Link?

Can you point us in the right direction to the new site, please?

All the links for Amulet of Scrye go to PES but it's been removed from that site.

I have the Amulet of Scyre and could re-upload it, but I'm not sure if the author has allowed that.

Try http://download.phx.pl/elderscrolls/files/AmuletOfScryeV1.zip (If the direct link doesn't work, click the "Pobierz" link on http://elderscrolls.phx.pl/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=11&func=fileinfo&id=632.)

EDIT: Hmm, actually i know realise its not really a new site..
I got confused.


EDIT2: Oh what the hell it IS the new site isn't it?

Thanks Karpik, i got the mod.

Good find.

Is it the new site? I'm pretty confused now

No, from the dates on the site, I would say it is an earlier version.

That's the oldest part of his site - good that that one is working anyway. But it doesn't have links to any download and such.

I realized today that although it is possible to visit my forum and even log in, it is no more possible to post in it. So it's more or less broken, too...

I was visiting that site just today while I was looking for mods reccomended to me and I wondered why it was like that. Hope it gets fixed cus it listed some interesting mods...

This sounds pretty bad

I emailed both Elric and Monica on here a few days back; no response.
Has anyone been able to get hold of either of them?


And, broken record I know sigh, but what about the notion that it might not get fixed anytime soon?
Maybe we would want to be thinking about mods that are not held elsewhere and getting copies put there?

Any opinions on that?

I was wondering about that, do we have a list of all the mods hosted ar elricm? And, uh, has anyone downloaded them all? It would be really sad to see all these mods disappear (if elricm doesn't come back...)

And as far as permissions to reupload them are concerned, if a mod becomes unavailable, I think unless the author stated otherwise there is no, err, 'moral' problem in uploading them elsewhere. Many of these authors spent hours creating these mods. I'm sure they would appreciate if their mods were kept online, so that people can still enjoy them. I know that should my mods become unavailable because PES, nexus and elricm (...) stop hosting mods, I would certainly be grateful if someone else made the effort to reupload them elsewhere!! It means the mods are worth it ^_^
But that's just my personal point of view, not sure what other people think about it?

I know that elricm may well go back to normal very soon, but... even if it does, I think this is an important discussion... In the future, it may happen to other hosting sites, who knows? For instance the same could happen to tesnexus, after all it is a portal owned and maintained by only one person... (I think).

I guess if you give them credit it wouldn't hurt.

nevermind

Ronin, I'm not sure that the elricm e-mailserver works anymore. I don't receive e-mails sent to me through elricm anymore.

Its pretty hard to determine all the mods that were unique to ElricM (at least as far as I know). I guess it might be up to the modder's still around who know what they had uploaded to the site (mods that were unique there) to upload them to another site (PES and TESNexus, of course, but also Morrowind Modding history at Fliggerty's Site). I know that I had at least one mod that could have only been found at Elric's. So, I'll scrounge around and see if I can locate it and double it at another site (though it was just a "for fun" mod, really).

Again...

:cold: So... many...

Well, ideally Yacoby could conjure up some awesome-sauce and use his ES Search dataset to let us know what's on ElricM and not elsewhere. _{Yeah, y'know. Just like that}

Otherwise it'd be a case of uploading when someone remembers it and asks for a mod here. I know I'm lax with that as there've been a number of things I've uploaded temporarily and not put anywhere more permanent.

With a list of missing mods we could upload somewhere. Question is where. Now, Fliggerty's Morrowind Mod History was designed for this sort of thing. Unfortunately, the plugin database there isn't indexed by ES Search, so that puts a constraint on people finding the mods. Makes me think that PES is the best place, it's known, it's stable for the foreseeable future (if the Fileplanet network goes down... it's be as if millions of [gamer] voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced) and it's indexed. Yeah, yeah TESNExus. Forgive me (euro-morrowind, TESMods, morrowind-mods.org...)

