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Unless you play every day, don't play to win, play to mess around. I feel the same way because I play so infrequently that any tactics that I happen to pick up on are lost the next time I play. Play every day if you want to be good.

If I want to run anti-cheat scripts, since I would own the server, I assume I could do that.

You probably could, no reason to. I highly doubt you'll find anything better than the stuff already included in Assist. Seriously, don't worry about it.

I'll let other people handle Raptr, that program annoys me to no end. Steam needs some help, it looks like I'm admin on there but I don't see much to do, might just be that I have no idea how to use Steam Groups. Might be best to let someone else handle the Steam side of things.

As for cross-posting, I've got Facebook & Twitter setup that way, I think Steam and Raptr would have to be manually done.

I'm not sure what you mean about the news posts. Maybe you can explain the difference between blog style and news style? The titles can't be too long, otherwise they overlap and makes things ugly. All pages, including the forum, have the sidebar. It's not just about the latest topics but also the donation box, shoutbox, stats and Teamspeak viewer. It wouldn't do any good to omit the latest posts with the rest of the sidebar still there, plus it would take away the continuity.

One of the things I was working on before I screwed up the site and lost the information by restoring a backup was a history of Assist with release dates, changelogs and all that good stuff. I'd like to see that back again, perhaps in the 'About' section.

Let's use this thread as a jumping off point for the About section. What are the basics that we should cover? Should we have a history or should it just be straight to the point?




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Vanoke, it's time for me to say something you probably don't want to hear;
You have Photoshop talent, I won't dispute that, but I would not use your talent to create promotional graphics. I have not seen anything of yours that is professional. The things you create are fun but not something that should be seen as the first thing when people hear about Assist. I understand that this project is not a paid, professional group of people doing this seriously but at the same time, we need new users to understand that this isn't some new flash-in-the-pan project that may die tomorrow. We've been around long enough to know what we're doing and any promotional graphics need to reflect that. While I've been part of Assist and AA, I've tried to keep a level of professionalism both in my writing and in the website/graphics. The reason is, anybody can start up a shitty clan site with bad graphics and guess what, nobody takes them seriously. I've been there, I've had shitty sites and it's a joke. When you bring a level of professionalism to the table, people pay attention and realize that it's something that's been around a while and that there's people behind the project that actually care. That's the way I view it anyway, even though I can be a prick at times.

the game must be installed from original installer, then modified files ...

That's optional. Assist can download all the files for you from SourceForge. The 'original installer' option was more widely used before the AA devs shut down authorization, there was quite a big community playing 2.5 an Assist was an add-on game manager so it had to find your current installation of 2.5 and copy it over. These days, I'd imagine most people just let Assist download all the files automatically.

This was the first forum I had with Jared:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/464376/Images/aa_screens/oldscreens/beforeaasite.jpg

Here's the old mAAp forum, I think it was separate from HsC:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/464376/mAApPackFiles/Forum.png

Any others, I'd have to install a backup. Last time I did that, I really fucked AAO25 up, lost like 2 days of data including a project I was working on.

Technology dies. Granted, older stuff was built better but I see routers & modems die in 2-3 years, many times less.

I remember some old DSL modems had both USB and ethernet connections. If yours is like that, switch to the ethernet.