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I just saw the opposite in the CIS example – that SoD players are willing to play a full mix of versions, while HotA players are "taking a stand."

In a sectarian way, this means declaring, "SoD is dead," "let's only play HotA, and we'll ban SoD tournaments."
No one is trying to ban HotA; play it as much as you want. Just don't artificially try to impose it on others who are simply not interested in it.

You rebuilt the Fly spell into a DD spell, and the Resurrect spell into a TP spell, and now you're freaking out because you have nowhere to get Fly and Resurrect? Then go build a GM in another city, what's stopping you? But no one has reached such a "level of absurdity" yet (including me).

Is it possible to delete any artifacts using the template editor?

Just passing by, couldn't resist leaving a comment :)

In my opinion, all the problems with SoD (Stronghold of the Dragons) are solely related to the activities of guys like Sir Davos over the past 15 years.

How many times have suggestions been made on how to streamline and improve SoD... there have been countless attempts. And they continue to be made.

But the stubbornness of the conservatives was impenetrable, and as a result, alternative versions of Heroes began to proliferate.

The outcome is inevitable.

History always teaches, and most fans of Heroes 3 are conservatives themselves; otherwise, they wouldn't be playing a game from the 20th century.

But making a game based on the original Heroes 3 is possible. Which, naturally, would be much better than the original in many ways. The degree of changes can vary – from a global modification to small improvements/innovations to taste. But this is no longer Complete, but TE, WT, HotA... and there are not many popular mods that would only make small changes.
Which is understandable – if the authors have significantly reworked the game, then there is a kind of moral right to the resulting new game, but if there are few changes, then it seems that there is no moral right.
And then, if you have already started making some small changes, it is difficult to stop further – you want to improve and improve... and then, indeed, what kind of SoD is it, what you get in the end.
So it turns out that either a serious modification or an almost vanilla SoD.

And, for example, in Quake III and Counter-Strike, the question of the original's canonicity never arose – people played the original versions from 1999 for the first couple of years, then switched to tournament modifications, and then to sequels with different gameplay. These games underwent at least one full remaster (maybe even more, I don't keep track) during their evolution, and countless balancing changes were made.
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The same path should have been taken with Heroes 3. Then, neither TE, nor WoG, nor HotA would have been needed. But history took a different turn...

It’s hard to argue with someone who has their own correct opinion on any issue.

We weren’t talking about the development of Heroes 3, but about the conservatism of Heroes fans regarding new features. The example you mentioned about the voting proves this, especially since they still restructured the game map. The issue isn’t about solving a problem or introducing something new, but about the approach. Heroes fans will always be conservative about any issue, no matter how many polls they create.

If you believe that Q3 and CS, which were heavily modified, can still be considered the same Q3 and CS, only “improved,” what prevents you from considering WT or HotA as “improved SoD”? And if that’s the case, then why do you need an “enhanced SoD”?

I, of course, don’t think so, because the logic tells me that a modified game is already a somewhat different game, which should, accordingly, have a different name. Not completely different, of course, but some significant new identifier should be used – “WT,” “HotA.”