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Hi guys! It's been a while since I played last time.. I need help because I can't login in the assist.. The system is telling me that the password is wrong. I changed it and It still telling me that is wrong with my username: Neme.

Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!

Let's make sure we're talking about the same thing.
Remember, a 25Assist account is separate from an aao25.com forum account.

So when you say you changed your password, was that for the forum account or the 25Assist account?
The database says your details were last changed in October, so it doesn't look like you changed your 25Assist account password.

There used to be a known issue with passwords (though we think we fixed that); and I checked that your account wasn't affected by it.

This seems like great work!

In this day and age, I would have a few queries though:
1) Is there a way for people to opt out of being tracked? I'm not a lawyer nor an expert, but this seems like it would be be required by GDPR and other similar laws. In fact I'm not fully sure if opting people in by default is legal in the same respect. Hopefully you have (or at least can) do your own research. This may not be an issue with a small player base, but it can only take one user who feels their rights have been violated to take down your hard work.
2) How does virtual honor handle changes on the 25Assist side? I.e we can (though we don't at this time) edit honor on our side. Do you have a stored "frozen" honor value stored for each account or do you just rely on what you see on the server?

The reason for the last bit was that with this development, we may be able to actually update honor for people.
While I don't know of an automated way to do this right now, there probably would be one.
But until that, we may be able to do this semi-manually by:
a) Keeping track of users who've gained 1 (or more) honor points
b) Updating their honor to the proper value e.g every week

This is obviously not an ideal system, but given the small number of community members, it might be doable.

Teddy Im having issues login. It states Im not logged in although I can post in Sitrep. When I try to get into the game I get this error message. IP address you are currently using is different from the IP address you use to login, please restart and log in. Here is my IP <>. If you can help I would greatly appreciate it.

That usually means you're using a VPN that is routing auth traffic differently compared to in game traffic.
If you're not using a VPN, this may simply be caused by a dynamic IP. In this case, logging back in should fix it.

Do you know the email address attached to the account? It's a <redacted>@gmail.com email.
And the username is the same as the <redacted> part of the email address.

Hope this helps.

They're a little dated, but perhaps one of the following wiki pages would be of help:
https://aao25.com/wiki/index.php?title=Create_A_Server
https://aao25.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dedicated_server

25Assist accounts and aao25.com forum accounts are totally separate. There is no way to "merge" them.

@teddy what you mean by "@yahoo.com" you mean mine?

Yes, your 25Assist account has a @yahoo.com email attached to it. Obviously not going to be posting your full email address here for all to see.

teddy, you have no idea, I don't want to talk about anything.. we've all had enough of 20 years of his.. "look at my stream" and it's been banned in the game forever by all admins and all servers..
answers like the one you gave... we have been reading for 30 years!!!
that's why it's banned from all admins and all servers if it's not from you who don't play a2 and have watched his "stream" in so many years..
good luck!!!

Believe me, I've played against him quite a bit. And he is a good player. Sometimes seems like he's too good to be "real". Other times makes stupid mistakes. Just like any human.

But the reality is that the general level of this game has been going down in tandem with its user base. If his current skill set would be put against the best of the best from the game's heyday, he'd be average at best.