• Forum Cleaning & Posted Map Cycle -- Regardless of whether or not map list changes are made as a result of this poll, the main Tempest forum should have a few of its sticky posts cleaned up. 
  
• The "Win a reserved slot" thread should either be dumped or combined with the "Reserved slots for all donations" thread.
• The "Post your x in the main forum" thread should definitely go, barring some problem with people frequently posting those in the wrong place.
  
• The "Tempest mods and commands" thread should be dumped as long as the overwhelming majority of the functions are disabled anyway.  For future command issues, I think this could be combined with the "Tempest HLSTATSX" thread as a global "Tempest server information" sticky thread, along with...
• A thread with the most current server map cycles and other information should absolutely be stickied somewhere so anyone can see what's on what server (not just what's currently being played, I'm aware the HLSTATSX page does this).  This could be integrated with the all-important but otherwise content-light sticky linking to the HLSTATS page and any other in-game commands players might find useful.
• Final note on this suggestion: Being an admin, I can delete and sticky threads, so if given the go ahead by THE MAN, I'd be happy to make this suggestion a reality post-haste (no pun intended).
  
  
• Revamped In-Game Welcome Graphic -- the current graphic works well enough (while the argument could be made that 90% of players jump past it almost instantly, it's still the most direct communication we have with the non-forum playerbase), but it's a little out of date and a little confusing. 
  
  
  
  At a minimum, it should definitely be modified to include Tempest #4.  The Rules are fine if a bit redundant, not to mention common sense (if someone gets banned for glitching or mic spamming, a) are they likely to be the kind of person to dispute it? and b) can they really say they had no idea hacking wouldn't be tolerated?).  I'd say keep or consolidate them.  The admin, stats, and WDFNews.com links are all good information, but the Forums already link to the first two.  I think the links could be consolidated, or better yet, ditch the graphic entirely in favor of an HTML Welcome, which can have links pointing people directly to any of those places!  Finally, adding Tempest #4 to the current Welcome will require some spacing modification to the way the other three servers are displayed (though with an HTML Welcome we might be able to allow players to click another server and jump straight onto it!).  As with the previous suggestion, I'm decent enough with either Photoshop or HTML, and would gladly volunteer to get any changes made.
  
  
• RTV and Voting Limitations -- I've noticed plenty of times with RTV initiations, when they rain, they pour, until the server is run almost dry.  I don't know what Tempest's mcp_rtv_start setting (which specifies the number of minutes after a map starts that players may begin to rock the vote), but it should be long enough that helpless players don't feel like they're being dragged around from map to map.  I'd also suggest increasing the duration of the mcp_vote_duration setting, since I often hear people say they never had a chance to vote.  Lastly, I'm not at all sure what defines the options for which maps players can nominate or vote for (whether it's defined by the mapcycle.txt, or what), but we need to be sure players can't nominate a map not otherwise in the cycle.
  
  
• No Timer for Tempest #2 -- a very minor thing compared to the others, but I've noticed some other 24/7 2Fort servers don't have any timer at all.  Long as Tempest #2's timer is, it's not really necessary and has the potential to eventually break up the flow of play with an unnecessary map load, offloading ADHD-riddled players in the process.
  
  
• Update In-Game Notifications -- I obviously don't have access to the full list of all the in-game notifications that pass to the players, but someone with that access needs to make sure those messages are up-to-date with any changes that get made (via these suggestions or otherwise).  Also like the sticky threads in the forum, a periodic review for relevance and redundancy would be good.

Um, It won't let me vote

I pretty much agree with everything Endyss just wrote.