I do hope that users of QuickFort and related CSV tools
get in the habit of
compressing the .csv
with thumbnails and/or readme.txt inside ZIP/RAR/7z. How can anyone tell what it's supposed to be used for or, more importantly, what the finished hall should look like without a picture or at least a readme? The file names may hint at what it's used for, but
hints only go so far. The CSV itself does usually contain a
brief description. But I find that description is often less than a sentence long.
Anyway, including a readme gives the author/architect an excuse to give himself credit where credit is due. (For most CSV I downloaded, I have no clue who designed them.) And I, for one, would not object to, say, a request by the author to name one of my dwarves after the author in their honor.
That said, I also hope that more DF fans start using QuickFort and get in the habit of sharing CSV blueprints. It's fun to share and (at least in theory) taking some of the tedium out of building should make DF even more fun for everyone.
I tried to create a place for them on the DF Wiki at df.magmawiki.com and upon uploading, received this error: ".csv" is not a permitted file type. Permitted file types are png, gif, jpg, jpeg, svg.
So unless they can loosen the upload restrictions to allow .csv and .zip (and .xls/x), the Wiki solution won't work. I'm not really finding a contact address on the DF Wiki site and/or don't know where I should be asking about this. Anybody connected into the Wiki admins?
May I make a suggestion?
Some time ago I scoured the Net looking for a free file host that does not even mention the
possibility of deleting your files. After a
lot of searching, I could only find one:
Host-A.netThe site promises not to delete your files unless you tell them to (or if you violate their terms of service). It seems a good place to share small files as I've never had a file deleted there. The only caveats are a few small, unobtrusive ads and the fact that a free membership only allows 50 MB total storage. Getting more requires a small fee. (Although, such fees are cheap and one time - the storage increase is permanent.)
BTW: I see that QuickFort 2.00pre3 was uploaded August 04, 2010. Are there any compatibility issues with using this in 31.18? And if that's the case, will there be a QuickFort 2.00final released soon?