Дегустация Horn of the Abyss

So, Hota wasn't initially designed for online play?

Hota is positioned as a general gameplay expansion, just like AB or SoD. It has Campaigns, fixed maps for single-player playthroughs, a large community of single-player enthusiasts, and so on. The developers try to take into account the interests of all player groups.

The project has been around for many years, and the idea of playing Hota online randomly appeared relatively recently. Balance adjustments for the castles were made specifically for this purpose.

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it's one thing to set the construction cost to 3333 gold

The discussion was about 4 mercury in the upgrade of Gogs. It's an unusual cost, not found anywhere else; everywhere it's either 2+2 or 5 or 10 or a lot (at level 7).

To make the cost of this upgrade not look out of place against the general background, they made a similar price for some other low-level buildings or upgrades, which may be needed at levels 111-112.

Specifically regarding starting armies - everywhere level 1 is either 10-20 or 15-25 or 20-30 or 30-40. Only centaurs are an exception - 12-24 (which is strange, because they are clearly better than troops with a range of 10-20 - pikemen, gnolls).