We have always allowed custom skins at our lans and such. Nodice has a hard drive FULL of skins for all types of hl mod games. I dont see why we should force it on clients.
Dont force client rates. Your only going to *edited* tweakers who pay the extra money for the good connection
If you guys want to lower the pings and speed the performance of the CSS server up there are other ways that work 10x better than ingame stuff.
I know you may think this is stupid, but if you spin up a ut2004 server on its default port and wait 5 mins you will see a ping difference on every server that is HL mod drivengame, I know it works on CS 1.6 which is why I kept UT2004 running even if nobody played.