Editing Map Editor - Tricks

This is a list of tricks employed by Map creators to achieve some particular scripted outcome or to set up certain types of puzzles.

== Inaccessible Towns ==
Towns can be placed with no route for heroes to access them. This is used to force a player to fight some "boss" hero instead of having the hero dismissed after a week without a town.

== Darkness ==
{{town|Necropolis}} towns are sometimes used as a map building tool by the {{hota}} team. These towns are not accessible by the player. Since the [[Cover of Darkness]] resets map vision around them each day, it forces the player to solve movement-based map puzzles before moving to the next area.

== Skyship Towns ==
{{town|Tower}} towns are sometimes used as a map building tool by the {{hota}} team. These towns are not accessible by the player. Since the [[Skyship]] reveals the entire map to the AI, it allow the AI to think further ahead and increases the overall difficulty of the map.

== Lightning Rod Damage Towns ==
{{town|Factory}} towns are sometimes used as a map building tool by the {{hota}} team. These towns are not accessible by the player. Since the [[Lightning Rod]] damage stacks if multiples are present on the map, adding more of them makes the Lightning Rod damage more potent.

== One-way passages ==
[[Prison]]s may be used to create one-way passages, as they can be interacted with only from one side. The same obviously applies to one-way Monoliths. 

== Seer's huts ==
[[Seer's Hut]]'s may be used to create new artifact sets, as new creature upgrade facilities, trading posts apart from providing normal quests. For more information, see [[Map Editor - Guide - Seer's Hut quests]]

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