What is the RRR (Reclamation, Restoration, Reindexification) project? RRR is an initiative started by sercrets and Ta183Huckebein. The purpose of this initiative is to Reclaim, Restore, and Reindex all available content for 1946, and find and restore missing content that has been lost to the sands of time. The project will accomplish this via the uploading of user game files in which lost resources such as the directories where skins, tutorials, campaigns, missions, and other files were once installed into.
The reasoning behind this initiative There may be somewhat a "dark ages" going on within 1946.
Historically, the dark ages is a time period in reference to the period of time directly after the fall of Rome to the Byzantine empire. The Roman empire was an illustrious empire, which was very technologically advanced and from a historical aspect should never really have fallen, and only fell due to the division of the Roman empire itself. All of that technological advancement and achievements disappeared over night as the byzantine empire was largely primitive and did not value advancement. Then the dawn of the Dark Age happened and badda bing badda boom, you are now knee deep in medieval times. It took many decades/centuries to reclaim the technological status that Rome had achieved, and arguably, had the Roman Empire have not fallen, we would be at an even larger technological advancement than we are currently at. Ah well, C'est la vie (That's life). I digress.
A similar thing is happening within the 1946 community. This was high-lighted via the recent passing of a friend. One moment he was there, another moment he was not. He lived in the UK so any effort to recover things he worked on, (He was not a 46 player, but a flight sim nerd nonetheless), would be astronomical. Hence, I am embarking on this project this summer. It is partly out of necessity, redundancy, as well as personal interest.
Introducing the RRR project (Reclamation, Restoration, Reindexification)
This initiatives intention is to host a data storage system in an attempt to archive almost everything that is currently available for the 1946 community, as well as find what has been potentially lost to the decay of the internet. This would involve scraping M4T incase of its inevitable downfall (God forbid the day that happens), as well as any other current site out there. This would be accessible to anyone at any time, as a type of alternative to mediafire or any other hosting areas which may fall in the future (We have seen this in the past with dead mediafire, dropbox, and google links).
We are very hopeful that you will willingly donate your collection of downloads to this project, however, many may ask a valid question;
What is Required? This is meant to be as easy as pie and nothing harder than that. No requirements of stipulations whatsoever are held over the uploader. If they wish to index and organize it, they may, or, if they wish to just upload their entire game install for the staff of RRR to pick through, then that is perfectly acceptable as well. If you would feel so gracious in which to provide a text file or a message briefly documenting what you have/where it came from if you can remember that would be fantastic, however it is not required by any stretch.
What are we looking for?
Quite Literally Anything and EverythingWe are looking for:
-Skins
-Missions
-Campaigns
-Standalone Mods
-Server Scripts and Aids
-Maps
-Training Videos
-NetCaches of skins and missions.
-Mission making resources such as documentation on certain things etc
-Anything else that is not listed we will take. (Seriously, anything)
What do we currently have? We currently have on storage:
- An estimation of 100k skins
- 1246 campaigns
- Over 800 Gigabytes of mod files, game backups, training resources, and much more!
Things to look for in the near future:
- A new website, resulting in the project being made public and a new upload system.
- Regular updates on the project
- A list of files that we know are missing from old internet archives or user memories.
- As well as many more things!
The future of Il-2 1946 data sits in the palms of our hands at this very moment... It is our hope and dreams that this will cement the future into a strong foundation, enabling the community to grow and advance in many more ways!
If you have any files you would like to donate to the project, you can contact us here on SAS, M4T, Discord, or Email il21946rrr@gmail.com
Cheers,
sercrets and Ta183Huckebein.
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