mfred66 Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Get the mods while you can http://www.cmmods.com/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patboy Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Bad news, but modders can use Repository files here at battlefront!!! Pat 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 the reality is that cmmods.com hosts 2,709 CMBB mods 2,056 CMAK ones so there is not way that the BFC site is going to have those uploaded by anyone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 What we should do is start snowballing burned DVDs of the contents around. The only way to save our heritage, so to speak. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doodlebug Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 OMG OMG My cultural heritage. I can't believe it. Had to happen I suppose but I still can't believe it. OMG OMG Flap flap flap Headless chicken mode engaged 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Yup... that's what it will come down to. But who's gonna send those DVDs to Germany and back again? ;P But the Repository is a good start, so let's get to it! Do we try to upload every single one, or do we just upload those publically acclaimed to be the best? Do we try to contact the mod authors? And last, but not least: is there anybody at all that has every single mod stored somewhere? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Hey Earl Grey, Germany is not that far away! Well, there was a chap on the forums recently who claimed to have downloaded all the cmmods material and it took him weeks. And you are talking Gigabytes here! I have about 12 Gb of mods and that is only about 25% of what is on cmmods. Even my modest collection would amount to 16 CDs. Probably the easiest way to get them back available again is to bundle them into series like "Terrain mods", "German tank mods", "MikeyD's mods" and then let individuals add the missing items. Problems of copyright abound. Someone over at the Repository just got shouted at for posting a 'collection' of scenarios and has just withdrawn them. But all the material over at cmmods is 'free to use so long as you quote authors name'? I remember a lot of it was copied anyway from before the BIG CRASH. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Yikes, This is distressing indeed. I remember someone posting "Must Have" mods, but cannot remember the list. There were some background scenics too. Can someone steer me in the right direction for them? Heinrich505 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 The importance of what clubs there are for CM should be realised as it will form a safe environment/conduit for the saved works to be circulated. However modding is a minority sport so I cannot imagine any club wanting to make it a project when playing and organised tournaments have a far higher importance. There is also quality control. From what I can make out there is no mechanism to stop people uploading mods even if they are not that good - or more likely later mods continually raise the bar. Saving all would be better scaled down to saving those that are highly downloaded already and new ones that are noticeably better. Having several people in each country who hold the best works may help to avoid problems with posted DVD's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Ah man the news just gets worse :-\ It's the mods that keep me coming back for more to be honest. I've got 4gb or so worth to date and I'm happy to share these with people if we can find an economical solution. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 The solution is relatively straightforward as Battlefront are offering to host them in the "Repository", the issues are: 1) How are the mods organised. 2) Who is going to upload the 60 Gb worth of mods on cmmods.com My suggestion is that they are uploaded in groups, by country and type, with one or two top designers like MikeyD with their own set. So That would give you: German Tanks German ACs, SPG and SPWs MikeyD's mod set Terrain and User Interface each set would come with a text file listing the name of the mods (just as on the cmmods site) and then people would be able to add individual ones which were missing. What do you think? Any volunteers? Other issue is the copyright one as there is always someone who complains if the authors are not contacted, written authority given, blah, blah, blah. These files are almost all free to use and most contain a text file that has the authors details in them. So they should avoid this. cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Many mods there have a license that doesn't allow you to transfer them to a new host without the author's permission. I still think that making one multi-DVD snapshoot of the machine, the whole thing, and then mailing it around in a snowball system (every recipient must mail two copies to other people) is the way to go. Very obviously nobody will be able to mirror the thing now, because a run's gonna start. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 And the site already went down... well, let's hope that it comes back online for one last time and that we can get all important mods off it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 This is just STUPID. We will now all hose the bandwidth of this thing trying to get the same mods off. It would be much better to coordinate to get one complete mirror and then start re-distributing it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David White Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 What happened why did it close? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Oh good lord, this site was a part of me, I feel like I'm losing a chunk of my soul. I never did finish modding all the AFVs for winter. Uh yeah, lets not break it rushing to get the last mods that got away. (everybody is in a panic) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrizwit2 Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Gutting that after so many years away just as I get back into mods Cmods is closing. Tried to get on site but after login could get nowhere. Had a few whitewash mods done in 04 but not on my hardrive anymore. Bugger if I can't get back into cmmods, I'll not see them again. Feel rather sad. Still have copies of all MD's CMBB grey panzers and stugs + most of his CMBB yellows, a few gaps in the yellow stug arsenal unfortunately. Oh dear, got to go to work. Sad day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Gutting that after so many years away just as I get back into mods Cmods is closing. Tried to get on site but after login could get nowhere. Had a few whitewash mods done in 04 but not on my hardrive anymore. Bugger if I can't get back into cmmods, I'll not see them again. Feel rather sad. Still have copies of all MD's CMBB grey panzers and stugs + most of his CMBB yellows, a few gaps in the yellow stug arsenal unfortunately. Oh dear, got to go to work. Sad day. I've got your SPW Gelb WW mods if that's the ones you mean? Happily email them to you? Cheers fur noo George 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eniced73 Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 What about Battlefront adding these mods into the Repository? Is this feasable? If not, I will help in any way dl'ing the files to discs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Of course it'd be easiest if the modders themselves would upload their mods to the Repository, but that won't happen - some of those people I haven't seen in years, some still are around, but might not have gotten the word yet. I'm all for getting a complete mirror and have it stored/uploaded somewhere else, but that needs to be coordinated, like Redwolf already pointed out. So, Redwolf, how do we go about it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Of course it'd be easiest if the modders themselves would upload their mods to the Repository, but that won't happen - some of those people I haven't seen in years, some still are around, but might not have gotten the word yet. I'm all for getting a complete mirror and have it stored/uploaded somewhere else, but that needs to be coordinated, like Redwolf already pointed out. So, Redwolf, how do we go about it? I have once contacted the owner with the idea of making one set of disks and send it around. We told me to just download everything. The problem here is that we do not have one plain list of mods. If we had we could just take the list, devide into a couple people and have a go. But the way the UI is set up we need some help from the owner for a complete dump. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 OK, to make it more clear. What needs to be done: 0) select a group of people who will dump this thing, or just one person. 1) turn off regular access to CMMODs for everybody (so that the bandwidth is preserved for the dump). 2) make a new "secret" interface that allows the dumpers to quickly, with a commandline client with no cookies (just secret URL), download all mods, or the assigned chunk. This is easy to do with no programming work by just opening up the directory view in the http server. 3) once completed the dumpers join their parts and a snowball system for sending DVDs around starts with any or all of them. IIRC we talk 60 GB here, which might cost something extra in bandwidth. I'm willing to pay the cash for that upfront and might beg for donations from the community later. Sounds like a plan? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Redwolf, I have a T1 line at work and lots of time. I have often used CMMODS; it seems only fair for me to help. Let me know if you want a hand. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Waiting for a reply to my mail. Basically I proposed the plan of one or few dedicated downloaders and offered to pay expenses. It would be best if somebody had a machine that is hosted in the same datacenter. For that matter, why wouldn't I just take over the hosted machine right there? Hmmm... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Sounds like a very good plan. Good idea on contacting the owner! We might actually ge tthis thing going after all... but what's with the old CMHQ mods that never made it to CMMODS again after the crash? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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