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If someone can make some updates, do it.

Someone already can.

If someone can make better cvars, go ahead.

Already done, it's one of the things sitting in queue for the update that will never come.

@spanky: sorry about my post, was a bit under presure. and thank you for the work you are doing to keep this game alive!

I was trolling, you had ever right to rage. I'm not keeping this game alive, I'm just here annoying pit.

Pit, I'll respond and if you choose not to read it, oh well.

LOL, wtf is this? It's like in some fucking zombie game. All zombie forum trolls have arisen from death... I find it really hilarious: Spanky comes back to forum after weeks/months and within minutes, skrewy and mans are by his side and shit is all around.

I never told, asked or suggested to Skrewy or Mans to come on here and troll. I did show Skrewy this thread and I guess they got bored and took it into their own hands. I had nothing to do with anything they did although, the image that Skrewy made was quite funny. I will also take this opportunity to say that Skrewy has had access to my account for a couple weeks, he was the one that changed my signature.

Is this some new project of yours? TrollingRevisited?

To Spanky (and his zombie trolling crew): fuck off. You don't have any rights to demand from me _anything_, especially in this style. I didn't steal anything from you, I haven't begged for anything, I haven't declared any obligations. I just took the thing from Jonny (the only normal person in this whole project, as I see it now, after all the crap the others wrote), because none of you wanted to keep it alive. And now you come here and bitch about me doing nothing.

Did I participate in some fucking presidential campaign, have I made some fake promises to anyone? No, so fuck off.

I agree with all of this. I'm not demanding anything from you, not even asking.

You don't know shit about me, you don't know anything about my personal situation, you don't have any right about deciding what I do with my time.

That's exactly why I created this thread. It was a simple question but you decided to take a holier-than-thou approach to answering. I really don't care about updates or the future of the game, I was just honestly curious. I still find it odd that you showed such enthusiasm and now that's seemingly all gone. I just wonder what happened? I thought you wanted to take this project forward.

Yes, I could rewrite the whole thing in few weeks, but I won't do it just because of you bitching or to please anyone else, I will do it only when I find some fun in doing this. That's how it works.

FINALLY! We get somewhere! Now, let me retort; aren't you having fun playing and enjoying the game? If so, why don't you want to improve it?

You regret about giving me site? So fucking take it back, and care about it again. But wait, you won't do it, cause you don't care anymore. You'd rather kill it, cause it created bandwidth costs on your hosting.

I do regret it but that doesn't mean I want it back. It's filled with far too much useless threads to be able to turn it into something meaningful (to be fair, it was like that before I gave it to you).

BTW, you claim I "broke" something on this site? Let me explain: it's just some shitty part of your code, that stopped working after being moved to another hosting...

Care to share what part of my "shitty" code is broken now? It takes very little energy and bandwidth to shoot me a message on MSN to ask how to fix it.

You don't pay me, so you don't have any rights to tell me what to do. BTW, all the assist donation money is left untouched on paypal account.

Right, again, I'm not demanding anything. It was a question out of curiosity.

You claim that I'm some kind of power-hungry dictator? I never asked for anything that was transferred to me. You can have your site back at any moment. Jonny can have the assist back at any moment.

I never said that. I do think you've let the power go to your head though as shown by your "fuck you all and fuck what you think" attitude. But hey, remember when me & Blue got ahold of global admin and started banning and kicking people? That was one of the few recent times I actually had fun in AA

You use some PM that you got from me, only to quote it on forum in a mean way. It just show how low troll you have become.

If you found that PM mean, then you must have wrote it mean. I copied it verbatim using the forum's quote function.

You can congratulate yourselves, you managed to make me mad for a few hours. But now I'm just going to ignore you, cause you entered total troll mode, and I'm not going to feed trolls anymore.

To sum it up: fuck off.

I'll admit, that was my goal before I started this thread Was it my jerkoff smilies?



Nobody else wants the project so it's all yours Mr big admin. Just kind of interesting that in 6 months you haven't even pushed out a tiny security update that you could write in less than 2 hours that would greatly improve user bans, create less work for admins. But hey, keep on doing whatever floats your boat because you are the captain.

Avast ye skipper!

