Hero Party Limit

[neveon]

I have created 24 hero parties and I believe I've reached the limit. Is there any way around it? Can I extend the limit with some unconventional editor?

[Metal Gear Rex]

I have created 24 hero parties and I believe I've reached the limit. Is there any way around it? Can I extend the limit with some unconventional editor?

I suppose I never tried specifically increasing the hero party count via hex editor, but as far as I know, it is the limit unless you want to hex editor.

There are workarounds. You can use the same Hero Party for different things, for example changing the objective of the party leader upon creation, although you will need to use the RC3 editor to add actions to hero party triggers as otherwise the normal editor crashes.

And an advanced trick you can do is use the "Remove from Map" action to create customizable Hero Parties, with a When Created trigger. In other words, you have a party of a full 16 units, and then when they're created, certain members of the party get removed. So you could have 2 8-party groups within a 16-unit party, and then you change a flag or something before spawning the Hero Party to decide which half of the hero party you want to spawn, and the other half gets removed.

I don't know your skill level or familiarity with the editor, so this may not be a good idea to try out if you're just getting started. But thought I'd throw it out there. If you're early learning then no, practically no way unless you are more efficient with your hero parties.

[neveon]

Okay, so I don't see myself finishing this map really. But if anyone wants to finish it or make their own version, feel free.
In the spoiler there's info about the map and the problems to fix.

(Don't click or download if you have any intention to play it, it's really not finished)

Spoiler

Map: Invincible versus Invisible:
Main Objective:
- Infiltrate Lord Ulrich's Castle without raising the alarm and assassinate him.
Sub Objective:
- Massacre Lord Ulrich's Western Garrison to convince the Village of Trolls to build you a bridge to the other side of the river.
- Steal the maps of the Castle from its libraries and get into the main library of Lord Ulrich to learn about the secret passages of his Castle.
- Find out if the legend about a Giant Living in the Walls is true.
- There's a Ghost haunting the Castle, use him to scare the guards.

Problems with the map and things to fix/build:
- Hero party limit reached, I'm not willing to do all the work-arounds.
- Player should not be able to mine the gold seams within the castle; it should immediately raise an alarm and cause heroes to attack the player.
- Approaching room limit, it's not busted yet, but since I haven't fully tested the map, it could be a potential issue?
- The southern side of the map needs to be finished.
- Near the Troll Village I haven't placed the Eastern Garrison before the castle, the only attackable hero outpost, the one that needs to be destroyed in order to convince the trolls to build the bridge to the other side.
- Player shouldn't be able to make or destroy bridges or torture chambers.
- Hero levels are probably not well balanced.
- Claiming the libraries inside the castle should reveal areas of interest to the player.
- I haven't figured out if there's a way to make heroes play in the casino and train in the training room, so the two big chambers on both sides of the map seem not very alive.
- King Reginald should be renamed to a "berserker" unit that's the most powerful hero except for Lord Ulrich, the main antagonist.
- There should be patrols not only within rooms but also going through the whole castle. Overall, there's many missing patrols.
- The Yellow Keeper's dungeon probably needs to be a tiny bit rebuilt since the player won't be able to claim rooms in it. Possibly it could just be changed to a neutral keeper, giving the map a free yellow keeper that could maybe be used as the outside hero garrisons? I dunno.
- The Blue Keeper ghost thing is not well thought out, perhaps it could be just a bunch of skeletons summoning a dark angel? Maybe the player should lure a hero into the temple and have them killed by skeletons to summon a dark angel?
- The Casino, Training Room and the Grand Library probably need to be tiny bit rebuilt so that player can pass inside without having to claim the whole room.

How the map is supposed to be played:
The player should not be allowed to frontally attack the castle or the eastern garrison, since they would be attacked by a continuous large number of heroes coming from the gates in the eastern garrison. Instead the player should sneak through the walls and slowly amass the scarce resources in order to assassinate Lord Ulrich.
Suggested path and order of playing: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple.
(Do not click if you have any intention of playing it in the future and want to be surprised)

Spoiler

Edit: Uploaded the missing file.

[Quuz]

Why would you create hero parties with 1 hero when you can just put him on the map? You're just wasting your limit. Use parties only for multi-hero armies and player attacks.
In addition, it is better not to release all parties at the same time on the trigger when time > 0, so you can reach the limit of creatures in the game and the map will crash. Release armies of heroes under conditions when a player has conquered or entered certain areas or killed certain heroes.