Reviving. Can it even be possible?

Nobody needs nobody!

Blabla here,
blabla there.

WHERE is the meaning of DARKY ?

I think we should only keep the Director's choice recourses. That way we can have a clean site full of blizzard quality recourses and we can save up on space.

If anything should be kept it should definitely be the Models and Icons, they are by far the best and most useful resources on this website.

Maps can be downloaded through warcraft iii or websites devoted to the paticular map. Submit your art to Blizzard.

I think Darky died when the hopes for ROTD died.

The new site example looks very nice, I prefer it than this. And I agree to take only icons, models and skins, like dark_nite said they're the most used and maps/spells can be downloaded from their website or something.

Ralle just talk to me on msn if you want me to look at resources...

Id cast my vote on keep the models and (maybe) skins. Maps can be resubmitted if the makers wish it, and the GOOD maps can be DLed by whoever wants them, and possibly submitted later.
Icons are so-so, useful but pretty expendible in most cases.
As for art, i havent been a fan of much art on this site so i cant really talk either way.

cheesdudeI think we should only keep the Director's choice recourses. That way we can have a clean site full of blizzard quality recourses and we can save up on space.

there isnt many DC stuff and them mods barely DC at all or havnt for awhile..

Sigh, I haven't been here in a while, but I read every post in this thread. I thought the point was to let anyone submit their resources - good or bad. So that they may learn and improve! I agree people don't want the bad ones, but rejecting to host them isn't helping either.
I myself learned a lot from this site in the few times I've been here. I'm sorry that it dies, but really, you can't just make a 'verteran only' playing field. Eveyrone has submitted crappy work at one point or another.
Plus you cannot judge good or bad. Everyone has their own opinions, I'm sure everyone takes pride in their own work, if not they wouldn't submit it. Don't delete pride, please. I know my map is gone, which is basically the only thing I ever submitted besides a crappy spell or two. But trust me, those two crappy spells made me happy.
At least die in an honorable way instead of saying "oh who cares, just leave, blah blah blah"

My two, and final two cents.

The DC system doesn't work because it's not propperly moderated.

That resource section on the Hive does look quite good, maybe I'll start uploading stuff there, maybe not.


Though, This site got me in to Wc3 modding, and it has without any doupt the biggest resource database of all wc3 sites.

I still like this site very much, and I wouldn't liek to see it go down, but I fear there is no hope at all for it...

I don't see why there is a "space" issue. I have three hard drives each which holds 200GB, and thats not particularly unusual these days.. what kind of kiddie hosting situation has this site been on?
(then again with a head admin called Darky1029131 its hardly suprising)

It should all be about BANDWIDTH.

If there are bandwidth issues, share the bandwidth between current users - it regulates itself.

If the #1 site for custom stuff for the #1 most popular/currently-played RTS cannot afford a #1Site's bandwidth, give ownership to someone who can.

Anyway, ads often make sites pay for themselves. Get some adds plastered up. This is a popular site! Right?

Leon_the_GreatI don't see why there is a "space" issue. I have three hard drives each which holds 200GB, and thats not particularly unusual these days.. what kind of kiddie hosting situation has this site been on?

Welcome to the world of shared hosting. The only way a site could get 200GB or more of dedicated storage space would be by paying for a dedicated server. Paying for hard drives for a personal computer is cheap compared to paying for server-grade drives and RAID arrays.

It should all be about BANDWIDTH.

It is. All the large warcraft sites on the internet use massive amounts of bandwidth. This site uses a terabyte a of bandwdith a month; other sites like warcraft.org, worldofwar.net, epicwar.com, wc3campaigns.net, and many others use immense amounts of bandwidth as well.

If the #1 site for custom stuff for the #1 most popular/currently-played RTS cannot afford a #1Site's bandwidth, give ownership to someone who can.

Anyway, ads often make sites pay for themselves. Get some adds plastered up. This is a popular site!

This site already uses ads. Apparently they don't make enough money. (I honestly don't know, but based on events it seems that way)

Leon_the_GreatI don't see why there is a "space" issue. I have three hard drives each which holds 200GB, and thats not particularly unusual these days.. what kind of kiddie hosting situation has this site been on?
(then again with a head admin called Darky1029131 its hardly suprising)

It should all be about BANDWIDTH.

If there are bandwidth issues, share the bandwidth between current users - it regulates itself.

If the #1 site for custom stuff for the #1 most popular/currently-played RTS cannot afford a #1Site's bandwidth, give ownership to someone who can.

Anyway, ads often make sites pay for themselves. Get some adds plastered up. This is a popular site! Right?

One thing is 200GB hard-drive space another thing is web-space, practicly web-space is given by web hosting companies, the chipest web-hosting will give you around 300-500mb, one of the more expensive web-hosting choices gives you 2GB of web-space but even then this website is 4GB over the limit so paying for 6-7GB web-space is expensive as hell!
And to clear things even better for you, you canot have downloads directly from your HDD, at least not in any practical way i know of! mauby we can ask NASA for such thing!

Ok Ralle,

If you want to save this site, or pretty much maintain the big community and bring it over to the Hive, so a large portion of wc3 modding doesnt die>

Simply prioritise.
Out of all the resources, what does this site have that others doesnt.
Its is mainly:

- Models
- Skins
- Icons

Id strongly recommend just bringing them over to the database ASAP!!!!!!!!!!.

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Sacrifices have to be made

- Maps are pretty much irrelevant.
Give it 1 week and ull have another new 100 uploaded.
Anyone can upload any maps they like, not made by them if need be.

- Tools the real important ones are on wc3camp.
If need be transfer them as well

- Spells, most of them are pretty crap as well.
There are a few cool ones in there. But just like maps, give it a week and it will flourish once more.

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My conlusion, theres no need to talk talk and talk more.

- Just take the top 3 resource types, dump them on the Hive.
- Do what you said with forums, transfer all topics/posts etc. and users.

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Lastly, one of the most important things.

- Hack into wc3sear.ch make it auto re-direct to the hive.
AND / Or
- VG make a news announcement telling everyone gogo to Hive.

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There we go done and dusted.
May not be perfect but oh well.

So Ralle if you want Hive to be the new main wc3 modding site, hurry hurry hurry

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