Posts from Open alpha testing of the 5.0 HD mod (online lobby).

The thing is, "daddies" only exist in SoD. If you introduced such payments in HotA, I think there would be no fewer "daddies," and most likely, even more.

Can I make an advance payment or an annual subscription?

Just send the subscription link to the donor, and they will pay for it.

I personally paid for the "dad," just to support Baratorch's work, because I rarely play SOD, and essentially I don't need the SOD lobby.

I will start accepting annual subscriptions in a month or two.

I wonder how many daddies there are at the moment?

a) 1-4
b) 5-9
c) 10-19
d) 20-49
e) 50-99
f) 100-249
g) 250-499
h) 500-999
i) 1000+

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reply f

How would you assess the current subscription situation? Have expectations been met? Is it worth it? If it's not a secret.

Therefore, I plan to make a free addition to the game created by my father, with the Overlord’s Health (OH) disabled. That is, when playing Father vs. not-Father, OH will not be active. But I will also see how the second week of the paid version goes...

I welcome this decision!

There is also a suggestion (I don't know how feasible it is). Some way to separately mark players from the HeroesWorld resource (who have a rating). The problem is that quite a lot of bums from Gameranger and elsewhere have signed up, many not only don't know the HeroesWorld rules, but also refuse to learn them. You come across dimwits whose games end in either leaving or rudeness and insults... (HeroesWorld players, for the most part, are much more disciplined, with rare exceptions).
I understand it's not easy, because many in the lobby have different nicknames than on HeroesWorld, for example, mine simply didn't fit due to the character limit when registering in the lobby.

Isolation and xenophobia don't really contribute to the development of a team. It's better to attract people to your ranks instead. If you find one decent person among three incompetent ones, it will pay off.

The issue isn't about isolation or xenophobia. I myself have brought many newcomers from the general forum here, and I always try to patiently explain the rules to them.

It's just that it often happens that in the middle of the game, it turns out that a person is completely unfamiliar with the rules, and when asked "do you know the rules of HW?", they think they are simply being asked about the patch.

I'm curious, how difficult would it be to implement a feature that allows viewing a match in the lobby? So that you could join a room from outside and observe the game? I think that if you implement something like that and set a donation goal for introducing this feature in the lobby, you could raise any amount of money quite quickly. You could also make entering the game as a spectator paid (10-20 rubles per match - it would add up to a decent amount if collected from all spectators).

You shouldn't do this for one simple reason: it will create opportunities for dishonest players, and delays, as seen in other games, won't help...