![]() Preacherman Ascends: The Alias Wars (Jan 2005-Feb 28, 2005) ![]() The first forum ban of an active participant was enacted in December 2004 when Natya was removed from the forums. This new oversite was soon tested by some Luxers, pusheding the limits to see what exactly would be acceptable in the future. An official set of forum rules appeared for the first time as well. The initial line-up had preacherman, michelle, sasquatch, and mbauer joining dustin as the forum overlords. November 2004 marked the introduction of moderators to the forums. At that time most sportsmanlike player awards were given to: preacherman, Pi, michelle, el toro, gibraltar monkey, mbauer, sasquatch, and shopi.Īs the number of online games grew so did activity in the forums. The first Luxtoberfest celebration was held in October 2004. Shopi was known to play a ridiculous amount of games, racking up a huge total that is still impressive today. The sign is infinity (st00pid mb) ∞ Preacherman often topped the rankings during this time with a remarkable +50% win percent ∞ Players such as shopi, michelle, Natya, furball and gibraltar monkey often dominated games. Most of these remarkable original members are still among us. Preacherman gathered a flock which eventually became the Semi-Holy Church of Lux. A mysterious long-haired figure from the east began preaching of figs, ducks and coffee. Preacherman and the Semi-Holy Church of Lux (Aug 2004-Dec 2004)Īfter the dust settled from the initial avalanche of Windows players, the core group of "older & wiser" Mac players struggled for an identity. Rankings became important and the taste of sweet raw created a hunger in many. "Asshat" and "wtf?" became catch phrases. There was a surge in new players and a noticeable increase in hostility during games. Lux became cross platform with the Windows/Linux release in June 2004. ![]() To The Power of Hex was released in February and quickly became map of choice for epic games. In January 2004 Preacherman created Risk Plus, UK, a USA map, and wrote the first version of the Map Tutorial (which at the time was for text editor XML junkies only). After Classic Risk, Battle of Europe and Spacestation Lux followed in late 2003. This period was also filled with the first custom maps. A list of the eldest online Luxers can be seen on the Old Guard page. There weren't many young players, but we did have Kef to kick around. Vonibot envisions the bots first doctrine. The continuously active players formed a loose brother/sisterhood (healthy respect, not the scary hillbilly kind). There wasn't a developed ranking system at first so a game win (1st place) was the only important goal. no freaky windows users!" The first version of Lux that supported networked games came out in September of 2003 and it was for Mac OS X only. "It was the best of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of. "The Before Times" - Mac Only (September 2003 - May 2004) From the collective Luxer memory, the title has seemed to go as follows: The title of supposed "King of Lux" has gone through different hands many times. Lux 3 released August 2003 added support for custom designed maps. Lux 2 added support for multi-player networked games. The first version of Lux only supported the built-in random map generator, and only single-player. There does exist a wikipedia article about Lux, but this document has more flair! Since then, Lux has spread all over the world, spawned a series of expansion games, and become the Lux Delux of the now times. It was first available from the Sillysoft website and. Version 1.0 of Lux was released on Novemby Dustin Quasar Sacks in Montreal, Canada.
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