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You must not be familiar with TLC's various television shows.

I saw the donation notification show up in the e-mail account. It's an unwritten rule we have about a requirement to donate more than $20 to get the in-game icon. Thank you for your donation.

Ouch, my feelings.

Told ya it had nothing to do with port forwarding...

@assist_fan41: A.I. is using original UT2k4 code or you have implemented your own?

To expand on this... Why try to port the entire game content over to UT2004 rather than port online AI over to AA? Seems like a lot more work to move assets than a bit of game code.

AA has a bunch of AI code, including unreleased AI content from the leaked editor. I applaud your efforts but no matter how hard you try, you'll never get the feel of AA. If you're knowledgeable in Unreal, your efforts might be better spent in porting AI code to AA 2.5. THAT would really save the game. Especially if it was our own customizable code where we could dump TONS of AI into maps, more than 2.8.5 even had.

If that happened, I might even come back from the dead and crack open the editor.

Happy Birthday you old bugger.

I wouldn't put all the blame on the host. They do have problems and I think they were chosen due to cost, I think it was originally the host that Jonny used. It could be moved over to a new host but I remember it being a multi-day frustrating ordeal to rebuild the auth system when Jonny took it down a while back, it's all weird Linux stuff.

But there's probably a lot that could be done in Assist to make failures graceful and automatic restarts happen. I know ELiZ has mentioned this in the past and has worked towards it but the fact is, the bulk of Assist code (both server & client) is cobbled together. It could greatly benefit from a re-work in a proper language with better features/functions. ELiZ has done well with what was handed to him and the project jumped leaps and bounds. However, there's only so much that can be done with it currently and unfortunately for the community, ELiZ doesn't have unlimited time for a free project.

All this to say, it is what it is and you better not complain unless you're willing to devote the large amounts of time and knowledge to rework the system properly.

Impressive. Are you pulling the files from AA directly, out of the packages? Nevermind, saw the other thread. Good work.