Recipe Engine
Basically a engine that lets you register recipes that work like the ones in DOTA. They're items that can't be purchased normally, you have to buy the necessary items to craft them. Some recipes will grant you the item automatically, removing the old ones, while for others you need to buy a explicit recipe along with the items. I think this would work well in TF2 with a few tweaks to shop items in general, including a option to hold onto items longer than one life. What I mean by this is that shopitems could be held for a whole round. This along with some price adjustments and a item limit of 6 could make for some interesting rounds, with your team getting angry at you for feeding that Heavy who will carry the cart by the end ;-).
For Counter-Strike games this might work if the items are held for a whole map instead of a whole round, but I'm primarily focused on TF2.
Quest Engine
This would let you register different kind of quests for players to do. We could have dailies/weeklies/roundlies/maplies (huehue), etc. that can be repeated in certain time intervals aswell as quests that are specific to some conditions. For example when you play Undead Scourge you might have access to a quest that involves blowing up 3 people with your ultimate in one go. Think of this as sort of a achievement system. We could use this to limit access to certain things (races/items) based on somebodys quest progress aswell as using quests as a way to aide players in using a race - the Undead example promoting a clever use of your suicide bomb
. We could have leaderboards for players to show off that they did lots of quests and similiar. Races can implement a "if quest <X> was done then do <Y>" sorta thing, for example attaching a particle effect when you've unlocked all quests this race has to offer. Same could go for unlocking skills.HTML motd
How do people feel about the HTML motd? I've seen Mecha use the MOTD extensivly on his servers. You type a command into chat and the MOTD opens up with his site where you log in with your Steam account using OpenID and can then do stuff like purchase premium items from his shop and equip them on your classes. How do people feel about moving away from the menu interface we currently have towards a HTML one? Obviously players that have it disabled would not benefit (and for those we might even have to retain backwards compatibility) and server owners would need a webserver to host the HTML content.
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