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[/U]And finally: such a tent would simply lead to taking maxed-out cons with just one angel on the first, for example. And then Verdish would instantly become cooler than Bronkh.

Oh, that's right. This suggestion overlapped with an older one, where it was proposed to extend the duration of the tent buff to potions. I'll do better next time!

I have a suggestion: with the "Eagle Eye" skill, allow the hero to learn enemy spells (in percentage proportions, of course) directly on the battlefield. Is this even possible? If learning happens at the end of the battle, could it also be learned during the battle and used immediately? At least, this would be the only useful application of the Eagle Eye skill...
P.S. The tent should only work in dungeons if the hero has this skill...

ProtosArchon (Tower, Aine, Bron) def Indra (Stronghold, Tyraxor, Craig Hack/Tyraxor) 8mm6a, 2.1.6

Thx for game!

Forrest is great. But I would like to see a more detailed argument for each point.

1) Remove the 25% hit bonus for monster specialists.

2) Remove classes as a concept and transfer their functionality to individual skills.
Warrior, Sage, Explorer, and Governor, Speedy.

Terraformer -> Pathfinding (prices are negotiable, need to increase)
Healer -> First Aid (plus casts spells based on skill level)
Leprechaun -> Luck
Marauder -> Leadership (numbers need to be reduced)
Merchant -> Estates (numbers are negotiable)
Artificer -> Eagle Eye (conditions are negotiable)

3) Additional skill functionality
Diplomacy - reduces the cost of monetary transactions with the Merchant and Terraformer, increases the maximum purchase volume with the Merchant. Numbers are negotiable. Also, on the advanced difficulty level, it allows you to bribe neutrals, and on the expert level, to bribe them "from the map," like breaking a scout.

Learning - reduce the experience bonus (numbers are negotiable), but on the expert level, don't forget the skill, but change it to any basic skill of the player's choice.

Ballistics - increases the range of direct fire by 2/4/unlimited (currently 1/2/4), and on the expert level, ignores walls (similar to Guardian Angel).

4) Give specialists in armor and logistics a 2.5% bonus per level. For now, we won't touch offensive specialists; they don't seem to be overpowered.

5) Add Yavor's scripts for the Inferno patch, new constructions, and the symmetrizer to the standard package. Include the Inferno patch by default (remove the checkbox), and make the rest optional (with a checkbox).

6) We need to somehow improve the Tavern faction; it's a very weak castle. For now, I don't want to touch the heroes from the Tavern; it's still unclear what balance of skills will be established, and even with heroes alone, it won't help much, so we need to change the building tree and prices.

7) Forget about complexes regarding the starting army and give Ufretin, Straker, Edric, and Korbak an army like ordinary heroes of the corresponding castles.

8) Remove scrolls at the zaobjts.txt level, i.e., simply prevent them from generating on the map. Also, remove the checkbox for replacing them.

9) Adjust the number of starting troglodytes for the Dwarven faction to 20-25 (currently 15-25).

10) Make the Dungeon faction use dual magic - Water and Air.

11) On the expert level, replace the Scholar skill with any basic skill of the player's choice. Another point of strengthening the Tavern. Also, put it in a checkbox "new skills."

Classes are definitely a highlight of the game, but they have a major problem – they aren't used. More precisely, only 2 are used – Speedy and Explorer. The rest appear in approximately 1 out of 50-100 games. That is, a lot of quite interesting functionality is essentially excluded from the game.

The problem here is that classes are very unpredictable in their composition. Modern Heroes is a very dynamic game; starting from the middle of the 2nd week, the game can end at any moment, so taking a random skill in the hope of getting a second one later is, in most cases, a negative move. The skill should start to bring benefits immediately after it is taken.

I deliberately collected Warrior, God bless him, about 5 times in several hundred games. Terraformer - 2 times. I haven't deliberately collected anything else.

That's why I came up with the idea of transferring the functionality of classes to skills; I want to bring it back into the game, diversify the gameplay, and improve the skills that are not used now.

If we go down the path of strengthening the classes themselves, this will only increase the variance without fundamentally changing the situation. And it will add a lot of cases like "I took a skill, but I didn't get a Scout." All this does not quite correspond to the concept of a competitive game.

Regarding 25% - this feature was originally invented for fixes, where mages overwhelmingly dominate, and it was necessary to somehow strengthen the warriors. In a random game, warriors do not need to be strengthened; rather, they even need to be weakened. This bonus led to the fact that 95% of games start with specialists in monsters, and they continue to play with them until the end. Even in SoD, there are more cases of switching to another hero than in Heroes. Something similar is what I would like to see in Heroes - so that specialists in monsters are taken at the start because of the army, and then whoever gets what skills, excessive powerful abilities only reduce the diversity of the gameplay.

The same, by the way, applies to armorers - overpowered abilities that are not so noticeable because they start as specialists in monsters. After removing 25%, armorers will get a second wind. And they are not at all on par with offensive heroes. If I see that the opponent has dug up Tazar, I am sad. If I see that he has dug up Craig, I don't care.

It's enough to just discuss how to fix them.

For example, at level 20, they are practically equal: 100*1.6-30%=112, i.e., Crag is stronger in a direct battle, but in battles with monsters, defense feels more effective due to fewer losses.
And the fact that you don't use Crag or Gundula as heroes is your problem.