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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.