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Hi there,

I moved from Europe to North America last year and found that there are way more European servers than American (don't get me wrong, we have some great ones over here too, like the guys from IronLungs - cheers!).

Considering that this game was so popular in the US I find the lack of players and servers from N. America a little bit odd.

Another thing is that I basically found out about AA 2.5 by accident (I was googling screenshots of America's Army, a game that I spent hundreds of hours in).

So I wonder if a lot of people just don't realize that AA 2.5 is out there.

I hope I am not too naive here but wouldn't it be possible to get the AAO Tracker admin to send an email to every registerd account informing them about AA 2.5? I am sure you'll get a lot of "dead end accounts" there but you'd also reach a couple of thousand and might increase player base!

Cheers.

EDIT: I can't see why people don't want to play AA 2.x anymore - I mean this game has a timeless quality.

The only battletracker admin is Homey, but he's mostly MIA last couple of years.

And batteltracker has over 800 000 acounts so if we could have them all emailed about AA it would be great. All accounts on BT have to have different email addresses so it would be awesome.
However, I do believe it's not going to happen unfortunately. People don't generally want to give out personal information (such as emails) to a third part and I don't see Homey himself writing an email to everyone about AA at this point.

That actually sparks another important question: What would happen if the Tracker suddenly shuts down completely? Would you be able to implement a "tracking" system on this website? I just have little knowledge in web development, so I don't even know how the tracker works in the first place...

I am trying my best to get the word out... I even sent physical letters to some friends I had in the US two weeks ago (their email accounts didn't work anymore but I still had their address), informing them about AA 2.5. The response has been good!

ELiZ has worked hard to ensure that if battletracker were to shut down today we would be ready (or almost ready) to take over everything.
In fact, his tracker is tracking things side by side with battletracker for about a year now. It's mechanics have a few differences compared to battletracker (it's more accurate for example) so it is sometimes used for various things already.

The only way to actually contact battletracker users without Homey being involved is logging into battletracker and sending individual emails/private messages to all players that used to play AA

The only way to actually contact battletracker users without Homey being involved is logging into battletracker and sending individual emails/private messages to all players that used to play AA

How can you find "all players who played AA" You'll need more than a weekend to send like 800k emails lol