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yeah we tried new maps but they were silly maps
No wonder nobody wants to play them. Why do you think that Hospital Bridge
or Pipe are Legendary maps ? because there is a story behind them & because
they are strategically meaningful and challenging.

We have to bring back those characteristics by enabling each map to support
different objectives and missions.

How does that prove anything? You do realize that all of the maps that were in version 1 are also in 2.5, right? Plus, why does Homey's opinion even matter? He's abandoned AA players for quite some time now. Support on Battletracker is almost no-existent. He doesn't even play the game.... His BT says he was last on in 2007. He has never played mAAp or the game in its current state.

So? What need to be changed? Why the word 'return'

       After 30 mins of reading this  old thread I understand the need for the source code. I know the "Government Property" is the biggest hurdle in getting the source code, and as mentioned by the Dev who wrote back.."it would be faster to code 2.9 from scratch".. 

Is it possible to consider buying the source code from them? I mean its an asset that they no longer need and maybe they might consider selling this particular asset.

Also... i understood we need coders, why not actually code 2.9? We can start a campaign on kickstarter? I honestly think that the community would get alot more exposure and that its possible to raise enough necessary to hire coders to create a new game in its entirety. These are just some ideas that i wanted to throw out there. I dont think setttling for what we got is enough. After all the work you guys put in, you as a community deserve more then 200 active players . To make it worth your work and effort, why not find a way to move forward?
       

Sure, a complete game is possible. It's been done many times. There's one on kickstarter (or it was) that aims to be a real small-scale combat simulator.

The problem is; no matter how hard you try, you will never reproduce America's Army on any engine other than UE2 and with any code other than the code the devs used. Even upgrading the UE2 engine up a few builds caused chaos back in the day with how mechanics were handled. We all see what happened when AA3 was released. So, anyone could create a new game, it just wouldn't be AA.

As far as kickstarter and retaining the AA code/engine, you then have the curious legal question of what happens when funds are sourced to pay people for their time/knowledge in editing code on a game for which they have no permission.