I have a large archive of gmax files and have also found SC4DESC & SC4MODEL files - are these any use or would they all have been accessible via any published content??
What is the best way of getting these files to people who are interested in them??
David
My five cents: with Simmer2 and Tyberius you would have two very good counselors regarding the needs of judging, preparing and organizing custom content. The best way is to upload it to the LEX, the file exchange. Maybe (pm with Tarkus) it's possible to make an general team acoount for "Working Man Productions"?
I thing the stuff shouldn't be uploaded all at once and all in one - it's much more work, of course, but also more dedication, to present each piece in a proper way with description and pictures. In the past there where big packs uploaded with almost no info - and mostly tghey become forgotten. If going public nice presentation and proper description is needed. That's where you may need help but just pm one of us.
But first things have to be sorted. This may be the hardest task because there are different approaches that work and very quick you may discuss about matters of taste.
The basic principle of sorting a big bunch of stuff is always the same (it was first described as a relationship between "genus" and "species" by old greek philosopher Aristotle) - you're to find the genus of species and set them as categories to more refine categories.
A basic introducion, I guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Avpz-mXU0 But I think the guy misses point to explain how to prove predicates of being a genus-species-relation?
The problem is there are two general approaches - you can sort the stuff thematically or you can sort the stuff technically (and more). And both methods will conflict. For example you make three pots with the themes: residentials, industry, commerce. And you make three other pots with the technical type of data: dependency, bat, lot. Suddenly you will discover that the pots don't work together - the dependency pack could also be in the residential pot or industry pot - where to put it?
These are the basic problems of taxonomy (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy) and always the biggest challenge in organisation. So the questions is to find a fitting taxonomy to organize the SC4 stuff. Which even makes up a great part of many debates about dependencies plugin-folder organisation etc. If this "taxonomy" or "classification" is done things become more easy.
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... to summarize - custom content of general interest should be uploaded to one of the two international file exchanges. It should be uploaded with proper description/documentation and in a "easy to use form" and therefore has to be edited/curated and therefore should be sorted, classified first.
Hope this makes sense.