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dustin · Last edited by dustin on Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:28 pm; edited 5 times in total

Luxtoberfest contains the annual Lux Awards. The winners are determined based on your votes and will be announced at the award ceremonies on October 28th.

Map & Plugin Awards:

Best AI
Best Random Map Generator
Best Map of 2007 Overall
and best map in each category:
- Fantasy Realms
- Geographic - Asia/Pacific
- Geographic - Europe
- Geographic - North America
- Geographic - Other
- Geometric Shapes
- Historical
- Space
- World

You can send in a vote for 1 map in each category, or your 5 favorite maps overall. There's a page online displaying all the Maps submitted in 2007 in their categories.

People awards:

Best Host
Most Entertaining Player
Most Sportsmanlike Player
Rookie of the Year (2007 rookie list)
Best Forum Influence
Hall of Fame (Lifetime Achievement)

If you feel that a few people are very deserving of the people awards then you can send in votes for up to 3 players in each category. Votes for yourself will not be counted. All Luxers are asked to email or PM me their votes sometime during Luxtober.

my wife hates me · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

Hope it's not too late but could we sub divide the best forum influence into the seperate sub topics? There were some really fun threads in the "Sillysoft Pub" but how could you compare that to someone in "Lux Talk" who may have started a great discussion about the game itself.

Just asking because of the recent posts regarding how even though a luxer may not have time for a game, they always find a way to check in and participate in the forums.

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Packman · Loves his dice! Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2226

Just a thought Idea

perhaps when a player is "nominated" they could be posted here so people would have a better idea of who is in the running. For instance, last year I did not vote for PSU for rookie of the year because I didn't realize he was eligible.

Packman pisses and moans for not even being an honorable mention for rookie of the year last year

mud · n00b educator Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 1962

My Nominations. Vote early and vote often.

[nominations removed - secret ballot - talk in game chat if you want to]

General K

Black Pope · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

Hey Dustin, can you do two things here please? Can you explain what precisely constitutes Lifetime Achievement? Also, who were the past winners?
Thanks!

Sylocat · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject:

∞ Sylocat vows to be a gentleman and refrain from voting for his own maps ∞

dustin · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject:

Lifetime Achievement consists of everything the person has added to Lux, in any shape and form. This also constitutes the Lux Player Hall of Fame. The current members are:

dustin
el toro
furball
magpie
mbauer
michelle
Nefarious
paranoiarodeo
Preacherman
sasquatch
SET
shopi
Smedz

Dominator · The Man Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 1287

mud · n00b educator Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 1962

Its a reference to aliases

hee hee

Nimrod7 · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

Where's the best half killer category?

mud · n00b educator Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 1962

I won it 3 years ago and its a lifetime achievment award.

RandomGuy · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:49 am Post subject:

SunTzu · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:56 am Post subject:

Kef · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:18 am Post subject:

Golfmannen · Lux Clown Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 756 Location: Here!

dustin · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject:

dustin · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

dustin · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject:

BTW: There's no rush to vote. I'll be giving copious reminders when it comes close to the deadline. October hasn't even started yet, so it's possible there will be some last minute entries. Also, the map retrospective will help remind you of some of the different maps. Ditto for Rookie night reminding you who some of the best rookies are.

SnyperEye · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:21 am Post subject:

Ok, IMHO

I dont think an individual map should be represented in more than 1 category. Besides the best map of all time. I think that it takes away votes from that the invidual map in a single category when deciding. (Example) : River Castles is represented in Fantasy and Geometric Shapes. I dont find this map to be a geometric shape map. But when voting people may not choose to vote 1 map in one category because they voted it in the other and I dont find that fair to our map makers.

Preacherman · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:35 am Post subject:

I thought it was good that maps were represented in multiple categories - I was annoyed that some maps I wanted to vote for I couldn't, as they shared categories with other great maps. Further down, I found the same maps again in other categories against lesser competition and they got the votes they deserved. It's nigh on impossible to cast a vote for all the great maps that have been released this year otherwise...

Sir Holo · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:35 am Post subject:

SunTzu · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:50 am Post subject:

RandomGuy · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:56 am Post subject:

Any plans to add some of the alternate suggeted map awards mentioned in the thread SunTzu linked?

I think Best Playability, Best Graphics, Mapmaker of the year, and some others (best full house map, best offline map, best team play map, etc.) would be fun.

SunTzu · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:59 am Post subject:

Also... suppose there is a map I loved that was both historical and in a geographic region. I think it could have represented the historical aspect better, so I don't vote for it in that category but in the geographic region category instead.

If all the historical maps were put into only the historical category, do I vote for that map anyway because I like the map the best but think it's not as historically interesting as others?

SunTzu · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:02 am Post subject:

Schnoober · Lux Newbie Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 2

so how do i vote for a map?

my wife hates me · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject:

send a PM with all your votes to the almighty quasar (or, um, dustin...)

Cuarto · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject:

oh! oh! i vote for empty bot! its always fun playing against him because i never lose!

....

Laughing

i hope that nobody sincerely agrees with the reason i am voting for empty

Sylocat · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

I like Empty because of all the interesting options for starting scenarios it offers up.