Download isn't working.

[parath 0]

Usually its 5 files per day. today i wanted to download some stuff and its saying "You may only download 1 kB per day" I haven't donwloaded anything today and its saying this. Anyone knows why? 

THANKS.

[+yakarov79 11,255]

https://combatace.com/announcement/24-upcoming-changes-to-our-downloads/

[Wrench 9,948]

This is why we have announcements both as page headers, AND it's own forum

[+EricJ 4,307]

While I admittedly didn't see it myself, I have a paid subscription so it as it says won't affect me. Got to pay money to get them thar downloads now. Which in effect removes the need for people to create multiple accounts to circumvent the rule.

[+daddyairplanes 10,571]

1 hour ago, EricJ said:

 Got to pay money to get them thar downloads now. Which in effect removes the need for people to create multiple accounts to circumvent the rule.

or contribute to the community (modders, admins, moderators)

but it is correct that you can no longer have a free account and download, although free accounts can still make comments in forums

[Wrench 9,948]

Yes, commenting and creating posts is still allowed, and WELCOME!. AFAIK, posting screenshots in those forums is also not effected.

[madvad 666]

Well, if now it will only be possible to download through a paid account, that's it for me.
I don't have an international credit card at the moment, and even so the value of the dollar is absurdly expensive given the shitty political situation my country finds itself in, that the monthly subscription becomes surreal.

[k9sncampaign 0]

On 12/29/2024 at 3:09 AM, EricJ said:

While I admittedly didn't see it myself, I have a paid subscription so it as it says won't affect me. Got to pay money to get them thar downloads now. Which in effect removes the need for people to create multiple accounts to circumvent the rule.

So now free account will not be able to download permanently?

[Stratos 3,213]

2 hours ago, k9sncampaign said:

So now free account will not be able to download permanently?

Exactly.

[TRIPZ 3]

Well time to uninstall SF2 then. Was a great journey!

[+yakarov79 11,255]

Uhu. great loss to the universe…

[bazillius 1,276]

its a nice gift for the new year. Thanks. Time to say goodbye if i understand right? downloading free mods for abandonware game is payware now. its a good idea, if understand that modders get zero for their work. yes. see ya guys. in another world. Thanks for everything.

[bazillius 1,276]

5 hours ago, yakarov79 said:

Uhu. great loss to the universe…

Well, if this is now a site exclusively for a narrow circle of users, then I wish you luck. Overall, a strange comment. Many people here made mods solely on their own enthusiasm. If you want to drive them away, then... what can to say..

[MigBuster 2,891]

1 hour ago, bazillius said:

its a nice gift for the new year. Thanks. Time to say goodbye if i understand right? downloading free mods for abandonware game is payware now. its a good idea, if understand that modders get zero for their work. yes. see ya guys. in another world. Thanks for everything.

 

 

See here:

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I appreciate your input, and I understand your concern. Here's the problem more directly so hopefully everyone can understand it.

The 5-file download limit per day does not work. Because free email accounts exist people go to the furthest extremes possible to beat a system put there to prevent unlimited free downloads. There are no options for us. We either switch to fully free downloads which is financially destructive, or we go to a pay for content model. It will not matter if we put an age restriction on the accounts, we'll end up with the same burden just one or two years down the road.

I have believed in the honesty and integrity of people for over 23 years doing this. I have supported them financially and I have believed that they would get their fill and things would calm down. Today CA delivers over three terabytes of data every month and that number continues to climb. Then there's the other side to managing the multitude of accounts people create to download, it takes me hours every single day to weed through them, 365 days per year no breaks or no time away. I pay to work here. To make things worse it's only making those people mad when their accounts get suspended. They go out onto the internet and talk trash about what we do and how horrible we are, but they never once look at it from our perspective. I challenge each of those people to make a luxury sized car payment, a mortgage payment for some, every single month to work at a place where you're the enemy while you're paying for their download content.

The change is here.

 

 

 

 

[+mue 719]

1 hour ago, bazillius said:

its a nice gift for the new year. Thanks. Time to say goodbye if i understand right? downloading free mods for abandonware game is payware now. its a good idea, if understand that modders get zero for their work. yes. see ya guys. in another world. Thanks for everything.

I understand you. I don't like the paywall either.
But I also understand Erik who has to pay the server bills. I hope another better solution will be found.

[+EricJ 4,307]

That's what my assumption about paid subscriptions, the amount of fake emails to abuse a service that he gave us without charging us. I mean it was only a matter of time before something had to be done about it.

[+yakarov79 11,255]

Many people, still do not get it.. I see.

 

Now questions and answer to yourself.

- Do I have a cell phone?

Do I use my cell phone for calling friends, and family, sending pictures, watching nudes, TikTok cooking while dancing, and all that stuff..?

Do I pay a bill to my network provider? 

