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This is a post for those of you who are new to this "mAAp" thing.

What is the history mAAp?
mAAp is a project (The mAAp Pack Project) that was started somewhere in late 2006 / early 2007 by BlueBlaster. It was originally a pack of individual maps that were laying around AA-Maps.net (a custom mapping site before the official 2.8 editor came out). A lot of these maps were unfinished and hard to use on 2.6 servers due to authorization at the time. I joined BlueBlaster for version 2, I basically gave him all the maps I had collected which formed an even larger package.

After realizing that the maps worked on AA v2.5, we decided it would be best to move towards that version and include Border and Dusk. It was with version 4.7 of mAAp that really started gaining momentum. Jonny's Assist (Deploy at the time) program brought ease of use to the average user by allowing you to download and play mAAp without the hassle of copying files back and fourth. 


This is from the MPHistory.txt briefings file:
Started by BlueBaster, the mAAp Pack has been a constant on-going project:
Beginning on January 2, 2007, the first version of the pack florished and was embraced by members of AA-Maps.net as a refrence to all their hard work.

Assited by Shanky88, BlueBlaster released the second version with the innovative name of mAAp Pack (previously called AA Custom Maps).

BlueBlaster affiliated with Spanky and created version 4.0 which was a combined effort to compile all the maps from AA-Maps.net and put them into one pack and make it easy for people to use.

Thanks to the help of iZi (AA-Maps.net), Spanky and Blueblaster managed to release version 4.5 which featured new maps, modified maps, and graphically updated versions of classic maps from AA-Maps.net. After 4.5 was released the intended community (AA v2.5) didn't accept the pack enough to keep servers running it.

After re-packaging 4.5 a couple times, 4.7 was a final attempt by Spanky to gather enough interest to get people to play it. 4.7 was plagued with bugs but had a very promising map (Pipeline) that was invented by the 2.5 community. After a couple revisions, 4.7c was widely accepted. 4.7c was a success mostly due to 2.5 Assist (formerly called Deploy, 25deploy.co.uk), which allowed people to download the mAAp Pack and play it without ever having to touch their files.

This version, 5.0, was sparked by the success of 4.7c. We have gained 2 new developers: dn made our logo, graphics and several textures, and {-Delta-} made 3d models and textures. Almost all the maps are optimized even more so they are smaller and have more FPS. Pipeline is the major attraction of 5.0. We have based it off of AA3's Pipeline and merged that with ideas from the community.

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What is mAAp?
It's basically a couple of guys that want to push the game engine as far as it will go. Making maps that look unlike any that have existed in AA before.

Way to go digging on a thread 3 years old

And there are other mAAp maps I've enjoyed, Office Assault being one of them.

go back to work Vanoke

Some of the best games I ever played in AA were on Aztec. PBall and UT04 are tons of fun, as is Breakout.

Me too. Those mAAps not being tracked there's not often fragwhores and defencewhores on it, people just join for fun. I am a great Yeti fan (I know there's like 1% of the players that like that map lol) and I loved playing breakout on the mafioso server last year. And lately I've discovered Office Assault too, which is good fun too !

Aztec is tracked

Yes, but you don't get the map stats.