Posted By Andy Frogman on January 31, 2010 | Comments: none

Yeah! Dat’s right! Da luvable Tekboi has returned, an’ returned in style! Tho’ I ‘ave just bin dragged out of da back room, jus’ to giv yoo lot of freeloders a bunch of bad newz. Iz not my fault this time tho’, it’s dat boss of ourz. Maybe wiv me bak, there will be less skrew upz, and more stuff doin’ wat it s’posed too!

Anyhoo… Andy’s gone an’ changed da rulez of da ooniverz again. Accordin’ to ‘im, the multee-verz was too much to handle, an’ so he’s given up on dat idea and ‘as slapped all da ooniverzes togeva in wun ooniverz.

So now dat he’z dun that, da wiki needs to be ork-mended to explain da rules of da new ooniverz insted of dat old mish mash dat was a multee-verz. It won’t take too long… after all, iz muggins’ here dat has to fix it. Nah forget dat… too much typin’.

HEY! BOSS! IT’Z BACK TO YOU!

Category: Technical Updates, Wiki Update, Yark'z Updatez
Tags: backstory, Boi, down, fix, history, Java, mythos, physics, rules, Tek, Tekboi, UJ, Ultima, updates, wiki, wikipedia

Posted By Andy Frogman on January 30, 2010 | Comments: none

Once again the Ultima-Java Competitions are going to be back up and running from this Sunday onwards! This year we’ll be going with the old favourite the Caption Competition, and the Costume Competition. Of course we can’t offer anything at the moment in the way of tangible prizes but the win, acts like a raffle ticket, and for every win you recieve throughout the year, you get a new ticket. This means the more wins you get the better chance you have of getting picked in the Final draw in December.

When November is finished, the competitions will end, and six names will be drawn from the ‘Helm of Choosing’ and those lucky six will have their characters featured in the Free Ultima-Java New Years Party Wallpaper.

This year we’re taking a different approach from what we have had in the past. This time each of the mods will be able to get their hands on the competitions for a short time. We’re hoping this will provide a greater variety of ideas and a different sense of humour or understanding when it comes to picking the winners.

The Caption Contest
This is a very simple competition. The Moderator in charge of the competition, will each week post an image, and ove rthe space of that week, everyone else posts what they think the caption should be. At the end of the week the winner is chosen and the image is immortalised with your name in the Caption Contest Archive.

Then after 4 weeks, the moderators will switch. The first one up is SAAM!

The Costume Competition
Have you ever looked at some of the UJ: History characters and thought “I’d like to ahve a go at redesigning that characters costumes or clothes? Well thats what this competition is all about!

The moderator in charge of this one will name the character, and may even from time to time place constraints on the characters design to make the competition a little bit more of a challenge, with the addition of colours or themes. Then it’s up to the members to redesign this character. Now you might be thinking, “This is an artwork competition”, and where to some extent you are corrent, this is not about artistic prowess, this is about your designs not your abillity to draw, even to that ends, we’ve placed outline dolls on the forum if you wish to use them to create the new designs on top of.

The winner will be added into the end of year draw, but there is an added bonus to this competition. On the odd ocasion I will give the moderator of the competition the go ahead, and at the start of the moderators term an announcement may be made, that the competitions winners design will be be used in an up coming UJ comic. This won’t happen every time, but when it does we will always be sure you know!

The first mod on this competition will be Rhu. He’s already told me his chosen character, but I’ll leave that up to him to tell you on Sunday.

This competition is not just for long time members,anyone who is reading this can eneter the competitions by simply signing up to the forums! We hope to see you all there!

Category: Andy's Updates, Event Updates, Forum Update
Tags: Archive, Caption, challenge, character, Choosing, clothes, competitions, Contest, costume, december, design, february, Forums, Free, Helm, image, January, Java, moderators, New, paper, Party, redesign, Rhu, SAAM, sign, text, theme, Ultima, up, wall, Wallpaper, winners, Years

Posted By Andy Frogman on January 29, 2010 | Comments: none

Hey everyone, and welcome to any new readers out there!

Recently the guys at Ultima-Java have been looking at a way of making this site better for everyone, new people should be able to come here and know what they are doing, regular users and long time members should feel at home and for us mods and admins, we need something that we can keep track of prety easily. For the writers though, we’ve kinda gone out of our way to make sure that doesn’t happen it seems.

