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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.

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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?

I will entertain this thread as if this was a genuine interest in fairness rather than a specific interest in getting an individual unbanned (which it clearly is).

Others have already covered the visibility aspects of this. So I'll try to focus on the standardization.

I think you're right. There could be more transparancy regarding behaviour related bans. While we do have a TOS to cover the very basics, it is rather vague (as these things tend to be).
With that said, I'd wager a guess you can't probably list many players that have seen behaviour related bans. Especially permanent ones. And that should go to show how seriously we take this responsibility.
But the problem is, you can't easily take these examples as a line in the sand because (most likely) you weren't there for all of the referenced behaviour. And hell, some of the behaviour may not even have been referenced publically. Perhaps that is part of the problem (I don't think so, but the community sentiment may differ).

There's a great saying where I come from: "kus viga näed laita, seal tule ja aita". I suppose the rough translation being "If you see a problem, help fix it"
We are a community after all. And community guidelines should reflect the values of the community. So if you think you've got the ability to help get things rolling, then please do so. If we keep the process of creating these guidelines open to the community, they're far more likely to actually voice the viewpoint of the community.

So I'd call upon anyone that's (actually) interested in the fairness of the action the Assist admin team takes to come forward and voice their opinion.
Though do please do so in the following manner:

• Each separate point to address in the guidelines in a separate paragraph
• Each paragraph starts with a bolded phrase / sentence to summarise it
• Each paragraph continues a longer body of justification and description of the point

Topics that could be of interest:

• When does behaviour / speech become harassment?
• What metrics should be used to classify a message threatening?
• What metrics should be used to classify a message embarassing?
• Where is the line for untolerated hate speech?
• What is the level of offensive language that should be allowed?

Things to bare in mind while trying to answer these questions:

• 25Assist is not the US government. Whether you're from the US or elsewhere, we can take action on speech / behaviour that would be protected by the US' first amendment (which protects citizens' speech from being suppressed by the government)
• We have an international community. Different countries/cultures have different values. Yours is not more correct than someone else's
• The whole point of a community guidelines is to show the viewpoint of the community, not an individual

I find these questions incredibly hard to answer. But I'm sure others in the community are better suited for the task.