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I was thinking more along the lines of when someone creates a new account they also submit a Honor Claim, which gets e-mailed to a mailbox and someone from our team reviews this claim to see if its resonable, Like look at the players history on the trackers to asses if its valid or not.

As much as I hate honor, this is the most reasonable.

If your willing to giveme  the login details for your server i will set it up for you on VNC.

Talk about program support

Prove that a significant part of the 2.5 community wants more and I'll work on the maps again.

doesnt draat require u to add server i.ps into the tracker instead of it scanning the game and getting stats of all the (honor) servers?

I think that was just because of Scabies' hosting firewall. The servers had to be added to the exception list. Either way Killaman is right.

You guys sound like you want to do something spectacular with the engine

Well it would be nice to fix things up or even use a newer version of the game and port it over to Linux & Mac. As well as fixing mAAp up. Small steps though, not some 2-year project that has no beta releases.

I would need help to build a web-page to display the stats, PHP coding to access the database.

Definitely something I could help with. But, for me to participate/help, I would need to see proof of a significant user base and desire from the community.

Try to help us & invite old clans and players back to 2.5 and about this great community and there plans. 

Not to be a downer but has anyone actually said that work will be done on 2.5? My understanding about this thread is that it's just talk and ideas. I think what needs to happen first is the players themselves need to show interest and motivation for an "AA Classic" to be brought back. There's been several people that have put a lot of work (most notably, Jonny) into trying to keep 2.5 alive and interesting. As far as I'm concerned, all the efforts have failed to keep a significant user base. I mean, someone mentioned a server of 20 people? Even 50 people isn't worth the time and effort to rebuild AA.

What we need (IMO):
Someone knowledgeable in UScript - I don't imagine Berry (Crusade) is available much anymore. There's TONS of coders for UT2004, or at least there used to be. There's got to be someone that would love the opportunity to do something unique. I actually know someone that loves UT and is learning C++, that might pan out interesting.
A decent version of the UnrealEd engine - What we have isn't meant for 2.5, it just happens to work.
A way to form an authentication/tracking database - Some interesting links:
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/522253-Uscript-MySQL-Class
http://ut2004.titaninternet.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=15293

It would be cool to talk to some devs and beta testers to see if we can get a hold of some files. It might also be a good idea to look into the old hackers that made honor hacks, they might know a bit about how the authentication or player database system worked - enough to replicate our own.

Just to toss it out there, I've (painstakenly) gotten the old mAAp forums running again. I know there was a lot of good ideas on there, not just for maps. It should be setup as read-only so don't try to go and register and post, it's not meant as an active forum, just a data archive.

So, here it is:
http://maap.natescomp.com

I did this because I know I sent a letter out to Pragmatic and I believe to some devs or public relations people at America's Army. Maybe it's possible to get in touch with the right people and rebuild the old game with the right tools. Worth a shot.


Perhaps a starting point with THE guy that ported 2.5 to linux and mac...
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=America's%20Army
http://twitter.com/icculus