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I have been rather...inactive, for lack of a better word, when it comes to AA for the past couple of years.

However, I couldn't help but notice that a lot of veteran players are still around the game.

What if; hypothesis --we all came together under the same clan?

Would there be any interest in that?






/Dan

Guys, please keep it on-topic.

The issues that are being discussed here can be addressed either through:

- Personal Message (for Rapture & Hardmatic)
- A new thread in regards to votekick.
- And a new general thread in regards to good players being accused of hacking.

(Don't get me wrong. Just trying to keep things on-topic here!)

The integration of a voting/poll system into Assist is being discussed, yes.

I am a keen believer that users should be 'forced' to issue their vote upon entering the Assist. It shouldn't be all that hard to vote. If people aren't interested, they can always opt and click a "Ask Me Later" button of some sort. Again, this is but an hypothetical and theoretical discrimination of one of the possible ways polls/community headlines will work so don't take my word for it.


/Dan

I would like to note that Dav3 raised issues under valid and irreverent premisses -most of which I came to agree upon.

What reflected poorly on his posts was the attitude with which he unveiled his arguments.

So; whereas on one hand his absence is positive (in concern to his attitude) on the other hand it is sad to see such valuable input going amiss.

This is but my opinion on the matter.

/Dan

There's the problem right there Spank...It's always "I"VE" as in YOU that can't deal with it...There's more than YOU who are admins around here....Quit making decisions for the majority Spank!

We have all put up with Dav3's attitude. Not just Spanky.

It becomes an issue when attitude > ideals.

The ability to perceive defect is within us all. The ability to perceive effect is within those who desire.

There is no point in having great knowledge if you chose to retain it for your own keep.

This is utterly what defines a "Great User/Person" from a "Bad User/Person" within a community context.



"Responsibility is not without Knowledge. Knowledge is not without Responsibility."

/Dan

After going through the whole 7 pages of supposedly consistent debate on par with the OP, I can only conclude that it seems a more akin tendency to see threads turning into various sets of user-vs-user nonsense. In fact, it seems as though most of the threads on the forum get hijacked through abundance of ego and not-so-much of any kind of contingency whatsoever.

Maybe we ought to be more pragmatical?



On-Topic:
The current debate is, if considerate solely of the actions that should be taken towards hackers/users who've used hacks, at such a low level of relevance that it bears no real practicability and/or rentability to mingle about. Just in the same fashion that you do not tackle the issue of real-life murder without taking into concern the variants that affect it.

People hack. Always have. Always will.

The focus should not be in revamping the ethics which will in turn affect the set of rules by which the community inflicts upon said hackers. If anything, the debate should have in attendance the possible manoeuvres to prevent hacking from being so noticeable.

Possibilities:
Maybe server-owners should be open-minded to the idea of giving Admin rights to a few members that they know are legit, active and trustful and that may or may not be members of their clan --we did this when DrAAT was still around. In fact, the official AA 2.5 Community Servers were mine and although some of my clan members had Administrative Powers in them, the majority of the Admins were respected members of the community and people I knew I could trust. This is one of the ways we got around to fixing the server-issue.

Another solution could be --as I recall seeing it back in 2.3 and subsequently in early-2.5-- creating a dedicated server meant for hackers only. Name it Hacker's Paradise, what have you. This made it so that hackers would knowingly use hacks and play against each other without having to hide it, to slide it or to tide it. On their server. It kept them there.

Further enhanced versions of the above suggestions and/or new suggestions are more than welcome. So long as they are executable at core and aim towards the resolution of a hack-free community.


Point of View:
In my eyes, while it is a menace to realise that hackers are a common breed in online-gaming, it also seems to me as though it may be one of the best direct-promotion towards the unification of a community that --if lead with a honest, humble and fair mindset-- can tackle the issue without leaving space for emotional judgement to rule over.



P.S:. I voted Hacker Tag. It was the only option that resolved around the inter-exchange of knowledge within the community as opposed to the simple individual action-plans that follow (as should they) the rigid fundaments through which all must be made fit to.



/Dan

I started playing AA back when 1.8 proved to being a massive update. It has been a while since I even had America's Army installed and quite frankly --after opening it up-- I feel as though no substantial change in terms of visual alignment and HUD-presence has at all occurred (Yes, this mean that I did not take notice to the effective changes in font-size!).

Judging from the poll, most players have either come to liking the newly adjusted size or have disabled it as they saw fit with no further requirement for extensive and melodramatic moaning such as the one you are so eagerly and adeptly displaying. Which brings me to what some may have dare question: Why are you so invested in pointing out the what you believe to be wrong in the game and/or Dev's actions (through your individual perspective, as logic demands!) but seem very little to none interested in pointing out its counterparts?


Just trying to make sense of your solid representation of arseness.


/Dan

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