Hero Academy! Can we please have more information?

:joy: at chicken teeth rarity comment. Thanks alot, i woke up my women :joy: and she didn’t find humor in me finding humor in that comment…“Go to bed yah damn court jester” is the comment i received with a scowl! :joy:

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Almost as rare as eel’s feet I’m afraid…
:smile:

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I need help to know about the hero academy, can you explain to me please

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SGG is working on it. That’s about all we know at this point.

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Ok. Trying to help my alliance understand the new buildings about to take shape. Was looking for the best site ,or link I could pass on to them ?

Hi @Stevemllr This is a pretty good link 🧪 The Beta Beat (v23) [NOW RELEASED] – Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta: Stronghold 22/23 & Alchemy Lab, New Challenge Event Heroes, New Knights of Avalon & Pirates of Corellia Challenge Events, Costumes, November/December HOTM

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Actually every information about hero academy is highly speculative. It’s not even in beta so currently only developers may know how could it work.

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Hi all! Can someone explain what exactly is Hero Academy?

Well it doesn’t exist yet, and it hasn’t been tested in Beta yet…so no, not really. :slight_smile:

When it enters Beta I’ll post full information about it in the Forum in a Beta Beat thread.

But it was discussed a bit in the AMA in March (the “Advanced Training Camp” was rolled into the plans for the Hero Academy, so anything about that is potentially related too):

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Ohh, okay. Thanks for the quick reply Zephyr :slight_smile:

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If we can’t trade within our alliance’s then I’d say that this building would be the next best thing.I can add that if I pull another 3 more Balthazar I could actually have an all Balthazar football team. Got 6 in a row from tc13 then 4 tucks. Yeah my tc totally tucked me up :smiley: . But it did sprout 3 caedmons after that which is brilliant but I’m suspecting I may have a cloning centre disguised as a training camp. Will have to look into that sometime…

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Another game I dabble in has an interesting system for managing duplicate heroes. Here’s how it deals with hero acquisition and ascension:

  1. You gain heroes by acquiring enough fragments of the hero (not unlike the shards idea I’ve been pushing). Once you gain the base number of fragments for a particular hero (25 for legendary, 20 for epic, etc.) you recruit that hero to your roster.
  2. You ascend a heroes by gathering yet more of its fragments. Each ascension requires an increasing number of fragments to achieve.

What happens, you might wonder, once a hero hits max ascension? Any additional fragments you acquire for that hero are now cashed in for credits. Common hero fragments aren’t worth many credits; legendary hero fragments are worth much more. These credits can be used to buy a different hero’s fragments from the in-game store. Which fragments you can buy with credits changes daily, and the daily quantity is capped (fairly low).

This system provides two tracks for getting and ascending a hero: either through the normal game play & RNG drops, or by cashing in surplus fragments.

So, how does this relate to the Hero Academy?

Suppose you could trade in a hero for credits, and you can build up a stock of these credits over time. Each day anew Legendary hero is available, and if you have enough credits, you can buy it. No RNG, just a straight trade. Most days the hero will be a Classic, but occasionally a HotM, S2 or event hero will show up.

Or if there must be RNG, have a “daily deal” with four legendary heroes: a Classic, a past HotM, a Season 2, and an event hero. If you buy the deal (with credits from cashing in unwanted heroes), there is a random draw from this set of four heroes, with published odds (say 76% Classic, 8% each for HotM, S2, and event). If you don’t like today’s deal, wait for tomorrow.

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Hello friends, do you know anything from the Academy of Heroes? What’s it going to do for?

Haha, I have same 252 spots. I think 100 are my duplicate and flat 5*

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I agreed that an open choice of hero to exchange for will likely not happen. They seem to want to add RNG in every aspect.

what I do hope, is that perhaps we can compromise and get a random selection of two or three heroes, and then we get to choose from among those random two to three.

That way we get to balance some RNG with a little bit more control in choice and balancing/building teams.

The idea would be to take the stuff that we do not want, after spending a lot of money, or saving up for a really long time(bad RNG results), and using accumulated unwanted/unneeded and gaining some positive value out of it. Something that is usable.

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Now that we got a sneek peak for season 3 that will arrive in 2020 (hopefully earlier than summer :sweat_smile:) I’d like to have more information about the Hero academy. Is it expected to be released to the game still this year or has this changed? And I assume everyone wants to know, whether it’s worth keeping the duplicate 4* and 5*.
Some hints please :pray:

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Hero academy is not in beta yet so we do not have any info on it yet.

Is this new building part of the Beta beat V25 ?:thinking:

Possible, but we can’t know yet.
Developers do not share with beta testers the upcoming features of the new betas.

What we know is they release costumes, but only a third of them or so of the vanilla heroes are involved in that.
Actually 5* that may be featured are: Isarnia, Vivica, Lianna, Elena, Richard, Quintus, Joon, Horghall.

So if every time we have the costume portal we have 2 featured heroes, we had enough for 4 times.

I’m assuming at best costume portals may appear 2 times a month, so we have enough for 2 months.
My personal opinion is that will be a once-per-month occurence, so we are good for 4 months.

If my reasoning is correct, probably next beta would not involve next heroes for costumes yet but something else.

I don’t see any other feature apart from other costumes that require beta, maybe some adjustments on upcoming HotM (that may still be togheter with other features).

TL;dr : i see as a concrete option we finally have hero academy soon enough in beta.

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I want to put my recently acquired Thoth duplicate to the academy… When will it come?