Strange behaviour: Might and Magic III - Isles of Terra

CerebroDragon · 10-16-2004, 07:03 AM

Greetings intrepid Ironworkers,

Haven't posted in awhile...had somewhat of a break from roleplaying.

So I'm hoping there will be a Might and Magic veteran amongst you who might be able to assist me with a strange phenomena that I've recently encountered in Might and Magic III!

I'm going through the game for only my first time, playing it on my Dx4-100; especially constructed for retro RPG mayhem. I've only explored three towns and have persevered so far with my party to about level 11 and 12, which consists of the following:

Dwarven Knight
Human Paladin
Human Archer
Human Ninja (should have went for Robber, probably....as I'm having trouble with chests)
Elven Cleric
Gnome Sorcerer

Things were going fairly smoothly when I'd just finished clearing out Swamp Town and started visiting the Arena on a more regular basis to make a mad dash for higher character levelling.
Wandering outside Swamp Town was a nightmare and my party would be madly mown down quicksmart by Death Locusts.
Anyway, I'd gotten up to my 40th battle in the Arena before I began to notice this strange phenomena I mentioned....after winning the 40th battle and being told that I had received 40,000 experience points, I went back to Fountain Head, intending to go up in level - but twas all in vain!
Instead of having the 40,000 added to each party member's xp tally, it had been taken away! More accurately, instead of having less xp required for the next level, it was at least 40,000 more than what it was for each character before I ventured into the Arena.

I ventured in again to test my theory and sure enough, I came out victorious in battle, but somehow 41,000 more experience required for the level. My characters are regressing somehow with each visit and not benefitting from it at all, as they should be! Arghh!

Thus I ask, is this a nasty bug? Or a product of somehow intentional game design?
Has anyone else experienced this bizarre problem?

I am considering finding a hacking tool to help give my characters a couple of levels back from all of my Arena battling...just fruits for just labours, I say!

Cheers,
CerebroDragon

Kakero · 10-16-2004, 08:11 AM

I didn't encounter that bug. I don't spend much time in Arena anyway.

However I encounter this particular bug, If your character level is too high it will revert back to level 1. I notice this bug is present in MM1 ~ MM5.

CerebroDragon · 10-16-2004, 09:33 AM

Hmm, can't say I've experienced that bug on MM1-2 or Clouds of/Darkside of Xeen. And I got to some godly levels unnecessarily on World of Xeen when I last played them both.

Mind you, I've only played MM1 and MM2 predominantly on the C64, so the PC versions of these two might be different in terms of bug probabilities and whatnot.

An off the wall theory I had for my Arena MM3 bug was that maybe the game has a cut-off point for experience gained from entering the Arena.
It might stop giving you xp from when you get to level 10 for instance and from then on, it might just add the xp to what's required to level up.
So maybe the arena is just meant to reward early level parties...
As strange and implausible as that sounds, its the best theory I have apart from it just being a bug!

Edit: After having been here, I'm thinking its definitely a bug!

http://www.rpgclassics.com/shrines/pc/mm3/arena.shtml

[ 10-16-2004, 09:36 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ]

10-16-2004, 07:03 AM	#1
CerebroDragon Red Wizard of Thay Join Date: March 2, 2003 Location: Ballarat, Australia. Age: 46 Posts: 878	Greetings intrepid Ironworkers, Haven't posted in awhile...had somewhat of a break from roleplaying. So I'm hoping there will be a Might and Magic veteran amongst you who might be able to assist me with a strange phenomena that I've recently encountered in Might and Magic III! I'm going through the game for only my first time, playing it on my Dx4-100; especially constructed for retro RPG mayhem. I've only explored three towns and have persevered so far with my party to about level 11 and 12, which consists of the following: Dwarven Knight Human Paladin Human Archer Human Ninja (should have went for Robber, probably....as I'm having trouble with chests) Elven Cleric Gnome Sorcerer Things were going fairly smoothly when I'd just finished clearing out Swamp Town and started visiting the Arena on a more regular basis to make a mad dash for higher character levelling. Wandering outside Swamp Town was a nightmare and my party would be madly mown down quicksmart by Death Locusts. Anyway, I'd gotten up to my 40th battle in the Arena before I began to notice this strange phenomena I mentioned....after winning the 40th battle and being told that I had received 40,000 experience points, I went back to Fountain Head, intending to go up in level - but twas all in vain! Instead of having the 40,000 added to each party member's xp tally, it had been taken away! More accurately, instead of having less xp required for the next level, it was at least 40,000 more than what it was for each character before I ventured into the Arena. I ventured in again to test my theory and sure enough, I came out victorious in battle, but somehow 41,000 more experience required for the level. My characters are regressing somehow with each visit and not benefitting from it at all, as they should be! Arghh! Thus I ask, is this a nasty bug? Or a product of somehow intentional game design? Has anyone else experienced this bizarre problem? I am considering finding a hacking tool to help give my characters a couple of levels back from all of my Arena battling...just fruits for just labours, I say! Cheers, CerebroDragon __________________ Diddledy High, Diddledy Low, Come Brave Blood Sheep, You've a goodly way to go. - Brilhasti Ap Tarj

10-16-2004, 09:33 AM	#3
CerebroDragon Red Wizard of Thay Join Date: March 2, 2003 Location: Ballarat, Australia. Age: 46 Posts: 878	Hmm, can't say I've experienced that bug on MM1-2 or Clouds of/Darkside of Xeen. And I got to some godly levels unnecessarily on World of Xeen when I last played them both. Mind you, I've only played MM1 and MM2 predominantly on the C64, so the PC versions of these two might be different in terms of bug probabilities and whatnot. An off the wall theory I had for my Arena MM3 bug was that maybe the game has a cut-off point for experience gained from entering the Arena. It might stop giving you xp from when you get to level 10 for instance and from then on, it might just add the xp to what's required to level up. So maybe the arena is just meant to reward early level parties... As strange and implausible as that sounds, its the best theory I have apart from it just being a bug! Edit: After having been here, I'm thinking its definitely a bug! http://www.rpgclassics.com/shrines/pc/mm3/arena.shtml [ 10-16-2004, 09:36 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ] __________________ Diddledy High, Diddledy Low, Come Brave Blood Sheep, You've a goodly way to go. - Brilhasti Ap Tarj

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10-16-2004, 08:11 AM	#2
Kakero 40th Level Warrior Join Date: March 24, 2002 Posts: 10,215	I didn't encounter that bug. I don't spend much time in Arena anyway. However I encounter this particular bug, If your character level is too high it will revert back to level 1. I notice this bug is present in MM1 ~ MM5.

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