Middle Earth Risk 8.0 (K)

[b]The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 8.0 and 7.92:

- remade systems associated with taking control over towns
- remade the system of starting towns randomization to ...

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The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 8.0 and 7.92:

- remade systems associated with taking control over towns
- remade the system of starting towns randomization to complete randomness with equal number of towns per player
- system limiting number of heroes remade
- gate system fixed
- units do not stuck in water anymore; ford moved under the Osgiliath bridge
- cave transitions moved a little, trigger replaced by more optimal, air units cannot get into the caves
- flying units rebalanced; they cannot capture towns and use gates/bridges anymore
- tons of small changes in terrain and doodads
- 24 new models and many icons added; some changes in appearance of units with old models
- stats of units with new models and few more changed and rebalanced
- Dead/Sauron/Witch King armour does not decrease damage to 25% anymore. It has been replaced by the higher number of hp and a faster regeneration
- sound of weapons changed
- Information (F9) and displayed messages improved

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.92 and 7.91:
- removed all known errors
- resolved all known problems
- removed all known memory leaks
- rebalanced catapults
- rebalanced heroes
- most of heroes is cheaper and weaker
- rebalanced long-range auras
- several units are a bit more balanced
- units cannot fire throughout walls of caves
- units spawned at the beginning are ordered to hold their positions
- command -share [player's colour] added which share control with your teammate and let him train units in your buildings (for your resources). Also -unshare [player's colour] command added. If no colour is specified effects of these commands are applied to all of yours teammates.
- new commands: -in (ignore neutral – your units don't attack Shelob and undead who is defending Path of the Dead); -an (attack neutral – your units don't ignore neutral creatures anymore)
- time of creating unit depends of it's price in points
- remade Saruman, spying ravens ability added (appears in -fog submode)
- terrain overview changed a bit
- Information (F9) improved
- commands for the camera can be used with a space before a number
- some units' descriptions improved
- slightly improved visuals

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.91 and 7.9:
- errors fixed
- new commands: -color (let to see a list of players' colors) and -teams (let to check who's teamed with whom in -ao2 mode)
- terrain changed a bit
- Information (F9) improved

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.9 and 7.81:
- removed possibility of crashing the game by long-range units (they don't jump into the circle automatically)
- resolved problem which turned towns into neutral
- fixed other errors
- special points renamed points
- very big changes in descriptions of units, auras and abilities, information (F9), text massages and hotkeys (added and adjusted)
- rebalanced units with damage reduction (strong body, robust body), cleaving attack, heroes and few other
- conditions of victory set for every mode
- -np (No Pacts) mode
- -ao2 (Alliance of 2) mode where everyone can choose one teammate during the game
- red chooses a mode and submodes while a minute after which the game begins
- submodes: -g7 (begin gold = 7, begin points = 0), -rules (no pacts out of team), -80% (win with 80% of towns), -90% (win with 90% of towns), -t45 (set turn time on 45 s) -t100 (set turn time on 100s)
- in the -np as well as in the -rules submode red can kick
- in team mode when player leaves his income, resources, towns and units are given to his teammate
- control is shared automatically in team modes
- palantirs in Minas Tirith and Istengard (-fog submode only)
- nearly free control of camera's distance, degree and rotation
- new icon for points and Nazguls, 3 new models
- some changes in overview
- bridges work without errors
- if you start to rise/draw a bridge or open/close a gate you see a massage
- Shelob changed strongly – she doesn't move and can't be hurt by range attacks, player who defeat her gains 25 points (not 50)
- life-steal auras (except of Aragorn's) don't work for Dead
- heroes haven't web
- catapults are more expensive
- an eagle has an aura, the type of Witch King's aura changed

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.81 and 7.8:
- the server split does not happen any more (Maszrum from Arcane.pl helped me strongly)
- script optimization
- changed and added descriptions
- statistic of some healers and units with cleaving attack changed a bit
- some other found problems resolved
- small changes of overview

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.8 and 7.7:
- statistics of ALL units, hero, special abilities and auras have been balanced and remade according to the mathematics
- gates work properly
- changed taxes and spawns
- resources changed: Wood has been replaced by Special Points and Food by Glory.
- Special Points (SP) works similar to wood but SP gain per turn = (Glory+3)/4
- you don't need Glory/Food to buy a hero
- heroes aren't so mighty warriors as they were. Now they are useful only as a support (as it should be)
- no hero cloning. You cannot buy a new hero with the same name while the old one is still alive (ex. there can be only 1 Which-King same time), excluding Nazguls.
- 4 new heroes: King of the Mountains, Gandalf the Grey (+new model), Gandalf the White, Black Rider
- new models, other visual changes
- changed sounds of armour (while hitting) of many units
- units and heroes changed for being more similar to LotR
- changed paths (walls are not able to be passed)
- 4 units added
- 3 units removed because there were an invention of MER's authors and don't exist in LotR
- new commands “-to X” “-from Y” which let you to make a charge into or from caves
- it's easier to use the bridge of Cair Andros
- a lot of small changes and fixed bugs
- Information (F9) changed, improved hints, thanks and credits

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.7 and 7.6:
- much more balanced units (about half of them was changed)
- gates and bridges works as they should (time is needed for opening and closing them, they are repaired only at the beginning of each turn)
- a ford added next to Osgiliath (units move really slow in it and aren't able to attack effectively)
- Moria replaced by Misty Mountains
- Mithril Mines replaced by Moria
- North Rohan replaced by Enedwaith
- West Rhovanion replaced by East Emnet
- lands of Harad renamed
- Brown Hills renamed Iron Hills
- gold and spawn system is partly changed
- 4 new units added
- undead dwarves removed
- 7 new models
- outlook changed a bit
- new hero: Aragorn (very effective against Deads)
- Thurin, called Dain, moved into Iron Hills
- few units renamed (Beregond called Faramir)

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.6 and 7.5:
- much more balanced units
- removed few bugs
- rebuild of income system
- defending in caves is no longer way to splash enemies
- less differences from Tolkien's world
- new hero: Eowyn (very effective against Witch King)
- more balanced
- less differences from Tolkien's world
- better outlook, 1 new model

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.5 and 7.42:
- new models in game
- more balanced
- less differences from Tolkien's world
- better outlook
- remade information form F9

The most important differences between Middle Earth Risk 7.42 and 7.3:
- more balanced
- less differences from Tolkien's world
- renamed towns
- correct information which country's part this town is
- better outlook
- list of authors
- removed not actual information form F9
- to4 mode