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Offline Ganja

Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 10:37:24 AM »
There is many people whiling to help for free - you just need to find them.
... keep the money ...

Ofcourse but they need to have the required skills and the motivation to work on such a "small" project

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Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #16 on: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 04:13:15 AM »
Well, unreal engine IS very flexible and even simple enough to change.

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Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #17 on: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 05:30:52 AM »
Well, unreal engine IS very flexible and even simple enough to change.
Well, it would be like changing a pizza you've ordered. Sure, you can add salt, pepper, hell even ham if you like, but the main part will still be the same.
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Offline Petrol

Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #18 on: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 06:23:50 AM »
Port it, damn it.

Offline Pipez0r

Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #19 on: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 09:38:10 AM »
Well, it would be like changing a pizza you've ordered. Sure, you can add salt, pepper, hell even ham if you like, but the main part will still be the same.

Yep. I used to be part of aa  community in the past when I was a nolifer, helped with anticheat things etc, and got to know some private hack coders who never released their hacks to public, and learned a thing or couple about unreal engine coding, rendering changes, server side and client side modifications. Nowadays I dont remember much but still remember pretty much that what is and what could maybe be possible to change.

Unreal engine is pretty much as flexible as you said :)

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Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #20 on: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 10:34:46 AM »
How about staff staying with the rules they make.
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Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #21 on: Monday, June 15, 2015, 18:14:20 PM »
Ofcourse but they need to have the required skills and the motivation to work on such a "small" project
They have ... believe me, just ask. Biggest problem here is the trust ... Moreover, this community is not in position to negotiate - sometimes you need to take the risk.
In case to speed up the process, here is the quote from BU of the rules of recruitment - how to ask.
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Some articles you should read before posting here:
Unreal Wiki: How to Recruit a Programmer (also covers general items on recruitment posts)
Unreal Wiki: Mod Startups (a general view on recruiting people for a mod)
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Offline Anjing

Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #22 on: Friday, July 03, 2015, 10:10:00 AM »
So to get back to the topic:

- Have you tried to contact and come to an understanding with the original creators of AA. AA was always a free game so perhaps they are willing to give a free pass to keep this game alive. If so advertising would be a lot easier. I know there is an ('illegal') version of GTA San Andreas multiplayer which is huge. Rockstar doesn't really like it though (due to mods etc) but they did not shut it down.

- Have you tried to create a general fanbase using social media without advertising this site. By creating a general fanbase, people might start to search for a version of AA 2.5 which would lead them to this.

- Who of the players is active on other game forums? What you can do to advertise this game very subtile is by using AA 2.5 signatures / banners / avatars in those accounts. Most young players won't know what game it is and might start looking for it out of curiosity. And some older players might see it and think: "Good old times, I want to play it again".

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Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 13:27:04 PM »
Trust me admins have tried a lot of things to improve the playerbase

100% true.

At one point they even installed Trojan in the assist client to hunt the cheaters, so that the playerbase can improve. No idea though if this succeeded.

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Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 13:29:45 PM »
But to alter this game gameplay (better AI, vehicles even interaction ...) you can simply extend its base code.

Good idea. Now you can stand up and start writing the code.

Offline ArmyAntiCheat

Re: Thoughts about popularity of AA and making it more popular
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 13:42:27 PM »
You so good in coding hacks maybe you wish to step in?

 

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