Hey guys, I'm impressed to see how awesome this games is going to be, and very impressed by the very big popularity you got these days (hey, my server
get 1000 players per day!), you deserve it!
I know there is many contrib maps somewhere on the internet, some are probably GE:S 5.0 compatible.
I'll would be very happy to make a contrib map repository. I'm not sure if my servers can manage the load with such popularity, but in the worst case, I can put files on widely known download servers, and make a directory, ensuring the links works, and keeping backups to reupload them if needed.
There is many forum thread about contrib maps, but many links are dead now. Also, I previously downloaded some maps while playing on some 4.2 server but sometime it lacks some resources, (probably because the .res file was not ok) and source-engine asset organisation is a mess (too bad there is nothings like pk3), so the better way to properly distribute maps is to properly get them from original authors.
Also, I would be happy to host a perfect dark themed goldeneye server (see this
thread) with everything from goldeneye except perfect dark maps, I'm sure that some of these thousands new player will enjoy it !
If people are interested in this project, you can write a comment there. If I make this contrib content repository, I will probably mark the content with useful tags (like “goldeneye”, “goldeneye_classic”, “perfect_dark”, “nightfire”, “fun”, etc.).
Just one thing to say: if I make a map repository, I need to be able to repack the files if needed, I mean remake the archive for example, rename the archive according to a predefined nomenclature. I don't want users of my repository having to deal with rar, 7z, zip, txz or some other format, and don't want to serves archives plenty of useless Thumbs.db, desktop.ini or .DS_Store junk. So I need the right to repack the file, clean the junk and if needed add some metadata (like author, version, license…) to be able to automate processing and properly tag the data, to give users the best experience, so content makers must be ok with that.
[Edit: I also need properly written .res file so server admin will get autodownload working out of the box just unzipping files.][Edit: These rules will apply on my repository too.]What do you think about it?