This is both the forum and game FAQ.
Here are some answers to some common questions floating around the forum...

Forum FAQ:
- Q: How can I change my forum avatar?

A:Avatars in this forum are linked to a global site called gravatar.
By creating an account on Gravatar (making sure that you use the same email address as that you use on the forums), and uploading your custom avatar to their site, it should automatically synchronise the two accounts within a few seconds.

- Q: How does the text formatting work here?

A: The basic formatting information is displayed to the right of the text box you use to create a post, but here are the tags again:
Create a link: <a href="">Create a link</a>
Write some code: enclose your code within ` (commonly used for quoting other users also)
<strong>Write in bold</strong>: <strong>Write in bold</strong>
<em>Write in italics</em>: <em>Write in italics</em>
And lastly:<blockquote>Write inside a blockquote</blockquote> (this entire paragraph is in a blockquote)

- Q: My threads are being closed/posts being deleted - why?

A: Likelihood is you are breaking the forum guidelines.
These are the guidelines that both users and administrators should follow. At the end of the day, it is the admin team's discretion on whether a thread/post stays or goes (based on the guidelines).
Excessive arguing about the discretion in thread will likely provoke an admin to punish, so all complaints about such matters need to be presented and dealt with in an official manner through posting an aptly named thread in the Support forum.

- Q: How can I be a good user on the forum?

A: In one sentence: follow the forum guidelines.
In more than one sentence: keep thinking whether what you say is related to the topic and is not some junk and/or designed to provoke anyone. Keep threads as 'clean' as possible and make sure than any links to external websites are not advertising products or hacks of any kind.

- Q: How can I edit the title of my own thread?

A: Click on the 'edit' button by the original/first post you made, and change the title from there.

Game FAQ:
- Q: How can I change my ingame name?

A: Your ingame name is defined in the 'config.ini' file in your Ace of Spades installation folder.
So to change it, simply go to your Ace of Spades folder (often 'C:\Program Files\Ace of Spades'), then open the file 'config.ini'.
Inside there is the line 'name Deuce' - simply change 'Deuce' to the name that you want (remembering to keep a space between 'name' and the name you choose).

If you get permission errors, then you shall need to: copy all the contents out of 'config.ini', paste it into notepad, delete the original 'config.ini', now change your name in notepad as described above, save it onto the desktop as config.ini (remembering to make sure it's saved using 'All Files' option rather than '.txt' if using notepad), then copy/paste that desktop 'config.ini' back into your Ace of Spades folder.
Step-by-step video of this process can be found here (Thanks to Andrea for the video).

- Q: What is the purpose/goal of this game?

A: Ace of Spades is an FPS (First Person Shooter) with sandbox terrain. The goal is to capture, and return to your Command Post (marked as a team-coloured '+' on the map), the enemy Intel (marked as a square in the opposition colour).
By capturing, you increase your team's score and you receive the ability, for one minute, to see all enemy movements (as red circles on the map). You have limited ammunition on your player, but you can restock your supplies at your own Command Post.
You have two digging tools, a rifle and some grenades. The pick-axe is used to gather blocks, destroying one block at a time; the spade is used to destroy three blocks at a time (destroys the block you point at, plus the blocks immediately above and below it - useful for making tunnels).

- Q: How can I play the game on linux?

A: using WINE. Details on how to do this can be found on the Wiki.

- Q: How can I play the game on mac?

A: Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?8zhioibefcxb0ak
Unzip then right-click on the app and select "view contents" to access the config.ini file.
(Thanks goes to knottycorpse for creating the original app, and Pwaa for highlighting and updating it)

- Q: How can I remove the fog?

A: You can't, and it is considered a hack if you do so..

- Q: How can I change my controls?

A: Unforunately control-changing functionality has not been programmed into the game, however Ben Aksoy (the developer) has said that custom key bindings are on the agenda for future updates.

- Q: I cannot load client.exe, what is wrong?

A: Ace of Spades works by webpage sending information to 'client.exe' to load it automatically with the correct settings. This means that you can't just load 'client.exe', you must choose a server from the play page and let it load itself.
Currently there is no GUI (Graphical User Interface), however some members of the community have created their own alternative server browsers with nifty extra features, more notable ones being listed here.

Hello,

I dont know if a Mac version exist, i dont have found one. So you think we can have a chance to see a Mac version of Ace of Spades ? Can the developpers can make it easily ?

Thanks.

