HoG: Mystery of the Immovable Golden Statues
Continuing from a somewhat similar post (https://brightrockgames.userecho.com/topics/843-unclaimable-statue-hog-level-3/) - this one is for HoG Level 3, so I thought I should create a new topic on golden statues that seem to grey out over time.
I've been doing some testing, but I first noticed this issue in the scenario campaign "Arcane Prison". After turning the goodly heroes into golden statues for my sadistic pleasure, I noticed they started to grey out and behave exactly like Sir Roussimoff. It was quite puzzling, so I did some testing here and there. Finally I figured out something while in Kasita's home realm -
If you convert a lot of heroes into Golden Statues and throw them into a room (screenshot below), you may observe that they will begin to highlight in light blue or dark grey. If you continue to move these statues around, some of them will eventually lock up and turn grey permanently. It also seems to happen randomly - my guess is that there is sort of tracking list running in the background, and once these "active" statues drop down the list, their game state changes into something else.
Sorry, I'm terrible at linking images, here's the screenshot. Please ignore the image link above.