A cool story from Sticky.

Does anyone play it?

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Leka, where is the scouting, it will take 2-3 days.

Well, firstly, we are talking about Might and Magic. Secondly, you can create such a gold balance on the map that buying a simple scout will significantly affect the economy. By the way, about the birds, you can reduce the time to build a monument (and, accordingly, the capital), for example, through a pre-built monument. Thus, a player who uses such a build will have a significant advantage in the economy, but will lose 2 days of tempo, and there will be a map where a couple of days of tempo can be decisive.

I want something new, but it's not clear what to base it on.

Well, you can think about this for a long time, and you can start, for example, by reducing the number of Points of Control to Might and Magic and filling it with interesting quests and changing the building tree depending on the map. Or change the map depending on the changed tree. And, of course, don't forget about the heroes