Round Name: Brawl in Bayonne
Sign ups open: 2008-09-12 @ 20:00:00 LXT
Round Starts: 2008-09-13 @ 18:00:00 LXT
[b]Tick Rate:[b] 20 Minutes

Other Information:
WELL, This round was arranged by Wangus and Switch yet SOMEHOW it's left to ME to tell everyone, I swear, I need better staff and fire the lot I already have.

Anyway, Rant aside this round should be one of the least buggiest yet and thusly nearing a fully functional bug free round. As soon as that happens then I'll finally be happy to call LX v1.0 (Yes, I have standards here! Screw the lot of you who think otherwise)

Again, Not many new features in the last push to get everything working stable, but plenty of bug fixes. Enjoy!

Forums are currently offline, I'll fix them shortly.

Firstly, I Apologise for the title, Perhaps a-little too much caffeine this morning.

Secondly, Yes, You read it right. A new round is a-coming!

There's going to be a development round first to get out any remaining kinks and also for you TO GET YOUR SAY!.

Feel free to come around and play and most importantly give your ideas and suggestions. There will be a developer around (most likely myself (Systems) to make live changes to the round. If you'd like a change come and join us and get your say!

This development round details are as follows:
Round name: Lunar Lunacy
Start date: 28th July 2008 @ 1pm GMT
There is NO signup time.

Tick rate: 5minutes

Following rapidly that round is a full blown round, Details are as follows:

Round Name: Geo Corona (Earth's Crown for those non Latin speakers)
Sign ups open: Thursday 31st July 20:00 GMT
Round begins: Friday 1st August 00:00 GMT
Tick rate: 10mins

The tick rate for this round IS debatable, the final tick rate will be finalised by Wednesday the 30th by the latest. If you hear nothing more about it then it will be 10min ticks.

Discussion and forum announcement here:
http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20&p=65#p65

Yes, yet another update to our fabulous LX Notifier.

Along with a few minor GUI tweaks there's now an option for "Auto login" to compliment the "Remember Me" option. Yes, now when you have it auto starting with windows you can also have it logging in for you as well!

My word, You barely have to do anything for this to awe and astound you, because here at LX we realise that you LIKE to be lazy, We sure Do.

Yes, it's that time again, time for a new round.
We're pretty excited about this on as we're pretty confident we've finally got all the kinks worked out.

The details are:
Triangulum Trickery
Sign-ups open: Monday 9th June at: 12:00 LXT.
Round begins: Tuesday 10th June at: 12:00 LXT.
Tick Rate: 10 mins

forum post is here:
http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14

just a quick bug fix to our awesome LX Notifier.

Fixes a bug where running LX notifier would stop windows shutting down.

Yes, all rejoice, new rounds cometh!

We've got two rounds lined up, the first one is going to be a quick tick round. The second is a slower round for us old folk.

Persied Fireball
Sign-ups open: Wednesday 26th March at: 12:00 LXT.
Round begins: Wednesday 26th March at: 18:00 LXT.
Tick Rate: 5 mins

This round will last approximately 4days.

Andromeda's Revenge
Sign-ups open: Monday 31st March at: 18:00 LXT.
Round begins: Tuesday 1st April at: 18:00 LXT.
Tick Rate: 30 mins

This round will last approximately 11 Days

For more details on both round please see the forum annoucement here: http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6

What's that I hear you cry? "Why hasn't LX Notifier been fixed yet"? Well wish granted!

I've just uploaded a new version of LX Notifier (Use the link on the right hand menu, over there <<, the one that says "LX Notifier", yes, that one! ... Sigh, Fine, Click Here http://lx-online.co.uk/?page=notifier - to see what it is) This is a big polish over the old version. While you will not find any changes to the interface you will find it works much better.

I've fixed the parsing engine so that news and messages come through exactly as they should now and the title and message body no longer gets mixed up. I've also removed all dependencies on the registry and fixed "Start with windows"! (It now creates a shortcut in Program files > Startup for ease of use)

There's been some more cleaning up of the code and a few optimisations and it should now be working flawlessly.

For all those who have not tried it out please take this opportunity to try it out, after all we made it especially for you guys!

