America's Army announces new Honor Program and Preferred Providers
Westlake Village, Calif., and West Point, NY August 8, 2005 - Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. and the U.S. Army announced today the launch of the AAHonor.com website to provide Honor Services to the more than 5.5 million registered users of the America's Army PC game community. Honor points form the basis of America's Army's unique scoring and rewards system. It is modeled after the Army values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage.
As a character progresses throughout the game, Honor levels increase and decrease based upon actions and performance. Honor earnings increase for choosing to be a leader during the match (squad leader, team leader), successfully accomplishing the team's goals or objectives, winning a mission, and avoiding ROE (Rules of Engagement) violations.
By playing on official servers offered by a group of Preferred Providers or enabling Honor services on their existing servers, players can gain Honor points while playing the America's Army game. The Preferred Providers were chosen for their commitment to America's Army including their dedication to support and first-rate customer service. The Preferred Providers and their Points of Presence (POP) locations are:
Clanservers.com - NJ/NY, Dallas, Chicago, LA, Atlanta, Seattle, London, Amsterdam
GameDaemons - Seattle, WA, San Jose, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, Washington D.C., New York, NY, London, UK
Gamehosters - Ashburn, VA, Los Angeles, CA
InfraBasic - Korea
The Preferred Provider partner network will broaden the Points of Presence that the America's Army community currently reaches to provide additional bandwidth in the United States as well as the UK, Amsterdam and Korea. Announcements of additional locations will be announced soon.
Additional information on America's Army, Honor and the Preferred Providers can be found at www.aahonor.com.
About Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.
Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. develops software. A company that knows no bounds when it comes to the application it's asked to develop; its team members immerse themselves into building a solid framework that then builds upon itself, layer by layer to achieve the necessary objectives. Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. blends superior talent, original thinking and a large dose of common sense. It doesn't allow itself to think in terms of simply completing a project, but evolving it. Through valued feedback by both customer and consumer, it commits its resources to constantly finding a better way. This approach, fundamental to the way each developer works, has contributed to Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. proudly becoming an America's Army technology partner. To find out more about Pragmatic Solutions, Inc., visit www.pr-sol.com. To find out more about the America's Army Honor Program, visit www.aahonor.com.
About the America's Army Game:
America's Army was designed and developed to use online game technology as a virtual portal through which young Americans can explore Soldiering in the U.S. Army. In America's Army players can explore and dominate challenges ranging from basic training to Special Forces Assessment and Selection to Special Forces Qualification Course. They can join various elite Army units and see the power of Army teamwork, values and technology. One of the top online action games on the Internet, America's Army has more than 5.5 million registered players who have completed over 94 million hours virtually exploring the Soldiering in the game.