servers; currently, only the Kingdoms group is available, so that's the one to choose.

The next step is the actual selection of the server (currently there are Erathia and Eoful), entering the account identifier issued during registration at the very beginning (Account ID), and the password entered during registration.



Click the "Play" button, connection to the server begins, data processing, and so on...

After that, the following beautiful image appears.



You need to choose a city; currently there are as many as 8 cities, some of which are borrowed from Heroes of Might and Magic III, others from Heroes of Might and Magic V. Additionally, there is a mysterious, currently unavailable, city called Empire (apparently a tribute to the developers, as the city icon looks in the style of Chinese architecture).

• Castle (Haven from Heroes 5 and Castle from Heroes 3)
• Dungeon (Dungeon from Heroes 5 and Dungeon from Heroes 3)
• Fortress (Fortress from Heroes 3)
• Inferno (Inferno from Heroes 5 and Inferno from Heroes 3)
• Necropolis (Necropolis from Heroes 5 and Necropolis from Heroes 3)
• Rampart (Sylvan from Heroes 5 and Rampart from Heroes 3)
• Stronghold (Stronghold from Heroes 3)
• Tower (Academy from Heroes 5 and Tower from Heroes 3)

* - in parentheses are the castles from other parts of Heroes of Might and Magic from which the foundations of the castles in Heroes of Might and Magic Online were drawn.



To proceed to the next stage, you need to click the "Next" button on one of the castle screens.

After deciding on a castle, you need to choose a hero. For each castle, general hero models are the same; they differ only by coat of arms and calling, which is usually either "sword" or "magic", and in turn, this burden is held either in male or female hands.



Click on one of the heroes and you will enter the name entry form and hero avatar selection. The developers have worked hard and provided the player with a huge number of avatars for both male and female characters (4 sets of avatars, each of which is also multi-page).



After entering the name and choosing an avatar, click the final button "Create Your Character", after which a short video will be shown that will lead us into the wonderful land of "Heroes of Might and Magic Online".



After landing on the ground, there will be several introductory quests that will explain the basic principles of the game. At first, your hero will move automatically through all introductory quests; you only need to read the messages and follow the instructions, then the auto-movement function can be disabled.

Success and good luck in the game ;)