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No map creation/editing experience here, but watching my son play horrid Epic and player-built maps in Fortnite made me wonder if anyone has tried to recreate an of the AA maps for Fortnite or similar?

Yes, the playstyle is different, but the map structure for AA was strong (for the most part.)

Isn't Fornite much stronger in vertical gameplay, as in literal jumps all around? One thing i've always kept to mind about AA2 maps is that they were much smaller sized compared to more recent games, e.g. Pipeline interiors are sort of cramped in some parts, vents, some of the stairs and rooms, you get the idea. I believe this was also an issue when porting to AAPG (aside of the completely different gameplay pace alone).

You could potentially get something from the massively popular youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@AAO25Assist

You probably don't want to copy the entire videos, but you might be able to get snippets and/or stills and post a link to the video.

Omg, i just went through the videos and saw Nate's playing with Karma physics, lol.

The rights to Americas Army are owned by the United States and the IP was developed using American tax dollars. I do not think your foreign private firm has the right to use this IP or the designs from Americas Army.

How could he dare to create something even vaguely similar to a game that was the beloved standard for a decade. He must be working for the Russians i swear! He's stealing industry secrets!

yea heard mexico wants to close there borders as well, guess we won't need that wall built, not saying this isn't a real issue but its being blown out of proportion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
closing dam restaurants and bars in Illinois, wait for the kaos to begin not from the virus but from the people that are going to be going insane from all this

Well, check for yourself. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending halting gatherings of more than 50 people across the United States for the next eight weeks, citing the risk of the coronavirus." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/15/coronavirus-latest-news/
Massachusetts already banned dining out.

Most of the main airports in the US today are crowded with plenty of people coming back from Europe or other foreign countries, which in itself isn't great, but the worst is keeping a lot of people as close as this for hours, while waiting for a screening that might just not be enough, cause an actual test for the virus takes hours. Quarantine was supposed to be the measure, screening will only reveal a few of the most obvious cases but even a common flu or someone with slightly higher body temperature (37,5°C degrees) might get labeled as potentially infected, while theyre not.

Stuff like this helps spreading way way more than just a couple flights with an infected passenger onboard. It shifts the contagion from potential to actual risks. 

here's how the scientist explains why there was such a great contagion in Italy (Ivan Đikić)

A guest on the Croatian Radio Interview of the Week program, scientist Ivan Djikic, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, explained why so many people became infected in Italy in the short span, why there were so many casualties, and why it was not a viable scenario in Croatia.

Is it too late with prevention, but is the beginning underestimated? How did we get Italy to be one of the most infected countries in the world now?

- It's all about the knowledge. When one knows what happened in China, where the virus appeared on the market in Wuhan. People brought the virus to the market and infected other people, and one exponential, uncontrolled epidemic erupted from the market. And only then did China's health system realize the danger and respond, he explained. He stressed, however, that initially the virus was thought to have appeared on the market, to find out that it had appeared much earlier, in the surrounding towns around the city.

- You fight the enemy, and you don't know where it is. It happened in China. Then, by rigorous measures, they were able to make something that many admired. They were able to stop the danger in their territory. In Italy, the virus was brought from China. And he was brought, not with one zero patient, but about a dozen or even a hundred. Italy did not know about them because no one was doing the right epidemiological analysis of people working in China, Djikic explained Italy's problem.

- The disease will spread, we know we can't stop it. There are no borders or weapons. We can only get an immune response, the so-called by natural cleavage of the public, destroy the further spread of the virus and the virus will naturally disappear, he said.

I'll just say it again, you can NOT massively test entire countries properly in a short amount of time, besides the virus was reported as an epidemic only in January, when several people already got back from China to each and every respective country by a few days or a week already (before it became a severe issue in China). Whether or not they contracted the infection, they could've had all the time to further spread it before enough patients got admitted to medical screening and there was an amount of cases high enough to make proper tests and statistics. That is also why quarantine was declared so late, or rather, it was recognized as the proper measure for a disease that you can't actually take control of in any amount of time that could prevent further spread.

If you're willing to understand why it went by so "stealth", check and compare it against other strongly impacting and severe epidemics from recent times. Ebola and Zika had much more noticeable symptoms, with a rather high death rate. Covid19 does not, or at least it surely kills people, but it affects many many more.

Imho most countries should be prepared to declare a nearly complete quarantine. Most cases show little to no symptoms, and that is specifically what enabled a widespread outbreak of the virus. Presenting no symptom makes for a perfect candidate for anybody to carry the virus and further spread it.
The main issue is that the heaviest risk and consequence of the virus is interstitial pneumonia, which isn't exactly easy to cure and requires artificial respirators in order for the patient to properly breath, also some buildup of fluids in both lungs might cause further issues.

Needless to say, patient carrying said pneumonia need to get taken and treated in intensive care, and provided that every country has enough intensive care rooms, it might not necessarily have enough respirators for each and every single person at the peak of the outbreak.

So, yeah, it's fundamental to avoid further spreading the outbreak.

Serveradmins did I miss something very important?

Round timing? Unless you want it to be specific and map-related, but that's gonna prevent people from using maps for tournaments and such (where there's typically a shorter round, say between 2 and 3 minutes).