Actually, Prospektor isn't even necessary; you can find everything in the editor, and you can clarify anything that's not quite right in the save file. People played and achieved excellent results even before Prospektor, but you do get used to good things quickly.

By the way, yes. I'd like to dispel the misconception that results were worse before Prospektor. Nothing like that; Prospektor has only existed for a few years, and many great players played all their Tournaments before Prospektor appeared (for example, Sir DIOS, Lady Pups, Sir LeverPunch, etc.).
To understand what's going on, it's enough to play 1 Tournament and then compare the scale of your thoughts with, for example, Dmitry's. In one turn, the army often traveled across the map twice, back and forth. :smile13:
By the way, I remember having to manually select the upgrade trees (since the Oracle was forbidden) and manually search in the external tavern because the hero digger couldn't do it.

So, it's not about Prospektor; it's all just stories.