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Big Clan Day / No Next BCD accouncement?
« on: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 10:13:26 AM »
I waited untill someone took some innitiative, but since it didn't happen...

If it's ok by the players here, I'm just going to pick 4 random maps ( I wil use random.org ) that haven't been selected yet. And for me it's ok that there is no "boss" or "host" or whatever. Let's just join and play together, and have a good time.

I need an "OK" from a few BCD admins and I'll make the announcement today and prepare the servers for tomorrow. I will need a reply fast, because it's already saterday.

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General Chat / The ( unofficial ) America's Army 2.5 Assist Event Calendar!
« on: Friday, May 15, 2015, 13:54:04 PM »
The America’s Army 2.5 Assist Event Calendar: http://events.pamclan.com
Click here to see the latest addition to this topic without leaving this website.

( I’m hoping that the assist admins can provide me with an subdomain forward like events.aao25.com or aao25.com/events )

Just copy/past these lines in your reply in order to get your event published:
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[b]Event Title:[/b]
[b]Event Date & Time ( EST ): [/b]
[b]Description: [/b]
[b]Contact E-Mail ( optional ):[/b]
[b]Images you want to display ( maximum 4 ):[/b]

An example. This reply:

Event Title: AA3 Ranch
Event Date & Time ( EST ):    20h EST
Description:    This evening, the _PAM_ clan will put their server on AA3 Ranch in order to play this map. Join at 20h ( EST ) in order to play this map. Only 1/7 rounds will be forceclassed. Our Teamspeak IP is ts.pamclan.com .
Contact E-Mail ( optional ): [email protected]
Images you want to display ( maximum 4 ): http://i61.tinypic.com/2ebg9qb.png

Becomes this:


This can become a succes, but only if there are a few clans or players who are willing to give it a shot.

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Hi,
I’m sure that all of us are happy that we are still able to play AA 2.5 thanks to the Assist team.

But I’m also sure that many of you are unsatisfied with the amount of players left in this game and the little choise of active maps in this game. If you like Bridge, Pipeline or SF Hospital, then you have no problem. But if you want to play some other maps, like Swamp Raid, Radio Tower or any other map, then you have only 2 options. Join one of the few existing clans and beg them to play that map with you, or join an empty server and wait for players to join.

You have to keep in mind that not all players are in contact with eachother. There are many days that people say “Oh, I love that map” or “Oh, sorry I missed that” when they see that I played a map they like the day before. But they were not online at that time, or were already playing on one of the Top 3 maps because all other servers were empty.

Vanoke noticed this problem a long time ago. That’s why he introduced “Big Clan Day” a while back. A weekly event with many participating clans in order to make sure that you’ll be able to play with lots of oter players on 4 ( less popular ) maps. And every week, it’s a succes. Why? Because players know it's going to happen, and they can see a detailled announcement every week.

So, at Sunday evening. No problem, from 20h to 23h EST, you’ll be able to experience some gameplay that you can not experience during the week. But what about the other 165 hours in the week?

At first, I thaught about introducing a smaller weekly event. For example, “Small Clan Day” with only 1 or 2 maps at Friday-evening. But then I would only copy an existing idea, and it would still not solve the problem for the rest of the week.

My second idea was to start a forum topic, just asking for players to announce when they are willing to play a certain map or a scrim. But this will become a total mess. Between all the quotes and replies, it will be impossible to keep track of upcoming events. If someone announces that they will play Extraction next week on Thursday, will you remember that a week later?

That’s why I’m introducing this event calendar.

The idea behind is very simple. I want this to be the place to be to check for upcoming events. Do you want to play a less popular map? Do you want to host a scrim? Then simply reply in this topic, and the event will get published.
This way, all you need to do is browse to http://events.pamclan.com and check if there are events you are willing to participate in. Maybe you see a map that you’ve wanted to play for a long time. Maybe you see an upcoming scrim and you want to participate without joining a clan.

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FAQ

Why can't I just post an event myself on the calendar?
- To avoid abuse.
- To keep players active on these forums.
- So that I can filter ( spelling errors ), add missing info and so that I can add meta-data so that it can be find by the site search-engine.

How long should I wait for players to join?
You have to wait at least 15 minutes. So don't announce an event on a certain map and leave after 5 minutes. Wait at least 15 minutes for players to join. Read your facebook, watch some youtube, etc... If I notice that certain players do not follow this rule, their events will no longer get published.