PPL , dont forget that, if you feel capacited and dont wanna help us, instead, make ur own project;
We are maintening Assist, no one can argue about that, if you think that its easy to port a program from a language to another then your are wrong, even with pit knownledgment it takes much time, remember, we are humans, We all do Work, we have families to take care of and bills to pay etc etc etc...

Yet another point I brought up to you yesterday, Jonny made Assist and he has a family, job, bills and I recall he was moving and/or remodeling yet somehow he found the time.

as i did see yesterday, more then 230 players online !!!
so maybe we wait another 6 month and we are 500 players and then ....?

Doubt it. It was around those numbers 6 months ago. I remember seeing 260+.

No, no.

All I can answer to this is: LOL.

I'm honestly disappointed. I thought (and I know I'm not alone in this) that you showed promise, interest and desire to push forward with Assist. It was my understanding that when Jonny wanted to find someone new for the project, he wanted more than someone to just handle donations and pay the server costs. In fact;

I will still be around to help and will still doing coding work for you when required, i just don't want to be in command anymore. [...] I can then handover control of the auth server, But I will still be around to help you run it.

I hope he finds time to take it forward. I will be great to sit back and watch stuff happen for a change.

Granted, you weren't Jonny's first choice but being that you showed some experience in looking at the code for multihoming and you showing interest in the project, we all felt that you had the most promise to take it and turn it into something more.

Now, here's the changelog for mAAp in case you haven't taken a look at it in a while:
[MAP]ICE - Feb 17th 2012 - Spanky - Added Playerblock to pond.
[MAP]Berg - Feb 19th 2012 - Spanky - Moved perimeter blocking volumes to eliminate rock bug, removed useless terrain, set several BSP surfaces to unlit and attempted fix for Assault playerstart.
[MAP]Breakout - Feb 21st 2012 - Spanky - Fixed some lighting issues, added light fixtures, resolved anti-portal issue in control room and added an objective.
[MAP]Square - Feb 22nd 2012 - Spanky - Made some surfaces into Anti-Portals to try and raise FPS, lowered and raised some lightmaps in various areas for better quality lighting and lower file size.
[CODE]TriggerLightReset - Feb 25th 2012 - Spanky - Updated TriggerLightReset with defaultproperties that hopefully make it behave better and more reliably.
[MAP]Rummage - Feb 25th 2012 - Spanky - Lowered lighting to be more like 2.8's Rummage. Added sunlight actors in rooms with windows facing the sun. Changed cull distance on some objects to prevent popping in and out.
[MAP]Rummage - Feb 28th 2012 - Spanky - Changed opfor clothing to OpInf to make them more discernable.
[MAP]Aztec - Feb 29th 2012 - Spanky - Added light haze to corridor, changed enemy mesh to reduce errors in server log file.
[MAP]Aztec - Feb 29th 2012 - Spanky - Added another light haze, fixed some lightmaps, fixed a texture, fixed a zone portal, hopefully fixed bridge collision and textures.
[MAP]Square - Feb 29th 2012 - Spanky - Fixed door-warping issue when running through doorways. (awning being too low)
[MAP]Square - March 1st 2012 - Spanky - Added playerblocks to various ledges.
[MAP]Shipment - March 2nd 2012 - Spanky - Changed player meshes and skins, set graphics detail on various meshes and emitters.
[MAP]Pipeline - March 26th 2012 - Spanky - Moved playerstarts around to try to balance the map. Removed break room window and collision on railing.

