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take a look now for example,friday night,should be the most popular hour/day with 130+ AA players..and watch how many people are actuly on.
LESS THAN 90.

especially in summer, while all kids are on vacations..lmao 4 days ago there were around 150 players online

The reason we ran a mod on 82nd Pipeline, is because the pipeline map allows for being skilled with whatever weapon you chose.  The map is balanced enough that if you wanted to clean up newbs, you could.  If you had experienced players, they can team  play and formulate against any weapon brought out.  I'm not sure that weaponpicker would have been so successful on any other map.  But choosing your own weapon brought you an alternative, something else to do with the game, or a way to increase your skill with a certain weapon.  A way to keep interest in the game.  So the weaponpicker+pipeline combination brought newly interested players, as well as skilled players.  But of course, everyone wants to skill up using the 'honor' system.  As an alternative, we provided standard servers for the purists, and nobody came.  So that tells me exactly where interest lies in AA2.   I'm not sure why the purist think that the game would be any more popular without mods, they only needed to go to the unmodified servers if purism  was the goal. I'm disappointed this wasn't put to a visable vote anywhere by the player community.  AA4 is pretty good, resource friendly.  When it comes out, and this event, will probably put an end to AA2.5.

@ AAO2.5-Staff

Thanks a lot for this update!
Great work!

A lot of people say new players like mods, but what new players are starting an 11 old game? I though this community was about keeping aa alive for old players who like the game as they have played it for years.

Also, if new players are being attracted by mods, they're playing the game for the wrong reasons. This isn't CounterStrike.

GODDAMNIT MAN, I love this post.

This was exactly what I thought.

+1

Also, if new players are being attracted by mods, they're playing the game for the wrong reasons. This isn't CounterStrike.

The players that will play AA for the 'right' reasons will probably move to AA4.  I can say they did a way better job on computer resources and smoothness of game play than with AA3.