Organization

[dunhas2]

I am user of this site and the player OpenTTD. I lost some files that I downloaded here and I am trying to locate for hours!
You could organize the files so we can find them more easily because it is very difficult for most lay users.

thanks

[SwissFan91]

Have you tried the Search button ? You only need to know the name, or even just a few things about the files you used to own, and it would help. Also, you could try being a little bit more specific as to what these files were (graphics, scenario's etc), or perhaps which game you are playing.... ? The list is endless. So don't come on here and critisize the layout just because you can't find something.

[Roujin]

What kind of files are they? There are already some places where files for OpenTTD are organized:
For newGrfs, there is GrfCrawler where some of them are organized.
Also, there's the online content function in openTTD, see content.openttd.org . This is for base graphic/sound sets, newGrfs, AIs, scenarios and heightmaps. You can download the items listed there directly in OpenTTD ("download online content").

[Buran]

Also, there's the online content function in openTTD, see content.openttd.org . This is for base graphic/sound sets, newGrfs, AIs, scenarios and heightmaps. You can download the items listed there directly in OpenTTD ("download online content").

But this "online content" function is not complete... for example, the map of the Netherlands, which is also posted on the forum somewhere, does not show up in the online content.

So dunhas2 has a point. Couldn't it be made possible to have a central point where you can find all the files uploaded to the forums?

[Yexo]

So dunhas2 has a point. Couldn't it be made possible to have a central point where you can find all the files uploaded to the forums?

"All files uploaded to the forums" include lots of uninteresting stuff, like screenshots of a problem someone once had. What you're interested in is not "all files", but "all scenarios, savegames, newgrfs, base graphics and heightmaps". The online content service of OpenTTD has a lot of content, but we cannot just put everything on it. The author(s) have to give openttd the right to distribute their files.

[Wasila]

The wiki has a section with loads of scenarios.

http://wiki.openttd.org/List_of_player-made_scenarios

[Terkhen]

The online content function is complete, unless "forcing all authors in the forums to upload their files to BaNaNaS" is a feature. Every author decides what to do with his work, and (s)he decides where to upload it. Besides providing centralized places like GRFCrawler or BaNaNaS, the only other possibility would be to make wiki pages or a forum thread with links to all files in the forums. Check the link that Wasila posted: you could start similar ones for each kind of content.

[Rubidium]

a central point where you can find all the files uploaded to the forums?

I present to you: http://www.tt-forums.net/search.php

The "Online Content" will never be complete, as long as people don't like their stuff being distributed from a different location than their server. We are not going to push those people or make them angry but putting their stuff somewhere where they do not want it to be. If you don't like that something isn't on the "Online Content service" you have to complain to the author of this thing that isn't there and not to anyone else as the author is the only one who is allowed to put it there.

Nevertheless, there is a scenario called "The Netherlands by Purno" on the "Online Content" system.

[dunhas2]

Also, there's the online content function in openTTD, see content.openttd.org . This is for base graphic/sound sets, newGrfs, AIs, scenarios and heightmaps. You can download the items listed there directly in OpenTTD ("download online content").

But this "online content" function is not complete... for example, the map of the Netherlands, which is also posted on the forum somewhere, does not show up in the online content.

So dunhas2 has a point. Couldn't it be made possible to have a central point where you can find all the files uploaded to the forums?

Buran understood me. I refer to the files focused for users. I have used the search button, but it returns me a lot of information and sometimes I lose hours searching. What I wanted was to download the files that I want and play.
Sorry for leaving the post. I know that the forum only wants to help the players and we are grateful for that.

[kamnet]

Making updates to GrfCrawler and the Wiki would be very helping in better organizing a lot of the uploaded content.

[Rubidium]

So dunhas2 has a point. Couldn't it be made possible to have a central point where you can find all the files uploaded to the forums?

Buran understood me. I refer to the files focused for users.[/quote]Sadly enough this forum is also used to post lots and lots of screenshots. As a result listing all files uploaded here will flood the search result with screenshots. Especially when looking for heightmaps since those generally have the same format.

Putting stuff on GrfCrawler or the wiki only makes things worse as you will have four different places with different subsets of data. Also, GrfCrawler and the wiki do not make searching for screenshots easy either.

There is one placed focussed on users accessing content easily: bananas. However, the author of the content has to agree to put stuff on there. If the author does not do that, the author effectively chooses that his/her content is less accessible for the end users.

So, to conclude I fear there is nothing that will make an easily searchable set of all content ever generated.

[michael blunck]

Wouldn´t it be more appropriate to answer his post in 3 years from now, rather than on the same day?

SCNR
Michael

[Simons Mith]

That just goes to show how long it may take to do a really thorough search

[YNM]

Search in google. That often rocks you
..And roll out any problems.

(in case you don't find it, maybe you have a bad clues of whats the thing)