[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 23th 2012 - Koden - Added 2 civilians with related objectives (triggertime25), partial objective set up, moved defense spawn points to the lower floor, and fixed uniform issue.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 24th 2012 - Koden8- Added Playerblock area to the North exit tunnel to avoid players falling down.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 24th 2012 - Koden - Fixed various light fixtures and rods that were missing (including elevator ones) and the Cafe door opening upwards.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 24th 2012 - Koden - Added movers, that however need a fix as they rotate too much ending up into the wall.Also added a door that has to be single shotted to be activated (2nd door on the right at the bottom of the upper main room)
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 25th 2012 - Koden - Relinked all the ambient sounds for the 2.5 packages.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 25th 2012 - Koden - Completed setting up the objectives.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 28th 2012 - Koden - Fixing the last set of light fixtures, modifying the object sets, fixing uniforms.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 28th 2012 - Koden - Setting off collision for the loading line bumpers in the upper main room. Adding some more sounds in the hospital area at the lower floor, and patients static meshes.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 28th 2012 - Koden - Temporarily taking off NPCs for the 7.2 release (server log spam issue).
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 28th 2012 - Koden - Adding 2 radios and 4 sounds phone ringing sound emitters in the upper and mid floor. Adding harmonica and prison ambience emitters in the prison area.
[MAP]Interdiction - Feb 29th 2012 - Koden - Fixing grate movers, adding HUD text for objectives and unlockable doors, fixing main room 2nd floor material, fixing assault double fireteam leaders, cleaning out garbage meshes.
[MAP]SFhospital - May 7th 2012 - Koden - Adding player blocks collision to avoid players moving into area they're not supposed to (reversed shelves in the room behind acceptance and in the escort spawn, next to the car). Also added a playerblock volume on the roof, and one in the ambush alley next to a dumpster.

[MAP]Glass Kill House - Feb 25 2012 - Blue - Removed volume lights from west side windows. They just eat fps too much. Plus sunlight comes through the east windows anyways.
[MAP]Aztec - Feb 25 2012 - Blue - Fixed reporting in using the LocationPriority property on commvolumes and ZoneInfos.
[MAP]Breakout - Feb 26 2012 - Blue - Tweaked objectives, slight changes in some lighting to color coordinate the maps color scheme, and almost entirely zoned.
[MAP]Breakout - Feb 27 2012 - Blue - Made the main area darker. Changed various lights around the map to introduce the red/blue color scheme.

[MAP] Square - May 1 2012 - KiLLaMaN - "fixed" the large amount of points. Has yet to be tested.
[MAP] Square - May 8 2012 - KiLLaMaN - Removed sounds from objectives as they were too loud. Temporary fix.
[MAP] Square - May 10 2012 - KiLLaMaN - Fixed fire sound for burning car.
[MAP] Ice - May 19 2012 - KiLLaMaN - Added wind ambient sound to Ice.
[MAP] Breakout - June 8 2012 - Maxbulldog - Finished off the zone portally.
[MAP] Breakout - June 10 2012 - Maxbulldog - Continued adding some of the blue/red lighting.
[MAP] Breakout - June 10 2012 - Maxbulldog - Finished off the red/blue lighting as well as all of the comm locations.At least, that's what it was before I left the shared Dropbox folder. There's some pretty important updates that have been waiting for over 8 months. But, let's all be honest, nobody cares about mAAp let alone updates for it. How about critical security updates? You know, user bans, anti-cheat scripts, that kind of stuff. I'm quite surprised none of them have been important enough to you to implement.

What's my point? I feel that you, being the project admin, are obligated to push forward otherwise you're not doing your job. Yea, it's not my place to tell you what to do (and I don't really care about what you do) but the people that are thankful for having Assist deserve an admin that can provide updates, not only for content but for security and to make the game more enjoyable.


Just my worthless opinion,
Bitter Old Man












*EDIT*
What happened to this guy:

Yes Spanky, I noticed the site admin rights, thanks.

Wow, you have sent me very interesting stuff. Thanks very much. It's really great the Crusade helps.

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What was that Jonnys "backup plan"? Going linux-only (he mentioned this to me in one of PMs)?

I must tell you I'm starting to view this anti-cheat effort as personally attractive to me. I have zero experience with strictly game-related code, but I feel comfortable in low-level stuff in general (when I was younger :-D I've coded my own kernel with memory protection, processes, threads and all that, and I knew x86 instruction set by heart, so that I could code in binary :-D).

One of the things I was already planning, is to re-write the Assist in C or C++. That will also help with anti-cheat things as we will have more control over the Assist process than with Realbasic.

I'm currently taking care of some pending issues related to my house, kids, etc. (that's why I haven't done any real work yet, only posting BS on forum ;-D), but as soon I finish most urgent stuff, I hope to finally get some time for real work on Assist.

Thanks for those PMs again.

+Respect for both of you. I do have productive things in real life but who says I can't have a little fun during breaks