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Contents 1 Footnotes 2 Trails 3 Dungeon 4 Points 5 Summoning 6 Heroes? 7 Start-Class rating 8 Edit and cleanup is in order. 9 Story

[edit] Footnotes

The excessive footnoting makes this page very difficult to read. I intend to remove them all unless someone seriously objects. I'll also do a bit of a cleanup while I'm at it. Psychobabble 21:57, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

• As a novice to the entire game, I do find the page a little messy. Do make the necessary changes if you think it helps. -le petit vagabond 20:52, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I'd prefer a minimum of removal of content from the page including that in the lists, but I do believe the excessive bulleted lists need to be rewritten for a better text flow. -- Jugalator 16:37, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Soon I'll make a section for each town. pm me if i forget Psychomelodic 15:44, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Any chance there will actually be any change, cause this article lacks most things of being an article. For your reference, I added the 'cleanup' tag. Reynaert-ad 22:41, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't really know what your problem with the article was, but what do you think of it now? It looks pretty solid to me. Shall we remove the cleanup tag? SubSeven 01:16, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

There is no point having the Current Event Template when there is a Future Game Template. Xander 00:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• The current event template was a leftover from the open beta controversy. - Sikon 05:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

game is now starforce free

[edit] Trails

I have removed the parenthesis about trails being only present in the Collectors edition pending some references, since it is counter intuitive that a basic game characteristic is present in only some of the versions. Furthermore, it is contrary to what has been said in interviews with the developers and screenshots.

• But it's true. The trails are a purely cosmetical detail. - Sikon 12:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Not true - they allow you to determine what heroes have been around recently and their type, even if they have then gone into undiscovered map. It might not be extremelly useful, particularly lacking Fog of War, but it is more than pure cosmetics and, as I said, I doubt it was removed from the non-Collectors versions. Maybe he was thinking of the "Aura" characteristic?
    • It is outdated info based on early developer comments, currently the trails serve no purpose besides eye-candy. As I said, they are disabled in the non-collector edition (I know it's true because I have it). And please learn to sign your posts. - Sikon 18:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
      • While I cannot speak for Sikon or the anonymous user above, trails works fine on my standard edition. - Kuzain 03:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
        • Hmm... Apparently I was mistaken. That's weird. Maybe the trails can only be disabled in the collector's edition? - Sikon 06:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
        • Regarding trails, there is definitely a check box in the options which cannot be checked on the standard edition of the game. This check box seems to be related in some way to enhanced trails, or some sort of unique trail; the standard trails seem to work correctly and be present regardless of the status of this check box. - Slordak 15:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
          • This link (see 5th post on forum) seems to tell us that the checkbox spoken of above was subject to erroneous translation and should really refer to a special aura around heros that is indeed Limited Edition only. Hope that helps all. ~ Gertlex 00:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dungeon

I've removed the reference to the Dungeon being new to HOMM. It was present in HOMM 3, and therefore isn't new at all. I've also cleaned up the grammar/spelling in one or two of the city descriptions. Taear 01:20, 19th May 2006 (GMT)

[edit] Points

I don't think Starforce is on the Russian game either. Plus, I thought battlefields did not resize any more...?

Two battlefield sizes are used, a regular one for most battles and a larger (I think 14x14) one for sieges. ~Gertlex 22:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Summoning

If I summon elementals or a phoenix, and all my combat units except for the summoned creatures are killed during the fight, is it considered to be a loss? What if I don't put all of my creature stacks on the field? Still a loss?

When I've played against a computer enemy and I've killed all his creatures but not all his summoned/gated creatures, it was considered a loss for him. I won and the summoned/gated creatures merely vanished at the end of combat. -LMG —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.191.169.189 (talk • contribs).

Having a stack off the battlefield and only having summoned/gated creatures on the battlefield is indeed a loss. I actually checked that this morning after reading your question... Note that using Raise Dead on a dead stack of your creatures does count as having monsters alive, but they'll still die at the end of combat. (Yes, you could beat the opponent and then lose your hero) ~ Gertlex 20:40, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heroes?

One thing that annoyed me about HIV was that the heroes were legit targets, and that you could battle on without a hero. Is it still the same? --Irishpunktom\^talk 14:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

No, those changes were done away with. SubSeven 18:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

did you notice how I appeared to be speaking about aids there.. oops. Anyway, thank you! I have just ordered the game

--Irishpunktom\^talk 15:12, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Call me a weirdo, but I actually preferred the way it worked with heroes in Heroes IV. Noneofyourbusiness 20:18, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

So funny?Try to include something for the article than to joke for HIV. 82.114.81.149 18:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Start-Class rating

While the page is relatively long, there is few information about the game itself, which is why I don't think it's a B-Class. --VPeric 20:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Just for a general idea from your views, what "information about the game" should be included? ~Gertlex 22:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit and cleanup is in order.

This page is outdated, and has a lot of incorrect data.

I removed "Mac OS X' from the platforms box. The game is not available for the Mac and, as far I know, there is not even an announced release date. I left the Freeverse reference to being the OS X developer up since they may actually be making a Mac port. Patrick80639 01:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Story

In this game theres a story,so in this article theres no info for its story.I think any game article needs a story description. 82.114.81.146 20:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

This article here is stub. I think here people are always lazy!