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office would be indeed interesting as VIP map, afterall, you save hostages in original. also objective works, thats 100% sure, but VIP, interesting

looks good, cant wait to testplay nade count was wrong what i remembered, its 1+2+2+0(thermite) like in pics shown went for actually youtube to find toplist guys frag vids and found this

can be possible cause, that in win7 at least for me, when army is killed, either by closing it or similar stuff, some service might stay hanging around and punkbuster tries to "bind" into it, thus software itself, is not giving info to PB and cause kick on first server punkbuster scan.

solution = use "fix punkbuster" every time you disconnect/close Army, but just "test service" no reinstall or anything is needed. testing restart punkbuster services and bind em to proper software => youre able to play

like said -port seems its not working in command line. you have to set it in to .ini otherwise server fails to launch.

also if one is not dragging "PID" from his sleeve, server fails and starts to mess with auth and crashes, IF there is another instance(s) on the same machine, no matter what IP theyre using = -nohomedir option is also messed, or system design with these new auth services (2pcs) has some flaws.

for clarification, in common english what these params mean to unreal 2 engine

MULTIHOME = "there are other(s) in this hardware, stick with this IP, NO SOLOING!"
-nohomedir = "dont solo, your files are in this folder, where youre launched"
-port = "stick with this port, its your primary game port, deal with it"

if those options are not given properly (command line) to UE2, in closed envinronment, like game hosting, or multiple instances, it can create havoc, cause this engine thinks its own. it looks for free ip:s and ports to find himself spot to stay. yes launching server with open values can be succesfull, but it can be sometimes a bit shitty to find ones server, cause it can change those in every restart. so basically if problem is with these pid services, they should play by the unreal2 rules, which is to stay on its home folder and bind to ip/port given to them in command line. to place those values in ini files is quite dangerous, because in multi hosting, or when running multiple servers in same rig, one can quite easily mess them. and bear in mind, unreal had possibility to be driven from same folder, just pointing -ini=plah.ini for another launch from same folder, well with exception of /pb folder, those had to be unique to every instance.
thus those values should be set, and kept in command line to simplify setup process.

seems like command line has some wicked features, when removing port definition from /System/aa25.ini, server is not starting at all, even cmdline is clearly defined with multihome and -port expression..

also its highly possible that -nohomedir option is not working too, running two instances in same box and in differend IP:s IF pid is not defined they crash eachother. yes its said in the .ini but didnt believe that code designer intentionally broke working structure, but yes, its broken

leaves me wondering what else is ripped off, cause servers seem to run a bit wacky overall with their process(es), can see three differend process on one game instance, eeh??

yes, you can change clientrate typing console: netspeed xxxxx on the fly. and as far i remember somewhere around 30k was maximum with any effect, if server allowes it. usually played on known good servers with netspeed set to 20000. im not sure what is maximum supported tickrate for engine, could throw out a guess its 100, cause havent found documentation which would mention it to be higher.

also people might want to look at this clientside guide, most of the information is quite well explained, and well, may or may not have some impact on game experience.
http://www.tweakguides.com/AASF_1.html

done

http://aao25.com/general-server-discussions/pimping-up-server/

also there is given real explanations why something should be "as they were" in the original, lots to read and some things are boring, but you guys asked