Posts from Twilight of Darkness

And another immediate question: if, according to the scenario, dark magic is "forbidden," why can it be obtained?

Continued playing. Veteran difficulty, Barbarian. I'm not very good at playing them, so it's taking a while. Regarding the quests:
It's impossible to find wolves and elves without an altar, but maybe that's the intention.
After completing the tasks, a message doesn't always appear indicating who to go to (for example, the meteorite). I would like the quest giver to be indicated in the task description, and in general, there could be a little more information in the description (for example, about the slaves).
I can't find the druids on the mountain. If it's the mountain with Utopia, then they're not there.
I also didn't find the gnomes who robbed the orc.
Fighting in the arena seems like suicide to me – the enemy's army is more than twice as large as mine, and after winning, only a lazy person won't finish me off.
In general, it's difficult without level 7 creatures. The AI is running around with dragons, but thankfully it divides its army, so it doesn't cause problems. But the neutrals are growing catastrophically. To repel them, I now need to kill about 400 various cyclops. The losses are very high.
Perhaps all the difficulties are due to playing as the Barbarian, and I'll have to replay with another race.

Maybe a silly question: do you need to earn faction approval? And if so, how? Just for fun, I gave 10 units to the mages, but they declared war on me... Is that the point?

It is impossible to capture the gold mine in the center. There might have been a ship there, but by the time I got there, someone had probably already destroyed it. I don't understand the restriction on summoning a ship.

Let's just say, if your reputation is high, opponents won't demand resources; instead, they'll offer resources. If it reaches 100%, the opponent will become an ally. If it reaches -100%, they will declare war. There's also a chance that even with a good reputation, they might declare war on you. But generally, building up reputation isn't mandatory.

Thank you. But it's unclear how to fulfill the requests: the mages asked for 10 items, I delivered them through the market in the castle, after which they declared war on me.

There seems to be something wrong with this rating system. You fulfill their requests, increase your rating, and suddenly, with 40% trust, they declare war on you. I thought it was random, so I replayed the turn. Same thing happened. At the same time, the other two factions have a rating of -30% and nothing happens – they remain at peace. I didn't even see the Elves when they declared war. I think there should be some pattern in the AI's actions, relative to the rating. Otherwise, it's useless – just kill everyone.

no need to go through the market) just click any hero on the envoy, and he will take it himself)

I understood "random" as follows: each turn, there is a probability (depending on the rating) that war will be declared. I rolled back the turn – it’s the same. I can’t understand how it should work, how many turns need to be rolled back, and whether anything can change. Moreover, all three times, war was declared by races with a positive or neutral rating.

"Lucky." How much game time has passed?