I think the "10 maps" idea should only be discussed here:
http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=25307.0Otherwise we have a discussion about one thing and the opinion from different players to jitspoes questions in one thread. That won't work well.
Edit: I post my things later.
Edit2: Here are my reasons and suggestions:
I have to say, that i played more in the last two month as in the whole six month before. Maybe i missed something, maybe there was more activity in the forum (and development), so that i was more focused to paintball. Don't know it exactly. Another thing is our server. If there are some players on it, i join the game more often. Mostly i don't like the maps on other server. I want run, play and be able to get all flags easily, not glide on ice, jump all the time or fly through the whole map. Also, the server admins start a big server with more than 16 players, but don't care about the maps and their settings. On such a server, they need to create ent files with full player equipment and add more spawns on different places in the map. But on the most full server atm, you start like on a normal server, without equipment or in a line with other players. So it is no wonder, that there are a lot of spawnkillers. A spawn protection (you can not be eliminated for x seconds after a spawn) would eliminate that problem, but (until we have a spawn protection) it could be minimized if the mappers and server admins would be interested to solve that problem from the beginning. It's also not bad if the mappers and server admins would do it when we have a spawn protection.
Some other server settings, that support the liners/spawnkillers are guntemp (which most servers have turned off, but should be on) and slowballsbounce (on by default, should be off). Maybe elim is a problem too. Would it work to limit the lowest value on dedicated servers to 10 seconds or would it make problems with other gamemodes (has each gamemode an own setting or only a few)?
Especially soccer was very funny in the last weeks. So i would like to play more often maps with other gamemodes like pong, tdm or koth.
If there are good or bad players on a server is no problem for me. I play with both sorts. If a player would get exp/points for playing on a server, we could make a limit to join a server. Server for new and old players that have easy maps and server for more experienced players (1000 exp/points or more). I wouldn't limit the easy map servers only to new players (until 1000 exp/points). Each player should be able to see his own exp/points, but i wouldn't make the exp/points visible for all players on the page or in a ranking list (if the player don't want it = default).
A big problem is the performance of the game. There are a lot of players with lags and other players overflow on almost each mapchange. That should never happen. My computer (Intel Q6600, GeForce GTX 280) shouldn't have any problems with the game. I have high fps and a low ping, but the gameplay doesn't feel smooth for the last builds (don't know when it started). I have often (not every time) some very small (but big enough to notice them) lags. They come and go for a few minutes. Thats annoying.
Another thing (maybe just me): Like i said above with the maps, the server admins don't care about their server. There are server that use build 21, 32 or 35 (build 36 is new, so build 35 is ok for a month). Update it !
Like MyeRs said: hr4 on download would be good. It wouldn't be bad, if the game downloads the new hr4 textures automatically from the server. But we need a check for it, that it won't download or overwrite a file, if a server admin uploads unofficial hr4 textures.
Something community related should also be integrated. I would like to see a friend list like on the feature vote that shows who is online and on which server. Maybe some kind of global chat, but not implement irc. It should be language specific and work on a lan server without internet connection too. Don't ask how that should be possible
To give the players the possibility to add a country at the dplogin account and show a flag of that country in front of the player name ingame (+ option to disable it) could help to find players with the own language, talk with them and maybe create a new clan.
What do you think about split the chat and the game messages?
What do you think about a "win back email"? Send players that haven't played for half a year an email with
a special offer some informations about the last build and a "why not played"-survey link (like the uninstall survey).
Please do not unban everyone.
