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Kolotok is a hammer! Well done for convincing him to release the map for everyone. I looked at the changes in the editor.

Yes, the author significantly strengthened orange and purple because he believed that if you usually play on 130-160, by the time you reach these opponents, they are just sitting in the starting location without capturing anything or making any progress. It's possible that he didn't test it properly, yes. I wrote to him and asked him to mention in the map review on maps4heroes that the map should only be played in the English version. But don't judge the author, because he made the map 10 years ago, and now he may not have the time or experience to test it! You can finish playing the Polish version. Let people play it as it is now! And then, maybe the author will change something!
And in general, I didn't "trick" anyone, but I really praised/asked/convinced him to release the map for all players. Honestly, I felt bad that such a map remained unnoticed by the public. As I wrote in the review on maps4heroes, it reminded me a lot of "First Blood" and also "Abelia" (a very rare map). You need to do something like a speedrun on all of them, leave your location, and run "to the other end" of the map so as not to fail. So in any case, respect to the author. And I wrote the post only because, knowing Dandy from Metataser and Paragon's streams, I felt it was my duty to write about choosing the English/Polish version for the SAKE OF A FAIR EXPERIMENT. Respect to everyone!

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I can only add that in my playthrough, at some point, after I became strong enough, I stopped buying units, and when a gray player appeared, I would buy units and drive him away. The gray player has a limited number of heroes, and if you drive all his heroes to the northeast or northwest, he will retreat, he won't be able to buy new ones, and the invasion of the gray player will stop. All that remains is to periodically drive away the green players who arrive. But I haven't tested the English version; if I do, it will be much later.

Did Brown and Green arrive on the same day? Did Green split its troops between the heroes?

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Oh, and the 200% synchronized arrival of Green and Brown happens on the 2nd or 3rd week of the 4th month.

Did Brown and Green arrive on the same day? Did Green split its troops between the heroes?

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Oh, and the 200% synchronized arrival of Green and Brown happens on the 2nd or 3rd week of the 4th month.

And here, the author added a note about my request regarding the differences between the English and Polish versions!
And he writes that everything is good, everything is "balanced" :)
09-10-2017 15:54
English vs Polish versions - LIMES INFERIOR

One little note. The new English version of the map is a little different from the old Polish version. During translation, I made some changes. In the English version, it should be a little easier at the beginning (e.g., slightly better starting bonuses), but the Orange and Purple opponents should be a little stronger. I made the changes after analyzing a 160% walkthrough. Now the map is more balanced.

But anyway, the changes are really small.

We understand the issue with sacrifices and luring; the problem is that when the AI opponents appear simultaneously, one of the green ones will always run to the corner castles, capture them, and destroy our growth. And since we are occupied with the brown one, we can't do anything about it. By the way, I agree with Dandy that, in a way, the difference between 130% and 200% is insignificant. Such a sequence of events, as in my case, can occur at any difficulty level. Therefore, what is frustrating is that the walkthrough of the map can depend on randomness.

That's exactly what I concluded from this message: the author didn't test the changes properly. At first glance, the changes seem small. But in practice, this leads to a very strong development of the AI, if I'm not mistaken, it captures Inferno in the second month and has a total growth of 6*3 + 6*12 = 90 units per week from all castles. That is, by the standard turn at the beginning of the 5th month, the AI can gather a stack of not 200 units, but 400-500 units. And if 200 units can be dealt with without critical losses, but with difficulty, then with 300-350, there may already be significant losses, and with 400-500, it will be impossible. This is not counting the growth of the other army.

And the funniest thing is that the difference between 130% and 200% is actually negligible. What can you do additionally at 130% compared to my development strategy in the first month? I'm even afraid that at 200%, my development will be better than yours at 130%.
The AI's intelligence is the same at these difficulties, but the only difference is in the income, and this only adjusts the AI's development by about a week or two within the 5-month interval.

DandyKolotok is a hammer! Well done for convincing someone to translate the map.

The problem here is that when the computer-controlled opponents appear simultaneously, one of the green ones will always run to the corner castles, take them, and destroy our growth.

That’s exactly what I meant, and not in a roundabout way. It’s great that the authors are translating their maps, at least into English. Good job for helping with the translation, and this isn’t sarcasm.

You are greatly mistaken about the AI's behavior; see http://heroesportal.net/library/index.php?version=h3&page=physic#s1
See the "Game Difficulty" section.
For the AI, whether the difficulty is 130%, 160%, or 200%, it doesn't matter in terms of starting resources and AI power. That is, within the bounds of randomness, given all other factors are equal, it will have the same set of moves and will not make completely foolish moves that it might make on a pawn difficulty.
The only advantage the AI has at different difficulty levels is an INCREASE in resources, and nothing more.

At least read this, which sheds more light on the matter https://www. celestialheavens. com/viewpage. php?id=24
I hope this, esteemed Dandy, will reveal something new even to you, a "playthrough specialist" of Metataxer :) The difference in game difficulty lies not only in resources, but also in AI behavior. That's why on 130 he arrives on this map at 52X, on 160 at 44X, and on 200 at 42X.

Thanks for the link, but it rather confirms my point of view:)
the difference between hard and impossible (130% and 200%) lies only in the hiring of heroes, which is not critical, because the computer's strongest starting heroes are already hired and sitting in castles. The absence of one or two extra weaklings on the computer's side has practically no effect on the computer's expansion, as there are simply too few objects to respawn.
and "AI is extremely cautious about moving heroes into danger." - they are less inclined to go into dangerous places. Which does not speed up their attack on us. The only reason for a faster arrival by the method of exclusion is greater resource income and nothing else.
But I didn't understand the point about the metataxer - why in quotes?:)