What about the time-slots?
A weekly event only announces the start-time. ( for example: 20h EST ) Your event can last as long as you want, but in order to make sure that multiple players or clans can host events on the same day, you can not reserve multiple hours. At least not for a weekly event. The only exeption is "Big Clan Day" because this is a weekly event that has been running for a long time, before the event calander was launched.

For a one-time event you can reserve up to 3 hours. ( for example: 20h-23h EST ) But as soon as you host the same one-time event every week, it no longer becomes a one-time event but a weekly event. This results in a post with only the start-time.  ( for example: 20h EST )

Should I reply in this topic every week for a weekly event?
No you do not, but it would be smart to do so. You would only be advertising for the event.
If you reply with a weekly event, it will get added for the upcoming 4 weeks. So there is no need to reply in this topic for those weeks. If you do not re-announce the event after the 4rd week, your event will no longer be published because then I assume it's discontinued. I do this to make sure the calander is not full with events that are no longer running.

If I announce an event, should I be there myself?
No. But you have to make sure that at least one participating player will join the event.

Do I have to be in a clan in order to get my event published?
No. That's the beauty of it. If you and a few friend(s) know that you're planning on scrimming Mountain Pass next Friday, you're free to reply in this topic and it will be published as an event. And if everything goes well, you and your friend will not have to play alone.

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Feedback & Suggestions / What's the changelog for the last update?
« on: Wednesday, May 06, 2015, 14:51:11 PM »
Hi,
Can we have a list of the things that got changed in the last update?
I noticed that the MOTD now has a bigger font. I'm verry happy with that. Any other changes?

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Feedback & Suggestions / Reduce or remove the sound effects on AA3 Bridge
« on: Sunday, May 03, 2015, 07:57:15 AM »
I've tried more then once for players to try AA3 bridge, and when I do, none of them want to stay because of the ennoying noises. I don't know if the noises are identical to AA3, but eaven if they are, they ennoy players.

At the moment, nobody wants to play this map, and I kind of want to know how it plays. But as long as it so ennoying, you might aswell remove the map from the game because nobody will play it.

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Feedback & Suggestions / Longer Decal stay and more bullet cases?
« on: Sunday, April 26, 2015, 13:01:46 PM »
Is there a way that you guys can increase the amount of decalls and bullet cases for the players that have a PC that can handle them? It would be cool to walk round the map, seeing bullet cases everywhere.

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Server Support / Hosting an AA server on a Windows 8.1 tablet
« on: Saturday, April 25, 2015, 18:41:04 PM »
I just placed an order for this device:

HP Stream 7 Tablet
Windows 8.1 32bit
Intel® Atom® Z3735G with Intel HD Graphics (1.8 GHz, 2 MB cache, 4 cores)
1 GB DDR3L SDRAM
32GB SSD ( 130MB/s read, 70MB/s write )
7" diagonal HD WVA IPS multitouch-enabled (1280 x 800)

It was now on sale for only 79 euro's ( office 365 + cover for the tablet included ).

I hope it can run the AA server smooth. It would be cool to have it run an AA server and to use it as a picture frame. I'm going to use it that way because the tablet goes in to sleep mode when the screen isn't displaying anything. And to run the server, the screen has to stay on.

I will let you guys know how it plays out.

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Feedback & Suggestions / Smaller releases
« on: Monday, April 20, 2015, 10:58:02 AM »
Maybe it's a good idea to patch more often, but with smaller patches. I know it's nice to release a patch that fixes or adds a lot of things, but frequent updates show that the game is still improving. Also, it might improve the players satisfaction and encourage them to come up with suggestions to improve the game or to report more bugs.

At work, I work on a few projects. And I notice that the frequency of responses to feedback encourages the employees to keep on giving feedback and continue to support the project.

What does the rest think about this? And what do the DEV's think?

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Feedback & Suggestions / Don't show amount of players on frontpage?
« on: Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 19:09:25 PM »
I haven't seen 100+ players in weeks. Maybe it's best not to show that there are only a few people playing on the FrontPage. Maybe only show it to registered members, but don't show it to random visitors. They will think that the game is dead. Just an idea.

