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Keeping track of their K/D and Level that shows how good they are, means alot!

Taking something fun and turning it serious means the fun gets sucked out of it.

Also, in the next update any servers running mods will not be tracked.

Woot!

Alright august, I went into the header and removed the league and link to Assist site. Both are really unnecessary now. So, there are room for 2 extra pages in the navigation. I know the info page could be done better so if you or anybody else has any suggestions, here it is for you to edit:

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<a href="#FAQ">FAQ</a> &bull; <a href="#Downloads">Downloads</a> &bull; <a href="#Player_Stats">Player Stats</a> &bull; <a href="#Official_Server_Providers">Official Server Providers</a> &bull; <a href="#Anti_Cheat">Anti-Cheat</a>
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<h1><i class="icon-download"></i>FAQ</h1>
<b>&bull; I have no idea what this is!?!?!?!?!?! (History)</b><br />
America's Army is a game created by developers hired by the US Army. The game was basically a recruiting tool designed to show people what it's like to go through training to become a soldier and then take those skills learned to the digital battlefield. Developed and released in 2005, the game has gone through many updates. In 2009, America's Army 3 was released on Steam which was a complete re-working of the game. It was utter chaos. The bugs in AA3 have since been worked out and because of that, the previous version, America's Army 2 (AA2) was dropped entirely. This meant that the developers shut down the account and authorization systems making the game difficult to use.
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<b>&bull; What is Assist?</b><br />
Since the official servers were taken down, creative developer JonnyM enhanced his Assist program to include an account authorization system. Taking over the entire game, he was able to introduce new anti-cheat systems that previously weren't possible. Assist also includes the ability to run a server on both home and dedicated setups seamlessly. For more detailed info on how to use Assist, see the <a href="http://aa25assist.sourceforge.net/Data/readme.txt" target="_blank">Assist FAQ</a> and <a href="http://aa25assist.sourceforge.net/gettingStarted.php" target="_blank">Getting Started</a> guide.
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25Assist - America's Army 2.5 all in one client<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa25assist/files/Binaries/25Assist-Linux.zip/download" target="_new"><img src="images/linux.png" alt="Linux Icon" width="32" height="38" border="0" /></a>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa25assist/files/Binaries/25Assist.app.tar.gz/download" target="_new"><img src="images/macos.png" alt="Mac Icon" width="32" height="39" border="0" /></a>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa25assist/files/Binaries/25Assist.zip/download" target="_new"><img src="images/windows.png" alt="Windows Icon" width="36" height="32" border="0" /></a>
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<a href="http://aao25.com/2-5-assist/aa2-5-assist-readme/">Readme</a>
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Dedicated Server - For use with a hosting company<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa25assist/files/Binaries/ldedisrv.tar.gz/download" target="_new"><img src="images/linux.png" alt="Linux Icon" width="32" height="38" border="0" /></a>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa25assist/files/Binaries/wdedisrv.zip/download" target="_new"><img src="images/windows.png" alt="Windows Icon" width="36" height="32" border="0" /></a><br />
<a href="http://aa25.org/Data/LReadme.txt">Linux Readme</a><br />
<a href="http://aa25.org/Data/WReadme.txt">Windows Readme</a>
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<?php mostplayers(); ?>
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<?php authFull(); ?>
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<a href="http://www.hosters.at/" target="_blank">Hosters.at (Europe)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.totalgamehosting.com/" target="_blank">Total Game Hosting (Europe)</a><br />
<a href="http://lowpinggameservers.com/" target="_blank">Low Ping Game Servers (U.S)</a><br />
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PB Kicks &amp; Bans:
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<a href="http://auth.aa25.org/PBLog/ALERT.txt" target="_blank">Hacking Alerts</a>
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<a href="http://auth.aa25.org/PBLog/bans.txt" target="_blank">Hall of Shame</a>
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PB Screenshots:
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<a href="http://auth.aa25.org/ss/msgpbssv.html" target="_blank">AA25.org OFFICIAL SERVER UK</a>
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<a href="http://176.35.187.226:1719/msgpbssv.html" target="_blank">AA25.org Dedicated mAAp Server</a>
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<a href="http://ss.braef.com.br/" target="_blank">Brazilian Elite Force</a>
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<a href="http://24.75.166.87:8080/msgpbssv.html" target="_blank">{G.O.W} Gods of War 1</a>
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<a href="http://98.167.141.23:8000/msgpbssv.html" target="_blank">{G.O.W} Gods of War 2</a>
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<a href="http://90.146.231.194/svss/msgpbssv.html">&nbsp;-VerT!go RooM. )&gt;&gt;&gt;Normal</a>
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<a href="http://188.93.234.133/svss1722/msgpbssv.html">-PUF SF Server</a>
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<a href="http://188.93.234.133/svss1719/msgpbssv.html">-PUF SF Server mAAp</a>
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<a href="http://95.211.134.117/1716/msgpbssv.html">-PUF SF Server Border</a>
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<a href="http://95.211.134.117/1716/msgpbssv.html">Belg Clan Server</a>
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<a href="http://80.162.6.3/msgpbssv.html">Danish Elite Fighters</a>
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I know I can do a staff page, it will just take some time.

