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Here's what I posted on Battletracker:

I'm going to disable authorization on my AA server - Spanky's Fun House [AA25.org] [mAAp Rotation] -NO AUTH - and move it to normal maps. You guys should be able to go to the Settings tab in Assist then AA SETTINGS then "open 64.126.161.69" for my server. I'm not sure about tracking messing up but if you guys NEED to play, this is a way to do it

From VendorX:

It's alive... It's alive...

I think PBall is fine. It doesn't look washed out or anything and there's no dark spots. Have you tried toying with the editor's gamma settings?

There should be a buffer time that's allowed. Although, this might have something to do with replication. The latency between the client and server. You obviously can't run with your gun being busy without hacks. Perhaps the latency is greater than the time between a idle weapon and running which would mean the server thinks your weapon is still busy by the time you start running. If this is true, I don't think a buffer could be added. Perhaps just a warning for things like this but if you fire while running, kick.

Looks like mapname is the least of your problems. It's not responding to a query at all, it just shows up in the server list. It's a server problem as it shows up that way for me as well. Perhaps there's another server trying to run on the same ports?

You know more about the code and how it works than I do, I just don't want to see a situation where we start heading one direction that people don't like. 

If you can guarantee that then changes may be a good thing but I still can't see how I will benefit or anyone else really with most of this.

I realize that I can't go making changes willy-nilly and make people like them. Anything major that affects gameplay would either be an option (like mAAp TeamView) or it would be voted on.

The thing that sparked controversy was the AA3 gun sounds. I think that would be cool as they're probably recorded with better equipment and they're probably just better sounds all around. The problem is matching the reload sound to the reload animation. Things like this would make changing sounds impractical. Combine that with users not wanting it and it means that it won't happen.

I know you say that things have been overcome by time and technology but that's not always true. Skrewy has capped internet and if he needs to re-download, having less stuff to re-download is worthwhile to him. Also, if we were to "pimp" maps with lighting and effects (snow on bridge?), it would use more CPU and video memory. Since AA uses a single-core, we have to balance that stuff.

Anyway, bottom line is, I have plenty of work in mAAp and trying to get physics working that the benefits of merging right now aren't as high priority as a new mAAp release. I have plenty of other things to do than to mess with gameplay and piss users off

I'm reminded of the reasons I don't play AA much anymore.