ERA II mod: Empire of the World IV Опции

[Valery]

THE EMPIRE OF THE WORLD IV

A Heroes of Might and Magic III Wake of Gods scenario.

Required WoG version: ERA II ONLY

MAP
mapsforheroes
Size: 13 Mb

For those who would try to open the map, the path is MODS/1 TEW IV/Maps


Map Type: [Singleplayer] [1 Human Only, 7 Computer Only]
Language: [English ]
Story, concept and scripts: Valery
Map testers: myself
Description: XXL (252x252), Impossible level, Single Player

My name is Commodus, Caesar of Roman Empire, Commander of the Thousand Legions, loyal son of the untrustworthy and heartless Marcus Aurelius. The Spaniard stole my throne and dignity, thus all paths led to this: Maximus must die and will do so by my hand. Please Mars, give me strength!

Special Win: [Build Grail in Rome]
Special Loss: [NONE]
Special Other: [a lot]

Special thanks:
(in alphabetical order)

Alex Sp (XXL patch)
Berserker (ERA)
Cepheus (spell-checking + texts improvement)
Corribus (spell-checking + texts improvement)
Etoprostoya (memory code for XXL map)
Jim Vogan (ERM ideas)
OxFea (pitlords memory code)

The story takes place after the last event from TEW III. After a last battle in Arena, the former Rome emperor Commodus is thrown in jail, and waiting for his execution.

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In game Help




Magic schools upgrades




Quick find of important locations, three dialogs, seer huts/border gates/miscellaneous





Army stats management, note that there are fixed caps for each creature




Special abilities




Army training, additional button in Hero screen




FACTIONS AVAILABLE





Each faction will experience a different game style, with its own locations and bonuses. The main resource is the mithril, which will be used for all purposes, from converting towns to your faction, boost creature stats and purchase new abilities. Mithril is gathered from mithril mines, also you can join the alchemists and leave up to 10 heroes, each one will generate daily 1 bar for each 10 levels he has. The Masters of Wealth will automatically generate 2 bars for each 10 levels. By defeating the creature banks, you will receive mithril as reward, 1 for each month spent, this amount will exponentially grow until month 12, then decrease by one every month. You can also sell various artefacts at a special artificer, the mithril price will be regardless the artefact level.



SPELLS MANAGEMENT

For a price which will double with each upgrade, you can boost spells, some will experience a fixed cap, as Hypnotize, Resurrect, Frenzy while others as Armageddon can be improved endlessly, if you provide the funds. AI will use those spells at their normal strength still. Curse and weakness are now level 5, fire shield has potential mass version. Not available: blind and force field. There are four bonuses to unlock, one for each magic school. The prerequisites are naturally based on the number of upgrades already done.

Bonus AIR: +100% HP in battle
Bonus EARTH: Spoils of war after battle
Bonus WATER: Travel at no movement cost on water
Bonus FIRE: Double cast in battle vs AI Heroes. The Masters of Elements can double cast vs neutrals as well.

Spells can also be improved at no cost by visiting their specific magic node on the map, once a month. The cosmos nodes will upgrade all magic schools on visit.





AI SPECIAL

Every week, all AI creatures will be granted with a random hatred ability vs one of your creatures. It will be reseted every week, to make sure all battles are winnable. AI creatures receive a monthly bonus in all stats, longer the game, stronger they are (first year = +10%, second year = +20%). A few invaders will come annoy you at specific moments, every of them is a specialist in same destructive area (Tazar, Hack, Solmyr, Xeron and a few others). To set an internal time limit, AI creatures stats will start to grow after 22th month by 50% every 28 days.


All creatures banks will re-spawn every 14 days, and if already visited, guards and reward +1/3.


CONVERT TOWNS

In order to keep balance proper, you start with 3 possible inferno towns, and each additional conquered city can be converted to your faction, by hiring and paying the locals. The price will double with each conversion.



SPECIAL COMBO



A few screens from game:






A few map previews:






UNIVERSAL SCRIPTS USED:

Display movement
Market of time
Arcane tower
Enhanced hints
Hidden skills (up to 16)
Buy all creatures
Rename towns
Main script: Commodus.erm

For additional infos, please consult Commodus_read_me.txt in MODS/TEW IV root folder.
Contains a few new map objects from Astaroth, and also Darkloke animated lakes.

Happy demon farming!

[Algor]

Epic!

[Etoprostoya]

Кто-нибудь переведёт мод на русский? Ну пожалуйста!

[Господин Уэф]

Присоединяюсь к просьбе

[packa]

Меня зовут Коммода, Цезарь Римской империи, командующий тысячи легионов, верный сын ненадежный и бессердечные Марка Аврелия.Испанец украл мой трон и достоинства, таким образом, все пути привели к этому: Максим должен умереть, и будет делать это на руку. Пожалуйста, Марс, дай мне силы!

А по сабжу: Вас интересует НЕ качественный перевод?
Всмысле грубый и неотесанный? Если да, то могу постараться (не через переводчик офк.)

[dik X.B.]

А по сабжу: Вас интересует НЕ качественный перевод?
Всмысле грубый и неотесанный? Если да, то могу постараться (не через переводчик офк.)

Лучше качественный.

[Valery]

I don't think you need good english to be able to play it. The text can be divided in three categories:

1) The main story, quite long, which is mandatory, not need to understand more than basic concept. He is jailed, he goes out, he hires army, he kills the other. Grosso modo.
2) Important events which have hints about next move or solution: this you must understand, but they are not difficult.
3) Technical details from dialogs (abilities, stats, magic menu etc), I think any russian here understands them quite well, so not need english.

I think it is playable if you have basic english level, will be a pity to skip the dialogs and story, but game play is better.

[packa]

Тогда не ко мне

О нет! Опять ускоренная анимация, да чтоже такое! Она же ужасна!

Valery, How can I de-activate (off) the quick speed of creatures?

[Valery]

huh? The animation has same speed as TE, and is based on ERA cranim. If you want regular Heroes one, delete cranim.txt from MODS/WoG/Data. But fights will take forever, with devils slow teleport.

[packa]

But fights will take forever, with devils slow teleport.

But epic fights ) And more realistic -> more interesting

[packa]

Where can I find texts? I want to translate into russian.
I dont believe that I'll finish it, but I must try

[Valery]

Mods/TEW IV/Data/s/Commodus.erm

[Algor]

1) The main story, quite long, which is mandatory, not need to understand more than basic concept.

IMHO, this is the most interesting in any story.

Mods/TEW IV/Data/s/Commodus.erm

Why? Why not Commodus.ert? It's better way to further localization. And this method save localisation(s) if you need fix some bugs in script.
Will do you release Commodus v2 in view of this remark?

[Valery]

I never used ert files, because I mainly make maps, not global mods as Phoenix, so dialogs are different for each event. Would be a waste of time to go for ert I think. And so far, seems all bugs were eliminated, maybe it does not need any update, waiting for more feedback. But I will think about, maybe for next, thanks.

IMHO, this is the most interesting in any story.

Well, of course, I would prefer that people can read it, so I did not waste time to write it. Just pointing that, for game play only, you don't need to understand the story, if not english speaker. Map can be completed also if you skip it.

Forgot to add that primary skills display was patched for v1.1, now they display up to 125 (could 127, but kept it safe)

[Patriot]

кто нить прошёл эту карту?