I think the greatest feature and hinderance of Assist has been that the gameplay hasn't changed.
I feel like a lot of people have come back to find that everything's the same, the game they enjoyed is alive. Then there's people that come back and find the same thing but with a negative twist; it's stale, boring and predictable. Now that training is gone, I think that stale gameplay and map whores are the greatest threat to this project's success and growth. I've said many times, we should go through each and every one of the maps and refine them. Fix problems, move things around, eliminate glitches, add player slots and more. A lot of the official maps are fantastically built so the core wouldn't change but the tactics would.
Course, this is just my opinion, I'm a bitter admin whose out of touch with the playerbase and game. A lot of people will hate and rage for thinking this way but I ask this; do you have a better idea?
I was supporting you for years now, you seem the only admin to think this way, changing gameplay would bring new tactics and I fully support you in this case, I have said this many times that the game has been always the same despite new client release, SAI, uniforms.
The gameplay has never been changed in this game, the game is the same and it really becomes boring, and you are 100% correct that map whores who used to play like they played many years ago will rage and is the biggest threat to the game because that's the players that come complain after changes. Thats what happened with 203, anything you try change in the game you get thrown shit back, and basically those players are map whores wwho used to the same tactics, don't want to offend anyone but the gameplay hasn't been changed since disabling 203 which is a very small feature.
And you guys shouldn't be scared of them, the project needs dramatic changes and be ready to receive shit from these kind of map whores, just saying that AA client has changed but the game hasn't changed for years since previous devs left this version.
How many more years will it pass to understand that the threat has always been map whores like spanky said, its just a question of time.
P.S Look at some of the comments, they say lets keep original maps the same ( meaning) lets play the same map as it was used to be for years. ) for me thats no logic when it becomes boring, especially for new players. When this game won't have anymore veterans or have only a few left, who will play the game? ask this question
to me the new players, looking at other games, AA is nothing compared to them, its oldschool classic but changes are always nice and this game has been missing gameplay changes for years because I understand receiving shit form map whores is hard to take as a project runner
I think all admins should sit at one table and discuss this case as priority to move this game further, just my couple cents
Starting in renovating all maps, layout, spots of the map, objectives, make some more teamwork involved, this kind of stuff, its a long project but worth a shot
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Frag whores can leave who play for stats, this game should be played for fun not for some kind competition, competition has been buried long ago. I would like to see it coming back but that is not likely to happen even tho some members of this community tried to do some kind of competition league.
