http://roguey.co.uk/ Roguey's site covering the X-Universe, Console gaming and more. en-us Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:21:52 CST Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:21:52 CST 480 http://roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=359 Web Today ive been updating the arcade a little, the main thing being that now games use the full width. I hope this should make make them easier to play now. I have also changed a few paths - mainly to make them easier to understand and remove the and symbol. I hope you like the new large game area. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:21:52 -0600 http://roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=359 http://roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=358 Web Have you ever wondered if you could make your own ship, although didnt want to get into complex code to design it? well.. I have been working on a new section today: design your own ship. In this section you can build a ship from catalogue of parts. The amount of parts will increase over-time, however there is over 60 components already, should give you plenty of options! Why not give a go and share with us some of your results: 16 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:38:19 -0600 http://roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=358 http://roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=357 Web Today ive been thinking the blog section needed a bit of an update, as it didnt look very personal. To me it looked each person blogs were merging into one. So I started changing the design to make it better, trying to make them more personal... moving text etc. This is when I thought about adding an image to the top, an banner as such. However as soon as tried it, I thought about expanding the idea so your own profile, home etc. This would hopefully make certain sections of the site more personal. So now, for all level 6,+ users you should now have access to an banner uploader in My home. I have also changed a few pages (like profiles) to an new layout. ps. a note to mods, the mod options have been removed from the profile pages, however I will code an better admin section for the whole site. So bare with me on that. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:33:54 -0600 http://roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=357 http://ammo.roguey.co.uk/news_item.php?id=1418 C&C I been feeling a bit sorry for the Ammo site, its been rarely updated and old style that doesnt quite fit into the rest of the sites. If anything I felt that Ammo has been a bit.. well, defeated. So I thought ill give it a bit of a refresh, with a mix of old (the top part of the site is classic to Ammo). I hope Tiger likes the new design, as I know he likes black sites. I have also tried to make the navigation some-what simpler too and improve some styling. I havnt finished, but its enough for now :) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:32:43 -0600 http://ammo.roguey.co.uk/news_item.php?id=1418 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=356 X3AP I have today completed the first draft of my Steam achievement guide. The guide aims to explain what are the achievements and how to get them, as I know some can be a bit tricky to understand / get. Just click the image below to see the guide: 15 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:43:55 -0600 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=356 http://x3tc.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=355 X3TC Those of you who have been playing X3: Albion Prelude for some time, and have been waiting for a fix for the performance issues experienced after extensive play, need wait no longer. We have also taken this opportunity to make some related performance optimisations, and to fix a number of bugs reported in the initial release. Those of you playing X3: Terran Conflict will be pleased to know that we've back-ported some of the most important bug-fixes from X3: Albion Prelude, along with a number of the performance improvements. For STEAM users, both games should update automatically provided your Steam client is configured to do this. For everyone else, the patch for X3TC is available in our Download area. More details of what these patches contain are on our Forums. -Egosoft Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:16:03 -0600 http://x3tc.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=355 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=354 X3AP You can now compare up-to 3 ships at once with my new ship compare function. Simply select a few ships from the pull-down boxes and start comparing. You can also share you compares with others, with the use of a small link. I hope you find the new section useful. 14 I will add the new function to the X3TC site too, soon. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:11:27 -0600 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=354 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=353 X3AP A new patch for Albion Prelude has been released today, entitled v1.1. This new patch sets to fix a lot of issues with Albion Prelude from performance to game-play. Good job egosoft, here's the list of changes in v1.1: New Features and Improvements: - Added various performance optimisations - Made several balancing changes to improve gameplay - Reduced excessively loud weapon/explosion sounds - Improved missile friendly fire behaviour - Push effect of "push" lasers now uses falloff - Player missiles now immune to bullet damage for 2 seconds after launch - Reduced missile spam from missile boats - Improved missile barrage command for M8 ships - Out-of-sector combat fine-tuned for better simulation - Game now uses a wider range of combat music tracks - Valhalla's jumpdrive will no longer jump to gates (because it's too big!) - M8 ships now considered more powerful than M6 ships for mission balancing - Reduced excessive Stock Exchanges profitability - Graphs show zero lines for X and Y axis if values above and below zero are present - Improved behaviour of Home and End keys in menus - Wider range of quotes used when starting a plot game - Added localised Loading screen messages - Steam achievements can now be obtained while in offline mode - Improved target rectangle scaling at high screen resolutions Fixes: - Fixed slowdown over time caused by missions (existing savegames should speed up too) - Fixed crash