Heroes of Might and Magic III improvement proposals

Scope: Horn of the Abyss with the HD Mod installed.

Each proposal has its own file. The catalogue below is ordered by its globally unique, sequential HIP number.

Number	Category	Title	Author	Status	Estimate
1	Global UI	Close every UI with Esc	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
2	Main menu UI	Sort games on save date	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
3	Main menu UI	Combine scenario filters and sorting	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
4	Adventure Map UI	Show newly learned town spells	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
5	Adventure Map UI	Apply Stables bonuses automatically	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
6	Adventure Map UI	Preview next-day movement	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
7	Adventure Map UI	Interrupt enemy-turn movement	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
8	Adventure Map UI	Announce captured towns	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
9	Adventure Map UI	Add an intermediate animation speed	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
10	Adventure Map UI	Filter teleport destinations	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
11	Adventure Map UI	Show enemy movement on the minimap	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
12	Hero UI — artifacts	Group artifacts by class	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
13	Hero UI — artifacts	Toggle backpack grouping	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
14	Hero UI — artifacts	Move all duplicate artifacts	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
15	Hero UI — artifacts	Move all Minor artifacts	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
16	Hero UI — artifacts	Move all Major artifacts	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
17	Hero UI — artifacts	Move all Relic artifacts	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
18	Hero UI — artifacts	Keep combination artifact components	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
19	Kingdom Overview UI	Expand Kingdom Overview	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
20	Town UI	Name the Mana Vortex recipient	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
21	Town UI	Enter target resource amounts	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
22	Artifact selling and sacrifice UI	Show the entire artifact backpack	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
23	Artifact selling and sacrifice UI	Group artifacts when selling or sacrificing	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
24	Artifact selling and sacrifice UI	Open the backpack from artifact slots	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
25	Creature recruitment UI	Enter recruitment quantities	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Trivial
26	Scenario restart behavior	Clarify restart randomization	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
27	Combat UI	Show every active spell effect	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
28	Combat UI	Show own morale and luck sources	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
29	Combat UI	Label every creature stack	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
30	Combat UI	Expand the combat log to full screen	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
31	Combat Log UI	Color stack names by player	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Trivial
32	Combat Log UI	Structure the log by combat round	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
33	Combat Log UI	Style hero and artifact events	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
34	Combat Log UI	Show spell level and school	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
35	Combat Log UI	Toggle the combat log with Enter	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Trivial
36	Combat Log UI	Identify damage sources and all targets	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
37	Combat Log UI	Name artifact-granted regeneration	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
38	Combat Log UI	Label every battlefield hex	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
39	Combat Log UI	Log every battle-affecting action	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
40	Combat Log UI	Toggle combat-log detail	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
42	Adventure Map UI	Skip the Hut of the Magi reveal animation	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
43	Hero UI — artifacts	Show primary skills without artifacts	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Simple
44	Global UI	Add thousands separators to all numbers	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Complex
45	Combat UI	Target spells and ranged attacks from the battle queue	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average
46	Adventure Map UI	Show terrain movement and combat effects	Alexander Cyon	DRAFT	Average

Invitation

Alexander Barinov (@baratorch), creator of the HD Mod and one of the developers of Horn of the Abyss, is warmly invited to email proposal author Alexander Cyon (@Sajjon) at alex.cyon@gmail.com if he would like to invite @Sajjon to help implement any of these proposals in the HD Mod or Horn of the Abyss codebase.