Message from =Stinger=:
5. I didn't understand this point at all. Or I understood it incorrectly. Does a weaker player, when playing against a stronger one, initially expect that morale will play a role and he will win? I can give many similar examples - a random dismissal, an ill-considered attack with faster units, amulets, etc. Again, morale is not essential.

Here, at least someone understood:

Message from Nagan-4:
In SoD, a weaker player is more likely to have a chance, as R55Max wrote. With an equal start, a weaker player has nothing to gain against you.

And this is not because I want to increase my chances and win against you. I personally once wrote that I prefer to play against strong opponents, I take defeats philosophically, I learn, and that's it, but I also take into account other factors. Understand, this way, a newcomer gains interest and a sense of importance; it's at a subconscious level, a surge of positive emotions, so he is more likely to stay in the Heroes community.

Message from =Stinger=:
7. You're thinking too narrowly. Morale is not the foundation; the foundation is strategy and tactics. No one takes it away; on the contrary, they refine it. I'm not denying that both HotA and SoD players are needed; I'm for them progressing and for an interesting game. And the presence of morale does not affect interest in the game in any way, how can you not understand this?

Well, of course, it's narrow-minded; I only mentioned one thing. Sorry, I didn't copy all the HotA options and didn't describe my thoughts about them. This is one of the small components, and if it's so insignificant, what's the point of removing it?

Once again, to make the game popular and in demand, you need to think not about yourself, not about your skills, but about its appeal to the majority, so that it is equally interesting for both SoD and HotA players. Only one path, without taking the other into account, will not work for this.

The fact that HotA players are generally stronger than SoD players doesn't mean anything. There is a life cycle, and over time, it may turn out the other way around; a generation of strong SoD players may emerge.

Message from Dirty_Player:
So, you think there is no morale in HotA at all?

By default, HotA doesn't allow it.

You'll forgive me, of course, debates are all well and good, but when a person who has played 1-2 tournaments and a couple of dozen seasons games quotes Vic and Stinger and says that it's nonsense. Don't equate my words to the phrase "shut up, noob," but simply try to understand what people are telling you, whose gaming experience has been accumulated over the years and amounts to not one hundred (or maybe even a thousand) games.

That's why he had more time to find well-reasoned arguments. I'm not comparing my skill to his; it would be silly to even suggest it. Many of my words have been expressed by others before and now.
His experience is his experience; no one will take it away:), I have certain thoughts that I express, and if they are not completely refuted, then there is some truth in them, which means that SoD is not so bad, which means that some SoD players are missing in HotA, and vice versa.

Don't tell me that HotA is better than SoD and is the only way, at least because even Stinger's experience is by no means greater than his life experience in this game, and gaming experience shows that SoD has lived, is living, and will live, and it is very popular with most people (you can compare Christianity with Islam, where Islam is forced upon you if you are of another religion, but Christianity is accepted voluntarily, and for some reason, there are more Christians)