Posts from Changes to the rules for offline Heroes 3 tournaments!

2 VDV & vbn:
VK8 starts on Monday, and if the voting results are not summarized, the rules are not changed, or there are no comments at all during today, then VK8 will be held according to the same rules as VK3!
The poll was closed on the 15th, and now it's the 19th - during these 4 days, both vbn and vdv have appeared on the forum repeatedly!
Of course, I understand that you are busy and everything happens, but then you shouldn't regret that VK is running on a pure SoD, without any patches!

Reference: usually, only the following are subject to verification by the organizer:
• difficult battles;
• battles in which morale, luck, special abilities of creatures (blindness, petrification, deadly gaze, etc.) play an essential role for winning (or exiting the battle with minimal losses);
• final battles.

1.4.12. It is forbidden to use the assembled artifact "Admiral's Hat" (it can be used disassembled). Reference: multiple boarding and disembarking from a boat while using the "Admiral's Hat" artifact allows you to gain navigation bonuses. At his discretion, the organizer may allow the use of the assembled "Admiral's Hat" artifact by specifying this in the rules of a specific tournament as a separate item. In this case, the organizer must also indicate whether it is permissible to use this artifact without restrictions, or only in certain cases (for example, allowing its use only when the main goal is to cross a water barrier necessary for performing specific actions by the player, rather than gaining navigation bonuses on land).

1.4.14. It is allowed to use "Neutral Unit Carry-Over".
Reference: if a hero stands on a swamp, having a neutral unit (sniper, nomad, troll, etc.) and a hydra (native troop of the swamp) in their army. If a neutral unit (sniper) is placed to the left of the native unit (hydra) in the slots for arranging troops, then the hero will move across the swamp terrain without penalty, as if all creatures in the army were native; if the neutral unit is placed to the right, then the hero will move across the swamp terrain with a penalty.

1.4.15. It is forbidden to leave a hero without troops through any manipulations. Exception: it is allowed to leave a hero without troops only if they were given to complete a quest.

1.4.16. It is allowed to dismiss heroes located in a castle through the "Kingdom Overview" menu -> "Show Cities".

1.5.6. Victory criteria.
As a rule, the winner of tournaments on HeroesWorld is determined using 3 victory criteria. A request to tournament organizers when forming victory criteria to take this nuance into account. Reference: probably, on some tournament maps, 3 or more victory criteria will be superfluous and should not be introduced. For example, in a tournament to collect the maximum number of skeletons in 3 weeks, with the second decisive criterion being the amount of gold in the treasury, the third criterion here is obviously redundant, since the probability of repeating the result (the same number of skeletons and gold) for two participants in this case is negligible. Perhaps, one criterion is enough here (number of skeletons).

1.5.7. As a rule, the calculation of the sum of primary parameters of the main hero in the final save on HeroesWorld is carried out after the final battle, taking into account the artifacts worn by the hero and the experience gained after the battle. Reference: after the same final battle, a hero can gain a different amount of experience, and accordingly, the number of levels raised by the hero after the battle may differ, and therefore the final parameters of the hero may also differ. Thus, a player could have one set of hero parameters after the battle, while conducting the battle by the organizer would result in other parameters. The following situations are known when a hero can receive a different amount of experience in the same battle: a battle with troops that contain creatures of evil (the amount of experience depends on the number of summoned and killed demons) and a mismatch in the moment when the enemy hero flees from the battle. If such moments occur (which happens extremely rarely), you can use as confirmation an attached screenshot of the screen after the battle, a description of the battle by the player, etc.

Hey, what if the tournament is for experience? Is the experience also calculated afterward?

posted by Monza
Hey, what if the tournament is for experience? Is the experience also counted afterward?

What are we talking about, gentlemen? In experience-based tournaments, the final save is made after the final battle (if there is one). So, vbn, don't mislead people.

What are you talking about, gentlemen? In experience tournaments, the final save is made after the final battle (if there is one). So, vbn, do not mislead people.

Look more carefully, we are talking about experience tournaments.

Vitaliy probably wants all the details to be spelled out. But that's too much... The rules are already bloated). Create an F.A.Q. on interpreting the rules of Offline Tournaments?