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Hey Teddy, thank you for the feedback!.

To address the points you brought up:

1. As of today, no. Will there be? Yes, likely this week actually, as I've had this on my mind since development began. It is a difficult issue to solve as there is (currently) no way to verify that someone is who they say they are. I am not an expert by any means either, I've worked in software with organizations that handle large amounts of PII however I wasn't involved in compliance, just implementation!. Nothing is stored apart from display name. No IP addresses, emails, there is no way to even determine the Assist auth account the display name is tied to, so is this considered PII?. I could see how someone could argue both cases. GDPR aside, I think it is important to have the ability to opt out so regardless of what the answer is, the ability to opt out will be here very shortly. (It will be a manual process for the time being, unfortunately. Although I will see if I can conjure up an idea to automate the process).

2. Yes, there is currently a stored "frozen" honor value for each player. Basically, the first time a player is seen, the honor level reported by the server is what will be stored. This will be the starting point used to calculate virtual honor. If the server reports a different honor level, the stored value won't be updated. For example, if I have 30 honor, the virtual honor on the aatracker website will always be calculated from that starting point, regardless if my honor was bumped to 31 in Assist.

The prospect of that is very cool! I think the one thing that most players seem to miss is the ability to gain honor in game, and if it was able to come back, even in a very simple form, people would appreciate that!. I haven't given automation much thought in that sense, however it should be doable. Currently, Virtual Honor is calculated server side and provided to the client when rendering the page. Automation would likely be easier if it was stored, and potentially more performant as the # of players and score grows, but again something to look into!.

I would personally not consider this PII. But again, not an expert. But like you said, some might argue that it is. So better safe than sorry. So it's great you've thought about it!

As for the honor, that's why I brought it up. People like to be able to progress. And as of now, that's not really possible.
And the way you've described would cover the vast majority of our use case even if we were to update honor on our side to show a difference in game as well since you'd just use the original first-join-honor.
However, there's the matter of honor claims. We've abandoned it for now since there was no way to gain honor anyway. But if honor gain became possible again, we might want to allow honor claims based on evidence again. But that would require somewhat manual intervention on your side. Though this could probably be done manually due to the small number of players and a smaller number still trying to claim honor.

I'll shoot you a PM as well to see if we can work something out.

Hi guys! It's been a while since I played last time.. I need help because I can't login in the assist.. The system is telling me that the password is wrong. I changed it and It still telling me that is wrong with my username: Neme.

Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!

Let's make sure we're talking about the same thing.
Remember, a 25Assist account is separate from an aao25.com forum account.

So when you say you changed your password, was that for the forum account or the 25Assist account?
The database says your details were last changed in October, so it doesn't look like you changed your 25Assist account password.

There used to be a known issue with passwords (though we think we fixed that); and I checked that your account wasn't affected by it.

This seems like great work!

In this day and age, I would have a few queries though:
1) Is there a way for people to opt out of being tracked? I'm not a lawyer nor an expert, but this seems like it would be be required by GDPR and other similar laws. In fact I'm not fully sure if opting people in by default is legal in the same respect. Hopefully you have (or at least can) do your own research. This may not be an issue with a small player base, but it can only take one user who feels their rights have been violated to take down your hard work.
2) How does virtual honor handle changes on the 25Assist side? I.e we can (though we don't at this time) edit honor on our side. Do you have a stored "frozen" honor value stored for each account or do you just rely on what you see on the server?

The reason for the last bit was that with this development, we may be able to actually update honor for people.
While I don't know of an automated way to do this right now, there probably would be one.
But until that, we may be able to do this semi-manually by:
a) Keeping track of users who've gained 1 (or more) honor points
b) Updating their honor to the proper value e.g every week

This is obviously not an ideal system, but given the small number of community members, it might be doable.

Teddy Im having issues login. It states Im not logged in although I can post in Sitrep. When I try to get into the game I get this error message. IP address you are currently using is different from the IP address you use to login, please restart and log in. Here is my IP <>. If you can help I would greatly appreciate it.

That usually means you're using a VPN that is routing auth traffic differently compared to in game traffic.
If you're not using a VPN, this may simply be caused by a dynamic IP. In this case, logging back in should fix it.

Do you know the email address attached to the account? It's a <redacted>@gmail.com email.
And the username is the same as the <redacted> part of the email address.

Hope this helps.

They're a little dated, but perhaps one of the following wiki pages would be of help:
https://aao25.com/wiki/index.php?title=Create_A_Server
https://aao25.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dedicated_server

25Assist accounts and aao25.com forum accounts are totally separate. There is no way to "merge" them.

@teddy what you mean by "@yahoo.com" you mean mine?

Yes, your 25Assist account has a @yahoo.com email attached to it. Obviously not going to be posting your full email address here for all to see.