Editing Summon Boat

{{Water spells}}{{Spell|20|32|39|31|31|20|30|31|20|20|31|31
 | school      = Water Magic
 | level       = 1st
 | cost        = 8/7
 | duration    = instant
 | b_effect    = Summons one of your hero's boats to their current location. If none of those boats are available, then one of your other heroes' boats is summoned. Spell has a 50% chance of working. The spell fails if there are no unoccupied boats available.
 | a_effect    = Same as basic effect, except that if no boats are available, a new one is created. The spell has a 75% chance of working. There are a maximum of sixty-four boats allowed on the Adventure Map at one time. The spell fails if all are occupied.
 | e_effect    = Same as advanced effect, except that the spell has a 100% chance of working (unless all sixty-four boats are occupied). 
}}

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The spell may only be cast on the [[adventure map]] and next to a shoreline. In order to Summon Boat spell to work, there must be an unoccupied (free) [[tile]] to summon the [[boat]]. If there are several available tiles, a boat appears at one of the top priority (see the scheme).

On '''basic level''' there must be an unoccupied boat somewhere on the map: neutral one or belonging to a player. The boat counts as ''"one of your hero's"'' if it was disembarked or summoned by any of your heroes or was bought by you in a shipyard - no matter if a shipyard belongs to a player or an ally. Enemy or allied boats cannot be summoned with the basic Summon Boat. A boat which was the pre-generated or set by a map-maker counts as a neutral one. Boats belonging to a defeated player do not turn into neutral.

At '''advanced''' and '''expert level''', a boat will be created if there are no free boats to summon.

An unsuccessful (''%hero tried to summon a boat, but failed'') attempt to summon a boat consumes spell points, but not in case of (''There are no boats to summon'') message for a basic level spell.

Summoning a boat will make the closest unoccupied boat to disappear, which sometimes can lead to tactical choice to cast the spell.

'''Heroes starting with Summon Boat:'''
* {{H|Gem|Druid}}

== {{hota}} ==
The spell is banned by default on templates without water. Which means:
* It cannot appear in a [[Mage Guild]], [[Shrine of Magic Incantation]], [[Spell Scroll]], or be taught by a [[Scholar (adventure map)]].
* It is removed from the following [[Pandora's Box]] sets: "all water spells" and "all 1st level spells".
* It cannot be obtained by [[Sea Captain's Hat]] or [[Admiral's Hat]] artifacts because they are banned as well. [[Tome of Water]] will not include Summon Boat.
* {{H|Gem|Druid|0=}}'s starting spell changed to [[Bless]].

{{user commentary|
It is referred in the description of expert level Summon Boat spell, that the spell could fail if all possible 64 boats are occupied. However, boats cannot be summoned if a hero is already in a boat, and there can only be 64 heroes wandering on the Adventure Map at the same time. This leads to a situation, that if all heroes are in the boats, none of them can cast the spell.
}}{{end of user commentary}}

== Discussion ==
It is referred in the description of expert level Summon Boat spell, that the spell could fail if all possible 64 boats are occupied. However, boats cannot be summoned if a hero is already in a boat, and there can only be 64 heroes wandering on the Adventure Map at the same time. This leads to a situation, that if all heroes are in the boats, none of them can cast the spell. 

[[Category: Spells]]
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