Released just in time for the next round - which I will be posting about over the next few days.

For all those currently using LX Notifier it should have already informed you of the latest update (Yes, it does that too!).

You may or may not of noticed (And if you didn't - shame on you! why aren't you visiting LX more?) that LX (both the website and other services like IRC) has offline.

Now I know what you're thinking; it was a really stupid idea letting Dom in the 500mile radius of the server but he's Dom... Who's he going to listen to, Us or that booze fairy inside his head?

For more details please refer to the forum post here:
http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5

Sun nien fai lok
Xin nian yu kuai
Godt Nytår
Gelukkig nieuwjaar
Aide shoma mobarak
Bonne année
Aith-bhliain Fe Nhaise Dhuit
Gutes Neues Jahr
Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Shanah tovah
Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab
elamat Tahun Baru
Buon Capo d'Anno
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu
Godt Nyttår
Maligayang Bagong Taon
Szczesliwego Nowego roku
Feliz ano novo
La Multi Ani
S Novym Godom
Feliz Año Nuevo
Wilujeng Tahun Baru
Gott Nytt År
Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda


Or in English:
Happy new year!

PI is a beautiful thing..
And so is a new round!

A quick and dirty one minute ticker for all our friends :)
o Sign up starts today (28/11/07) at 15:00 (GMT)
o The round starts at the first tock of the new month, (1/12/07 - 00:00:01), so be up and ready!
o Round finished sometime before christmas, so no excuses for not shopping for a present ¬_¬

As always, enjoy, grab as many friends as you can, and dominate!
We're not playing for fun here, we're playing for blood!

The empire that reaches no.1 gets a cookie!

Dom.

New round coming up!
Starts this Friday.
Details will be on the forums here shortly: http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=196

Hi All,
There was some downtime on the server for a few hours (between 11 and 1:30 LXT) I apologise for this and it shouldn't happen again.

We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled 5minute tick rounds to do a slow jam (Y'know for the ladies). Event Horizon will be a 15min tick round featuring many bug fixes and some new additions. The upgrade mechanism, Exploration, and an HTML version of the manual are some of the highlights. For those of you that get really big.... well, let's just say I'm sure you'll find something to do with all your filthy excess. For more info see: http://lx-online.co.uk/changelog.html

As always enjoy the round, and post all bugs in the forum.

As you can see there is a new round already on the horizon (You keep coming we'll keep rackin' them up!)
This one is being led by Dogg no less!

Signups Open: 6th Sept 20:00:00
Round starts: 7th Sept 20:00:00

Enjoy "The Turning Point".

I've just uploaded an updated version of LX Notifier as the old one had a rather large bug (Combined with a server misconfiguration) that actually stopped it displaying news!

This has been fixed and it also now includes functionality to make a sound on news.

The auto-update should work but I recommend downloading it manually and uninstall the previous version of the notifier (Not nessecary but some older files will be left over)

If you'd like your own notification sound, simply replace lx.wav with one of your own soundclips (With the same file name)

As you may of noticed, there's a new menu on LX's home page

(<-- Over there)
Titled "LX Notifier". This is out companion program to LX, we invite you to download it and see what it's like. Please leave any feedback in the LX Forums.

LX Notifier is a program that periodically checks your LX account and informs your of any empire news. Please see the link for more information.

Finally getting a chance to stop wangs flow of really crappy round names, I can announce a new round called "Slipstream II"

Sign up opens on the 20th August at 20:00
Game commences 21st August at 20:00

It's a 5minute round which I'm sure you're more pleased about then I am. There's a few bug fixes and I'm hoping to get the new IRC Bot (a complete re-write of Rommie) operational

For full details on this round please visit the forums:
http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=176

I HAVE RIDDEN THE ALMIGHTY SANDWURM.

The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn't discriminate people and doesn't have a political connotation

We have a couple of rounds on the way. For more details: http://forums.lxwars.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=146

Also, Sys finished the notifier and is now working on Rommie (new version from scratch). Grats Sys and... people, try bugging the other admins for now.

Enjoy!

