Mansion Repository

[brell]

Toybox wrote: [quote author=brell link=1171513547/0#14 date=1205062472]
[quote author=Toybox link=1171513547/0#11 date=1205003427]But, even once you are on the forum homepage, finding out where the CMs can be downloaded is too much trouble. The link to newest mansions on top is good, but where are the old mansions?

Also, information on each mansions is not sufficiently accessible. For example, while he did find the all-CMs-pack (by googling!), there was no readily available information on the author of each mansion. This is typically something he would have liked to see more obviously displayed: like books, or movies, it is often a guide as to what sort of atmosphere you can expect.

Now I cannot agree at all.  The CM board is clearly marked

Download your custom mansions here

and once inside you can find the mansions sorted by name, by release date and by author.  There are also information about the CM's difficulty at the download pages.
Well, as I said I'm just relaying his opinion. Once you find the correct page with classification by author / date / name, all desired info is easy to get (and clearly displayed, in my opinion). However, see the caveat below.

What the reaction shows essentially is:
- if he had the problem (even due to lack of patience) it is possible that others have problems too. We might need more feedback, but that would be feedback from people who aren't registered on the forum and therefore difficult to obtain.
- while the page is fairly easy to access if you put your mind at it, some players won't really do it and will give up easily at the first difficulty. Surely we forum people know our way pretty well around here, but how does it feel for an outsider?

The promised caveat is that the CM download threads are located towards the middle of the boards and somewhat hidden among the conversations. Hidden, because they are not really highlighted (same colour, same font size, whatever), so you still need to do the effort of actually reading thread titles in order to find out the correct one.

To arrange this, would it be possible to include a link to https://actionsoft.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=22 as close to the top of the forum homepage as possible?
Agree on the different color/size, link is now included in the news at the top of the forums.