I created a Multiverse, atleast 1000 universes, each with their own main story lines, histories and versions of the UJ characters. Which meant that in the grand scheme of things, we had a few hundred writeen stories scattered amoung 1000 universes, and aside from that story or other back histories that lead to that story, the universe was reletivly blank. Not anymore!

Recently we’ve discussed it and the Ultima-Java Multiverse is over, from now on there will only be a single Universe. All the stories that we’ve been planning for different realities will be made as part of the single Universe, which means that the universe is now a lot fuller, with more possibillities for interactions between the characters without there having to be some great multiversial crossover event. Along with this Komewnitees will be premoted from being Universe 3 to a conon side story to the main Universe (although a little further ahead in time).

Along with these changes, and the code changes that have been going on recently, there is a little reshuffle occuring on the forum at the moment. For the most part it’s just an asthetic change, after adding the new theme I’ve needed to extend the forum so that the page isn’t streched by the sidebar. This has however, given me the opportunity to emphasise certain aspects of UJ, in particular the comics section on the forum. Ultima-Java came from a sprite comic forum, that came from a sprite comic forum. So why all of a sudden have we got no regular spriters and no one making comics any more? What happened? Somewhere between Slightly out of Order and the current version of UJ, interest in comics and sprites has waned down to… well… me.

I’m not going to try and recapture the past, or get depressingly nostalgic. What I am going to say is, Spriters and comicers of the world, you are all very welcome! Come in have a chair, pull up a muffin!

Enjoy your stay with us!

Instead of me posting something about the haiti appeal every time I make a post here, I will be adding a link to the side bar by the end of today, please donate soemthing, if 1million people around the world were to only give $1 thats $1million.

Thanks everyone!

Category: Andy's Updates, Comic Updates, Forum Update, World Updates
Tags: aid, appeal, canon, character, Comics, donations, Haiti, Haitian, interactions, Java, Komewnitees, multiverse, pixles, realities, reality, reshuffle, single, sprites, Ultima, universe, workers

Posted By Andy Frogman on January 25, 2010 | Comments: none

Well I’ve spent the majority of the day working on the forum, and finally I have my answer. For some reason the forum didn’t like that I was using a table in the menu, and some how the use of this table, resulted in the Admin Panel (which the menu doesn’t appear in) to not work.

If anyone can explain this I would be only happy to learn how a table, in one file, can effect the functionality of another file, when they never even interact. It is a mind boggler.

Anywho the forum has now been fixed, and the new theme is working! Which means you are free once again to make all the posts you desire!

Have fun!

Oxfam Haiti Earthquake Appeal

Category: Andy's Updates, Forum Update, Technical Updates, World Updates
Tags: active, aid, Andy, appeal, broken, creative, design, donate, donations, down, Earth, earthquake, Evans, fixed, forum, Forumverse, Frogman, Haiti, Haitian, Java, Media, New, Oxfam, quake, style, support, template, theme, UJ, Ultima, Ultima-Java, update, workers, working

Posted By Andy Frogman on January 24, 2010 | Comments: none

Last night I updated to the forum to the new, more uniform style thats running through the trest of the site. I have been wanting to update the UJ:Forum style for a long time now and what with the style change on UJ:CM, I thought this to be the best time to go for it.

The style for all intents and purposes works fine. I think it looks good and it unites the forum with the website. However there is actually one HUGE and crutial flaw. I have no access to the Admin Panel. The Admin Login, appears to be stuck in a loop. Everytime I reauthenticate myself, it asks me to try again. I’ve tested out the normal log in, and that works fine. It’s just the activating of admin permissions that appears to be the problem.

There is a way that I know of that can fix this, but it will require the forum to be down for a prolonged period of time. During said time I would request that no one attempts to post or do anything. I would lock the forum… but again, I can’t access the Admin panel. The fix is destructive, and if this doesn’t work like I hope, then chances are that I might have to reinstall the forum.

I really hope it doesn’t come down to that.

Category: Andy's Updates, Forum Update, Technical Updates
Tags: admin, administration, Andy, Evans, forum, Frogman, issues, panel, problems, screw, up, updates