Hello everyone. Right now I am copying the database of wc3s. This means that every post you make from now on will not be in my copy. I am going to put this copy onto my website www.hiveworkshop.com to import ALL posts, ALL Threads and ALL Users..

Every post from now on will not be saved.


PS: I will not backup PMs

I have now tried many things. First I tried to move all the wc3s files onto my server. But Darkys scripts are so bad. His syntax is not supported by never versions of PHP which means I would have to rewrite everything.
Then I tried to host his files on my server. I am ATM hosting all the maps.
Well then I actually hacked me into this webserver to find out who is owning it and got to the email for support. I contacted them about quota and they said they didn't know why Darky was using 7-8 GB when he is only allowed 500 mb. This brings us to a new problem. Either we will need Darky to tell them what his deal is. IF there is one? So let's say I was hosting all the resources. Then there would be around 100 mb space left. The database is 200-300 MB and this site also hosts other sites as wowledgebase etc. And even the resource images breaks the quota, there are around 1000 MB of images.

So now I just want to know what you want?
I am able to import the forum database onto the hive workshop: http://hiveworkshop.com so all the topics and users can work from there. I also have a resource section which I am improving every day to match wc3s.
I only need two sections, spells and scripts.
But importing all the resources of this site would probably not be that clever. So maybe you could re-submit your resources if that's what you want..

I just want to know what you want?

Hello visitors and members of wc3sear.ch

I have gotten the mission to revive wc3s though it has never been dead.

All map downloads will be down for some time. I hope that all downloads will work within an hour but I cannot promise anything.


Ralle

DO NOT submit ANY Resources at this time. We will make it quite clear when this privilege will be restored. We moderators have enough work as it is cleaning old bad resources from our sections.

Edit: Sorry for not making this clear. If you have an alternate link from which to download the resource you may submit it. I recommend FileFront.

First off I would like to thank everyone who has continued to visit this site despite this rather difficult problem we are facing. With the disabling of uploads and darky's continued absence during all this, I am amazed we are still getting so many visitors. Many have stepped forward to offer us help, and I am very grateful for the generosity this community has shown.

Hopefully in the next few days ahead we will be taking steps to implement some changes that may solve some issues. I have been taking with Ralle, owner of Hiveworkshop.com, another great wc3 site, about a potential merger. They have much available room for us to possibly move servers.

I know I have asked for your patience, and I know everything I have said to this point has sounded like empty promises, but please just give us a little more time...
-VGsatomi

Right now i'm trying to figue out how much we are over our quota webspace...
It doenst look too good seems were a lot over the quota. The tools are 100 MB, the Spells are 200mb.. and skins / maps / models havent even finished downloading yet... i started hours ago ...

Update:
- 100 MB tools
- 200 MB spells
- 600 MB models
- ??? MB maps
- ??? MB icons
- ??? MB skins

Currently i'm cleaning up a lot stuff on the website hoping to get some free space :-/
I also really have trouble paying the next bill for the webspace, so if anyone feels like donating something every donation is highly appreceated.
I also contacted my ISP trying to make a deal for more webspace, but havent gotten an answer yet.

On another note. Those of us who play wow know those various profiler pages.
I dont like any of em, so i decided to try to make one myself. SO i wrote a wow addon and a profiler page which is currently in beta testing.
Take a look at it and try it out if you like:

http://www.wowledgebase.com/wowprofiles.html

heres an example of some profiles:
http://www.wowledgebase.com/?id=1
http://www.wowledgebase.com/?id=2
..
..
..
http://www.wowledgebase.com/?id=36

Greets

Darky

The belt buckle on our resource archive has finally popped. The uploading of all resources has been temperarily disabled. Please do not try to upload any right now...it will just create a broken link page that I will have to clean out later.

Darky is currently requesting additional space from his provider. Clearing existing space will not re-enable uploading features, since its likely a stop issued by the provider. Will keep everyone up to date.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
-VG

Lets all welcome PurplePoot to the map moderation team. He is an active member and has offered much help and advice in the forums, so hopefully with his continued help we can keep the maps section a worthwhile place to browse.