GilDev

PS : Sorry for my bad english, i'm french. =)

This is my first pack so don't expect that much from it (some of the sights are not mine and are made by gregery and SIMOX).
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weapons included
*FAL - semi
*Barett .50 cal - semi
*Stakeout - shotgun
*M1014 - shotgun
*M4A1 Holographic - smg
*AK-74u - smg
*AK-47 - smg
*Mac11 - smg
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the link will be below and i do plan to make some new guns,sights and scopes.
link: http://www.mediafire.com/?3gp4a0fh0st0eka
(Remember to rename the KV6 files and the PNG files)
here is a picture of the poster for the pack
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=1c37v2gmek8t03d&thumb=5

Hello, forgive me if i break any rules for this forum by posting this here. I have got a working application made for mac os x 10.5 and 10.6 intel computers, i am posting here to see how many people are interested in me posting my ace of spades for mac game to mediafire or something of the like. i know people have said use crossover but crossover isn't very easy to use and personally i don't like to use it very often and so i have made an easy program that you launch, install ace of spades and then double click on it and it runs ace of spades perfectly! this is all done by wine for mac os x for those who are interested and i deserve no credit as the credit goes to those who have made wine and wineskin possible as well the team who are working away on ace of spades and are making an awesome fun and unique game. please let me know of what you think, questions, tutorials, etc.
PS. this method should(might not) work for linux and ubuntu as well.

-Credit goes to knottycorpse for making this app in the first place-

Download: http://mediafire.com/file/w051yor5imf74wi/AceOfSpades.app.zip

Unzip then right-click on the app and select "view contents" to access the config.ini file
(drive_c/Ace Of Spades)

Happy Shooting!

-Pwaa

Okay, so there are some people that prefer using UNIX (That's Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, the BSDs, etc) to Microsoft Windows. In that case, you need to use a program called Wine to play. If you like using the command line interface, like I do, here's a guide to getting Ace of Spades to work, and play well:
(In these instructions, I am using ## in place of the version number. Remember to change this. Tab completes in most shells, but make sure you're in the same working directory of the installer if you don't want to type the full path out.)

chmod 755 aos*install.msi && wine start aos##install.msi
This makes the installer executable, and starts it.

nano ~/.wine/drive_c/Ace\ of\ Spades/config.ini
This is for changing your name. Nano is recommended for beginners, but any plaintext editor works.

echo "wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Ace\ of\ Spades/client.exe -$1" > aos && chmod 755 aos
This makes a small script you can use to start playing from the command line.

echo "wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Ace\ of\ Spades/server.exe" > aoserv && chmod 755 aoserv
...Alternatively, you can also have one that starts a server. I'd use this in GNU Screen.

sudo cp aos /usr/games
Now let's add this to our path. If this folder isn't in your path, see what is by typing "echo $PATH". You'll probably need privileges to copy the script there.

aos aos://16777343
When you want to play, just type aos and paste the server URL. This example would connect you to a server on your rig (localhost).

I hope this helps! Feel free to copy, modify, or distribute; it's public domain.

"Bob''

Hello people of the Game,
It would greatly please me if someone can enlighten me on a way to run this on Snow Leopard without installing Windows.
Thanks,
JamRad

my friend showed me this game and i thought i could download this game and play it but apparently i was wrong and am forced to look on wanting to play this game badly so i ask please make this compatible to macs

Question 1.

Is there a arab player skin pack? I mean like turbans, because I think that would be awesome.

Question 2.

Does anyone one know how to instal gun packs, and player model packs on a mac?
I'm running the game with wine and it works great, but I can't figure out how to change the models.

I only have a Mac and i am to lazy to install a windows emulator. Is there anyway someone could make a Mac compatible version of this?

in some future update would be trench guns (WW1 shotguns) for more intense close range combat and barbed wire.

Please don't overcomplicate this game, I love how simple and yet deep it is in it's sheer simpleness. I love how 99% of the players still don't know how to properly build a bunker and teaching them that cover has to be two blocks high. I love telling Deuces how to change their names, I love sneaking into the Green base and marauding their bridges/bunkers/autism buildings.

Trench Guns would strengthen some players in close range combat while over mid and long range they're weak, which is where the strengths of the rifle lie. This could make for an interesting dynamic if you'd spawn a third of the players randomly with a trench gun and see how it plays out.

Barbed wire on the other hand... well, it's not a block and there's nothing like it that you can recreate in the game. Of course the amount of barbed wire one can have and carry must be pretty limited, else you'd just have entire parts of the map sealed off with it. I think of barbed wire functioning this way:

The space blocked by barbed wire is still passable, but you'll get badly hurt when on the other end.

Barbed wire can be destroyed by hand grenades, making the two you have even more valuable and forcing players to learn how to throw them properly.

That is all. Thanks for reading. :3

I installed the latest version fine and linked up the aos:// links to the client.exe file, and that part works fine. The only problem is that every single server I click on comes up with the "Server Connection Failed: it's either full or misconfigured" window. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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