I do probably have info on a load of mods from elricm. It is really out of date though as the new parser for elricm is not enabled due to the amount of issues it was having when I was writing it (waking up to sort through 200 errors, 199 of which are from elricm and one important one is not fun).

I am ofc happy to make a database dump available.


I do have a parser sorts for Fliggs site in ES Search v2, but I think there is a bug in it. ES Search 2 is in bits and I have no time for a couple of months. Fliggs site parse is a real must fix though so it will happen probably right after I put ES Search back together.


Although people find TESNexus a lot easier to use PES is the most stable. I still remember the points where TESSource (as it was then) was reguarly losing mods. Thankfully that isn't the case now but a site funded by a big organisation is to some extent going to be more reliable (although less likely to be responsive to requests for the file database on a dvd).

I think the key is to upload the mods to multiple sites, so maybe fliggs and pes? That way if this sort of thing happens again, which it will, we don't lose a load of mods.

Well, I used to check ElricM regularly to see what had been uploaded. I think that nothing new has been uploaded in months as I was checking it regularly for ages and not seeing anything, if I had to say when I last saw an upload I'd say last summer. I think the last one I saw go up there was from Headless Wonder or Skydye (:unsure:), and that was the first one in ages.
That'd be well cool. Some kind of CSV-type format? Back in http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=&showtopic=1049948&view=findpost&p=15231212 ElricM's homepage said they had 3104 mods. No way have I got all those. Still, perhaps if you could do some kind of a dump and send it through to me I'll see what I can do with what I've got and then open it up to others. Perhaps PM me?
Glad to hear that's still on the horizon. :thumbsup:
Makes sense to me, two hosts are better than one.

I think that's partly due to their server problems. I have tried to upload to ElricM.com numerous times during last autumn and winter, and have always failed. The server alleged that the uploaded archive contained a virus and was thus quarantined. :shakehead: A virus in an archive of meshes, textures, and an .esm file... not the exactly typical hosts for computer viruses.
Anyway, I'll upload what little I have uploaded exclusively to ElricM (only Kosta51's "Village of Mora Uvirith" IIRC) to PES and TESNexus in the near future.

All but one of mine 10 to 15 mods over there are unique as they are only there.

I think I have probably, at one time or another, downloaded almost every mod only available on ElricM, but they are in different folders and I haven't kept track of which ones were downloaded from where, however if we get a list going I would be happy to upload any that I can get permission to upload (some don't have readmes from the authors and the readmes were created by ElricM, some give permission to upload, some don't mention the subject, some expressly forbid uploading to any other site without permission, so it will be a task for sure).

As far as uploading these mods, should we use PES, Nexus, or does anyone have a different site that we can use for just these ElricM only mods so that we can kind of keep them separate in case he gets it back up? I would really hate for it to come back and lose the unique-ness that made it great, but I would also hate to be keeping mods others were looking for and not able to have access to.

Open to ideas, replies on this thread and PMs.

For what its worth, I just messaged redwoodtreesprite about this, and gave her a link to this thread. Unfortunately she hasn't signed in since 21st November 2009, so if anyone knows a better way to get hold of her... Anyway, I'm pretty sure most of the resources she had reupped for us were only hosted there, and she would know best on those permissions. Hopefully, we hear from her, as that would be a big chunk of stuff to lose.

Thanks for the post, it is reassuring to know all these mods are not completely lost :goodjob: I really hope a list of all the mods unique to elricm can be compiled, and regarding the best hosting place for these mods, I dont know... I guess the best thing to do would be to reupload them to more than one website, but I understand that would be a lot of work.

And as far as I'm concerned, I think I had a few BB clothing resources hosted exclusively at elricm (and kindly uploaded there by Ronin): a pack of pants and 2, maybe 3 pairs of shoes. I have no access to these resources myself atm but if anyone has them they can reupload them anywhere they want, regardless of what the old readmes said on that matter; in fact, I would be glad if someone did it I also had other mods at elricm, all of which also hosted on PES. People can upload them at another place if they want as well, I certainly dont mind!

I'm still hoping for elricm to come back...