I know that many will not get the logic in that simple example...

 

Just to be clear:

While you might still pay for watching nudes, you are definitely not paying your family to be your family - but you still call them. 

 

[Stratos 3,213]

2 hours ago, bazillius said:

Well, if this is now a site exclusively for a narrow circle of users, then I wish you luck. Overall, a strange comment. Many people here made mods solely on their own enthusiasm. If you want to drive them away, then... what can to say..

Have you read the reasons behind the decision?

[bazillius 1,276]

4 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Have you read the reasons behind the decision?

i have read. for me. the site! Farewell! The pity.

[bazillius 1,276]

by the way, i dont watch nudes on my phone. i am not a schoolboy

[madvad 666]

I understand Erik's reasons and I understand that this was the last straw for him.
I say that I understand because I am the founder of an international automotive club, with visitors to our forum from many country´s around the world.
This forum I mentioned has almost 20,000 registered members and I have always suffered with moderators who disappear, problems and disputes between members, people just complaining about content that they never even contributed to, and things like that.
And I have always been the one who has borne the costs, trying to recover something by selling a line of club products such as caps, t-shirts, stickers, etc.
But I do it because I like it, because I see the community that likes that vehicle in common grow and that's all.

That said, I imagine Erik feels outraged by people cheating accounts to exceed the daily download count and things like that, but I wonder if there isn't something else that could be done to curb this "little trick". (On my site, I only allow downloads from members who are recommended by someone who has been a member for X amount of time, or people can only download after X amount of time registered, after introducing themselves in a specific topic for this purpose. This discourages people from creating fake emails, because it won't solve anything).

I also wonder what happens to someone who creates a mod and does it out of pure passion, to be distributed as freeware, and suddenly people have to pay to have it, while he doesn't earn anything. (I know it's not that simple and the site doesn't stay online by miracle, but it's a worthy discussion.) I've been here and I've made friends over the years, always contributing with suggestions as a "beta tester" and trying to help in any way I can, because I'm a fool with files. 3D and other skills to make mods.

However, I currently can't afford the amount in dollars that the subscription requires (for me it would be something like 600 dollars/year). 
They bankrupted my country in just 2 years and the value of the dollar has skyrocketed, and spending that amount on something that is not a priority for me to live is not in my plans.
This said, if the dollar were cheap for me, I would happily donate frequently without even needing a subscription, but dollar never was cheap and now is bizarre.

Best regards

Edited December 31, 2024 by madvad

[+yakarov79 11,255]

1 hour ago, bazillius said:

i dont watch nudes on my phone.

your loss....

 

you should..it releases stress... and it is good for old boys too....

45 here...

watching nudes is healthy....unless you are doing it when researching aircraft serial numbers...

Edited December 31, 2024 by yakarov79

[Wrench 9,948]

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unless you are doing it when researching aircraft serial numbers...

I've actually DONE it while doing research. WW2 nose arts -- of which I've done more than anyone else here combined -- are mostly undressed ladies.

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All the arguments are extreamly valid, and importent to be aired. Stating it again, this was NOT an easy descision. But it had to be taken.

There will be those that moan and whine and complain, and rant and rave and carry on like somebody shot their dog. There's also what we call the "gimmies" or "takers" (including the "I Wanters") that only take and never do anything else, including entering discussion and posts in the Forums (see above example, TRPZ,  joined in 2019, and has only posts 5 times in 6 years. If that's not a Taker, I'll never know what is). 

This change isn't just for SF/SF2 -- and you all seem to NOT be seeing this. IT IS SITE WIDE, AFFECTING ALL DOWNLOADS FOR EVERYTHING HOSTED HERE AT COMBAT ACE. So there's more than one shoe still to drop

Let me add this -- you think Capun would put up for 5 seconds some of the shit that has gone on around here??? Them folks would get bounced out so fast and hard, their feet would never touch the ground, and then get perma-banned.

(my opinion below, not reflective of site policy, but that of someone who's been here since 2004 and pretty much seen it all)

We're better off without them. Will we loose good people? Of course we will. But that's the way of things. I do feel sorry for those that want to get the mods, but simply can't due to whatever circumstances.

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So, if you all will excuse me, all that p0rn is not gonna download itself ...

 

 

[bazillius 1,276]

1 hour ago, Wrench said:

I've actually DONE it while doing research. WW2 nose arts -- of which I've done more than anyone else here combined -- are mostly undressed ladies.

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All the arguments are extreamly valid, and importent to be aired. Stating it again, this was NOT an easy descision. But it had to be taken.

 

 

I'm sure the money won't grow by a single cent, but people will leave. Do as you wish.

and about porn. Anyone who watches a lot of porn will grow hair on their palms.

[bazillius 1,276]

increase to at least 2 kilobytes per day, realy! Please!