PCS was always a joke and it is now more than ever with illiterate admins who don't even know how to organize their servers.

This. And when you give suggestions it feels like they all take it like an insult and start bashing on everything. You can't improve PCS when all they want to do is "go back to the old days." - That's never going to happen.

• Start a global thread for default CS2D settings for each mode and stick by them

• Get a ranking system instead of relying on open tools on the web or paint

• Start hosting other servers instead of sticking with default

• Stop hosting closed (password required) servers for matches and filling up the server list

• Stop hosting open servers and kicking people when there is a "closed match" going on (like seriously what the actual fuck)

• Remove your whole admin team and strip ranks because 90% of them don't understand how to manage a community

• Global server rank page across all servers (even different modes)

• Get a better website with decent forum software to award people on the forums based on server rank - no one likes manual labor

• Use a global administration system across the servers - not the same script, one script which shares the same files so it's all in sync

How so?

Get rid of the name PCS

Probably you could use a remote database engine to manage the ranking of the players.

You can PM names and abuse situations and I'll do something about it. A complete whipeout and re-admin distribution could be made but it's a bit too much right now maybe (still not against the idea, I agree with you).

I'm not sure if that was done in the past since I have been inactive the last few years. But what specific settings do you mean?

For ranking clans and organizing tournaments you mean? Yeah I should code something web-based or search around, there's probably free stuff somewhere. How would you make it if you had to?

Yeah, that's not really up to me but I was always a supporter of construction servers. We should host one of those and maybe some laser?

We currently have three servers in AM and 3 in EU. 1 regular public server and 1 mix/match one which is password required for hosting matches, I don't see why that's bad. 3rd one is for tournament matches in case mix/match sv is already being used.

If there's a "closed match" happening, of course no other people can play there, but they should be allowed to spectate instead of being kicked. Admin abuse happens sometimes, sadly.

You can PM names and abuse situations and I'll do something about it. A complete whipeout and re-admin distribution could be made but it's a bit too much right now maybe (still not against the idea, I agree with you).

How so?

Yes, we're working on a new site with a news portal and something a bit more elegant. Do you have any forum-software suggestions? We're fine with the current one but if there's a better one, why not?

Get a better website with decent forum software to award people on the forums based on server rank - no one likes manual labor

Don't you guys ever read the server logs? to see if something fishy is going on?

Every time an idea to change a default CS2D setting comes from the PCS scene no one realizes that these changes can be made by the server administrators. I'm 100% sure people in the competitive scene want changes which can be done with server settings, but for some reason it always pops up in the CS2D idea thread here instead of on PCS.
People from the competitive scene should stop treating it as "how CS2D is meant to be" but instead try and solve it internally. Community decisions for each community.

Don't use the free stuff. It's a bitch to change and a bitch to manage with your own website. How it would be made depends on what PCS needs. You need to layout the concept before you can start thinking which technology to use.

Yes. Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes. If people don't play - shut them down. But start opening up to more server modes outside of the default scope.

Filling the server list with empty servers simply looks bad.

It is already decided who will be playing, I presume, or an admin is present - let the admin add USGN ID's to a list that is allowed to join a team. This way no one joins a team and gets kicked when they accidentally mistake it for a "normal" server.

The problem isn't the abuse, it's when user A starts posting crap like usual nothing is done because that's just how person A is. The admins and moderators are shit (offense intended) and it looks like none of them care for the forum or simply enjoy the spicy threads and don't care too much about it.
A new user to the community would think it is normal or would rather refrain from coming in contact with it at all.

A page which displays the player ranking across all your servers together. Combine scores and display global ranking.

And when you give suggestions it feels like they all take it like an insult and start bashing on everything. You can't improve PCS when all they want to do is "go back to the old days."

We're always open to suggestions. And many improvements to CS2D have come from PCS, say, for example, lag compensation (yeah now you'll say lag comp is not an improvement? It makes it fair for everyone to play amongst each other and makes it possible to unite EU and AM players. It didn't come from PCS? Yes, it was initially scripted by FlooD in Lua and supported and tested by many 'competitive' players from PCS).

I'm not a PCS hardcore fanboy but I just don't like when people generalize because they had one bad experience before. If you've suggested anything and feel like you were not heard or that we took it as an insult then I invite you to make those suggestions again, publicly or in a private message, I'll receive it and we can kindly discuss anything you propose.

Yes, PCS has had and still has a lot of kids and trash talking and all the shitstorm even US has but, again, like US, it has serious people that spend their free time to improve this little game so don't disrespect that.