For a necessary change in Total War saga

For a necessary change:

The list of problems which the world community must face when playing its favourite hobby, the Total War Saga, has never been small. Since Rome Total War there have been problems in hosting a game, but after the last releases this has grown alarmingly.

Many times, on-line matches just drop for unknown reasons. In fact, these random drops are causing a very serious damage to many international tournaments, which are usually hosted by the multiplayer community.

Indeed, those tournaments (once, the core of that multiplayer community) have already lost about 50\% of clans involvement becouse of those frequent and unexplained drops.

Then (and after awaiting a solution for years), the Multiplayer Community formally asks for some changes and in-game options to The Creative Assembly before 'Shogun 2: Total War' is released. Those changes and options have been carefully considered by players who devote thousands of hours to the saga and the hobby.

Before listing them, we would like to state that our proposals will not modify the game mechanics implemented by The Creative Assembly, but they will make the game experience and Multiplayer Community opinion much better.

PROPOSALS:

1.- Stronger connection stability in on-line games, since nowadays most of the games drop becouse of CTDs, senseless disconnections or STEAM drops (not properly stated in STEAM's friend list). GameSpy use to fail in the previous games of the saga, now STEAM fails. What about dedicated servers?

2.- The hoster should have real control of the game: Add extra-functions in the game creation window so that it is possible to prevent unbalanced units and skills (as the indestructible bamboo walls).

3.- Add options to deactivate graphical improvements as AA, post-processing, improved climatic effects, texture quality (and others which can be switched off without restarting) for all the players in the game, since they usually lag the match being that many people have not got the proper computer for them.

4.- In the current lobby, FPS rate sometimes falls and makes it impossible to choose a game correctly. There should be only one chat as in Rome: Total War and Mediaval 2: Total War, since both are still used while Empire and Napoleon chats are not.

5.- Add improvements in army selection: let us order units without deleting the whole army, as in R:TW or M2:TW. Add a minimap with information about the game map so that players can modify the deployment order in 2+ players games.

Those are the problems which have compelled a great portion of the people to give up playing. Improving those aspects, the community and the Total War Saga will benefit directly.