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| | art_2 = Sea Captain's Hat | | | art_2 = Sea Captain's Hat |
| | event = You trip over the Admiral's Hat, dust it off, and stick it in your pack. | | | event = You trip over the Admiral's Hat, dust it off, and stick it in your pack. |
| | effect = No boarding or unboarding ship penalty. Converts movement points between the hero's land and water movement.<br>'''Component effects:''' +1500 [[movement points]] on water;<br>[[Summon Boat]] and [[Scuttle Boat]] spells;<br>Protects army in [[whirlpool]]s. | | | effect = No boarding or unboarding ship penalty. Converts movement points between the hero's land and water movement. |
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| *No penalty when boarding / disembarking from a [[boat]]. | | *No penalty when boarding / disembarking from a [[boat]]. |
| *Converts [[movement points]] between land and sea. | | *Converts [[movement points]] between land and sea. |
| *Component effects: Hero sea [[movement]] + 1500; [[Summon Boat]] and [[Scuttle Boat]] spells; protects army in [[whirlpool]]s. | | *Component effects: Hero sea [[movement]] + 1500; expert spells [[Summon Boat]] and [[Scuttle Boat]]; protects army in [[whirlpool]]s. |
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| == Admiral's Hat bug ==
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| A famous {{sod}} bug, which allows a player who has Admiral's Hat, access to water tile, speed-boosting artifacts or a nearby scout with creatures of different speed in the army, and some spare time to convert all this into the immense amount of movement points.
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| First, how does water/dry land movement conversion work:
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| MP<sup>''bas''</sup> - basic movement points
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| MP<sup>''act''</sup> - actual movement points
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| WMP<sup>''bas''</sup> - basic movement points on water
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| WMP<sup>''act''</sup> - actual movement points on water
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| m - move cost (affected by a starting tile [[Movement penalty|terrain penalty]] and [[Favorable Winds]] bonus)
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| Boarding MP convertion: {{Math|WMP<sup>''act''</sup> <nowiki>=</nowiki> (MP<sup>''act''</sup>-m) × WMP<sup>''bas''</sup>/MP<sup>''bas''</sup>}}
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| Landing MP convertion:{{---}}{{Math|MP<sup>''act''</sup> <nowiki>=</nowiki> (WMP<sup>''act''</sup>-m)/(WMP<sup>''bas''</sup>/MP<sup>''bas''</sup>)}}
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| MP<sup>''bas''</sup> depends on:
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| # speed of the slowest creature in the army
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| # speed artifacts ([[Equestrian Gloves]], [[Boots of Speed]])
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| # daily/weekly MP boosting objects visited
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| # [[Logistics]] and [[Navigation]] skills/specialties
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| The Admiral's Hat bug is based on the fact that MP<sup>''bas''</sup> is not fixed at the beginning of the day; - the game recalculates it during the turn every time one of the options described above is changed.
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| So it can be manipulated easily by:
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| # changing the slowest unit
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| # un/equipping [[Equestrian Gloves]] and/or [[Boots of Speed]]
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| The mechanics of the abuse briefly can be described as "slow boarding, quick landing". E.g.: a hero with 6th speed (1700 MP) and [[Boots of Speed]] artifact, which gives +600 MP, (and equipped [[Admiral's Hat]], of course) boarding from the terrain without movement penalty by a straight step (m = 100). No [[Navigation]] or [[Lighthouse]] bonuses. [[Boots of Speed]] are removed for boarding and equipped for landing. The overall effect will look like:
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| {| border cellspacing=0 width=300px style="text-align:center;"
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| !Shore!!Boat!!Shore!!Boat!!Shore!!Boat!!Shore
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| |1700
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| |2823
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| |3506
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| |4431
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| |3320
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| |}
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| comparing to how it should work with MP<sup>''bas''</sup> fixed at the start of the turn level:
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| {| border cellspacing=0 width=300px style="text-align:center;"
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| !Shore!!Boat!!Shore!!Boat!!Shore!!Boat!!Shore
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| |-
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| |1700
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| |2823
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| |2269
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| |1229
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| |}
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| In {{hota}} MP<sup>''bas''</sup> cannot be changed during the day, hence the bug is fixed.{{-wh}}
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| {{Artifact 'see also'}} | | {{Artifact 'see also'}} |