Thiefmissions.com is down

Darkness_Falls on 7/11/2016 at 04:32

What is the secret to being able to download T1/T2 fan missions from thiefmissions.com; or any repository, for that matter? I just get a blank, light blue screen there on any mission I click. I've tried Firefox and IE; they both do the same.

(http://thiefmissions.com/m/SevenSisters) http://thiefmissions.com/m/SevenSisters
(http://thiefmissions.com/m/Tower) http://thiefmissions.com/m/Tower
(http://thiefmissions.com/m/RowenasCurse) http://thiefmissions.com/m/RowenasCurse

I got the above URLs from this page: (http://thiefmissions.com/search.cgi?search=%2Bauthor=Lady%20Rowena%20(A.M.I)) http://thiefmissions.com/search.cgi?search=%2Bauthor=Lady%20Rowena%20(A.M.I)

Is there somewhere else I should be getting T1/T2 fan missions from, as no repository seems to work for me. At the moment, I mainly just want to play Lady Rowena's missions, such as Seven Sisters as noted in this thread she once made: (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118849) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118849

I've also tried (http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/) http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/, but get an iPower page saying the site is unavailable.

And (thief-thecircle.com) thief-thecircle.com gives this error when trying to access missions: "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator."

The closest I've come to a repository still being functional is this page, but the list seems fairly short and doesn't have Rowena's missions; actually, it looks like TDM missions only - (http://www.shadowdarkkeep.com/fmarchive.htm) http://www.shadowdarkkeep.com/fmarchive.htm(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118849) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118849

GUFF on 7/11/2016 at 05:17

Thiefmissions is unfortunately down. Either the scripts are broken due to an update of whatever library powered them or some higher administrator at the university cut it off for whatever reason. It's unfortunate since it was the best archive of Thief 1/Gold and 2 missions.

(http://www.taffersparadise.co.uk) is the only place I know of which has a mostly complete archive of thief missions and is somewhat reliable. ttlg.de doesn't seem to work very often (bandwidth exceeded errors) and also unless you know some German you might get lost trying to navigate.

nickie on 7/11/2016 at 06:27

Last 2 posts have been moved to appropriate thread.

FM Information Sticky has (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139559#Fan Mission Download Sites) this info on (mostly) current download sites.

If you want English versions then suggest you use (http://www.gnartsch.de/Thief-FM/Thief-FanMissions.shtml) gnartsch's links.

Darkness_Falls on 7/11/2016 at 07:10

Thanks! Sorry I didn't see this thread before. So many pages pointing here and there, like a spiderweb or labyrinth of links to try and find functioning fan mission repositories; and Google searches pointing to various places. I promise I spent time looking around first :) For Lady Rowena's missions, Gnartsch's site just points to thiefmissions.com, unfortunately... but I'm sure it doesn't do that for all other missions; so, I'll bookmark it. Taffersparadise.co.uk looks to have Rowena's files, so all is well with that now. Thanks again!

nickie on 7/11/2016 at 08:24

Quote Posted by Darkness_Falls

Gnartsch's site just points to thiefmissions.com, unfortunately.

The Download Sites heading shows probably all of the available sites.

Azaran on 26/11/2016 at 22:14

Has anyone heard back from the Thiefmissions owner?

A.J on 26/11/2016 at 22:20

Probably not. Then again...

bedwine on 4/12/2016 at 01:01

I have already downloaded all the missions. What I am going to miss are the links to the message boards when playing old missions looking for help. Sorry to see it go.

Lord Soth on 4/12/2016 at 10:50

There will be a load of updates to taffers over the Xmas holidays, to bring a lot of the missions up to date with newdark versions.

Tannar on 4/12/2016 at 16:18

That's great, thank you!