History Trivia / SpriteWars

** The Internet archive could've been a good place to go to find many of these long lost images... if it weren't for the fact that Sprite wars-related majhost URLs were seemingly never archived by their automated crawlers, and no-one on Sprite wars itself did so either.
*** Despite this, there was one user who did make a half-hearted attempt to save the still substantial amount of Sprite wars images on majhost on the Internet archive... in 2014. And many of those saved pages are useless thumbnails, and a few "page not found" URLs.

** Recently, Shiki (who has long been concerned about the site's inadequately archived history), started the "Sprite wars archive project" to finally get as many campaigns as possible archived and available for public consumption again with the aid of anyone in the community who might be able to help. Which would be great, except users haven't exactly been galvanized into helping remedy the problem. Not helping matters is the large amount of members who could be able to help that [[AuthorExistenceFailure have seemingly vanished off the face of the earth]]. As such, slim pickings await anyone who wants to delve into the grand history of Sprite wars without bothering the veterans.

Sprite Wars has decided that, due to our small community size, having a TvTropes page is a tad hypocritical. So, we've moved it to here: http://swwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tropes where our moderators will watch over it, and our members will add to it! Farewell!

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Being a site that has been around since [[LongRunner 2004]], Sprite wars has developed it's fair share of gaps when it comes to site history. Unfortunate coincidences have made this semi-ignorable problem far more serious.
** The main site used by most Sprite wars members was majhost. "Was" because at the start of 2015, the site inexplicably went down. It's not too hard to guess what has happened to almost all the site's threads as a result of this. Of course, the pre-crash situation was no idyllic paradise either. Many links were dead years before majhost's latest crash, the victims of users who chose to [[CreatorBacklash wipe their accounts of content.]] In addition, Majhost was never really a stable site in recent years. It would have "Down for maintenance" periods every once in a while, and sometimes take the images in people's accounts with it during these periods.
** The Internet archive could've been a good place to go to find many of these long lost images... if it weren't for the fact that Sprite wars-related majhost URLs were seemingly never archived by their automated crawlers, and no-one on Sprite wars itself did so either.
*** Despite this, there was one user who did make a half-hearted attempt to save the still substantial amount of Sprite wars images on majhost on the Internet archive... in 2014. And many of those saved pages are useless thumbnails, and a few "page not found" URLs.
** [[FromBadToWorse And that's just majhost!]] Imageshack was another site that many Sprite wars users posted their works on. Then around 2012, the instituted limits on how many images users could have on their accounts for free, and just like that, a huge chunk of sprite wars history is thrown into the void, including many threads posted in the "Sprite comics" section that only the original makers presumably still have the comics for. This merciless deletion of an uncounted number of images, which Sprite wars is only one small part of earned imageshack the moniker "Imageshit".
** There is a [[HopeSpot bright side]] to all this. Nobody on the site is ignorant of this massive problem. There's a Sprite wars drop box page made for posting sprites and comics, and will likely remain in use even if majhost comes back. However, it consists primarily of sprites and comics from the current campaigns, and only those with permission from CommanderEvil may use it.
** A few older tidbits are there. The first 500 Sprite wars comics can be downloaded [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8668200/Season1Part1.zip here]] and [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8668200/401-510.zip here]].
** Recently, Shiki (who has long been concerned about the site's inadequately archived history), started the "Sprite wars archive project" to finally get as many campaigns as possible archived and available for public consumption again with the aid of anyone in the community who might be able to help. Which would be great, except users haven't exactly been galvanized into helping remedy the problem. Not helping matters is the large amount of members who could be able to help that [[AuthorExistenceFailure have seemingly vanished off the face of the earth]]. As such, slim pickings await anyone who wants to delve into the grand history of Sprite wars without bothering the veterans.
** As of this writing, said pickings include:
*** Almost all the Color Coated Campaign comics.
*** Global Campaign 2 comics from before and after Majhost [[CriticalExistenceFailure kicked the bucket]].
*** A decent amount of comics from the Biohazard campaign.
*** Before the Archive Project was announced, CommanderEvil had already set up a dropbox folder dedicated to comics from the Grand Campaign, wherein he reposted all his old comics (A major contribution, since they were deleted years before majhost's crash by the aforementioned imageshack updates ). Though they can be interesting (and occasionally funny) to read through, users unfamiliar with the GC will find some aspects confusing. Spartan117 also posted his comics, but so far only a few from select story lines, which will prove far more confusing to members without relatively good knowledge of several different plots and races from that era than CE's comics.
*** Criticisms of the wayback machine aside, patient users will still be able to read through the majority of the Global campaign comics posted there. Some comics from other campaigns have been saved, but in smaller quantities, and only the ones that were viewable right up until majhost went down.
*** Let's put it this way: if there's a dead link on Sprite wars that was un-viewable at any point before Majhost went down on January 1st of 2015, it's been a source of confusion.
*** Some other members also may or may not be in possession of complete .zip archives of various campaigns, but are unable to post them.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Being a site that has been around since [[LongRunner 2004]], Sprite wars has developed it's far share of gaps when it comes to site history. Unfortunate coincidences have made this semi-ignorable problem far more serious.

