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Lara wrote: [quote author=Lara link=1216650141/75#87 date=1218742988]Also, do we really need the 'CM Sub-forum' visible to everyone if we can't access it?

As far as Freddy and I can see it must be visible.  Otherwise you wouldn't be able to download the mansions.  But we will check once again.

It is quite possible that I am ignorant regarding this, I can understand if this forum has to remain because of technical/coding issues. But thanks for looking into it, I'm just trying to figure out the point of the forum being visible to everyone when we can't use it or access it.

Many thanks.
There still seems to be a misunderstanding here. You DO have an access to the CM subforum - via the CM board itself. When you download a CM you go to the CM board and choose whether you want to locate the mansion by author, mansion name or release time. When you click on the mansion name you are taken to the CM subforum where the actual download takes place. If we would make the CM subforum invisible you wouldn't be able to download any CM.

Then someone propably wants to ask why we have organised the downloads like this. There are two reasons:
1. To control that the CM's are truly ready for download, i.e. playable, tested, etc.
2. To provide the download checksum: If a downloaded mansion does not yield the same checksum as given in the download window, then the download has propably failed, which could lead to a

glitch

in the gameplay. This can be checked in a Terminal window by the command

openssl sha

with a space after sha. Then you drag the zipped mansion in the Terminal window and press return.