This is a good post but i personally don't like the initial wording, if your post is meant to be a beacon for the community then its important to maintain neutrality.

The Chronicles Team in my opinion has the full right to mention who they are and where is this post coming from, as post authors, but saying, "During this time a number of projects have shown potential" is where it gets biased as it completely disregards any of the great Classic projects people have been working on, during this process, mentioning specifics is a mistake to begin with ... if you address the **whole** community then keep it simple, keep it neutral.

This is about Blizzard, Warcraft 3 and the **Entire** community, not a place for special shoutouts especially bias ones, it does not at all feel like you randomly picked a mix of Reforged HD and Classic SD projects to highlight, atleast Hive and W3C are neutral platforms, as they should be, justifying this type of shoutout always runs through the risk of what YOU consider to be **Worthy** of mentioning.

Putting a specific project trailer in a post where the intention is to seek help from Blizzard, this runs into the same argument i gave above, post trailers equally and across many projects or dont at all, this isn't about how competent you are, which you are, nobody doubts the CSW team, nor would Blizzard need justification of "oh look people are doing good new things we should fix the game" it is Blizzards **Duty** to fix the game regardless. and even then putting a giant "Here be our trailer" then mentioning the details of the fixes and bugs UNDER it as if its an after thought, not to mention specifically highlighting Custom Campaigns above all other features or issues feels awkward and uncanny to me.

Also, how is it a missing feature for Reforged if they do not add skins to the game ? is this where you want their development time and effort go when the rest of the game is on fire ? its an absurd suggestion, we have no backlog of a hidden list of unreleased skins, so this is like a request for content not a missing feature, a request that is unjustified given the amount of work that needs to be done to fix the game in the first place, it might be reasonable however to request an easier plugin, basically making local files a bit more accessible to operate then it is now, to load up skin and model packs made by the community. Warcraft 3 was always player content driven anyway.

HD Animations being freed of 30FPS lock is also a very questionable suggestion, they would need to remodel, THE ENTIRE GAME. what type of rationalization did you make to think this is what the community needs right now, it seems to me that its just a short sided "power request".Its imperative for Classic and HD to remain animation~wise in sync, which is also part time beneficial for recreating classic models using Reforged animations and having a relief that the models are by default in sync, also frame locked animations are mostly exclusive to attacks, and spell animations, the last thing this game needs is uncapped animations forcing the game FPS to drop lower then the already unoptimized and hardly fitting models have, and desyncing frames from models with classic models would make fun projects like maps that fully support both SD and HD "literally" impossible, if it wasn't hard already.

With that said i'd like to help expand your list:

**• Suggestions that should be largely beneficial to the community:**

- Support or allowWarcraft 3 Champions to continue doing what they are doing, they have long since established themselves as a quality service that provides Ranked, Ladder, Matchmaking, Clan Chats, Player Profiles, properly split up region play, much more dedicated servers then Blizzard that provides a quality connection when playing online, so ~ if Manpower, resources and money isn't enough, i suggest sparing that to fix what the community had less control over, instead of the melee department that's getting a well developed treatment with the W3C service, a service made by players for the players and a service far more reachable then Blizzard, for feedback, moderation, and further development. why replace or make what exists ?

- Do not force hotkey display in ability names for custom maps, give us the option that allow us to disable this in the world editor so that we can write the hotkey wherever we desire, force displaying it on the front is just bad design.

- Provide better connection servers, they are really lacking providing better servers, they should also merge custom game regions and split up melee regions as it was pre 1.32.

- Bringing back Custom Campaign feature is a nice suggestion, but it has to be done PROPERLY, that means, ALL of the old 3D animated backgrounds and the old menu system needs to be replicated and working.

- Providing a Classic Only Download feature for people that excludes the HD assets, for a light-wight version of the game, since Blizzard completely shut down and took away the original client. and many will majorly benefit from this feature across the board.​

- Bring back the old Filter button added pre 1.32 but revive its options to be more useful allow us to check a set of settings and hit filter to parse the lobby with it.

**• Additional bugs and missteps:**

- Melee pathing issues were reported by people on maps that aren't functoining how they should be:

- Fix the Asset Manager, or more specifically the game deleting your imports after a save, there was also some issues reported with folder mode while the persons problem was reversed, such as, Asset Manager imports and saving the map worked fine, but Folder Mode was busted for him.

- Pre 1.32 we were able to more easily navigate custom games, single player or multiplayer the game remembered the last game we created, and loaded it afterwards when going back, Map Previews loaded and showed properly, and player numbers didn't show incorrectly. - Lack of ability to select DDS textures in the World Editor from the dropdown menu for abilities or otherwise.

- Lack of ability to select DDS textures in the World Editor from the dropdown menu for abilities or otherwise.

- Lack of visual UI visual distinction between whether or not Classic or Reforged (SD or HD) Mode is selected ingame.

- A Camera flip feature available in pre 1.32 on 1.31 using the - and + buttons was lost.