Forum

I think the whole Headshot team should come together and start a new project, something that has the potential to turn a profit and maybe turn into a business, doing big time consuming projects like this one for free is a waste of talent.

I think the whole Headshot team should come together and start a new project, something that has the potential to turn a profit and maybe turn into a business, doing big time consuming projects like this one for free is a waste of talent.

I'm sure you guys could come up with something nice.

lol I'm so down to HAM and JAM on this bitch.

posting from my cell.

doing things for free is part of the gaming communities. whether it is anticheat, being a volunteer for game devs and what not. it is part of the gaming communities.

But doing things for free doesnt prevent from looking at all possible ways to grow the community.
Suggestions are posted, devs review suggestions and accept or deny.

Right now, what I have seen so far is devs saying "i quit. people dont like what i did, i quit"
That sounds to me like "my way or the highway".

you dont like the ideas? then say so and we move on. you think you have better ideas on how to get more people in Assist? post them.

And now there is talk of a new project? as in moving way from this one? why? the way to grow the community is by working together

In no way would this project close. Pit runs the servers and you can easily finds other people to look for cheaters and another site seeing as this one apparently isn't good enough. Just because a few people move on doesn't mean the end of AA 2.5.

Jared, those websites i linked are just examples of what other game companies are doing. There is nothing wrong with seeing what the competition is doing.
Take the best ideas of each company, make them your own and use them as needed.
Part of the process of developing something is to keep an open mind and not be offended by suggestions, whether they are nicely said or not.

Concerning the CMS, no one needs to register since all login/register would be removed from the CMS.

No disrespect but part of discussing the game and assist is about how to get more new/old players in and grow the community.

yes, open source is about helping improve and sharing and that is what we are doing. Many of us cant code, however we can post ideas, suggest softwares which could help things and such

exactly pit. you dont like my ideas, fine. say so and we move on.
you got better ideas on how to bring in new and old players? post them.

You guys are dwelling on the suggestions that august posted. That's not THE problem here, it's just the straw that broke the camels back. I'm not upset or offended by anything posted in this thread, seriously.

It's about effort to reward ratio for me. I couldn't count the hours I've put into mAAp and this site. All for free (I think I got $30-$40 from ads a few years back which I split into beer money for a few people). I started AA around 2006 as far as I can remember. I loved the game then but in the last 4 years, I don't see any fun in it, at all. The only fun I had was creating maps because it seemed like there was good feedback at the time and Jonny's Deploy/Assist program made it easier for users to play maps. Here's the thing though, for the last several weeks, even though mAAp is now mandatory, on average, I only see about 5% of the in-game players on mAAp. At the current max of about 150 players online at the peak play time, that's not even a dozen people. Look, right now at the time of this post, 7 out of 137 users are in mAAp and 3 are on Yeti which is one of the most ridiculous ill-planned skillless maps there is.

The engine is old and limited, the gameplay I dislike, the community I dislike, and few people use what I've created. The motivation is completely gone.

It's the same reason why Jonny is done. He was super passionate about this project but it's turned out different than what he had hoped and now it's too frustrating and time consuming to avoid being tarred and feathered by the entire community for just a small update. It's why he's mentioned a new project, start fresh with a better game and not have the restricting limitations put fourth by the game, it's engine and the community.

*EDIT*
I missed a point I wanted to touch on. I'm not saying that I'll shut this site down, especially any time soon but keep in mind that I do own this hosting account and I paid for it with 100% my own money. I'm not going to let you guys take a steaming dump on Jared & my efforts to build this site by creating something else, you'll have to do it on your own hosting account. Again, I'll gladly transfer the domain to whoever wants it.