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Bart, the idea of deleting private servers is not only to play other maps, this can be done already even WITH  private servers. It could be done to reduce power given to server admins.

Like Pit said, server admins have too much power. It is a fact.
If I want I can :
1) Make a server,
2) Join my server in the morning with a noob account (like raw does) so people join.
3) I put as map Bridge Crossing.
4) In the afternoon my server is full, that is certain, and then I can decide to ban one single player because he was killing me too much (happens with zibi, Im not saying hes clean or anything, dont go off topic, just an exemple)
5) The player is fucked, because there is only one server on bridge crossing. He tries to fill up another server, but it doesn't work. The guy only likes bridge crossing (again, it's his right, for exemple Eliz)
6) Next day I do the same
7) The guy stops playing AA because he was banned on 1 server by a retard server admin who was happy he finally had some powers in life.

Hope it is clear now

I never said hacking is "right". I never said it is some kind solution. I never said it should be allowed. I just explained the background and I simply oppose to your idea of claiming that I'm some kind of a monster that eats AAO babies.

It's funny how you try to protect your "pro" friend. One day assist gets a much better AC than nowadays, and suddenly many of such respected "pros" will vanish. But it's nice to see that at least you can express yourself in an elegant way. But I'm not fooled by this. Not of all the hackers are a script kiddies.

I really put some effort in this because my 6th sense makes me worry about all of us since a few weeks.
Something drastically new must be done, fast, otherwise... 

PS : I agree, the progressive way appears to be the most appropriate one, under the condition
that we start fresh new with 10-20 listed OAS servers only and gradually list additional private servers
on a defined pace so the baby can grow healthy again 

As for "huge history": I'm glad you used the phrase "since you left", which acknowledges I had some history before that point.

As for hacking: all of the targets were/are: a) cheaters, b) exploiters, c) abusing server owners (kick/ban-trigger happy, ghosting clans etc.), d) self-proclaimed pros (with uber-sound locating players from other side of the map), etc. Never went after ordinary players (it's quite boring, to be honest).