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I like your passion but it won't work, we already done that.

Opening this thread to discuss and come with ideas on how to get more new players and how to keep those players active:

-advertise the game on gaming sites such as Gaming on Linux, LinuxGames, MMORPG.com, MPOGD and so forth

-contact http://www.bugsgang.com/ and try to combine forces

-keep all the flame wars, spams and all negative discussions out of the shoutbox. That is why we have forums and private messages

I like your motivation !

I totally agree with the shoutbox thing, I believe it is scaring some people away to see some people arguing about this and that ...

And about busgang, is it like chevyplace? Same concept?

if you have idears you can work on it. Talking is 1  to do sumthing is 2 , thats the point.  You can try ore led it die.

Here is the thing. Anyone can do advertisements, but for those advertisements to be considered official and for gaming sites to even consider a game, let alone a game such as AA25, the info needs to be sent by admins.

To ArmyAntiCheat, have you guys sent publicity emails to those sites on a regular basis? How about sending private messages to players on the official AA forums? It is all about constant publicity and what I like to call "legal harassment"

But really, what would be needed is a publicity team (1-2, possibly 3 people) whose jobs would be to constantly promote AA25 in all possible and legal locations.

Well, what can be promoted is AA and the availability of old version AA.
As far as contacting players, I see two methods:

-go on official AA forums and private message all players posting in old AA boards.
-go to battletracker and private message/email players who were playing AA.

There is no problem with posting the same message on different websites, but the thing would be for Assist to be listed on gaming sites as a game/gaming software.

But seriously, the thing that needs to fixed right way is this shoutbox/Assist chat. There is too much spamming, flaming and drama on there.

Like teddy said, I have done lots of advertising after the launch of new client. I went through most of gaming forums not just MAC but pc too promoting and advertising the game, the player base then increased up to 200 when the client has been released with advertisement all together, but it all went to standard player base eventually, to me it just looks impossible to keep 200 player base, since AA has done mostly everything they could to get more people it always seems to drop after sometime. I like your passion, I bet everyone does but this has been discussed many times, even on private forums how to improve player base, to be honest I believe we have went out of ideas, promoting game on steam would definitely increase player base but steam won't do that. If you have time and willingness, then of you go and do the best to bring more people to the game. If anyone has good ideas I believe they say it here, there could be more accomplishment done if we work together towards getting this community bigger and wider just throw out some ideas on the table. I been banned on most of those forums I advertised considering it was a spam but lets keep discussion open.

Absolutely Eliz!! Great place to start!!

-Regarding steam, what I have done is added Assist to my games manually, but I do agree that the name would need to be changed to something more recognizable. Maybe AA2-Assist or something similar. This way we don't lose the Assist identity and becomes more recognizable.

-for gaming forums/sites, I believe having an Assist developer post the info would be better than a regular player. In addition, there is need for only 1 thread per site/forum and that thread should be modified somehow.

-track your gameplay on Raptr.com. They already have an AA2 communities which you can join at http://raptr.com/game/Americas-Army-20 and http://raptr.com/game/Americas-Army-Special-Forces

And PLEASE, remove the shoutbox/Assist chat. It is only drama. If players have problems with a server, they need to email the server admin instead of posting here.
From the stats Eliz posted yesterday, everyone can see that Assist is getting new/returning players, however in my humble opinion, once they see all the crap on shoutbox/Assist chat, they are being turned off..

The issue of the shoutbox is that it represents the Assist community wrongly because of a few bad apples.
I would rather have a stats page showing players activity in game like the ones Eliz posted than the shoutbox.

Also, the whole home page needs a complete overhaul. To be specific, the home page should show only official news about Assist development, community news (written in an official tone) and a Must have is an About Assist. A player who comes on here has currently no way to know what Assist 2.5 is about.