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Big Clan Day / SF Oasis Practice for BCD, this friday at 19h30 CEST!
« on: Sunday, April 12, 2015, 18:40:23 PM »

Next sunday, SF Oasis will be one of the maps that get's played on BCD. Sadly it's almost impossible to practice the map with other  players on it. It's a map that never gets played. That's why on Friday, we will rename our server from "--- Join and play another map soldier! --- Mapvoting" to "Join and play another map soldier! --- BCD Training". The server will contain advertisements ( scrolling ) for Big Clan Day on Sunday. The map will stay on SF Oasis for at least 60 minutes. After that, players can ask for a mapswitch BUT it can not be a map that can be played every day. Offcourse I'll be there. Only 1/7 rounds will get forceclass and teams will get swapped after every match. So that you really get the chance to learn the map.

All players are more then welcome on our Teamspeak-server: ts.pamclan.com ( no port or password required )

I'm hoping that this announcement increased the amount of players on Friday. And if this succeeds, we will try to do this more often.

PS: Can someone send me the script to swap teams please?

Read all about the next Big Clan Day in this topic:
http://aao25.com/forum/big-clan-day/19-april-2015-ht-is-boss-clan-on-big-clan-day/

Be there!


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Hi,

Did something funny happen in-game? Or did you make a nice screenshot? Then share it here! Maybe we come across some nice and funny images to post on other forums and promote this game.

I'm looking forward to the posts :)

Example:


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This is the code you can copy/paste:

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[img]http://i57.tinypic.com/2ytqjc3.jpg[/img]

Het Amerikaans leger heeft sinds 2002 het spel America's Army ontwikkeld in de hoop jongeren enthousiast te krijgen voor een militaire loopbaan. Met dit spel kruip je in de huid van een Amerikaanse soldaat die verschillende missies moet doorlopen. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De originele ontwikkelaars hebben na America's Army: Special Forces "Overmatch" het spel niet verder ontwikkeld met als doel America's Army 3 en later America's Army: Proving Grounds te ontwikkelen. Omdat America's Army 3 en America's Army: Proving Grounds totaal andere games zijn, is er een kleine community die America's Army 2.5 nieuw leven gegeven heeft en tot op heden blijft verbeteren en ondersteunen. De lijst met veranderingen voor versie 8.18 ziet er als volgt uit:

[quote][B]Client:[/B]
•Improved download backupserver system that should fix most if not all install issues. A user can also specify what mirror to use.
•Added an icon that links to ts.aao25.com on the Sitrep Tab for easy access to aao25.com's TS
•Forcing this setting: ReduceMouseLag=False, to avoid certain crashes
•Added simple hashing of the password when it's saved in settings.dat
•Replaced some of the built in icons with custom ones
•Added a ton of new error handling code, so hopefully if you get an error, it will not only say outofbounds or Nil error, it should actually tell what function the error occurred, so that is the information we need when you report an error, what you were doing, and what function was reported to crash.

[B]Server:[/B]
•A new SF mod that will provide full points/kills/deaths to Battletracker.com
•Improved download backupserver system that should fix most if not all install issues. A user can specify what mirror to use.
•It is now possible to start a server in tournament mode
•If tournament mode is used, the color of the server will be set to default(None), to avoid crashing at the end.

[B]AssistServerManager:[/B]
•Improved download backupserver system that should fix most if not all install issues.
•Added an GUI option to enable the new SF Mod.
•Added an GUI option to enable the new Drop shot protection.
•Changed the default number of playerslots on a new server from 20 to 26.[/quote]

Gamers die het spel jaren geleden verlaten hebben kunnen nog steeds hun oude account recupereren en hun honor-level verder opbouwen. Ook battletracker blijft voorlopig America's Army 2.5 ondersteunen. Het spel kan gratis gedownload worden via [url]www.aao25.com[/url].