*** Criticisms of the wayback machine aside, patient users will still be able to read through the majority of the Global campaign comics posted there. Some comics from other campaigns have been saved, but in smaller quantities, and they are only the ones that were viewable right up until majhost went down.

*** Some other members also may or may not be in possession of complete .zip archives of some campaigns, but are unable to post them.

*** Before the Archive Project was announced, CommanderEvil had already set up a dropbox folder dedicated to comics from the Grand Campaign, wherein he reposted all his old comics (A major edition, since they were deleted years before majhost's crash by the aforementioned imageshack updates ). Though they can be interesting (and occasionally funny) to read through, users unfamiliar with the GC will find some aspects confusing. Spartan117 also posted his comics, but so far only a few from select story lines, which will prove far more confusing to members without relatively good knowledge of several different plots and races from that era than CE's comics.

*** Comics from the 2nd Global campaign made after Majhost [[CriticalExistenceFailure kicked the bucket]].

*** Let's put it this way: if there's a dead link on Sprite wars that was un-viewable at any point before Majhost went down on January 1st of 2015, it's been a source of confusion for new and old Sprite wars users.

*** Some other members also may or may not be in possession of complete .zip archives of some campaigns, but are unable to post them.

*** Misgivings about the wayback machine aside, patient users will still be able to read through the majority of the Global campaign comics posted there.

** The Internet archive could've been a good place to go to find many of these long lost images... if it weren't for the fact that Sprite wars-related majhost urls were seemingly never archived by their automated crawlers, and no-one on Sprite wars itself did so either.
*** Despite this, there was one user who did make a half-hearted attempt to save the still substantial amount of Sprite wars images on majhost on the Internet archive... in 2014. And many of those saved pages are useless thumbnails.

*** Before the Archive Project was announced, CommanderEvil had already set up a folder dedicated to comics from the Grand Campaign, wherein he reposted all his old comics (A major edition, since they were deleted years before majhost's crash by the aforementioned imageshack updates. Though they can be interesting (and occasionally funny) to read through, users unfamiliar with the GC will find some aspects confusing. Spartan117 also posted his comics, but so far only a few from select story lines, which will prove far more confusing to members without relatively good knowledge of several different plots and races from that era than CE's comics

*** Before the Archive Project was announced, CommanderEvil had already set up a folder dedicated to comics from the Grand Campaign, wherein he reposted all his old comics (A major edition, since they were deleted years before majhost's crash by the aforementioned imageshack updates. Though they can be interesting (and occasionally funny) to read through, user unfamiliar with the GC will find some aspects confusing. Spartan117 also posted his comics, but so far only a few from select story lines, which will prove far more confusing to members without relatively good knowledge of several different plots and races from that era than CE's comics

** The main site used by most Sprite wars members was majhost. "Was" because at the start of 2015, the site inexplicably went down. It's not too hard to guess what has happened to almost all the site's threads as a result of this. Of course, the pre-crash situation was no idyllic paradise either. Many links were dead years before majhost's latest crash, the victims of users who chose to [[CreatorBacklash wipe their accounts of content.]] In addition, Majhost was never really a stable site in recent years. It would "Down for maintenance" every once in a while, and sometimes take the images in people's accounts with it during these periods.

*** Before the Archive Project was announced, CommanderEvil had already set up a folder dedicated to comics from the Grand Campaign, wherein he reposted all his old comics (A major edition, since they were deleted years before majhost's crash by the aforementioned imageshack updates. Though they can be interesting (and occasionally funny) to read through, user unfamiliar with the GC will find some aspects confusing. Spartan117 also posted his comics, but so far only a few from select story lines.

** There is a [[HopeSpot bright side]] to all this. Nobody on the site is ignorant of this massive problem. There's a Sprite wars drop box page made for posting sprites and comics, and will likely remain in use even if majhost comes back. However, it consists primarily of sprites and comics from the current campaigns, and only those with permission to access the folder may use it.

** Recently, Shiki (who has long been concerned about the site's inadequately archived history), started the "Sprite wars archive project" to finally get as many campaigns as possible archived and available for public consumption again with the aid of anyone in the community who might be able to help. Which would be great, except users haven't exactly been galvanized into helping remedy the problem. Not helping matters is the large amount of members who could be able to help [[AuthorExistenceFailure have seemingly vanished off the face of the earth]]. As such, slim pickings await anyone who wants to delve into the grand history of Sprite wars without bothering the veterans.

** Recently, Shiki (who has long been concerned about the site's inadequately archivedhhistory), started the "Sprite wars archive project" to finally get as many campaigns as possible archived and available for public consumption again with the aid of anyone in the community who might be able to help. Which would be great, except users haven't exactly been galvanized into helping remedy the problem. As such, slim pickings await anyone who wants to delve into the grand history of Sprite wars without bothering the veterans.

