Waste some time and read it. It's for the best, imo.

All the things below have to do with bro-like cfgs. I don't know that much about e5.

multiple jumps:

They take the juice off most maps. Bounce pads? What's that? They make strafing way too easy. No fear of the voids or losing your speed. It's generally silly watching people jumping on air.Espacially so many times. Don't tell me that excessive plus is about multiple jumps. It isn't. It takes more skill to move with weapons. Don't tell me that this would slow things down. In cpma, for example, people run on 1200 ups, steady. No multiple jumps yet they fly all the time. Physics 2 have great potential and are wasted here with the multiple jumps and the classic q3dm maps that flood the servers. You can still fly, using your weapons. However, this time it will take skill and experience to do it. If you want to go some place high, you can, but this has a price. The price is time and tempo. You will lose time to go to the jump pad or change weapon and rocket/nade jump or plasma wallride. This will give the enemy an opportunity to shoot you free. Depth in the gameplay. Strategy.

bfg and railgun:

BFG is too powerfull. Immense splash range. I'd suggest 100 splash damage and 50 for the hit, or something. I really like railgun. Instarail sure feels nice but it makes things typical and without any depth. Battles last milisecs. Some kind of stragle, fight for the frag would be nice. I'd suggest something like 200 damage. This way it will still be dominating and strong but it will allow other weapons to jump in the game.

rocket lancher:

Damage like bfg would be great. Along with the fact that there are no multiple jumps, many awesome mid-air frags can take place. True fun and enjoyable moments.

The damage in the rest of the weapons somewhat lowered too.

Also I'd suggest that the player starts without weapons and actually has to pick them up. Take ammo, share ammo, kill to take a weapon. Control the room that has the railgun. Run for the the red armor. Tactics and strategies. Or if you don't like that idea then spawn with like ammo 6 for rockets, bfg, railgun (and other weapons something like that) and then you have to pick ammo and weapons on your way. Also a small regen for ammunition could help solve this problem. Like 1 per 30 secs or something. Generally the gameplay can have amazing depth. It gets typical and repeatitive now.

My suggestion is not to create a cpma in e+. Nothing like that. Weapons, knockbacks, etc will still be far stronger than cpma. My suggestion is to build a cfg as a community. This would probably not satisfy all, i know, but it will offer far more than it does now, i am sure of that.

Custom maps on all servers. You tell me noobs won't get in? I tell you what i think.

I think the mod and most servers, are build to attract noobs in a way. Serverside? Sure is nice as long as the mod isn't popular. Now the mod IS popular. Make it clientside and add all kinds of stuff. Make it even greater. Classic maps? Pb and pure off? wtf? Make recording at all fovs and angle available. A mod needs publicity and publicity comes by making quality movies. Release the new version already! 16 people on one server? That's not excessive, that's ridiculous! If the mod was named "Fragfest" then ok. If you have a server with 16 slots take another port and make two with 8 slots for quality gaming.

I've learned to always aim high. This mod and the servers can be made better. Attract the elite and keep the players you have at the same time. Changes are needed and changes can be done. Good will and some work is all it takes.

Must eat

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Instarail could stay but with a smaller bounding box i think. As ratz said about moving without multiple jumps: "At last i can be creative." Nothing more to add.