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)

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 header, Template: Hero header)
    • Town Status: roe, ab, sod, hc, hota
    • Hero Status: roe, ab, sod, hc, hota
  3. Change all adventure map creatures' shadows to be semi-transparent black
  4. Split out entries to minor location pages (e.g. Erathia minor locations) to their respective region pages.
    • Also fix redirect pages associated with them.
    • Status: Working this in tandem with town templates
      • To Strive, To Seek - Skipped for now. I am unclear what region this actually is. Campaign map shows Gaia's Crest...but campaign maps are frequently wrong. Text mentions Shandar river and Timber Wars which implies it is maybe south of Deyja along the AvLee/Erathia border. --Legate (talk) 14:14, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
      • Check the minor locations for Tatalia, Vori, Terra Nova], Nighon
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

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)
      2. I think the Contested Lands section is not entirely accurate. I think some of the regions listed may actually be part of Erathia.
      3. Talk:Nighon minor locations: Resolve order/name of Nighon underground levels.
        • When done, maybe add a map template of this to each of the Nighon regions.
    • Still need:
      1. Countries: Regna, Terra Nova
        • Maybe make a modified version of each country map that shows only the country in question with the regions written in? --Legate (talk) 04:50, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
      2. Regions: Shantanna, Deep Caverns, Nighon Strait, Shandar River, All Jadame regions, All Enroth (continent) regions
        • In my opinion, Jadame's regions should be included with some basic info. They give a bit more background to Jadame as a whole, for the reader, without being overwhelmingly explained (because they can be, and for such in-depth explanations should be other wikis). After all, the world is a whole, things become intertwined, and having the minimum to show that is fine. In fact, to me it sounds more silly if those regions are not there - they could mislead the reader into thinking that Jadame's only region is Ravage Roaming or something, leave them disappointed about what a boring continent Terra Nova is on and so on. Otherwise, I could help out a bit more with that, but I can't promise anything.--FirePaladin2 (talk) 12:29, 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)

Desired Additions

  1. Create a Campaign Editor page.
  2. Make a supporting characters page. (See Category: Supporting character). Have sortable columns for name/affiliation/species.

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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