The List of all Races

[trooper]

Originally posted by Andr&eacutes Lescano:

Thanks Trooper, I'll add your updated links ASAP.
Maybe it would be better if you would keep and update this list in your site.
Having contributed with the initial list maybe it's time I leave and let someone else take charge of this project.

Well, that's a thing I can do. Just tell me when you have finished your updates.

Any info about "IM" ?

[trooper]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
What a wonderfully french sounds effect. Thanks Trooper, it made me laugh=-)

It's very popular in France. It comes for a comic TV show where famous persons appears as puppets. Sylvester Stalone's puppet, who always plays the role of the typical american soldier/capitalist/president advisor always start his sentences with that sound... (refering to Rambo films).

I'm also willing to host a few more sets on my site. I have the Vandron there and of course my own sets, but there's still room for more.

The harder thing is to contact authors, many of them seems to have forgotten SE IV. BTW, do you know Shadri Republic ? it's a great 100% neo standard compatible shipset, but it has no preview page.

Fyron : Now that I've spent a few days shearching the forums (and that I've understooden that a huge part of the downloadbale files are on another part of schrapnelgames site), I think I'll be able to find working direct links for the list. But I hope that the coolest shipsets will have a preview page.

[ March 11, 2003, 20:12: Message edited by: trooper ]

[Fyron]

Fyron : Now that I've spent a few days shearching the forums (and that I've understooden that a huge part of the downloadbale files are on another part of schrapnelgames site), I think I'll be able to find working direct links for the list. But I hope that the coolest shipsets will have a preview page.

Yes, web sites would be good, but that takes a lot of bandwidth for all of those shipsets. If we had a big server to use, I would advocate using Andres' race viewer 2.0 to create a database of the ship sets, but that costs a bit of money. So, it is easier to just link to the files.

[Andrés]

The Legion Imperium is called "the legion" on PBW

I'd swear that theis empire type is Imperium, what makes their entire full name The Legion Imperium.

Any info about "IM" ?

That's a link that Zarix had posted earlier on this thead.
It points to his mirror of the Image Mod, and as I had said, there are a few shipsets labeled as "Other downloads" in the bottom after all image mod downloads.
And it seemed to work quite fine every time I tried.

[Katchoo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, web sites would be good, but that takes a lot of bandwidth for all of those shipsets. If we had a big server to use, I would advocate using Andres' race viewer 2.0 to create a database of the ship sets, but that costs a bit of money. So, it is easier to just link to the files.

How much space are we talking about here? My brother has Rogers High Speed, and gets access to 7 E-Mail accounts with 10MB of webspace for each account. I know he's using a few of the address', but, if 30MB would do the trick, I could probably get the space allocated and prepared.

[trooper]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, web sites would be good, but that takes a lot of bandwidth for all of those shipsets. If we had a big server to use, I would advocate using Andres' race viewer 2.0 to create a database of the ship sets, but that costs a bit of money. So, it is easier to just link to the files.

Oh, bandwith isn't that expensive, all my web spaces (about 5 at this time) are free. and I've room left for a bunch of shipsets. The main pb with the race viewwer is that it uses the .bmp pictures, which are very heavy... not a solution I would use.

[dogscoff]

BTW, do you know Shadri Republic ? it's a great 100% neo standard compatible shipset, but it has no preview page.

No, I've never heard of it. I'll look it up and update the neo-standard site accordingly.

EDIT: The Shadri link on the race list needs updating:-) Here's the direct link to the zip: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1009374387.zip

As for the display pages: They don't all have to be on the same site. A geocities account or something similar would be enough for one or two shipsets. If each author did that, and then the race list linked to them all... I'm sure it wouldn't be hard for some codehead to modify the race viewer to accept gifs or jpegs, then it would be really really easy to set up such a site.

Also, there are plenty of shipyards willing to host sets. I'm aware that many authors seem to have abandoned their sets, so we're unlikely to achieve 100%, but we could probably make the whole shipset finding/viewing/downloading process much easier.

[ March 12, 2003, 08:47: Message edited by: dogscoff ]