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It will look like this:



Het Amerikaans leger heeft sinds 2002 het spel America's Army ontwikkeld in de hoop jongeren enthousiast te krijgen voor een militaire loopbaan. Met dit spel kruip je in de huid van een Amerikaanse soldaat die verschillende missies moet doorlopen. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De originele ontwikkelaars hebben na America's Army: Special Forces "Overmatch" het spel niet verder ontwikkeld met als doel America's Army 3 en later America's Army: Proving Grounds te ontwikkelen. Omdat America's Army 3 en America's Army: Proving Grounds totaal andere games zijn, is er een kleine community die America's Army 2.5 nieuw leven gegeven heeft en tot op heden blijft verbeteren en ondersteunen. De lijst met veranderingen voor versie 8.18 ziet er als volgt uit:

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Client:
•Improved download backupserver system that should fix most if not all install issues. A user can also specify what mirror to use.
•Added an icon that links to ts.aao25.com on the Sitrep Tab for easy access to aao25.com's TS
•Forcing this setting: ReduceMouseLag=False, to avoid certain crashes
•Added simple hashing of the password when it's saved in settings.dat
•Replaced some of the built in icons with custom ones
•Added a ton of new error handling code, so hopefully if you get an error, it will not only say outofbounds or Nil error, it should actually tell what function the error occurred, so that is the information we need when you report an error, what you were doing, and what function was reported to crash.

Server:
•A new SF mod that will provide full points/kills/deaths to Battletracker.com
•Improved download backupserver system that should fix most if not all install issues. A user can specify what mirror to use.
•It is now possible to start a server in tournament mode
•If tournament mode is used, the color of the server will be set to default(None), to avoid crashing at the end.

AssistServerManager:
•Improved download backupserver system that should fix most if not all install issues.
•Added an GUI option to enable the new SF Mod.
•Added an GUI option to enable the new Drop shot protection.
•Changed the default number of playerslots on a new server from 20 to 26.
Gamers die het spel jaren geleden verlaten hebben kunnen nog steeds hun oude account recupereren en hun honor-level verder opbouwen. Ook battletracker blijft voorlopig America's Army 2.5 ondersteunen. Het spel kan gratis gedownload worden via www.aao25.com.

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Currently posted here:
- http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1631636
- http://www.9lives.be/forum/shooters/994619-americas-army-2-5-assist-8-18-a.html
- http://be.hardware.info/forum/threads/americas-army-2-5-v-8-18.279711/


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General Chat / Does anyone remember "Flemish Army" ?
« on: Saturday, April 11, 2015, 06:39:07 AM »
This ( small ) community was founded in 2003 and was discontinued in 2008. It had it's peak with a little more then 4000 unique visitors a month. We were one of the official hosts for game-patches, organized clanwars, we worked together with Reaper and Rifle from AntiCheatInc and created an anti-cheat-script update tool for server-admins worldwide. We maintained an anti-cheat banlist, a racist-banlist and beleave it or not a homophobic banlist ( apperently I had to much time on my hands  :P ) We were in contact with Homey from battletracker and got him to discontinue tracking version  2.8.0 and 2.8.1 to decrease fragmentation in the game and we're the ones that came up with the ideau for the server version selector on battletracker so that you can see how many players play each version.

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http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.clantoolz.com/flemisharmy/forum/sitenews.aspYou'll have to copy/past this in your browser in order to see the website.

The actual domains were www.flemisharmy.be and later www.flemisharmy.info, but because they redirected to the site above, they don't have any archives.

A few articles from 2007 ( used Google translate ):

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Gaming is good for your eyes! ( 07 February 2007  )
According to a recent scientific study has playing video games a positive effect on the development of vision.

Researchers from the University of Rochester have come to this startling conclusion. They discovered that someone had played several jars Unreal Tournament occurred a greater improvement in sharpness and letter recognition than someone who had spent the same period, the puzzle game Tetris.

Daphne Bavelier, professor at American University, said the research shows that a damaged visual cortex (controls the part of the brains that vision) can be stimulated with the right incentives in order to start a process of recovery. Playing video games hereby delivers better results than watching a movie or TV series with the same amount of action and movement on the screen.

This difference is probably due to the fact that playing a game is a positive action, so there is more of active participation and therefore more brain activity.

