Posts from CIS-2014 in Minsk.

Moreover, if you're hosting a championship on SoD, you'll have to remove all XL+U templates from the list, as they can lead to unacceptable time delays (your matches with Eddie and Scorpion are examples of this). And on L-sized maps, control isn't as crucial.

Especially since, if you're hosting a championship on SoD, you'll have to remove all XL+U templates from the list, as they can lead to unacceptable time delays (your matches with Eddie and Scorpion are examples of this). And on L-sized maps, control isn't as crucial.

As harsh reality shows, the VT project is dead. You can throw tomatoes at me, but there is clear evidence of this, apart from my personal opinion: there is a slow outflow of players from VT. Almost none of the innovations announced at the project's launch have been implemented.
As a regular participant in tournaments, I can state that the only thing that keeps VT as the main tournament version is the presence of symmetrical maps (at the last CIS tournament, as far as I remember, it was the leader in the number of games played). And even here there is a problem: Ivor has long made a good built-in generator for symmetrical maps, and asm has not been able to integrate it into VT for 2 years; as a result, Cobra and I played a buggy generation with one secondary resource and either 12 or 16 sides in Odessa. You could say we were idiots, but the situation, for example, was repeated in a game between Bayazet and Valenok as part of a team tournament on heroeswt.

The conclusion is simple: I propose that for the Minsk 2014, in addition to games on symmetrical maps, we declare SoD with the XD mod as the base version. And we will all together ask the Bara team to go against their principles and slightly influence the gameplay: to make an optional ability to rebuild the Guildhall - in my opinion, this is the only critical drawback of SoD. In a recent game with Mizrael: I had a Town Portal right away in the tavern library, and he had 4 built Guildhalls and Sosso Pavliashvili.

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We used to sleep less, eat faster, take less interest in cultural programs, and we didn't break Dragon Utopia on the 2nd.

As the practice of CIS champs shows, 227 is a day and a half or two days at our normal pace. One or two such games in a tour and the schedule is completely broken. Therefore, if a final game is to be made, it should be on 147. But in SoD, during the 4th week, the game often only enters the height of maneuvering, while a strict deadline for the final game stimulates the opposite: fattening up in a corner and waiting for the deadline.

A chess timer is good, but if it's shortened, cries start from the other side - "we don't have enough time, make a human timer". And with the classic 4000+500, even in BT games turn out too long in real time over a month; in SoD, with a similar setup, automatically add +1 week to the duration.

Therefore, squeezing SoD-XLs into the established format is violence either against the participants' brains, the organizers' brains, or the gameplay. In my opinion, it's better to play something more tempo-based, freeing up more time for other activities. Especially since besides XL+U there isn't just sm - we also have Jeb, Diamond, Mini-Nosta, Anarchy; on these templates, it's problematic to drag the game longer than 1 month.

And then we have Alex, Cobra, and other lovers of walking in the fresh air, sitting for an hour or two over delicious and healthy food, watching football, and in their free time from the aforementioned activities DDing across the map and collecting skeleton-demons for a week, two, or three.

Everything will be done by New Year's. I had a serious private conversation with Mee, during which we decided: if "everything promised" is implemented and tested by New Year's, then there will be a CIS-2014 tournament with full turn-based gameplay. If not, I will look for (of course, collegially - with the participation of many opinions) "compromise options." Thank you for your attention.

Actually, if it's possible to implement a Guild Master rework into SoD (which I highly doubt), then you can confidently play the championship on it. Because the biggest drawback in SoD (subjectively, of course) is the problem with obtaining control.
However, such a patch would ruin Warlord Tactics for everyone who isn't interested in playing with experience and mirror matches. And even the freaks in the chat won't save it.

Guys, you'll have to stop criticizing or abandon Heroes soon anyway! This is the verdict, and seriously, your attempts to keep "full Warlord Tactics" with all its global fixes, which many players consider unnecessary, are more like the desperate gasps of drowning people. In the Warlord Tactics chat, people either come in who have been there for several years, or just to "throw in their two cents." As far as I understand, the main criterion behind your desire to play the familiar Warlord Tactics is the time saved per game. Currently, the HD mod allows you to play in exactly the same time frame as Warlord Tactics (with rare exceptions, if you don't take Warlord Tactics "experience" into account).
p.s. of course, this is just my opinion, but I think many people will agree with me. You are fixated on what you are simply used to, and new members of the Heroes community who want to participate in such events (in this case, I speak for myself) will be very disappointed that their chances of competing in the tournament will be significantly reduced due to a lack of knowledge of many nuances or simply a lack of Warlord Tactics gaming experience.

Everything will be done by the New Year. I had a serious private conversation with Mee, during which we decided: if "everything promised" is implemented and tested by the New Year, then there will be a CIS-2014 tournament with full Warlord rules. If not, I will look for (of course, in a collegial manner - with the participation of many opinions) "compromise options." Thank you for your attention.

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This will not be the SoD that we all love so much :cool:

Such significant changes are normal for gameplay mods (WT, Hota), but do not correspond to the ideology of HDmod.

Moreover, if a championship is held on SoD, then all XL+U templates will have to be removed from the list, as they can lead to unacceptable delays in time (your games with Eddie and Scorpio are an example of this). And on L-maps, control is not so important.

P.S. I wouldn't talk too loudly about removing the XL+U templates, or your fellow St. Petersburg residents might throw you out of the train on the way.

For me, the WoG gameplay is mainly associated with 3 stacks, the absence of morale, a wider selection of skills during leveling up, and a different castle balance. And yes, also with the guild restructuring and one-sided creatures.

What if we create a plugin for the HD mod with all the necessary features for tournaments? Similar to HW rulez or M200 patches by WiZarDX_576. This is what HD+ was designed for, right...?