Guys you are missing the point here.
The best thing is to work together and make it as good as possible for all the players!
Without the new auth system AAO2 was vanished into thin air,
i and i think a lot of other admin's/players are very glad with this.
Although; Several weeks ago i brought some great idea's and helped where i could but you guys just ignored my posts, or not fully read them. I didn't like that at all, but i stayed and kept my server up and running (first of several).
Installed/bought new hardware in my data center, added some new low ping connections and shutdown my AAO3 server. I was excited to start AAO2 again, and play until the morning comes
But then out of nowhere an update which ruined al my settings and brought my server down, how do you guys feel when that is happening after so much work? Thats the same thing if someone comes up and say to Jonny "Nice try, but this is a very bad program!", it hurts!
I Just want to help, Let-Me !
As i said my server is running again and with my new adjustments iam fine with it. It is a shame that tag-protection and older bans doesn't work anymore but if you guys want to; i will look for some information about UCON and Tag-protection and share it with the rest (maybe not here but through private mail,..?).
And Jonny, you said that no one donated some money but that isn't true. First time that i downloaded the program (last year i think) and played again i have supported you for a couple amount of dollars. I would do it again if i am sure we can work/listen to together. What are the costs that you have to make every month with running your auth server? (and don't mean personal time, but renting some hardware or something?).
But please don't become the (old) AAO community, worked with them a couple of years, helped with some new features in AAO3 but didn't like it at all. They just ignored my (and others) input, sure some of the things they used but mostly they just ignored it and didn't even send a message back.
I am not the bad guy here, just a helping hand. Sorry if i hurt your feelings jonny
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Spanky, sorry but you i have send also serveral messages without any response to it,.. didn't liked that also. So don't shout at me this time because most of the time i posted some messages and asked you a question, got the answer sometimes from Jonny but most of the time it stayed quiet.
I hope that you to are willing to work on this on behave of the aao25 team!
-> It is funny but this time i got several responses to my questions AND VERY QUICKLY, thanks (see i can say it, i am still a human; i think
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