• No custom sounds - the novelty wears off, the text wastes space in the chat feed and the custom sounds are rarely relevant to what's being discussed or going on.
  
• Trial having no kill feed - when you've got over tens and tens of players on the server the kill feed just gets in the way of the chat feed... and when I think about it, when do you ever need the kill feed? If I kill someone I'll see it or hear it (BOINK!) If lack of kill feed proves detrimental, then plan B would be to segregate it to a different corner of the screen.
  
• HD purchase terminal icons - they look good, perhaps they should even be patched into the game itself for all maps

• vote skip - if later in the game they decide they want the match to end.
  
• vote mute - if you initiate this vote against someone on your own team, and the vote succeeds, that person won't be able to use F2 or F3 chat. If a mute vote is initiated by the other team (or vice versa) and the vote succeeds, then the person won't be able to use F2 but won't be cut-off from their team. Mute lasts 12 hours.
  
• vote kick - if you initiate this vote you must also type a reason. In game mods get a third option when the vote happens: overrule.
  
• vote map - initiates a vote on what the next map should be

• At first I thought having the player count at 40/41 would mean the overflow gets 10 extra players... but it really depends on how quickly players are showing up to the server.
  
• If all the UK/EU players went onto a UK/EU server, and the numbers were split that way, you wouldn't have everyone trying to cram into one server, plus pings for us UK/EU lot would be halved!
  
  The problem with this idea is... there's already EU servers there that we're not joining because they're empty. I figured that most players aren't loyal to the server, it's just a case of going where they see the numbers: so what if I launch Renegade earlier than I'd normally do and join an EU server... then as more players load the server listing they'd join and as a result I've managed to shift this evening's players onto a different server. This tactic requires more than one person though, and it doesn't favour me in the UK since the EU guys are one or more timezones ahead- they join the server list earlier by default.
  
• The best solution ofcourse would simply be to get a bigger playerbase. We're working on that...

No custom sounds - the novelty wears off, the text wastes space in the chat feed and the custom sounds are rarely relevant to what's being discussed or going on.

Trial having no kill feed - when you've got over tens and tens of players on the server the kill feed just gets in the way of the chat feed... and when I think about it, when do you ever need the kill feed? If I kill someone I'll see it or hear it (BOINK!) If lack of kill feed proves detrimental, then plan B would be to segregate it to a different corner of the screen.

Maps
All the stock maps,

• A big sand one with two AGTs, two Obbies, two or 3 vehicle paths through the middle and falls to your death.
  
• Infantry only maps thrown in occasionally are a bit of fun variety.  I remember lots of volt-auto-gun mob attacks on the exterior of buildings.
  
• Christmas 2004 snowmen turrets, a bridge, ice lake that would break and custom vehicles
  

• Renegade Gamefront Archive (700MiB of maps)
  
• JBserver 2003-2005 (new date codes are wrong).
  
• Renegadezone's ancient collection.  Some have been broken since they were uploaded

Or just put the participation percentage lower. 70 pct is too high especially because the vote only lasts for 30 s.

Nah, I'd suggest force everyone to vote. I can't remember which server I was on recently, but it had a voting system which took over the entire screen, stopping you from doing anything until you'd clicked on your choice.