We have a lot of updates for you today:
1) Artifacts from the Hammers of Fate expansion have been added to the artifacts market of Heroes Lands V. You can discuss the changes here.
2) Changes in the Clans section. A substitution has been made in the Gladiators clan: Sir hister out, Sir Super Grover in.
3) Match table of the online tourney ($1000 prize money) in Heroes Lands III has been updated. Also, we have opened a new, somewhat unusual online tourney in Heroes Lands III. Sign up for it if you wish.
4) Unprecedented activity has been noticed among the offline players: we have already received 8 challenges for offline duels, two in Heroes Lands II and six in Heroes Lands III. Looks like a big war is coming up! If you wish to challenge someone yourself, please hurry up, as the new duel round will be opened very soon.
And, of course, don't forget to watch our tourney page news! Have fun playing!
As you may remember, May was dull for new maps. Fortunately, June granted us much more interesting works, which we are pleased to post today in our section Maps": Arabela (H2-S); Maze of Sorrow (H2-L); Mountain Fight (H3SD-M); When Steel Must Talk (rus), When Steel Must Talk (ukr) (H3SD); A Duel, Horror From Underground (H3SD-XL); Struggle for Rulership (H3SD-C); Heat (H3WG-M); Book of the Dead 1.1, The Break of Balance (H3WG-L); Ambush WoG, Deception Pass, Liberatress, Painted the Misfit, Nexus Polaris WoG (H3WG-XL); Four Pawns and a King (H4-S); Two Halfs (H5HF-S); Annihilation, Harsh Times, Superflouos Trouble, The Chaos Began, Ultimatum 1.1 (H5HF-M); Mages in the desert (H5HF-L); Extra Large, Four Teams (H5HF-XL).
So, we have finally implemented the graphical version of special statuses for HeroesPortal citizens. Please enter your "Castle" through the Citizen section and check that everything is displayed correctly.
If something or someone has been forgotten, you can complain to magister Gorbik. Otherwise, you may direct your thanks to magisters Sombreus and Ayreon. In our Tavern, the special statuses are also marked by small badges under the coat of arms.
Here you can discuss this novelty, and
here is a single image of all HeroesPortal special statuses. Soon we will also open a special section: "Honorary Citizens of the Portal", which will contain lists of everyone who have earned a special status on our Portal.
Right now we are redesigning your "Castle" profiles, so that the new statuses would fit better in there. Special statuses for year 2006 have been awarded, just as we promised earlier. Of course, you may still check if we forgot something. ;)
Today we have updated the feud maps of Heroes Lands III.
If you have any questions regarding the feud maps, you can ask Lady Ëåäè Ara, who is managing this section.
Please be patient and wait for all the images to load fully. By clicking on the small preview, you will open a window with the large version of the feud map.
Updates
Today we have updated feud maps of the following continents in Heroes Lands IV:
Life
Chaos
Death
Order
Nature
Please be patient and wait for all the images to load fully. By clicking on the small preview, you will open a window with the large version of the feud map.
We also have a lot of news about our offline and online tourneys. For example, from the top match table of our charitable online tourney with $1000 prize money, Sir gorbunaak and Sir vitalic have advanced to the final. We are eagerly awaiting for the results of the bottom table games and the FINAL!!!
Offline tourneys in Heroes Lands II have been prolonged until June 26 inclusive! A new round of offline tourneys have started in Heroes Lands V. The maps are not too hard this time, so go ahead and join the competition!
Also, very soon we will publish the results of the offline duels and respective bets: Sir edik-lv vs Sir Rain Lonely in Heroes Lands III, Sir Karen vs Sir Ice Axe in Heroes Lands IV. The delays were due to some technical problems, now successfully solved. So we are now ready to accept new duel challenges from you.
Today we have updated the artifacts market by changing prices for 40 artifacts. Many of them no longer require an addititional USD payment.
Today we've opened the artifacts market for our Heroes of Might and Magic V offline tourneys. Hurry to buy everything you need, as the next Common Tourney will be played with your property added to your starting saves. Discussion of the artifacts market in Heroes Lands V is active here.
Today we've updated our School of Skill by adding a lesson (Russian only) by Sir Sub-Zero. It is a thrilling story which would be interesting to read for all offline tourney players in Heroes of Might and Magic I. Also, we've added another lesson by Sir Twilight who is our offline tourney manager in Heroes Lands IV.
We've added a new chronicle by sir Lymnaea. Let us remind that our Chronicles are citizen-made humorous fantasy-style reviews of the events happening at our Portal, published without cuts. Reward for each such chronicle is 100@, or 300@ if it is written in English.
We've also updated the "Heroes World Physics" file in our Treasury. This file is discussed here.
Today we open our HoMM IV Summer Online Tourney. Please sign up to play in it. You can learn about other online tourneys in various Heroes of Might and Magic versions here, and here you will find a list of all currently active offline tourneys.
On numerous requests from HeroesPortal citizens, we now resume the regular online duels tourney in Heroes Lands V (HMM5). All you have to do to participate is to post your information (nickname, ICQ UIN, comfortable time etc) in the corresponding topic (Russian).
Prizes and online feuds will be awarded as always. Have fun!
Our team needs an assistant for Heroes of Might and Magic III offline tourney manager, and an online tourney manager for Heroes of Might and Magic IV. If you wish to join us, please send your propositions to team@heroesportal.net
May was definitely not the most productive month for our mapmakers, so we posted only 10 works this time. However, there are some decent maps among these ten!
The list of the maps posted: Battle of Heroes (H2-S); Birthday Cake (H2-M); Ancient Valley of Fatum (H3SD-M); Seven Rounds For A Tenth Life (H3SD-XL); Brave Border Defending (H3WG-M); The Lord of the Rings V (H3WG-L); Unequal Conditions, Vampire Destroyers (H5HF-S); Sacred Town (H5HF-M); Rumple Quest (H5HF-L).
Today our Portal opens a big maps competition for all versions of Heroes of Might and Magic III, including the unofficial addon In the Wake of Gods (WoG)! If you are good with the map editor, if you have some fresh and interesting ideas - be among the first to register! You will find the rules of the competition and information about the prizes here.
Another Wild Lands tourney has just finished in Heroes Lands 3. As you may already know, Wild Lands are a special project of our Portal. Unlike regular continents, their feud maps consist of screenshots taken from real maps, which are also used to hold these tourneys.
We are short on that special maps at the moment. This problem is the same for all Lands (game versions), so we invite all the mapmakers to actively help us in developing the section. You can read more about all of this here.
Our Barstand (chatroom) has been updated today. Still not everything works as we want it to, but the work continues. We'll be happy to hear your opinions in our Tavern.
The feud maps of Heroes Lands 2, Heroes Lands 3, Heroes Lands 4 have also been updated.
We'd also like you to take a look at this topic, concerning the overpopulation of the continent Castle (Heroes Lands 3). If you have any questions regarding the feud maps, please contact the person in charge, Lady Ara.
And if you've read our Duel Rules carefully and have no questions, we await your challenges! Today, after a long break, we've opened two duels in Heroes Lands 3 and 4. Read the news about them and make your bets.
