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Just a quick note.  I've been asked to help install servers on Windows from a few people now and it strikes me that it is a more difficult process to do now for those technologically timid folks.  Before, all you had to do was click a few buttons.  Now, you have to unhide windows directories, change directory, rename files in dos, unzip files manually, ect.  Pretty easy to do for some of us, but not for others.   I'm not sure if the goal was to keep non-dedicated people from running servers or what, but seems to me that this might be counter productive to growth.  What was the reasoning for it?

This was mentioned briefly by Merlin in the 'server will assist auth down' thread, but here is a way to do it and save all your favorite servers using an icon for each using your existing assist installation - and you don't have to uninstall assist or download anything.  I hope it comes back.  We have put up servers that work with the existing assist installation.  I think rapture has a thing where you download some files to make the SAI work, but I am not sure it works ok with our servers yet.



Note:  If system folders are hidden on your system, search may not find ArmyOps.exe.  Open up 'My Computer' or 'Computer' from the start menu, and paste the following:
%AppData%\25Assist\armyops\System
and the folder containing ArmyOps.exe will show.





Our three server addresses are:
82nd.us:1948       Pipeline regular with mod weapons
82nd.us:2064       SF Pipeline
82nd.us:2180       Anything But Pipeline!

Any other server addresses should work as long as the servers are using assist maps and textures.
82nd.us/modules/news has # of players in each 82nd server if you want to visit there.

1st of all, thanks for the updates.  But - you should at least post what you are updating so we're all not scratching our heads wondering why the servers have to be reset and why we get kicked out of Assist.  (update:  I see now that it's posted at the end of the 7.3 thread.  But probably should find a way to show up on the main page or make a new post)
Also, getting an irritating error from Assist as below.  I had 'ONRELEASE' in there probably from the days of 2.8.  Aliases[25]=(Command="ShowScores|OnRelease ShowScores",Alias="ScoreToggle") was also in there, but never showed detected.  When Assist updated, I was getting this error preventing me from joining a server.  I searched for ALL my user.ini files and removed all references to 'ONRELEASE', but this error still persists (and yes, I am admin, and yes, all hidden folders are displayed).  Furthermore, you can only get out of this error in windows by task manager.

http://battletracker.com/playerstats/aao/822248/24psi/
One of my guys started watching him (high k/d) and caught this.  Glitch hitting the wrong button pulling grenade pin or aimbot mechanics?  Primary weapon firing as Opfor crossed his path from pipeline north.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bap6bQMipcA[/youtube]

Will 2.5 compatible custom maps be able to be run in a server?  Or do they have to be distributed with Assist?