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You could honestly just rename half the servers races to fit most of these names and personas. Every warcraft server from Cata to CEG and even the European ones and obviously ours always devolve into custom races with weird names and abilities. The communities want fresh and unique races and skills to make them distinct, fun, and creative. When I make races I try to keep them in the fantasy universe of warcraft or D&D. You still play warcraft and you have to remember a lot of people who play on this modded server don't play warcraft or let alone even know what the hell it is. I think your expectations of your community and your ENG is a bit high for the reality of what the server is and what its purpose is to the players. 

Tbh creating a notable character from the universe will simply be a combination of races and abilities and I dunno if we want that. For example, Muradin Bronzebeard would simply be Human Alliance with Orc's Reincarnate ability instead of invisibility. IDEK what his ultimate would be, since all the dwarven heroes in Warcraft 3 had the same thing ult, Avatar, and it's not relatable to him at all. Even in the games, each character is simply a beefed up unit of a class (Uther is simply a Paladin in Warcraft 3, Arthas is simply a skinned Paladin and later Deathknight, Jaina is simply another mage in a WoW instance). Honestly I just roleplay as Lord Garithos from Warcraft3 whenever I play and scorn anyone who's not a Human Alliance. I do think you're right about our server becoming less of a Warcraft server and more of a Superhero server though. I'm just waiting for a Morpheus race with skinned dual mp7s tbh.
 
In a similar vein, when I was in my coding mood I came up with a few ideas that I wanted to propose to our engies but wanted to fully refine them before doing so: "hero races" was one of them, where they were limited to one hero per team, accessible at any level, beefy and easy to kill with/lots of skills (though not totally broken of course). The idea was to help newbies out or anyone having a bad game and playing one required a bad KD/less team round wins and/or playtime was limited to a few rounds per map. Idea requires refining like I said but it's been a while since I've been in that coding mood so it's on the backburner.

Our Warcraft 3 server is fine how it is, though however, I would like to see some ACTUAL Warcraft 3 heroes added to the server. I understand that the Warcraft mod is about having a set of abilities and not about the lore of the game itself, but it just doesn't feel right to ignore the large, untapped potential content that's in the actual game and its expansion. In just Warcraft 3 + Frozen Throne, we get heroes from all across the Warcraft universe: Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland, Northrend, and even on some islands. In this post, I'll list off a ton of potential additions to the server and hopefully inspire some people to go out and write up races for use on the server. In red will be heroes being unused, in yellow heroes that are kinda used, and in green are heroes that are being used currently.
 
I will update the list and link the hero name to your post, so feel free to pick one and get creative. I would recommend reading up on how the hero worked in-game to get a sense on how their abilities should be like on the server.
 
Here's a list of all the NAMED hero units in Warcraft 3 and its expansion:
Arthas Menethil (Before Frostmourne)
Uther Lightbringer
Jaina Proudmoore - We have an "Archmage Proudmoore" just not named Jaina.
Antonidas
Muradin Bronzebeard
Garithos
Lady Vashj
Kael'thas Sunstrider
Akama
Tyrande Whisperwind
Shandris Feathermoon
Malfurion Stormrage
Cenarius
Illidan Stormrage
Maiev Shadowsong - We have a "Warden" but no indicator it's Maiev specifically
Ner'Zhul (The Lich King)
Arthas Menethil (After Frostmourne)
Kel'Thuzad
Anub'arak - We have a "Crypt Lord" but no indicator it's Anub'arak specifically
Sylvanas Windrunner
Varimathras
Mal'Ganis
Tichondrius
Archimonde
Mannoroth
Azgalor
Kil'jaeden
Magtheridon
Balnazzar
Thrall
Grom Hellscream
Sen'Jin
Cairne Bloodhoof
Rexxar
Rokhan
Chen Stormstout - We have a "Brewmaster Monk" but no indicator it's Chen Stormstout
Vol'Jin
Gul'dan
 
Look at all of those! Here's a ton of characters with importance in the lore that can be used in the server.
 
Now here's the list of all the neutral and racial heroes that you found on non-campaign maps:
Naga Sea Witch
Dark Ranger
Pandaren Brewmaster
Beastmaster
Pit Lord
Goblin Tinker
Firelord
Goblin Alchemist
Paladin
Archmage - We have three "Archmages"
Mountain King
Blood Mage
Blademaster
Far Seer
Tauren Chieftan
Shadow Hunter
Demon Hunter
Keeper of the Grove
Priestess of the Moon
Warden
Death Knight
Dread Lord
Lich
Crypt Lord
 
A ton more green than the last list, but still plenty of unused content!
 
Link to our current races (or heroes): https://pastebin.com/78Vhg2K5
Link to Warcraft 3 races: http://classic.battle.net/war3/races.shtml
Link to named heroes from Warcraft 3: http://wow.gamepedia.com/List_of_Warcraft_III_hero_units
Link to neutral heroes from Warcraft 3: http://classic.battle.net/war3/neutral/
 
Though to be honest, you could make a hero from any character in the Warcraft universe, even from Warcraft 1 & 2 or even further into the future than where we are now!
(Yes, Dakka made a big post )

This is a good point. Looking into it.
 