I also understand there is still concern over missing skin files in the skins section. Afronight has created a help topic a while back in the skins forum to address this issue. The skins can still be used even without the files present to download. Check it out at http://www.wc3sear.ch/viewtopic.php?t=16604
-VGsatomi

Already gotten my first wave of "OMFG WTF WHY DID YOU DELETE MY MAP!!!111" PMs in my inbox.

All of the 1400 maps I deleted this month of July were done because of the broken link problem (the files no longer exist due to problems with the host, and are instead leaving empty download pages which I have been steadily removing). I gave months of advance notice to people to update their maps so that they be uploaded on our server again. Only a very few select people did so. Dont say I didnt warn anybody.

Plus, recent news has stated over and over was has been going on in regards to broken link maps. So I'll just say this; if you wont even bother to take 5 minutes to read the site news to know what is going on with the site, then I wont bother take the five minutes to respond to your PMs. Sound fair?

Thats what I thought.
-VGsatomi

I've lately seen a lot of complains from people, that certain recolors are accepted, and others are not. Since everyone asked for a purge and we don't want to have anyone discriminated around here, thinking that we are impartial, I have decided that pure recolors will no longer be accepted.

Exception files are Darky's icons (why? because he owns the site) and Blizzard icons (because they were put here by Darky himself). If Darky allows me, I will remove these icons as well. Until then, they will stay. But any other icon, purely recolored, will be deleted.

Arkidas (owner of wc3anvil) has started his own WoW site, so maybe we can show our appreciation for his help for our site by giving it some browser love'n!
http://www.wow-ring.com

EDIT: In other news, I have removed over 1000 broken link maps (20% of the archive) these past few days from the maps section. I figure there is still about 600-700 more before the archive is clean of them. I will be leaving several hundred broken link maps up because those are maps I happen to have in my personal archive that I can upload and restore the links to, when I return to the states in 2 weeks.

Sorry I failed to mention this, but when I said " please report broken links", I meant via PM (to any moderator), not by forum posts. If you do report something, please post a link to the resource, not just give the name of it.

I've already gotten many reports. Thank you all for your time and effort in pointing them out.

If you map or skin (for maps and skins ONLY) was deleted because it was one of the hundreds of broken link resources, then you are free to re-upload it again. However this time it will be subject to being screened by moderators.

Also, if one of your resources is one of those with a broken link (again, for maps and skins only), you can simply update your map using the add/update resource tab on the corner of your page to re-upload your map, where it will be put onto our server and keep your comments and download statistics.
-VGsatomi

All moderators have been promoted to moderate all sections. That should solve the problems of have active mods with loo little responsibility and vice versa.

Also in the maps section, these will be added to the submittion critiera;

-Original maps only. Thats mean no edits of other people's work. This includes blizzard. The only exceptions to this is if a map was willingly passed on from one owner to the next, and not valid edits made from open source maps.

-No demo maps.

-Beta maps are okay, but they must be late beta stage maps. If you do not know what a late beta stage map is, please read the map submitting criteria in the maps forum.

-No maps that cannot be play tested (mainly pertains to open RPG maps. Sorry, but if you know enouph about triggering to add a save/load code, you should know enouph about triggering to break it when there is only 1 player present.) Our moderators will need to be able to play test maps without having to log into bnet.

-A minimum standard of quality will soon be put in play for all sections soon. I will write up a description of what is needed to meet minimum requirements for maps when it is put into effect. Other section mods will be required to write one up for their own sections.

Also, we will begon removing resources with broken links immediatly. If a resource comes up with a "page cannot be displayed" when you hit the download link, please report it to any moderator and we will deal with it.

I will also begin trying to remove the author list drop bar from all sections. This is one thing we strongly suspect is causing the long page load times.

