Blue Monkey can you please calm down. I was going to let the first post go as I'm really not interested in conflict, am trying to do some good, and it seemed like such a small thing, but you're so fired up that in rolls another lecture. Was going to try and squeeze in another 1 or 2 rescues tonight but nope, now I'm going to have to spend that time answering this instead.
Mate you've picked a few frivolous words, read way too much into them and twisted them into a big negative. I wouldn't spend endless hours sifting through these threads and old backups trying to find lost content if I didn't have a passion for all the amazing work done. Otherwise why would I do it? Why would I literally sacrifice years of my life to rescuing other peoples Civ mods if I don't care? Just take a step back for a moment and think to yourself "of all the people on this site does the guy who's been doing mod rescues over the last few years and probably seen everything in endless threads that can go wrong, indeed go wrong, really need a lecture on mod empathy and how things get lost?". I've seen messiest of the messiest and the oldest of the oldest so nothing here is new to me, and if its a cool project and it 'feels' like there's more missing I ask questions.
That particular part was not intended to criticise or offend authors as I wasn't talking about their actual mod work, it was nothing more than a humorous observation on the state of the thread and all the update posts across the pages with dead links now days (giant old project threads with lots of dead links across multiple pages instead of just 1 or 2 in the original top post is nothing new to me either) along with my failure to find more content after several hours of trying sadly, which as you admitted yourself is kind of truthful description of the situation. So if you know it's pretty truthful description and you know it was just in jest from someone who has a passion for rescuing other peoples creations, was it really worth jumping on the soapbox for? The point of the sentence which that joke was a part of, is that what little I've found feels very insufficient to what this great project and its contributors deserve so I really hope I can save more with community help. I wouldn't have rescued as much as I have if I had a "things get lost, so shut up & give up" attitude when things hit a dead end. I search, I follow messy cookie trails, I dig, and I pester those who don't wish to be bothered about things that happened 10-20yrs ago lol because while some bark no at me, others have the files, and the successes & the joy it brings to other fans of the mods make it all worth it. In this case I noticed that KingArthur who's still active was posting onedrive links up until only a couple of pages back in 2020 which means he's hopefully still got the publicly released newer stuff (than the 2017 stuff from midnight that I've uploaded) and maybe some more of the old stuff too. So I figured it can't hurt to ask and I think there's a good chance more can be found here, not everything obviously, but hopefully more of the publicly posted stuff *fingers crossed*.
Mate you've picked a few frivolous words, read way too much into them and twisted them into a big negative. I wouldn't spend endless hours sifting through these threads and old backups trying to find lost content if I didn't have a passion for all the amazing work done. Otherwise why would I do it? Why would I literally sacrifice years of my life to rescuing other peoples Civ mods if I don't care? Just take a step back for a moment and think to yourself "of all the people on this site does the guy who's been doing mod rescues over the last few years and probably seen everything in endless threads that can go wrong, indeed go wrong, really need a lecture on mod empathy and how things get lost?". I've seen messiest of the messiest and the oldest of the oldest so nothing here is new to me, and if its a cool project and it 'feels' like there's more missing I ask questions.
That particular part was not intended to criticise or offend authors as I wasn't talking about their actual mod work, it was nothing more than a humorous observation on the state of the thread and all the update posts across the pages with dead links now days (giant old project threads with lots of dead links across multiple pages instead of just 1 or 2 in the original top post is nothing new to me either) along with my failure to find more content after several hours of trying sadly, which as you admitted yourself is kind of truthful description of the situation. So if you know it's pretty truthful description and you know it was just in jest from someone who has a passion for rescuing other peoples creations, was it really worth jumping on the soapbox for? The point of the sentence which that joke was a part of, is that what little I've found feels very insufficient to what this great project and its contributors deserve so I really hope I can save more with community help. I wouldn't have rescued as much as I have if I had a "things get lost, so shut up & give up" attitude when things hit a dead end. I search, I follow messy cookie trails, I dig, and I pester those who don't wish to be bothered about things that happened 10-20yrs ago lol because while some bark no at me, others have the files, and the successes & the joy it brings to other fans of the mods make it all worth it. In this case I noticed that KingArthur who's still active was posting onedrive links up until only a couple of pages back in 2020 which means he's hopefully still got the publicly released newer stuff (than the 2017 stuff from midnight that I've uploaded) and maybe some more of the old stuff too. So I figured it can't hurt to ask and I think there's a good chance more can be found here, not everything obviously, but hopefully more of the publicly posted stuff *fingers crossed*.
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