Also, Warcraft 3 is at 20 slots due to it being 128 tick.

More like [SO-B], am I right guys?
 

I think most of the community can agree that one should not be able to bunny hop with the hostage. I'd say a good change would be to make it so that whoever picks up the hostage has their character speed limit set to regular hostage-carrying speed, like it was before.

Just fuck em up with your knife or gun.. or .. 
 
Learn 2 bhop?

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I don't think changing molotov fire color is possible like changing smoke color is. But you could probably get a fake fire that was different from a molotov fire. Also, I feel like reversing controls doesn't really make sense for a cold themed race. Maybe instead it should prevent the person from gaining health or armor for 10-15 seconds, in addition to doing damage. Or lower their evasion, or something that makes sense for cold.
 
I love the race besides that.

I don't think changing molotov fire color is possible like changing smoke color is. But you could probably get a fake fire that was different from a molotov fire. Also, I feel like reversing controls doesn't really make sense for a cold themed race. Maybe instead it should prevent the person from gaining health or armor for 10-15 seconds, in addition to doing damage. Or lower their evasion, or something that makes sense for cold.
 
I love the race besides that.

I don't think changing molotov fire color is possible like changing smoke color is. But you could probably get a fake fire that was different from a molotov fire. Also, I feel like reversing controls doesn't really make sense for a cold themed race. Maybe instead it should prevent the person from gaining health or armor for 10-15 seconds, in addition to doing damage. Or lower their evasion, or something that makes sense for cold.
 
I love the race besides that.

Frag grenades, Molotov, Smokes, flashbangs.
 
Since we can already have two pyros on one team what is one more grenade race. I still think we should reduce pyros down to one per team but either way I always wanted to design a cryomancer to oppose the pyromancer.
Cyromancer utilizes Molotov and smoke grenades instead of flashbangs and frag grenades.
 
Armor of Ice ( 5 ranks ) : Cover yourself in a defensive layer of ice armor. ( Each rank increases health by 10 and gives 25 armor rank 5 gives you a free helmet ) 
 
Cryo-sphere ( 5 ranks ) : Create frozen explosives to frost over your enemies and creating short blooms of snow ( each rank increases the rate in which the player spawns smoke grenades in their hands, when thrown the smoke grenades fly forward and will bounce off of textures after a duration or hitting a player the smoke grenade will explode dealing aoe damage and slowing enemies hit. The  blue smokes duration is set to 1 second ) ( each rank increases damage by 6 damage ) ( each rank increases slow duration by .5s and slow amount by 5% )
 
Essence of Winter ( 5 ranks ) ( ability 1 )( 10s cd ) ( 1 stock ) Summon the essence of winter and release it upon your enemies. ( Spawn a molotov in your hand and when thrown will fly forward and bounce off of textures and will explode on contact with a player or after a duration flames will be blue ) ( enemies hit by this attack cannot gain health for the next 8-13s and lose the ability to evade attacks ) ( each rank increases the chances of you refreshing its use on any player killed by you by 20% ) ( can only have 1 stock at a time )
 
Cryomantic ( 5 ranks ) ( on death ) Upon death explode into a wintery storm blinding and freezing your enemies ( when killed explode into a large blue smoke screen slowing your enemies movement speed and dealing them damage ) ( each rank increases cloud duration by .75 seconds slow amount by 10% and damage done by 5 ) 
 
Absolute Zero ( 6 ranks ) ( ultimate ) ( 30s cd ) Create an orb of absolute zero then hurl it to create of zone of cold ( spawn a HE grenade in your hand when thrown will fly in a straight path and stick to the first surface it hits including players ) ( Once stuck the grenade will pulse a AoE every 2 seconds that deals damage and gives opponents a mini stun of .75s ) ( each rank increases the damage by 2 and duration as follows Rank 1 2s, Rank 2 2s, Rank 3 4s, Rank 4 4s, Rank 5 6s, Rank 6 6s. ) ( each time a player is hit by more than one pulse the duration is increased by .75s 
 
 
 

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In an effort to bring back population, store skins have been temporarily removed. This has been discussed, and we are hoping that with fewer downloads that we will be able to bring in more new players when the server is populated. When the server is back to a strong population, we will decide when models should return.

I FIXED THE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX BUG ON SMOKE

On a widescreen resolution it either gets cut off or doesn't get displayed at all.
 
It's still usable, though with fewer lines because the text is pretty large. If I were doing I'd probably do race name, level, XP, total levels, and items. And then obviously allow players to toggle it on/off and maybe choose from a few positions to put it.

This actually just became doable this week, volvo fixed a bug which caused hudmessages to not display on csgo. TTTGO and ZE are already using the feature
 
 
EDIT: also, on widescreen resolutions there is a bug causing anything on the right side of the screen will not display correctly, so this needs to be in the bottom middle/top middle or left side of the screen... not really the best places for this amount of info
 
EDIT2: the text is also nearly twice the size as shown in the screenshot above and can't be changed(another bug)
 
TTTGO example here:

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