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I've been there for a long time, supporting you all and trying to get us all hyped up once again. Shit never worked, apparently. I learned better.
I now need slightly more time to get a run on this and contribute. Give it time and you'll have me in the team.

Dann, you must have great instinct or something. You were right to question my motivation and how long this "gotta do something" spree would last. My goal with the mAAp on 2.8.5 thread was that, as I've said before, I've enjoyed working on mAAp with you guys. I wanted to start that up again. But, I don't know that I want to continue on 2.8.5. Today, 2 other project opportunities revealed themselves. One came in a PM on YouTube (which had very odd timing) and the other came about unknown to a lot of people 10 days ago. I wanted to talk to Blue and Jonny before spreading this around but I honestly can't think of a legitimate reason why I can't share this with you all. The opportunities are:

        - I've been, for lack of a better term, invited to work on a new UE3 project. The person that invited me used to be known as VVaFFenPanZZeR but now goes by his name, Jay. Back in the day, he worked with Blueblaster and iZi at AA-Maps.net on AA v2.6. There he created his map "Bridge Crossing NE". When 2.8 and it's editor came out, he busted ass converting it so people could play it legitimately: http://www.aamissiondepot.com/missions/bridge_crossing_northeast Like most of our work for 2.5, his efforts, while appreciated by some, were largely unappreciated. He's since moved onto UE3 and is starting his own game. Basically it's a tank simulator, kind of like BF2 without the cars and being on-foot. You drive around with a tank, complete objectives and have air & artillery support. He's said this to me:

We need a team- I need a team- I know I can't do everything myself- I know how much time you have spent for the same reasons I did with AA- now its time to project all that on a possible cash cow

This is a bit of his game:
http://www.motorcity3d.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=5

        - Our old buddy America's Army 2.5. Just to refresh minds, the biggest reason I'm not doing anything for 2.5 is not because of the community. It's because of a lack of a distribution method. On August 22nd this changed. Jonny has announced that he'll bring back Assist. (Jonny, I figured since you posted on the official AA forum, that you wouldn't mind me posting it here.) The evidence is pretty solid:

Jonny's Announcement:
http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?p=2955179#2955179
http://aa25assist.sourceforge.net/
Recent Activity: (such as updating his source TODAY)
http://sourceforge.net/users/hsf-jonnym
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa25assist/

Also, with 2.5 and Jonny, keep in mind the possibility of this sometime down the road:
http://hsc.natescomp.com/index.php?topic=83.0



Why am I bringing this up? Again, I'd like to do something. I realize Dann and Blue don't seem to be enthusiastic about it for whatever reason but, still, it was fun working with you guys. On one hand, I like the idea of a brand new game with the possibility of revenue. On the other hand, 2.5 is very familiar and combining our skills with a program like Jonny's, it really can't be beat. What to do?

The only people left on AA 2.5 are Israeli hackers, noobs that play on the UN server all day, and other people that are too foolish to know when to move on. Honestly, mAAp had very little audience when 2.5 wasn't completely dead. Nobody likes giving up something they have loved for so long, but 2.5 is as good as gone, as it should be. It would take one hell of a miracle to bring it back. I will always support you whatever project you choose to work on, I am simple just voicing my opinion.

Learning a new engine will be hard but I think it will be worth the time and effort. As Killaman said 2.5 is dead and should stay dead.

the worst thing that happend to 2.5 was assist going down, there was alot of people playng 2.5 when assis came down, let us just hope that bringing back assist will help us to get this version backl to life.

i am in for any project.

Don't get me wrong killa, what i was trying to say is that 2.5 still does it for me, and for some others, 2.8.5 is cool, lots of maps and a bunch of people, but i feel 2.5 like home, i migth be nostalgic and all but is how i feel...

if you guys wanna develop for 2.8.5 is cool i got 2.8.5,2.5 and 3.0 installed on my pc so you guys take your pick, ill be happy playing with all of you all the fricking time

I can undestand why u say that, after all u guys did to such an umthankfull comunity

I thought i would bring 2.5Assist back just to kill some time when I'm bored at work, I'm only working on it maybe 1/2hour a day, But it will get there eventually, I had been dropping by on the forums occasionally and see so many posts from people who can't get the game working and it seemed a shame there is a tool out there that could help them.
I have little interest though on working on 2.8. The main attraction of this game is that i can play it on my Mac at home and on my Linux machine at work, I'm not a fan of windows and rarely use it... This means 2.5 is the latest version we can play and that is the magic of this version. If i was going to play a windows only game (like 2.8) i would play COD4 or Arma or something.
I don't think this will bring the version back to life, but if there are a couple of people on line at least i can play when I'm bored. One day when the armygame project is shutdown, and with the performance of AA3 this seems likely in future, i plan to completely take over the game with our own auth, honor and accounts etc, Like was discussed in the classic AA thread.

I thought i would bring 2.5Assist back just to kill some time when I'm bored at work, I'm only working on it maybe 1/2hour a day, But it will get there eventually, I had been dropping by on the forums occasionally and see so many posts from people who can't get the game working and it seemed a shame there is a tool out there that could help them.
I have little interest though on working on 2.8. The main attraction of this game is that i can play it on my Mac at home and on my Linux machine at work, I'm not a fan of windows and rarely use it... This means 2.5 is the latest version we can play and that is the magic of this version. If i was going to play a windows only game (like 2.8) i would play COD4 or Arma or something.
I don't think this will bring the version back to life, but if there are a couple of people on line at least i can play when I'm bored. One day when the armygame project is shutdown, and with the performance of AA3 this seems likely in future, i plan to completely take over the game with our own auth, honor and accounts etc, Like was discussed in the classic AA thread.

I is liking your idea.