when jumping in-sector while player ship turrets are firing - Fixed freeze caused by RRF script priority conflict - Fixed claiming of abandoned ships - Fixed Terran Complex Construction Kit - Fixed handling of war objects that are boarded - Fixed OWP firing at targets that have been captured - Fixed turrets "losing" weapons when going out of sector - Fixed default shield on Lasertower - Fixed missing docking slots on Kyoto - Fixed Pike so that it can now carry shields it can fit - Fixed price of Griffon Sentinel - Fixed Traveller achievement - Fixed several Stock Exchange bugs and exploits - Fixed sector blacklists for Mk3 traders - Fixed OOS mining not working - Fixed various minor issues with marines, fleets and RRF - Fixed custom menu selection for certain menu items - Fixed incorrect mod path - Fixed global parameter for number of missiles in a swarm - Fixed interface animation speed when running SETA Ill start updating the ship section in a few moments with some of the updated stats . Relicalchaos has created a topic about the new patch on the forum, so you can have your say here. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:21:29 -0600 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=353 http://xrebirth.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=352 X-Games A big thanks to all the entries to the Terran War pack competition. Today the lucky winner was drawn at random from all the successfully entries. I must thank egosoft for donating the prize, as without them there would be no prize. Here is the draw and who won: I will be contacting the lucky winner shortly. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:41:46 -0600 http://xrebirth.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=352 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=351 X3AP I personally do not have any of the Apple products, so this does not appeal to me, but there may be some of you out there that does. I may however have a look at the on Amazon, I am a big Amazon user, It is priced at £7.49 iTunes X3AP Amazon Released today on iTunes and Amazon music. Soundtrack includes exclusive X: Rebirth track and multiple Bonus tracks. This same soundtrack will also be included as a CD in the X3: Terran War Pack retail box Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:21:58 -0600 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=351 http://x3.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=350 X3-mod For a long time after-domination.net have been hosting both my X3 and X3TC mods, making it much easier for me to get the mods onto the internet. However it looks like after-domination have ran into some problems: The website you are trying to access is unknown in the system. It is very hard for me to host such large files but I do have some limited space with my ISP to host my X3 mod only. My X3TC mod is rather old anyway and probably doesn't work with the latest version of X3TC. I always have problems hosting large files, but I do what I can. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:14:19 -0600 http://x3.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=350 http://console.roguey.co.uk/news/get.php?id=113 XBox 360 In the past Microsoft has recieved many complaints about 'Hacked' accounts, through many things, like spam and phising messages. IGN 360 has tracked down comments from Microsoft to see what they say. Normally fixing a comprimised a count takes 25 days, but; The goal would be days, if not hours XBOX have commented saying that; Those waiting an unreasonable amount of time represent a tiny fraction of the millions of people coming through Xbox Live every month Have your account been compromised, or suffered bad XBOX support? Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:33:01 -0600 http://console.roguey.co.uk/news/get.php?id=113 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=349 X3AP Thanks to a suggestion from tesier (on the egosoft's forum), I have combined the weapon layout and ship stat pages into 1 page. What this means is that instead of a laser key on the ship stats and another page weapon layouts, both are found on one page. This should make it much easier to see what weapon goes where. Both the X3TC and X3AP sites use the new updated design. The new design even lighter on the website! I must also thank Ripskar, abaddon, and everyone else who has helped on the egosoft forum with suggestions, help and advice. thanks all! Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:06:24 -0600 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=349 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=348 X3AP It looks like Bernd Lehahn is started talking to community sites about Albion Prelude and future game: Rebirth. The first is an audio interview with the site soulrift, where the two talk about x-games, future plans and goals. Its a good interview that last for 50mins and you get to hear what Bernd is like. The complete interview can be heard at soulrift.com. A quick summarize (from my memory): - Talking about how space games in general and how they could be improved, - Talking about space lanes and the reason behind them, - Explaining the story behind X3TC and some of the reason events, - Why do stations go hostile when your turret hits them by mistake, - Losing kills, as an M8 killed itself In the second interview, Bernd talks to VP Blog about X3AP (these guys published the x-games on the mac). Some of the information you may already know but it might be worth a read regardless. The article be found on vpltd.com. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:02:11 -0600 http://x3ap.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=348 http://x3tc.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=347 X3TC Today I have updated the old (and tired) station pages for X3TC. Over time the pages have gone through a number of style and formatting changes but werent updated to use the new formats. This meant the X3TC station pages were hard to read. However now they should be much easier to follow: 13 I have also moved all X-Games tables to away from the main ones. It started with just a few tables (to support X3), then few more (X3TC) until now with 10+ tables (X2, X3, X3TC, X3AP etc). Basically they needed their own section. Please let me know if you see any broken pages on any of my x-sites. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:45:22 -0600 http://x3tc.roguey.co.uk/news/single.php?id=347