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I was banned from the chatbox just the the day, and I was told on Discord which comment caused my ban, with a screenshot. Fortunately, it’s only for 24 hours and you could still comment in the chatbox via the forum (unless you get a ban from that as well. lol).

I saw your comment which lead to your 24 hour ban, and I thought it was such a non-story, I can’t actually remember what you said.....

In the past 7 days, me, Carmy, Playtronics and Bumpy have been given temporary bans. I really don’t understand what the hell is going on to be honest....

I can tell you what is going on. But I've got a feeling you won't like it.

There's a bunch of grown ass adults acting like children. And the 25Assist team is left to deal with these children. Whether we act on something or not, we always get shit thrown back in our face. In fact, we're being told we're dictators whenever we do something about the nonsense and hate going on in the shoutbox. And we're being told we're biased if we don't get to something else one of you thinks is "just as bad" within an hour or two.

There used to be a saying "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anyhting at all". But clearly this community has self-identified as "if you can't throw fuel to the drama fire, don't bother posting".

EDIT:
I don't know what was said exactly. But my best guess is that it was something that was adding fuel to the fire. And the easiest way to put out a fire is to remove its fuel. Which is what was done.
Perhaps the fuel was unintentional. Perhaps something was said as a joke. Perhaps there was a misunderstand. I don't know. But the only real option for slowing down this toxic behaviour in the shoutbox is for us to give people 24h bans on the shoutbox. Perhaps it would be better if we called it a "time out" instead of a ban. But the effect remains the same.

You were banned from what? The shoutbox? The forums? The game?

I don't see a record of any of those.

Send me a PM.

The Mac support AA 2.5 had isn't even compatible with old Intel Macs, it's for even older PowerPC macs. a CPU architecture that has been dead on the desktop since around 2005 when Apple ditched it for Intel and x86.

Shows what I know. Never played this on a Mac. But I do recall the issues coming about regarding the inability to load the game when Catalina came around in 2019.

So I suppose the compatibility layer we'd be looking for was Rosetta 1 - to allow it to work on x86 after having been built for the PowerPC versions of MacOS.
Though given that they dropped that in 2011, it's weird that I don't really recall seeing major issues with newer Macs well before the Catalina release. Though it's somewhat less surprising given I joined the team in 2014 (had to look this up, by the way!)...

Regardless, I believe my point that this is going to be hard if not impossible will still stand. But just with an extra step of hard...


EDIT:
By the way - the above made me think of all the releases that AA had. And I compiled a list on our Wiki, just for the sake of it. So if anyone wants to go down memory lane, there might be something there (withink the links):
https://aao25.com/wiki/index.php?title=AA2_Release_Dates

You can't.

I'm pretty sure there's a massive disclaimer when you're attempting to download the 25Assist client for a Mac. It won't work on any new or newish Mac.

The client (and game) are built for 32bit x86 architecture CPUs. And while Macbooks used to run on x86 (before the M1), they haven't supported 32bit applications for years now.

EDIT:
To quote from the popup you get when triyng to download the MacOS client:

Assist is 32bit and won't work on the latest Mac OS (Catalina and newer) because those only support 64bit applications

So that means this hasn't been possibel since version 10.15 released in 2019.

Your honor will be updated the next time you're online.

NICK!!! How ya been brotha, hopefully good. life has been very eventful for me, haha,

PLAY!!!! I'm getting all the bob clan to come back and play as well. I'll be on later on tonight.

Alex, i don't quite remember who you are. but that don't mean anything lmao.

Alex=Killaman

To answer Hpye's original question, I don't think any precise rules are needed.

Be kind to each other and respectful as you would want to be treated. Joke around but understand there may be consequence if you repeatedly go to far and this community finds what you are doing as offensive. You all know what is socially acceptable and don't act like you don't. Act like you would as if you were in front of that person. Know when you cross the line and be man or woman enough to say sorry when you do or think you did. 

This should not be that difficult to follow.

I think this sentiment is correct. But there is nuance that a lot of people seem to miss.

Like I've said before, we're an international community. And as such, many have different cultural backgrounds. Which means different tolerances for certain activities. I don't think anyone is saying you can't joke around with your friends / people you know. I'm pretty sure I call Bart a hacker every time I see him online - I know he can take it ! But I don't do that with people I don't know.

I guess the TLDR would be: don't assume that other people have the same tolerance for "trash talk".

PS: What do you do when you assume?