<looking down...>
I'm worried. <and shaken>
You got that right, pretty black bird <gee, thanks boss>
Don't get a swelled head. Compliments merely show how worried... <and shaken>
...I am. Yup.
You guys know how optimistic and positive I try to be. <and the ladies know how...>
Hush, bird. No time for banter today. <grump>
Some of you may know I submitted my first stories to the
Neverwinter Nights Vault in 1999 under Valen and that I've recently been trying to do what I can to revitalize it under Maximus. Now I'm worried (and shaken, yes, we know Bother). The Vault is a simply huge repository of more than a decade of community effort in diversifying and enhancing NwN and NwN2. It's in serious trouble. It is currently working in "read-only" mode.
What I am going to do about it:
I have a domain for the next 5 years with unlimited storage/bandwidth. I will be adding a "Vault Project" content type to it to allow the archiving of content salvaged from the Vault. While the Vault is viable it is meant to be a mirror, a back up of the Vault. Should something happen *shudder*, I hope it will act like (but do a better job at saving files) the
Wayback Machine.
In fact, the VPP is going to push *all* my other projects to the back burner. (I'll still work on the CCC off-line Edit: and the Q window lights :-) I like that project :-).
Once I get the
neverwintervault.net site set up to recieve Vault projects, I'm going to start salvaging the haks, as that is my personal highest priority - the custom content.
The procedure:
- Go to the project list for the category I'm committing to. pull up the next project in the browser.
- Create a sub-directory with the name of the project. save the webpage in that sub-directory to capture the project info (and comments - there's a lot of info in the comments).
- Download all associated files (but not links to other projects) to that directory
- Repeat. (The object here is to get each project *and it's info* into local storage ASAP)
- When time permits, upload the projects to nwn-cc.
What I would like (very much!) is some help. Are there any people out there who have good bandwidth and large harddrives and time on their hands? Post here if you'll commit to a project category (or even a partial category like mods pages 1-5). Then go register on
neverwintervault.net so you can upload when I get the content type defined (this weekend).
Categories:
Edit: And *please* don't burnout on this project! I'm only asking for an hour or two a night, when you have time...
Caveat: this is an independent effort unaffiliated with the Vault, Maximus or IGN, with the exception that it is *not* meant to supplant or compete in any way with the Vault. It is meant to safeguard the community content.
I am an Admin for the Vault and I have no intention of abusing that trust. I am, in fact, seeking to coordinate this with my boss :-)
It is not meant to compete with the Nexus or the Moddb or any of the other excellent community sites in my sig. They wouldn't be in my sig if I didn't respect and, in some cases, love those sites.
<...to try and avoid stepping on toes>
Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 14 octobre 2012 - 07:17 .