Round Details
Tick Rate: 5 Minutes
Registration Opens: Tuesday 12th June @ 8 P.M.
Start Date: Wednesday 13th June @ 8 P.M.
Round Name: Stellar Plexus

For questions or comments use this forum thread: http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=122&p=456#p456

Chat up lines for the 70s Geek



Think you can think up some great lines? Add them to this forum post!

http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=116

Just to let everyone know i've fixed a bug which stopped some people creating empires.

Hi All,
There's a new round of LX starting, We'd like you to join us!

It's a 30minute round and sign-ups have already opened, the round shall start at 8PM GMT on the 30th April

More details can be found here:
http://forums.lx-online.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=114&p=428

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE LOGGING INTO THE GAME

Due to changes in how LX stores password hashes, all your old passwords WILL NOT WORK. To remedy this situation ALL of your passwords have been reset, a new randomly generated password should of been sent to the E-Mail address you registered with. If it is not please be sure to check your junk folder. If you do not have the E-Mail please contact one of our Admins (Preferably on IRC, Nicks: Dom, Systems, Wangus, Dogg and S) and we'll sort something out

Well, First I'll just remind you there is a new round, Sign ups opened this morning, The game will start at 10P.M. GMT Tonight (Monday)

Secondly, We've updated some of the code. I've finally set up a SVN repository which has made it a-lot easier for us Admins to collaborate with each other in terms of the code and S in particular has been quite active past few weeks (so expect to see a-lot of his JS around the place). I've done a few bug fixes but there's nothing major this round.

I am on holiday from work this week so I'm HOPING I can finally do some more substantial work on LX

Just for your information the code is running R17 (Revision 17) I'll try to tell you ever round the revision the cod e is just to keep you clued in on the amount of updates that has gone in to that round. As always the changelog can be found here: http://lxwars.co.uk/changelog.txt

Today is the first of two 1Minute rounds.
The first round will start tonight at 8P.M. GMT and will last for 12hours.
The Next round will start monday at 10A.M. GMT and will also last 12hours.

Game is back up and running. The time of the ticks was also fixed (it will tick at *:00 and *:30) and a few other fixes.

*licks Sys for fixing this so fast*

Enjoy!

Galactic Exodus, as you may of noticed, Is running on our new server! Ticks should be much faster and pages should load as fast as you can handle. Always a good thing I reckon.

Current Round

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There was A LOT of bugs that occurred moving to the new server AND caused by the new User system, We were bug fixing until about 40minutes before the round started. But we are now confident that the game should run quite smoothly. Please encourage your mates to start playing LX. we are now very capable of handling many players

IRC

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IRC has been set up on the new server as well now, But all three servers are linked. I advise you to either use irc://lxwars.co.uk or irc://irc.lxwars.co.uk (The later being Wangus' server) as VR-Networks' server doesn't work properly with the services (Also been moved to the new server).

New Features

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Due to the new server arriving we only had time to work on one new feature for this round, The new user system. The new system allows you to create a permanent user account which does not get deleted at the end of a round, With this account you can then create empires.

At the moment the user system is very basic and doesn't really give you many more options/features apart from a action log which is still being added to, but now it's I'm place we will be adding to it quite a bit over the new few rounds and should develop nicely (Like not having to re-register with our IRC bot ever round)

Bugs

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If you do find ANY bugs, even if you have encountered them from previous rounds please, let us know so we can get them fixed.

New Round Details can be found here:
http://vr-networks.co.uk/lx/forums/viewtopic.php?p=339#339
There's quite a bit of information about what's going to be happening to LX shortly, I hope you can all read it.

Happy New Year!
May this year bring you all good fortunes

Details of the next round will be up tomorrow

Merry Christmas to All

The ticks are paused for Christmas, Check the forums for the schedule.

You will be able to log in like normal but the ticks will not run.

Next Round
Tick Rate: 15 Mins
Registration Opens: Monday 18th 8 P.M.
Start Date: Tuesday 19th 8 P.M.
Round Name: Silver Bells
Details:
In terms of fairness the game WILL be Paused on the following dates over the Christmas periods (If it runs for that long)
24th December
25th December
31st December
01st January