Hello. I hope all the "old hands" here at the forum are doing well. So. The reason I'm here typing stuff on the [mega]glest 'other topic' thread is that I'm looking for functioning download links for some of the old Glest factions and tilesets. One of the best old tilesets called "scrub land or scrubland" and faction "woodsman" made by forum user "Madelf or MadElf" have gone missing from the glest wikia download links. Someone made a copyright infringement claim on the tileset - hosted at my mediafire account. I've literally no idea why or how such a claim could be made, and I missed the emailed warning that the file would be deleted. And now it's gone. Anyone here happen to have a copy stored on a local hardrive?
I checked the Wayback Machine (WBM) with no luck. For some strange reason the old Glest Team seems to have blocked the wayback machine archive spider from taking snapshots of the old forum boards. If it had been allowed the files would've been captured and stored in the WBM server 'software' library.
I'm also looking for some of Titi's old glest factions: Indians and Norsemen and Egyptian. And Wciow's faction "Undead". I've archived groupings of old Glest files (maps, factions, tilesets, glest .exe client) at various (redundant) storage websites to guard against surreptitious and illegitimate copyright claims. Send me a private message for the archive link.
I understand why some people may not want to share these old files - new users mistakenly adding the old Glest files into the current megaglest build and breaking stuff. Yet all of the old files should be archived. It need not be advertised here. No need to confuse users.
I noticed someone redirected download links to my public domain mediafire map/tileset files at the old glest wiki and wholly deleted others. This happened a few years ago and persisted for a while. Nasty, petty, vindictive vandalism. All of the fan mods were supposed to be free, open source and in the public domain to encourage community sharing. Yet one or twobl people simply could not abide by those simple standards.
I also noticed some "woke" phrasing embedded in sections of the megaglest wiki. Slogans such as "all opinions are equal" which is of a class of phrases used as toxic wedges to usurp ownership, authority, leadership or control of; websites, gaming communities, game coding and software distribution.
All opinions are not equal. Especially the specious and poisonous notion that all opinion are equal.