** The main site used by most Sprite wars members was majhost. "Was" because at the start of 2015, the site inexplicably went down. It's not too hard to guess what has happened to almost all the site's threads as a result of this. Of course, the pre-crash situation was no idyllic paradise either. Many links were dead years before majhost's latest crash, the victims of users who chose to [[CreatorBacklash wipe their accounts of content.]] In addition, Majhost was never really a stable site in recent years. It would "Down for maintenance" every once in a while, and sometimes take the content's of people's accounts with it during these periods.

** The main site used by most Sprite wars members was majhost. "Was" because at the start of 2015, the site inexplicably went down. It's not too hard to guess what has happened to almost all the site's threads as a result of this. Of course, the pre-crash situation was no idyllic paradise either. Many links were dead years before majhost's latest crash, the victims of users who chose to [[CreatorBacklash wipe their account's of content.]] In addition, Majhost was never really a stable site in recent years. It would "Down for maintenance" every once in a while, and sometimes take the content's of people's accounts with it during these periods.

** The main site used by most Sprite wars members was majhost. "Was" because at the start of 2015, the site inexplicably went down. It's not too hard to guess what has happened to almost all the site's threads as a result of this. Of course, the pre-crash situation was no idyllic paradise either. Many links were dead years before majhost's latest crash, the victims of users who chose to wipe their account's of content. In addition, Majhost was never really a stable site in recent years. It would "Down for maintenance" every once in a while, and sometimes take the content's of people's accounts with it during these periods.

** There is a [[HopeSpot bright side]] to all this. Nobody on the site is ignorant of this massive problem. There's a Sprite wars drop box page made for posting sprites and comics, and will likely remain in use even if majhost comes back. However, it consists primarily of sprites and comics from the current campaigns, and only those allowed to access the folder may use it.

** There is a [[HopeSpot bright side]] to all this. Nobody on the site is ignorant of this massive problem. There's a Sprite wars drop box page made for posting sprites and comics, and will likely remain in use even if majhost comes back. However, it consists primarily of sprites and comics from the current campaigns, only those allowed on to access the folder may use it.
** A few older tidbits are there. The first 500 Sprite wars comics can downloaded in all their cheesy glory on a zip file, for example.
** Recently, Shiki (who has long been concerned about the site's inadequately archived history), started the "Sprite wars archive project" to finally get as many campaigns as possible archived and available for public consumption again with the aid of anyone in the community who might be able to help. Which would be great, except users haven't exactly been galvanized into helping remedy the problem. As such, slim pickings await anyone who wants to delve into the grand history of Sprite wars without bothering the veterans.

** Recently, Shiki (who has long been concerned about the site's inadequately archived history(, started a "Sprite wars archive project" to finally get as many campaigns as possible archived with the aid of anyone on the community who might be able to help. Which would be great, except the community hasn't exactly been galvanized into helping remedy the problem. As such, slim pickings await anyone who wants to delve into the grand history of Sprite wars without bothering the veterans.

** Recently, Shiki (who has been concerned about the site's inadequately archived history, started a "Sprite wars archive project" to finally get as many campaigns as possible archived.

** [[FromBadToWorse And that's just majhost!]] Imageshack was another site that many Sprite wars users posted their works on. Then around 2012, the instituted limits on how many images users could have on their accounts for free, and just like that, a huge chunk of sprite wars history is thrown into the void, including many threads posted in the "Sprite comics" section that only the original makers presumably still have the comics for.
** There is a[[HopeSpot bright side]] to all this. Nobody on the site is ignorant of this massive problem. There's a Sprite wars drop box page made for posting sprites and comics, and will likely remain in use even if majhost comes back. However, it consists primarily of sprites for the current campaigns

*** There, though, was one user who did make a half-hearted attempt to save the still substantial amount of Sprite wars images on majhost on the Internet archive... in 2014.
** [[FromBadToWorse And that's just majhost!]] Imageshack was another site that many Sprite wars users posted their works on. Then around 2012, the instituted limits on how many images users could have on their accounts for free, and just like that, a huge chunk of sprite wars history is thrown into the void, including many threads posted in the "Sprite comics" section that only the original makers presumably still have the comics for.

** [[ItGotWorse And that's just majhost!]] Imageshack was another site that many Sprite wars users posted their works on. Then around 2012, the instituted limits on how many images users could have on their accounts for free, and just like that, a huge chunk of sprite wars history is thrown into the void, including many threads posted in the "Sprite comics" section that only the original makers presumably still have the comics for.

** The main site used by most Sprite wars members was majhost. "Was" because at the start of 2015, the site inexplicably went down. It's not too hard to guess what has happened to almost all the site's threads as a result of this. Of course, the pre-crash situation was no idyllic paradise either. Many links were dead years before majhost's latest crash, the victims of users who chose to wipe their account's of content.
** The Internet archive could've been a good place to go to find many of these long lost images... if it weren't for the fact that Sprite wars-related majhost urls were seemingly never archived by their automated crawlers.