This is an archive of the forums of the Epic Character Builders guild at the BioWare website. With the possibility of those forums being shut down at any time, it seems as though some people would appreciate this archive.
Download and decompress the archive to wherever you want it. There will be three directories created -- builds, buildsearch, and images -- and all files will be in one of those directories. (This structure is to allow the files to be easily added to an existing or new website, in addition to being used for personal reference.) If you also grab my archive of Part Deux, you can decompress both in the same location, and they will share a number of files. For the most part, the shared files are identical in both archives (so it does not matter what you choose when asked if you want to overwrite them while decompressing the second archive), but there is one one file that needs a slight adjustment to handle both archives. For that, decompress the merge file, overwriting the file from the archives.
After decompression, where do you start? Well, you need to open certain files in your favorite web browser. To browse the forums, start with:
builds/guild.html
To search the (non-PRC) builds, start with:
buildsearch/ECB_search.html
To view an index of builds by author, you need to choose classic or PRC builds:
builds/buildindex.html builds/prcbuildindex.html
For those who are so inclined, the formatting can be adjusted through the .css files. (I went with BioWare's theme as a default.) The layout of the posts of a topic can be adjusted through viewtopic.js (most of those pages are dynamically generated so that they can be easily changed en masse).
Let's see... did I leave anything out? Oh, if there are other guild forums that deserve an archive, I can be convinced to archive them, provided I can read them. I am not inclined to generate search engines for arbitrary guilds, but downloading and processing posts is not a big deal (since I already have it mostly automated).
I should also acknowledge the WoG website, where this is being hosted. (Same HTML for the posts, but different CSS and javascript.)
One last question that was never completely clear to me: does the "epic" in the guild title refer to the characters or the builders? :)
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