For screenshots and videos, I know how people shoot videos and take screenshots on their computer, the problem I'm having is how to get those from various people's computers to this site. The media page as-is uses Dropbox for the images and YouTube for the videos. There's no frontend so the pages are edited in Dreamweaver. I don't know how to go about getting videos and screenshots from users and easily adding them to a homepage to keep things fresh. I made the media page to show the maps as they are and a couple of videos. If there's a few good 2.5 videos roaming around, I'll gladly add them to that page but as far as keeping content fresh, that's more difficult.

Since TWL has started up their league for AA 2.5, Jared and me have decided to remove the AAO25 league and just direct people over to TWL.

Here's the league they've started up:
NA:
http://www.teamwarfare.com/viewladderdetails.asp?ladder=America%27s+Army+2%3A+NA+-+4v4+Objective+%28v2.5%29

EU:
http://www.teamwarfare.com/viewladder.asp?ladder=America%27s+Army+2%3A+EU+-+4v4+Objective+%28v2%2E5%29

A big thank you goes out to those who did use the AAO25 league.

I believe it's just a basic redirect, probably the PHP header trick. It's not an actual domain host kinda thing.

Thanks for the suggestions. Personally, I'm always open to them as I get stuck with what to do next. I looked over them and I don't think a staff page would do anything aside from clutter things up. With the mAAp Pack, we had a credits and readme page which hardly ever got used. It would be interesting to maybe have a section on admins somewhere but not a dedicated page. There's already a bunch of pages crammed in the navigation, adding another one for a page that I don't think would see much use is not really worthwhile.

The affiliates mod, as far as I can tell, is just advertising. We already have a spot for that in the code but don't use it yet. Long story short, I never received a banner from my host to put up. I don't think we need a mod to do this, just simple non-bloaty code.

I do like the profile page but I'm having a hard time justifying it in my mind. Maybe if others think they will use it a lot...

I have nothing against the social buttons for profiles. It's simple and easy to do. I will wait to see what others think about them first.

For the home page, where do you suggest we get gameplay videos and in-game screenshots? Personally I hate "frag" videos but if others like them, I'm all for tailoring the site to the masses, not to what I like

a few examples:

-professional is probably not the right word. what I mean is something of a front page that is attractive to new/old players who find out about AA2.5 and makes them to want to play.
-forums better organized, probably cleaned up
-adding more forum features. SMF has great modules to use

and so forth

The hand over of command is for Assist itself, not the website. Jared and me made this site and feel that it's "done" and running fine with all the features we could think of.

How would you organize the forums differently? What forum features do you suggest?

Dockside too. Might be cool to include some horizontal or angled windows that can be shot and you fall to your death inside a darkened (fog?) building.