Cost of renting a server is around 80 Euro according to the website turkey sent me if we pay upfront for a year:

https://www.gamerzhost.de/VirtualServer-linux-medium (German language only)

Sure I'd contribute.

rachi's advise should be mandatory for every new player. easy to follow these basic rules. and frustating when they r ignored.

admins can do that

maybe turkey (who is on the server most of the time anyway) can just load the "kicking for elo below 1100" plugin when we have a 7vs7 or 8vs8 running. for those times with only a few players on the server, let them play and (not) learn.

or maybe only allow them to spec and learn from the better ones what to do in certain situations. dont know if thats possible. if elo < 1100, disable joining red/blue lol

1. who do u mean by jerks? if its players who only attack or dont go defence when carrier brings flag or ignore to help carrier and rather pass him to wait in enemy base for flag, then we gotta kick quite a few players ingame and that wouldnt improve their skill. it would just lead to so much arguing

2. ingame admins wanna play too and need to focus on their game, they cant watch everyone. they can point out to someone what they r doing wrong but those people dont really care.

3. no idea how to program that into the game that u get a reward for hunting the carrier and shooting him into void. the game is not that smart :p ur team and u get the reward by capturing the flag and winning the game probably. no space maps would solve this particular problem lol.

4. imo those who get banned should receive a message such as 'your elo is too low for this server. elo 1100, 1200 respectively, needed. go to another ctf server to gain more elo and improve ur overall performance (attack, defend, protect carrier), then we welcome you back.

every noob can mantain an ELO level of >1200. the most urgent problem are not bad players in general. its the leavers and new players with a starting ELO of 1500 that ruin teams. i would suggest to set the ELO of new players to 1200 or to ignore them completely for the first few (10-15) games when calculating team ELO.

(and maybe ban leavers at a lower completed/left game ratio, e.g. >20%)

learn to play the game first. and lets all the change the server location for 1 guy...yeah! and give hav 350 ping :P