Proposals

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General/Ongoing

  1. Help clear the Maintenance Reports for unused/broken/wanted items!
  2. Check out and verify Trivia#Unverified Claims
  3. Look for pages that need help and report them here (e.g. unreadable color scheme, missing info)
  4. Use {{unk}} to mark text we need to fill in. That way all the unknown text will link to that template!
    • Also, help clear the pages linking to the template by filling in the missing info.
  5. Record any in-game bugs found here: List of bugs (HotA)

Specific

Research/Explain game concepts (HIGH priority)

  1. Breath Attack could use a diagram of how it works (specifically when attacking straight up or down)
    • I found this, but I have no idea the accuracy or completeness. --Legate (talk) 03:43, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
      • This may be affected by Mechanics and Engineers as these are the first 1-tile creatures with a breath attack.
        • ANECDOTE: I did notice a...bug? nuance?...with attacker's Engineers attacking in the down-left direction vs. a 2-tile enemy not hitting the expected second tile. --Legate (talk) 16:11, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
          • Actually, this is related to the pic just above. In the pic, top row, second from the left, I expected there to be a 2nd red arrow going in the down-left direction. The diagram does not have one, which matched the in-game behavior I saw. --Legate (talk) 15:32, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
          • There is a bug (perhaps intended) that if a Mechanic attacks a two hex creature (usually I found it when attacking from the hex right above or right below the 2-hex monster) with the sword-arrow pointing to the direction from which she came to attack, the fire attack follows the direction of her movement and not the direction of the sword-arrow. - Csaros
          • This behavior matches the picture above, which was made a while ago...implying that this bug exists for dragons as well. Testing needed. --Legate (talk) 18:13, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
  2. Does petrification / stone gaze affect damage taken from a moat? - Csaros (talk) 13:52, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
  3. Power rating: Does the strongest hero calculation evaluate garrisoned heroes? --Legate (talk) 20:13, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Content: Page Creation/Updating

Main Page

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Missing Info

  1. Create all the Special:WantedPages.

Standardization

  1. Add story info to hero pages.
  2. Switch Campaign scenarios to use new town/hero templates (See Template: Town row, Template: Hero row)
    • Town Status: roe, ab, sod, hc, hota
    • Hero Status: roe, ab, sod, hc (done through Vorr, the Insane), hota
  3. Change all adventure map creatures' shadows to be semi-transparent black
  4. Hide all HotA / DoR content when not enabled.
    • For table rows, just add this to the row: |- class='onlyhota'
    • For most other content just use: {{showwithhota|content}}
    • In some circumstances, you might need to use: <span class='onlyhota'>content</span>
    • See User:Imahero/hide for more examples.
  5. Combine all templates/pages with (HotA) into single unified templates/pages.

Fix (HIGH priority)

  1. The Shores of Hell: Update map screenshots
  2. Timeline: Terror of the Seas level 1 (Prisoner of Doom) mentions on Day 1 that the Festival of Life is over.

Double-check

  1. Warlords of the Wasteland scenarios don't carry over the 1st most powerful hero?
  2. Both carry-over heroes are the 1st most powerful hero? (probably just add some note):
  3. Dragon's Blood (campaign scenario): Should the carryover 2 strongest heroes actually be Valita + 1st strongest hero?

New Features (in progress)

  1. Maps (To Do list):
    • Questions:
      1. Does Land of the Giants belong to AvLee, Eeofol or Nighon?
        • Nighon: The Antagarich physical map colors it like Nighon.
          • This agrees with Antagarich#Geography that Turnam just added. This states: "The Dungeon Overlords rule the eastern shores of the Erathian continent, as well as the Nighon islands off the coast."
        • Eeofol: World on Fire intro makes it seem like part of the halfling homeland.
        • AvLee: What we currently have on the maps.
        • Aren't "Eeofol" and "Land of the Giants" synonyms anyway? In MM7, the "tunnels to Eeofol" lead you to the Land of the Giants region. --Turnam (talk) 08:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
        • RESOLUTION: Land of the Giants was part of the halfling homeland of Eeofol before the Night of Shooting Stars. It seems as though when the Kreegans conquered Eeofol, Nighon opportunistically grabbed it to create a foothold on the main continent. Since our maps are based ~1167 AS, lets change it to Nighon and add some explanation about this. --Legate (talk) 13:24, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
      2. I think the Contested Lands section is not entirely accurate. I think some of the regions listed may actually be part of Erathia.
    • Still need:
      1. Countries: Regna, Terra Nova
      2. Make a modified version of each country map that shows the country in question with the regions written in? --Legate (talk) 04:50, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
  2. List of games set in Enroth (world) - This could use vetting/additions by someone who know the lore well. FirePaladin2, maybe :)? --Legate (talk) 18:40, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
  3. Update Town building trees. Remaining:
  4. Hex Editing - Guide‎‎
    • This is all phenomenal info! Good job condensing it all to one page. --Legate (talk) 13:16, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
    • Are there any pictures that would add to the readability of this page? Maybe screenshots of the hex editor at specific locations?
    • Maybe it would be helpful to color the text to show how it line up better? Example:
      • TT000000 ID000000 AA000000 DD000000 DM000000 U4000000 U5000000
        • TT - item 1
        • ID - item 2
        • AA - item 3
        • DD - item 4
        • DM - item 5
        • U4 - item 6
        • U5 - item 7
          • That's actually a great idea. I think color-coding it would make it much easier to find appropriate explanations. At the same time, I don't know if there's a point in screenshoting the hex editor. I can screenshot the editor or the results of modding the game, but idk how that helps understand the coding.
            • At the same time, I wish someone else who knows more than I do could help me with what I'm missing - f.e. Resource Silos, Mana Generator, etc. - Csaros (talk)
  5. H3CSS Graphical overhaul for the wiki

Desired Additions

  1. Create a Campaign Editor page.
  2. (IMPEDIMENT: Finish "Wanted" pages) Make a supporting characters page. (See Category: Supporting character). Have sortable columns for name/affiliation/species.
  3. Flesh out pages for all Jadame regions and all Enroth (continent) regions.
    • Include some basic info and a map where possible.

File upload/editing

  NOTES
    • In a command terminal run: "oxipng -o 6 -s -r ." to losslessly compress all png images: github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng
    • Animated png files will play on pages if they are full size. Animated gif files will play regardless.

  1. Add pics of the toolstrip buttons for the Map Editor and Campaign Editor.
  2. (IMPEDIMENT: NEEDS H4) I think we should add the intro video of Heroes 4 to The Reckoning with a note. Although this isn't part of Heroes 3, that video is really the final event in the Heroes 3 timeline/story. --Legate (talk) 14:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
  3. (IMPEDIMENT: Talk to HotA team?) (HIGH priority) Add missing pics for Factory puzzle map to Obelisk#Factory
  4. (HIGH priority) Some visiting schemes from List of adventure map objects (HotA) (See Special:WantedFiles)
  5. Some of the creature dwelling pics are virtually identical to their upgraded version (e.g. Chapel of Stilled Voices, Altar of Thought). Can we update these pics to show more of a difference?

Aesthetics

Template (advanced)

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Low Priority/Backburner

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