How about this as a compromise. Having within your steam community
group a tab for your servers MOTD. A tab you could turn off or on
depending if you want to utilize. They could allow or disallow certain
functions. Start with the basics of a static image, text and allow
external links such as to your groups forums.
It would be nice to have a way to mandate registration of your
server(s) tied to the MOTD that would only be seen by the group owner
and appointed officers with an option to allow officers to edit.
Although registration of non-stock maps is unnecessary right now and
registration of servers seems generated towards stock/quickplay, it is a
means to account servers and tie them to a steam community, allowing
accountability if needed.
Adding and allowing an HTML MOTD tab seems would be easy to add to the
Steam client, only appearing if you have formed a group within the Steam
client. The mandating the registration of the servers without crippling
custom maps would be the challenge I would suppose so that non stocks
could use the MOTD as well. I would think it would also be a great time
to allow quickplay users to select an option to allow custom maps to
their joins as well.
Which is my only opposition to quickplay. Customs do not get the
benefit of the traffic...
Hutch
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