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Has UESP dropped the ball?


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Having read the enormous amount of info from the ES forums (hurrah to Stampede for the link, and general kudos to all the staffers and mods who have been trawling to bring info to us, the unwashed and lazy masses), I thought I'd take a peek at UESP.net, the reliable hangout of all MW information I ever needed.

 

I approve of them moving to a Wiki format as the old site layout was never anything special - it did the job, it just isn't very pretty. What's worrying though is that there is next to nothing about Oblvion on there. Given the fact that the ES post contains a MASSIVE amount of both info and screenshots (plenty of those if you are starved for pretty pictures to look at - the link again in case you missed it the first time) there is a comparitive wasteland on UESP.

 

I'm hoping that once Oblivion comes out UESP will spring into life again, but it looks to me like whoever ran the site, sterling work that they've done up until now, have lost that impetus that made the site the best resource for ES info on the web. I lament.

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Well did they ever particularly have general information and screenshots etc? I always thought UESP's purpose was general tips and info. That's where it really shines anyway. Like locations of armour and weapons, how to do quests etc. So I doubt they'll add any Oblivion stuff until the game is out and they actually get to play.
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Fair point Switch. What I was worried about was whether they'd start to put that stuff up if they hadn't kept up with the build-up, but you are right in what you say. If you guys are listening, I apologise for my lack of faith but I tend to worry when the fountain of all knowledge shows signs of drying up :P
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  • 3 weeks later...

Indeed, I've got an "Account Suspended" message coming up. Argh! Also, there's no mention of them on Wikipedia, which is where they were supposedly moving gradually to. More argh!

 

Is this the end of UESP? If so, this is a sad day for us all.

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UESP has had a history of disappearing for periods of time so it may be back. If it is not UHS is still going atm. They do not have all the list that were available on UESP but have enough info to answer many of the questions a new player might ask.
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Oh noes *sob*. Maybe they'll be back? I've got the same thing, web host ads and "Account Suspended". Damn... I hope they come back, or I'm gunna have to find a new source of ES info!
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Yah, the site seems to have overloaded the server again so I ordered and am starting to setup a dedicated server which should solve the problem as well as give faster response and download times. I'm waiting for the DNS to be setup and other things to be fixed (cannot ftp to site atm to upload things). I did manage to restore the Wiki database on the weekend so once the ftp is restored and I can upload the wiki it *should* be up, assuming the database restore worked (first time doing it so I may have messed up somewhere).

 

Unfortunately I'm working away from home in Chicago this week so while I'll try to fix/upload things from the road, it may take longer to get uesp.net back up. So even if its down a few weeks, don't worry, it will be back...

 

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.p...=188277&hl=UESP

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