There are now completed much scientific studies showing that gaming has more advantages than disadvantages. Arguments that you can use to your parents:
-> America's Army heal my sight <-
-> America's Army improves my concentration <-
-> America's Army increases the long term my IQ <-
-> America's Army improves my reflexes <-
-> America's Army will ensure that I have less fear in real danger <-
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Nice to know ( 05 April 2007 )

Top 3 Server locations:
1. USA
2. Great Britain
3. Germany

Top 3 player locations:
1. USA
2. Germany
3. Poland

Top 3 Game Version:
1. 2.8.1
2. 2.8.0
3. 2.6.0

Top 3 most popular maps:
1. Bridge Crossing
2. SF Hospital
3. Pipeline

Top three least popular maps:
1. SF Taiga
2. Swamp Raid (sorry)
3. Steamroller

Worst players at this moment:
1. Zippy972
2. Gangsta_Aids
3. Bruser {}

Best players at this moment:
1. = [STORMY] = _ dizel
2. GodEmperorofDune
3. wolfiehammuh

It might also be nice to know that you can find the most noobs on the maps' Bridge Crossing, "" JRTC Farm Raid 'and' River Basin. The most experienced players opt again for the maps' Mountain Pass SE "," SF Artic 'and' SF Taiga. The map'SMU GH SFFloodgate' is the most popular map of the last four new maps. The map 'SMU GH SFRefinery' has the least success.

There are annual 963 662 675 euros spent on honor servers! You're in a clan with an honor server, then wear your part to pay by the amount of one player slot. You're not in a clan, do not complain if you kicked someone who does their bit in that clan.

1% of all active gamers AA plays with an account that is on one or more banlist. 1 in 100, sad when you at it, but hey ...

Only 24% of AA gamers is in a clan. Only 1 in 4 is "busy". 2% of the AA gamers are female. The chance that you meet your future wife in this game is pretty small, we do know that there are a few handsome and friendly Flemish female gamers, right?  ;)
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Ebay Accounts? Yep, they still exist! ( 18 december 2007 )

Each AA veteran knows the "invective" Ebay account though. What is an Ebay account? A player who uses an America's Army Account which he bought on ebay, an account in which all courses are completed and this account usually has an extremely high honor level.

Even today there are America's Army accounts sold on ebay.

Ebay employees and the developers have now been personally informed of this illegal practice, and we can only hope that the sellers get their comeuppance!
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AAOTracker.com has moneyproblems ( 19 august 2007 )

[GA] Homey, founder of www.aaotracker.com has announced that he has more than $ 1,000 in debt. He has also indicated that it will not be so easy to pay off these as SCI no longer supports him. The website now uses a whopping 1 terabyte traffic per day! That is not nothing!

There will be in the future so more but also get better ads on the website and there is now also a paypal button on the front page. There are almost 367 000 soldiers tracked. If only a few thousand € 1 donation, then the debts have been paid off.

Want www.aaotracker.com persists? You know what you have to do
Drink a pint less this week and donate 1 euro

So I wonder, is there anyone left of those 4000 visitors? Or did anyone else remember this community?



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General Chat / Why do people ask "What's my ping?" when they can see for themselves?
« on: Wednesday, April 08, 2015, 13:22:22 PM »
Your REAL ping is what you see on the scoreboard and with F6 or "stat net", BUT after it hits 255 it wraps around to zero and goes up again. This is due to the Original DEVs only using one byte (8 bits, up to 255 in decimal, FF in hex, 1111 1111 in binary) to hold your ping information.

Very low pings of 0-10 are practically impossible unless you are next-door to the server, or playing on a LAN. Even at a LAN party or playing head-to-head on two computers connected to each other you will have a ping around 5ms or higher.

If you don't believe me, write down the server IP and your ping, exit the game, hit Start > Run > type in "cmd" > hit enter or click OK, then type "ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l 512" (replace 'x's with the server IP numbers). That will show you a more accurate representation of your ping, but you have to add ms to represent what you will see in-game with all the other factors that affect your ping.

So please, stop asking "what's my ping?"  :down:

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Feedback & Suggestions / MOTD fontsize
« on: Tuesday, April 07, 2015, 19:23:35 PM »
Is there anyway to increase the fontsize so that the MOTD is actually readable? It's pretty big when you play on 800x600 but I doubt that most players still play on that resolution :)

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Big Clan Day / What's the agreement about forceclassing?
« on: Sunday, April 05, 2015, 17:20:20 PM »
First on extraction, then on radio tower, then on alley. What is the agreement? I'm not judging, just asking. If it's ok to forceclass on big clan day, then there is no point of me asking admins to stop it. Also, there was one round where everyone got pistols, and a minute later we get SF guns. That feeled like one of the admins needed an sf at some point.

I'm not against forceclassing, I do it myself and I do it often, but I'm jus wondering on what you guys agreed on.

These screenshots were taken this evening. And not during the last round of a game.







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