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Rules for online games in Heroes III and the seasonal Ranked Tournament.

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Comments on the section: I. General organizational issues.

I.2. Additionally:
If for any reason players do not use HoMM3 HD, the program for quick exchange of troops and artifacts between two heroes in Heroes III – HMM3_Lighter is allowed.

I.3. Templates.
Currently, the most common templates are 2SM4d(3), 8mm6a, Jebus cross, Balance, Panic, Nostalgia, Mini-Nostalgia, 8xm12a, 6LM10a, Anarchy. There are several dozen other templates as well.
You can find information about various templates and recommended settings and rules for each of them in the topic Useful info: templates, maps.
To play on your favorite template, you need to copy the text file of the template attached to the description into the Data folder (located in the folder where Heroes is installed), rename it to rmg.txt if necessary, and restart the game so that the changes take effect.
/Example of choosing a template using the elimination method.
Players agreed on a list of 5 templates: 2SM4d(3), Balance, Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, 8mm6a.

The player with the blue color: 1. balance
Red: 2. 8mm6
Blue: 3. 2SM4d(3)
Red: 4. Jebus cross
This means we are playing on Mini-Nostalgia./


It is also possible to play on fixed maps. Collections of maps and rules for games on them can be found in the topic Useful info: templates, maps.

I.4.2. /Example of choosing castles using the elimination method:
invisible - Merge
vbn - Necropolis
invisible - Fortress
vbn - Stronghold
invisible - Bastion
vbn - Castle
invisible chooses from the remaining ones (Inferno, Dungeon, and Tower) – Inferno, and then vbn – Dungeon, and red color./



I.6. Dictionary: terms, abbreviations, common hero slang.
Abbreviations:
GO - Main Guard - strong guard (value=45000) either between zones that are starting areas for players (see), or between the starting zone and the main treasure zone (Jebus Cross, mini-nostalgia).
GM - Mage Guild.
DD - Dimension Door = spell Spatial Gate = Dimensional Door.
KV - there are two possible interpretations: Book of Air or Book of Water - in games on SoD it is usually the first one
KZ - Book of Earth.
KO - Book of Fire.
TP - town portal - city portal spell.
GG - either Main Hero, or GG = Good Game.

Common hero slang:
External Dwelling = dwelling = external dwelling
Bugged passage - a passage between zones that should not be according to the template scheme. It differs by weaker protection (or its absence), which does not correspond to the template scheme. Often occurs when generating a mine, village, etc., at the border of two zones.
Treasure Zone = treasure - the best zone in terms of content on the template.
Respawn = respawn - player's starting zone. However, any zone is called that way.
Control - a group of spells TP, DD, Flight (+ Angel Wings). The complete set is called full control.

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