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[Artificial]

The first topic posted on LG 2.0, I’m kind of at a loss for words. I guess I should repost what was posted on the main page for those who haven’t already read it. If you have, scroll down.

Explanation
I think the members of Logicalgamers are owed an explanation. As you are no doubt aware, the site has been down (again) for the past few weeks. This is more or less the result of our last host's stupidity and our own misfortune. We had up-to-date database backups on three separate locations (my local hard drive and two servers controlled by host). In a period of 48 hours, my computer went mental, forcing a reformat, and our host bungled up a relatively routine server transfer (which we had received no notification for, else I would have made precautionary arrangements). The result? We're left with nothing. No posts, users, programs, guides, anything.

After trying everything to get the site back up, I wondered whether or not we should start over or simply throw in the towel. I know a lot of members and staff have lost interest and if we were to attempt to rebuild it would be a long and arduous road. After sitting on it for over a week, I realised I've still got the drive and motivation to see the site succeed.

That means we are completely starting over. There will be no users automatically promoted to staff, no users with large amounts of gold and no users with an intimidating post count: it's a level playing field. New staff will be chosen after the first couple of weeks from promising members, and it will be an ongoing process for the months to come. More of that later.

The last year has not been one of the best for the site. We've probably been down at least half of that time! We're restructuring the site entirely so this is not likely to occur again. We know that if we want to succeed then downtime is not an option. To make it up to our members, we will be giving away hundreds of dollars worth of prizes in the first month to the individuals that are the most active and helpful.

Changes
So we’re starting from scratch, you all know that. I don’t want to make this one extremely long-winded post. Better it be gradual, which is why I’m just going to raise some of the more important issues.

Underground changes
The underground system has changed dramatically. From now on, no Gaiaonline hacks may be posted publicly. Reason? We’ve got too much heat on us at the moment, need to wait for things to calm down a little. Therefore we have restricted Underground to the following:

• Bronze Underground: automatically promoted after 50 posts. This is where the basic hacks will be posted.
• Silver Underground: automatically promoted after 500 posts. This is where the decent programs will be posted.
• Gold Underground: hand picked, minimum of 1,000 posts. This is the top level below staff. The best programs will be posted here.

Auction House
Thanks to Sk8er, we have now introduced a new auction house. You can check it out here. I’ll post a sticky on how to properly use it soon. Please not, that this feature is still under construction - we are still adding features and fixing features that don't work. If you find a bug, please report it.

Gaia Lucky Dip
Again, thanks to Sk8er we’ve reintroduced the lucky dip. Feel free to add and buy accounts. We’ve added a new feature to ensure that it’s a little more secure than last time.

Shop store
The store is currently down, but you can still earn gold. I’ll be reopening the store shortly. For now, earn 200gold for each new post and 500gold for each new thread.

[MattSmith]

I like the idea on the UG. Its grand lmao

[Chad]

I think that's extreme what you did with UG... Gold yes, I can understand. You want members that will contribute and have been on the site long enough to get the good programs. Bronze though, 50 posts would be easy for nooblets to spam out. I say bump it up to, 100 or 150 posts maybe even more. Good ideas though.

[Origin]

Meh for once I gotta agree with Chad

[Artificial]

It's only going to contain basic programs anyways. We'll trial it out. If people really are spamming we'll just up the requirement.

[iGawd]

Love The UG Status.
I Went Away For Like 7 Months Last Time. At Least I Can Get A Good Post Count

[Coak]

I wonder if most of the old LG community will come back or maybe they'll think that the site is still down..

[iGawd]

Sad Thing Was That Around 8k People Viewed The Site While It Was Down. Before It Used To Be 1 Mill.

[Artificial]

Sad Thing Was That Around 8k People Viewed The Site While It Was Down. Before It Used To Be 1 Mill.

Only because people were refreshing like crazy to win the cash prize :p

[iGawd]

Orly? Damn I Should Have Used Auto Refresh...

[iGawd]

OMG Light
-Glomps-

*Question: Is There Skins Yet? I Want Skinz Nao.

[Cyanoxide]

Sweet, I'm glad you changed the Underground, that should solve a lot of problems.

[Artificial]

Eric is in charge of skins.

[Collin2]

Hm, I like this. Of course i will miss my 600 posts, but at least now everyone is equal to each other!
And as the others have said, nice idea with the UG system! but bronze could be bumped up to 75 posts or so.

[Riddle]

Bleep!

Is the site going to be Gaia-oriented again? I find Gaia pretty boring, the only thing that's worthy of exploiting is the market.

[Chad]

Hopefully Riddle, it wont be. If you help you can help us with what we are going to do. Talk to Alex about it via msn.

[MattSmith]

Thats not the entire plan Riddle. I have some ideas im going to put out to the public and get everyones idea in the next few days.

[Riddle]

Sounds good. I'm quite busy with college, and I have trk on my own programming assignments, so I might not have much spare time. ;D

[Chad]

Finish them and when you do have spare time, work with LG... Or be destroyed.

[yiruinn]

Awesome, this site is finally back! Oh well, I have to start over...

[Vash]

Seems like the Forum has been changed for the better at least people will actually have to stay and post in order to get some downloads

[Riddle]

I can always scoop some time. Haha.

[MattSmith]

What college you go to riddle?

[Fag]

-tear- I miss my old acc.

[Riddle]

I'm not releasing that information publicly. ^_^

You'll know eventually.

[Neo Gamer]

Heyy Guy's! =3

Love the new layout + look of logical ^.^
its shweet!

totally agree with Sk8er + Chad..

great UG setup, im sure the member of LG shall come back soon.
i remember always checking if this site was back up so many time's lol.

so happy that it is (:

[Shane]

Welcome back everyone.

[Neo Gamer]

Thanks Shane (:

You too! (:

so great its back up and great to see People's back (:

[Obby]

-takes a big wiff- ah, got to love the smile of a New site with no noobs....yet

[iGawd]

-takes a big wiff- ah, got to love the smile of a New site with no noobs....yet

Like The Username XD

[Neo Gamer]

hahaha! Obby xD niceee..

lolz yeah Gawd, i agree xD

Welcome Back Btw Obby.

[NotNeccesary]

Yes, finally. I'm so damn glad you guys brought the site back up and thanks for the info and
what you guys are doing seems perfectly fine and good. Keep up the work guys.

[Neo Gamer]

i swear ive seen ur name before lg was bak up NotNeccesary lolz?
neways welcome bak matee, glad to see you here (:

and yes, great work too all the sites great in all aspect's. (:
its awesome. great work 1nce again ^^

[LowKey]

Finally the site is back up!
Looks simple but I like it xP
lets get this place back up.

[Scrubs]

underground features definition; amazing

[Neo Gamer]

Totally Agree Digg.

its awesome!
love what they have done, and the improvements that i hear are coming.
i dunno what to say lol its all totally awesome! =D

[Obby]

Okay people. To help build this site, other then a recruitment. We need to keep this place clean of spam and try to be original with the threads, no more repeats. and there is no such thing as a dead thread. if you have something new to add and it falls under a inactive thread, instead of making a new one. post in the inactive to bring it back to the stream so that you can add to it and also might help build enough information so people can look through the pages instead of countless threads.