Oh, so I guess I have to post my ideas.
The lobby - Five minutes is to long, in my opinion. You say it's to go to the toilet, get a snack, etc. But the majority of users just want to play the game. Instead of changing the time down, I believe these two ideas 'might' work.
1) Vote to start the game, after 12 people come on the server in addition to being able to vote, and skip that we are allowed to use a command with a name like, /start or /v start. (Can't think of a good name)
2) When the server hits 24 players it auto starts, this idea has upsides/downsides, but I think it'd work.
Game time - Now, when the game starts it takes a minute of waiting, wasn't 5 minutes lobby time enough? Nah, let's up it to 6 minutes. I'd prefer that to be 30/15 seconds, as it's not like we're going to get up and get a snack in a one minute time limit.
Now, something that could help these servers, so so so so much.
An anti-spam program, jeez. The servers really needs one!
I mean, I come on and I see small spammers saying /v 1 /v1 /v1 /v1, etc. Not so annoying but still it rapes my eyes. Then we have the matter of the people who jump on their skiddy Nodus client and spam "OMG U NOOBS R SO GAY LOLOLOL" 10000 times. Yeah, pretty annoying? If MCSG coded an anti-spam plugin it could go along the lines of this.
Saying the same thing, more than 10x per minute = kick from server.
After three kicks it goes up to a ban, temporary for a week.
Three more kicks and it's permanent, easy.
I'm sure MCSG could code a plugin like this, or we could just find one randomly which kicks/bans spammers. This could also decrease hackers, as if they spam with a client, then they will most likely hack as well. And it'l also decrease mods work, so more time to play! Yay!
Now, if I said fix the fall damage on AU servers would I be brutally murdered? (If it's been fixed already, I apologize)
Now just something that Chad could work on. It seems the AU servers aren't taken care of, they don't have many mods. And they're always way behind with updates. (Example: Terwan's spawn glitch has been fixed on US servers for god knows how long, yet on AU servers it's still the same old 'block glitch to get out and make everyone think you use Nodus) You do an amazing job already Chad, but it's just something that annoys me.
Now if I could have one wish, I'd wish for the community to understand spelling and grammar, but a man can only dream.
Thanks for reading this all, I'm sure it might be hard to put in place but I think it could benefit the community! And if you just skipped to the end, shame on you.