Or do it like Quake and HL did and have tilde be the console. You can do things like "/say foo" or commands / settings through there, and in the case of quake a

Or do it like Quake and HL did and have tilde be the console. You can do things like "/say foo" or commands / settings through there, and in the case of quake at least, it can load scripts from files in a directory. This is not new stuff, and it's surprising that it doesn't do this already. Example: http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?scripting http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?scripting