HoMM3 HD is a mod (add-on) for the game Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

What a hot topic!
I just mentioned that I figured out how the timer works, and now it's not difficult for me to change it however I want (including making it a chess timer). I didn't say that I would be making a chess timer, especially in the near future. I was just considering such a possibility and theorizing about it. However, I still want to make a chess timer. I just don't know when I'll get around to it.

Regarding changing the gameplay. I've wanted to make a gameplay mod for a very long time, and there's no point in trying to talk me out of it.

I'm not going to turn HD into a gameplay mod, and right now I'm focusing on separating the wheat from the chaff. However, I don't see any reason why a gameplay mod can't be a plug-in module for the HD base. Of course, I will make the game incompatible with SoD, because playing by different rules is not good.

Everyone has different ideas about ideal heroes, and they can't all be combined into one mod. If someone doesn't understand, I made and am making HD primarily for myself, according to my own ideas about what is ideal. Several times, people "nagged" me with some hero-related requests. I simply practically ignored these messages until, a month ago, I played my first offline mini-tournament. At first, I did everything manually, but when I got tired, I found and downloaded a "hero editor." And after the tournament game, I immediately added a hero invitation to HD within a day. If someone manages to convince me of the reasonableness, convenience, and necessity of certain changes, then they will be added to the queue for implementation. The order of new features depends, among other things, on the speed/simplicity/interest of implementation. That is, a new feature that was added to the queue last may be implemented first under favorable circumstances.

Also, regarding the chess timer: its implementation is as radical a change to SoD as starting the countdown after "OK." (I think it's obvious that when starting the countdown after "OK," the game should be made incompatible with SoD). So, R55Max, your rejection of the first and acceptance of the second cannot be justified by any reasonable and logical arguments. It's just your idea of the ideal mod (that is, justification at the level of "like/dislike"). Although, after your posts, such a division is emerging: HD, HD + SoD-like mod, HD + my gameplay mod.

I'm coming up with a name for my gameplay mod: "HoMM3: Perfect," no less :)