🚀 go-pugleaf

I uncovered clues pointing to Zatar (za...@cherokee.wildstar.net) having written:
>Hmmm, a bug that I haven't seen mentioned is the inaccurate population
>statements.  I think this might have happened in HoMM1 also, but I
>don't remember.  Anyway, it says "Plague!  Population growth is halved"
>and there is no population growth at all.  Also it sometimes says
>"Population growth is doubled" but the growth is normal.

I am not sure it's a bug as much as a thinko (different than a typo). 
There is no population growth in a plague month and 1/2 of the guys you 
had not bought in any of the buildings are halfed.  

I hate those things, that's why I always follow this commandment.
"Thou shalt not proceed to the first day of the week without having 
saved on the seventh day..." since it's random you can reload and 
avoid a plague... (I didn't know you could, til by some fluke I 
figured it out. ;) 

>Seems to me like the Necro populations should double with the plague
>and half with the life growth anyway. :)

Nice idea!! 


>Also I noticed that in the campaign game you never get more random
>monsters when a particular monster type grows extra like in HoMM1.
>I've seen this happen in the scenarios but to a lesser extent than I
>remember them.  I'm pretty sure this isn't a "bug" though. :)

Umm... are you sure?  I have observed the wandering monsters are 
replaced down.  Though I think I have observed, for example, if you 
get +5 unicorn growth, that unicorn wandering monsters will show up
where there weren't any previously... I think it is because the 
maps don't keep track of the monster that was there once it is killed
but rather the level of the monster, and thus you have a random chance
of a level 2 monster showing up in a level 2 spot each time you 
see the +X bonus on some given Level 2 monsters.  And the same would 
go for all levels 1-4.

Just a thought or a theory.

--
*****************************************************************
* Raymond Bingham   * Fort Collins System Lab - Hewlett Packard *
* (aka. wReam...)   * ra...@shofixti.fc.hp.com - 100% MY opinion *
*****************************************************************
*  The internet needs a lobotomy to recover from its lobotomy.  *
*****************************************************************