Is there any map hoarding attempt underway?

Say what you will about fileplanet (LINES ADS LINES ACCOUNTS LINES IGN LINES) but you can't deny it was the popular place to plop a q3 file on in 2000-2002, so if it goes away some q3 mapping history could be lost.

Nothing on ..::LvL will be lost thanks to the MHGaming mirror as well as our own server.

However, for older mods (or ones no long in production) and models, this could be a real issue.

The player models are already all saved. ioquake3.org mirrors them (thanks to me for hoarding them all including the unreleased ones, lol). The custom SKINS however (for models like grunt), i can't say for sure.

Some mods probably need saving, particularily anything made for pre-1.27g
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Does anyone know what kind of time frame or date until FilePlanet will be gone?

Also, promode.org has been gone for a while now (need to update links on ..::LvL), but where are people getting the CPMA mod from now? What is the full final version?

Game packs:
gouzouboudou.free.fr/quake3/cpma/

Maps:
gouzouboudou.free.fr/quake3/baseq3/

Final version is 148 afaik.

Yep, the current version is 1.48 - 1.49 is in developement though.

On a positive note, the archive team has grabbed the first 80,000 files.

archiveteam.org/index.php
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Never knew about this, are they shutting down for any particular reason?

Awww man Fileplanet is gone :o.

This is unfortunate. FilePlanet has been serving the community for quite a while (since the Quake 2 days), and many people relied on it for their downloads and other gaming-related media. It's surprising to see it go after such a long time. Does anyone know why it is shutting down? Bandwidth reasons, resignation of administrators, etc.? Just curious.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Now I can't get that sweet map Jumbo Jet!
www.somethingawful...ranky/index.php

Oh well. Couldn't find it there anyway before.

Well, a quick visit to fileplanet.com displays this message at the top of the page:

@Tig

No clue. They don't even post about it on their home page with a date.

@Satan Fang

Business, as usual. That's my guess. They've been around for like 10 years, maybe it's time to call it quits. IGN says they're re-building their whole network.

@Fragtastic

Spam comment as usual. Will you ever stop?

@EmeraldTiger

Dunno, man. Mostly sure it's business as usual. Even Filefront had problems charging for their service.
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