Everyone has been chanting "purge! purge! purge!" these past few month. You know what they say, be careful what you wish for.... please do not get upset with the moderators if any of your material is among that removed. Thank you.
-VGsatomi

As we approach the magic 5000 in our maps section, once again we are faced with the reality of space problems. Darky has reported that we are again over capacity. This means one of three things can happen. One woud be that we get enouph money to expand webspace (via paypal and by clicking the tiscali links). Darky is a starving student, so that much addtional money is not possible, so again we may be asking for donations i the very near future to help keep the site running as it is. The second option is additional hosts (which still may be solved by our collaberation with wc3anvil), and the third being reducing the number of hosted files down below the capacity mark (basically a purge).

We want to keep wc3search a favorite among the wc3 community, so let use hear your feedback.

Well, I've begun my 3 week teaching venture in Wuhan. I still have limited access to the internet so I can still get things done here.

Juvenile crime rate has risen by 70% here. The cause of this drastic rise in crime? Violation of the anti-online gaming addiction laws (a topic I posted about in the news a long while back). Its ammusing...70% of all crime committed by youngsters these days is simly playing too much online games.

I was watching TV the other say and saw an interesting debate on a talk show between a univeristy professor who has been treating young people with internet gaming addictions and a representative from a Korean online gaming company (presumably Nexon or Triggersoft). One topic that came up was about how online gaming companies were going to curve additicion before it began, and their main solution was adding ratings to games, however the prominant problem to that was by who's standards were games going to be rated? The government? The online game companies? the players? As some of you may know this has already been seen in some US released titles, which demends that players be over the age of 13 in order to play (usually just a block you have to check before signing on). The problem is there is no way to verify someone's age via online identity without committing some serious privacy invasion, which is why it will never work.

The professor was brought up the recent and extreme cases of online addiction, including the case of a young man who literally lived in an internet cafe for 3 months, another who committed suicide over social affairs in a game and another who wore diapers so he wouldnt have to get up and go to the bathroom.

The representative's defense was basically that any and all hobbies can be unheathy, both physically and mentally, if taken to an extreme. Even playing sports.

Current chinese law forbids players playing games for more then 5 hours. Online gaming companies based in china have implemented such restrictions in their services. However, once a player has played 5 hours of a game, there is nothing from stopping him from simply jumping onto another game (which he can play for an additional 5 hours, and so on), and that is where the law breaking comes in.

Clinics have opened in China, South Korea and the Netherlands specificaly to treat online gaming addiction (I have promtly sent the netherlands clinic Darky's name and address ^_^), showing that at least national governments in some countries are treating the problem with the same degree of seriousness as, say, drug addiction.

In Korea, online gaming is almost a professional sport, where players have vast fan bases and can have yearly earnings from tournements up to $250,000+. The professor says this is bad role-modeling.

The Cult of Scientology: Stealing your money using scare tactics and a powerful legal team since the birth of Xenu.

http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/ Some images are graphic.

http://theunfunnysequel.ytmnd.com/

After viewing that last one, read the articles on Codebot.

http://www.codebot.org/articles/?doc=9471

Also see the first article on their front page. http://www.codebot.org

A large portion of our skins and maps archive is currently down. Unfortunatly We are not expecting it to be back up anytime soon. I'm very sorry for any inconveniences this is causing. Keep in mind if one of your resources if one of those down, you can update using the add/update resource tab to the upper right to ensure the file gets on our server, or you can delete and resumit from scratch, where the file will then be on our server.

Also, under your forum profile options there is a "board style" drop down tab with two option; "SubSilver" and "FI Black". DO NOT TOUCH THEM. The default is subsilver. Leave it that way. If you change it to FI Black, it will block you from the site.

Thanks.

Sorry but I think this is news worthy.

This video shows wow:bc at E3! shows both races in action.

start copying here-->mms://windyvod.hvod.nefficient.co.kr/windyvod/thisis/E3 2006/WoW_E_Intro.wmv<--stop here

Copy and paste the entire line into your address bar.

Enjoy!