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A good anticheat would be for the best.

Nice job eliz, personally i would like it to go to 2.8.5, as for the issue with the mods. As far as i can recall towards the end of aa 2.8.5 wasn't there a fair few servers with mods on? Or is my memory drawing blanks on me? ATM do you know what are the %'s of ppl using assist that are not using windows? Catch 22 really, although the thought of 2.8.5 would have the potential to attract more players to come back, it would seem unfair to the peeps that are using assist on other platforms and also to the original creators of assist whose idea was to keep a version of the game alive on multi platforms. This coupled with the fact that aa4 is being developed, if aa4 was to be a hit, then all this hard work may ultimately be for nothing. Good thing though if eliz wants to put in the work along with assist staff and community, if down the line it doesn't seem like the viable way to go, you always have the current assist to fall back on. But iam assuming that for all the work that is likely to be involved, it would be hard for any developer to fall back on something they have but alot of effort into.

Just my 2 cents (or pence being British)

If we proceed, of these 2 options, what do prefer?

1 Downloading the full 2.6 GB that is the 2.8.5 Client?
2 Download 1.5 GB, but spend 2 minutes afterwards unpacking the files in a special way that enabled the 1.5 GB?

I think option 2 would be faster on most systems.

After download and unpack/Fix, yes.

If we proceed, of these 2 options, what do prefer?

1 Downloading the full 2.6 GB that is the 2.8.5 Client?
2 Download 1.5 GB, but spend 2 minutes afterwards unpacking the files in a special way that enabled the 1.5 GB?

I think option 2 would be faster on most systems.

Pack it as hard as you can with 7z just like it is now but make sure to use the multi-core command line switch.

This is what I mean:

http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/aa25assist/Data/AA285/tst.zip
Unzip, and run UnPack.cmd

This is the full 2.6 GB EUdaily download, only thing removed is AASM(15 MB).

Nothing of the Assist Server/Client is included, It's just a vanilla install of AA285.

I did this test:

With the special Fix, downloading from sourceforge with maxing my download:

Downloading 00:13:55
7z unpacking 00:02:15
aaFix 00:02:25

Total 00:18:35
A similar download, but with the full Download 2.6 GB
Downloading 00:24:07
7z unpacking 00:02:15

Total 00:26:22
So in my case I'd save almost 8 minutes with the special way I described.

The full packet encryption mentioned here is just the first 2 layers that is used by the AA devs.

I described this layer's encryption more than a year ago here:
http://aao25.com/general-chat/guide-for-converting-game-assets-from-america's-army-2-8-5-to-america's-army-2-5/msg14485/#msg14485