Posts from Sage from fairy tale

Name: Sage from fairy tale
Map name: Sage from fairy tale
Map type: 1 vs 3
Two-level map: No
Number of players: 4
Size: (M) Medium
Author:Lux in tenebris
Map description.
A mysterious fog has enveloped the world... Only a Sage can help you... Where is he?
You must find the answer yourself.
P/s
The map turned out to be quite enjoyable...)
You'll have to think.
There are scripts. There are surprises...;)

I wonder what surprises await us there!

Only the one who plays this map will find the answer.

I didn't find anything particularly noteworthy...

And what about sphinxes...? And not just them...
Did you find the wise man?
Or were you carried out?
Or are you the wise man?

Sphinxes are interesting, or rather, the sphinx riddles are. No, I didn't find the sage; I defeated all the enemies without his help. Day 57, Score 2026, Badge - Cyclops.

Unique scenario. As the author said:
Only the Sage can help you... Where is he?
You must find the answer yourself.
Yes, the idea is original, and the intrigue lies within the game itself
But only someone who completes this map can find the Sage and solve the riddle, if they are capable of doing so.

Why doesn't the game recognize your map?

The Sphinxes are interesting, or rather, the Sphinx riddles are.
No, I didn't find the wise man; I defeated all the enemies without his help.
Day 57, Score 2026, Badge - Cyclops.

How did you manage that? Did you replay it many times?

Hooray! I won! I never found the Sage. Maybe I am the Sage, because completing this map on "hero" difficulty is *very* challenging. I played as the Orcs of Haghesh. Sphinxes are cool, of course, because they allow you to quickly level up from the start or get some money, or acquire artifacts. BUT when, towards the end of the second week, Lucretia, level 15, arrives with magic skill 25!!! (attack and defense are also at level 20), and she casts Dominate and Chain Lightning! In what seemed like a hopeless situation, I managed to avoid defeat. The tactic is this: try to keep the total strength of your troops at a "medium" threat level for the AI, run around the map and take out weaker heroes, while also leveling up, capturing enemy castles, and, very importantly, returning to your own castle at the end of the week, which the opponent constantly captures. This is how I made it to the second week of the second month, defeating the green and blue players, and in the end, when the threat level dropped to "low," I killed Lucretia in auto-battle, although in a real battle with her dark magic, which makes centaurs useless, I don't think I would have survived. Thanks to the author; there was plenty of excitement and emotion, but for balance, it needs a few more dwellings to increase troop production or a second home castle.

I also think that the Wizard is the one who managed to complete the map! Why hasn't anyone been able to find this mysterious Wizard?

P.S. I finished the map.

Spoiler

I gave Lucretia a hard time outside the castle walls so she wouldn't suffer from mind control (she has a ring, a meteorite – someone wrote that it's a chain – and also mind control, if that matters). She's the only threat on the map, and she jumps out of a portal in the very first week... so straying too far from your castle without leaving a decent guard is a recipe for disaster. The map itself is good, if not for the author's bad joke.

Then the author decided to play the wise guy. I even kept a week-long enemy demon in the castle, standing in the gate, while I checked the entire map. I explored everything, carried out a complete genocide of everyone, and even visited the idiotic sphinxes that Nival just threw in for no reason, because they simply DON'T affect the gameplay – because you can just reload and send them to oblivion, it's a kind of no-lose lottery for kids (usually I don't bother with them because I think it's just cheating! but here's a different story).

The "wise" woman sitting in Frida's tower? How is she wise? Just because you arbitrarily gave her 90 knowledge? Your jokes are not funny to anyone, they only cause irritation from the wasted time. Having to search for a "wise" woman on enemy territory in a tower with a Hero, who she would free while I was clearing a path to her? If Frida is scripted, then why is she as silent as a cow? Couldn't you have added a trigger and a quest condition? I only looked at her stats after two days, which didn't matter to me at that point (just ordinary meat in a prison, which I was freeing at that stage of the game only because of her guard of a dozen dragons – I just needed the experience!). Do you seriously think it's interesting to Google the damn year 1097? Exactly, Google it!! because it's completely useless to anyone. Luckily, I noticed the hint at some random point in the game. Fix the 2 non-working buildings that you can't reach and make decent conditions/a quest.
You even went as far as using @OpenCircleFog(0, 0, 0, 9999, PLAYER_1)

Here's some wisdom. The author seems to have overthought things, having read too many stories... the ones he attached to the sphinxes. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Битва_при_Консуэгре

P.S. Wise is he who knows not much, but what is needed.

Bravo, raspisnoy! You have solved the riddle of the wise man!

Bravo, raspisnoy!
You have solved the riddle of the wise man!

You are unnecessarily being ironic; the second most important thing in a person's life is time, and I don't want to waste it.

Lux in Tenebris, in Latin, meaning "Light in Darkness".
"The light shines in the darkness, and darkness has not overcome it." (The fifth verse of chapter I)
           Latin translation of the Gospel of John
"et lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non understanderunt"
       "and the light shines in the darkness, and darkness does not understand it"