I have added some new rumours.

Also we now have an RSS feed! (What is RSS?)

As I previously mentioned I am now making the full-size PNG images of Zerulia available to the public. These are not small files (a total of over 20MB) so I request that you try to conserve my bandwidth by only downloading them once.

• Global Map (i.e. everything) (6.68 MB)
• "Extras" (caves, inside buildings, etc) (7.69 MB)
  
  
• Coastal Cliffs (856 KB)
• Graveyard (715 KB)
• Lower Trollclaw (1.47 MB)
• Mining Road (935 KB)
• Upper Trollclaw (1.68 MB)
• Vinton's Landing (934 KB)

I was sick of the old system, having not written it myself, so I revived the codebase uDCX was using when I originally wrote it.

I think most things work, at least to the extent of having a "Coming Soon" page where content should be, but you no longer have to register to use the shoutbox!

Finally, I have, with the help of DM Gabriel, DM Yashiela and DM Perseus, finished the maps of the world of Dark Century: X. They're usable to a certain extent, but I still have some finishing touches left to do, such as creating the image maps for the individual area pages and exporting the area maps with red highlighting from Paintshop Pro.

At some point I may make available the full-size, full quality, PNG files of the maps, but each section (Lower Trollclaw, Upper Trollclaw, etc) is between 800 and 1400KB, and the entire world's map is almost 8MB.

I have tried to keep the filesizes of the map images down for anyone viewing on a dial-up connection, but I had to find a good balance between image quality and file size. I could have saved each map image as lossless .PNG files, but I don't have the bandwidth available to do things like that, and I suspect that people on dial-up would crucify me if I did so. The images should at least be usable, but I make no guarantee that they look entirely pretty.

Hope you like them

We are currently in the process of moving to a new server. Sometime over the course of the next couple of days you will start viewing the new server instead of the old one. Please report any errors or other oddities to me (MoRiA) via MSN/Email/Forum/Ingame/whatever. My FTP client went crazy when I uploaded the site to the new server and some files may not have uploaded properly. Thanks

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Update (12:35 30/12/2004): All fixed

At the time of writing www.dcxvault.com appears to be down and has taken the forums with it. Other sites hosted on the same server (www.0-0.info, for one) appear to be down also, though, so it's probably a host issue.

I would open the forums here, but it really is more trouble than it's worth, unless the official forums stay down for any lengthy period of time.

In the meantime you can comment on this story if you're registered - if you're not registered the just register, it only takes a minute :p

Edit (01:58 30/12/2004): We're back to 404 errors on every request. I hope the host hasn't managed to lose a hard drive or something