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I do log in to assist just fine. I've logged in and out a few times and my status shows green on the bottom left (I'd imagine that means online), and the install page has all verified stuff. I tried to do the training, since I guess we have to do that again, and it gives 2 pop ups, one is the re-install AA thing, and the other as a "you're not logged in" message.

I don't remember ever using that "Battle Buddy" username though. I thought it was weird that it my old name was taken by it. I guess I can try to log in using the buddy as the username and my old passwords. thanks for the response!

It's the BT username you had on that account you linked. Your BT username is completely separate from the AA username on your BT profile. A lot of people forgot about this or never realized this so that's why we always suggest it when a user can't access their account. Just click on the user profile of the BT account you linked and see for yourself.

Your account was activated so that's not he problem. When assist stars it should ask you to login automatically. It doesn't do that for you? If it doesn't, try hitting the "logout" button at the bottom right and logging back in again. I've never heard of such a problem before.

Also, as for your other account if you still want to try to salvage it (you wouldn't need training that way), the username is "Border buddy" without the quotes if you didn't already know what ti was. You can try every password you know I guess.

I've tried to fix that oodles of times. It's a problem with the skybox which makes it very pretty but adds crap like that. The sky is the inside of a box that's painted with images. You can see the same thing on mAAp Pipeline but just barely as I used some fog to cover it up.

Same here. Might just add some clouds to the sky.

and one obj should be great in thoose tents in the midlle.. i dont now if its possible..

I'm probably going to rework the entire map, new objectives and everything. Terrain will stay the same though as I suck at dealing with terrain.

i know u are all voluntary but u also make the decisions and take the responsibility.

read the 70 posts i made in the last 3 years on this board, all are suggestions. in the threads i made them, are even more suggestions.
dev-team needs a vision in which direction u want to develop the project and than slowly do it and communicate it. i dont see any visions, ideas etc. from the dev-side nor any direction were heading to. eliz is a great technocrat, but where are the project-leaders with the bigger idea behind?

i dont want to make u look bad, but want to make u move...

and ac is really not the problem, its one of the things u do really great.

I definitely understand what you're saying, but it's a bit more complicated than implementing ideas people have. There is a lot to consider. Our original vision was the bring back AA2 and keep it the same game it was before the official auth went down. However, our #1 goal is the longevity of the game. Sure, we want to add stuff to make new people join, but we also don't want any changes to make current players leave. Major changes is a bit of a gamble that needs to be looked at carefully. What if nobody new joins but all of the current players hate the changes and leave? The game is, after all, on a 2 generation old engine and isn't exactly attractive to younger players. We've talked about many changes that ended up not getting implemented. It's not that we're not thinking about it, just that most of the time the risk outweighs the reward.
It's exactly what you said, the admins make the decisions and take the responsibility, and we sure as hell don't want to be responsible for killing a game with unwanted changes.
I agree that something should be done to kind of freshen up the game though. I think a player opinion thread might be useful to see what ideas everyone has.

I'm going to address the only part of your post worth addressing.

am sad to say this but our loved ''admins'' relay more on anti cheat tool than on community voice. I don't know why community is ignored by admins.

We don't ignore the community. Why would we have so many polls asking for their opinion if we ignored them?
Yes, our anti-cheat isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot more perfect than a human saying someone hacks because "I just know it." We don't ban without proof, that's a very dangerous path to go down and we won't.

to my mind dev-team is so uninspired. small things could change a lot and take players out of their comfortzone. not even a little innovation was risked. instead new maps, new assist, new homepage...nothing substantial. sry to say that.

This post annoys me for two reasons.
First, our staff is completely voluntary. What is done is what Eliz can get done or wants to do. You're not paying for the game, expecting him to do a bunch of stuff not knowing his situation is ridiculous. You also have to understand that there is a limit to what we can change. We do not have access to the source code, so pretty much everything done has to be a mod over top of the game.
Second, where are your small game changing suggestions? We try to listen to the community as best we can, but you can't complain about something you want done not being done when you never suggested it in the first place.

Activated. Have fun!

In hindsight, that is kind of an angry smiley, didn't intend that to be the tone of the message.  Thanks for getting us back up.

Ignore that guy, he's a troll (and known caught hacker) and is now banned.
The truth is that when there's unscheduled downtime, most of us know exactly as much as you do. As in, it's not working, and that's it. There's not much we can do.

I'd also like you to please remember that our entire staff is completely voluntary. We don't make any money doing this and we do have lives outside of AAO25. We're not all that fast to react to stuff, but this game is completely free so it's frustrating getting criticized when we do all that we can, even when the situation is out of our control.

I've had no problems getting on the 2 times I tried, but I have seen some people today claim the same is happening to them. Obviously a problem with the auth server, and these things happen from time to time. I remember official auth would go down for days at a time back in the day. The only difference is that we don't have people paid to fix these things. I don't have any control over that nor do I know what's wrong, but things should be back to normally eventually. Sorry for any inconvenience.