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Feb 25, 2005, 11:47pm

It seems that now things are being illuminated from the underside. I don't
know about you but I've never seen a world where the sun is illuminating
everything from underground :P The lighting was just fine yesterday, but
someone just *had* to bollocks it up. Someone fix it please :P

Mar 2, 2005, 8:02am

Woohoo lighting is fixed!! Thanks.. whoever in AWI did that ^_^

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Mar 3, 2005, 12:07am

I'd at least like to hear what AWI has to say about not being able to update
the mapper.

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Mar 3, 2005, 7:34am

What AWI excuses? I don't ever recall AWI even attempting to make excuses
O_o

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Mar 3, 2005, 12:07am

http://www.geocities.com/tauntaun99/swcity/Ferr/pre1.jpg - 15.jpg

Mar 4, 2005, 3:53am

Everybody please telegram either me or Tauntaun for the coordinates.

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Mar 8, 2005, 2:58am

My OE is having problems. It takes several hours after I click "send"
before the post actually reaches the newsgroups.

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Mar 10, 2005, 11:31am

That is one of the most insane statements I have heard to date. Keep Alpha
World the way it is? What logic is in that?
Thousands of users around the world have already established huge
communities in Alpha World, and continue to build upon those communities.
What? You say they should just pack up and leave what they spent years
building up? There is no logic in that. Most of these users want to see
improvements with the interface and features in-world. They don't want to
take a hike and start over :P They want to see progress in their
communities, and this can partially be achieved by progress in the browser
and world features.
Alpha World needs to keep progressing, and its progress will in no way
destroy the history that it has developed. New York City is historical, no?
And they keep building new buildings all the time. What does this do?
Heck! I'm so surprised! It makes the place better! Golly!
Now, I'm not saying destroy the old stuff and bring in the new, but all I am
asking for is some improvements added on to what we alreay have, and don't
tell me that removing the z buffer-thrashing from GZ is destroying history.
A bit of cleaning up WOULD be nice.
Your builds will still be there if AW gets improvements. If you want to
stay historical, then just don't use any of the new features :P
Anti-progress does nothing but hurt the business, and most of all, hurt the
community.

Anyway, sorry to hear that you left the GKs, John. It seemed that some of
the sensible GKs (Lady TeaL) were cracking down on the abusive and
incompetent GKs. GK reputation might have been improving :O It was from my
standpoint at least.

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Mar 11, 2005, 8:27am

Whatever the change is, it has to be in a way where the "flagship" alpha
world will not change to another world. I think the company should have a
vote on the active worlds website on what features alpha world should have.
This would be slightly different from the completely ignored "feature vote",
as the options would be for features that are already feasable in the
browser.

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Mar 12, 2005, 1:10am

You completely missed the point he was making. We would not pack up and
leave Alpha World because we have invested so much time into SW City. Since
we want SW City to continue to grow and develop, we want to have some
improvements in-world. A "beta" world, no matter how amazing it is, would
not get any of us to pack up and leave.

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Mar 12, 2005, 7:51am

So I guess this would be a bad time to ask for that belated statue that I
never got from the 2004 CY awards eh?




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Mar 13, 2005, 3:30am

I have a very hard time figuring out why you would disallow the community to
continue the CY awards. To do so implies that somehow you want people to
automatically think about you when they think about the CY awards. What's
going on here? I think they should remember the community when they think
about the CY awards, and should have the complete rights to continue the
awards as they see fit. I find it selfish that you wish to prevent the
community to try to continue something in Active Worlds that has been going
on for years. Is this "progress" to quarantine something that the community
cherishes? It's one of the last binding things that this community has.

Please tell me that I am not seeing a darker side of you right now, Bit,
because that is what I am seeing right now.

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Mar 13, 2005, 4:36am

What do you hope to gain out of preventing the community from continuing a
long-standing tradition?

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Mar 26, 2005, 5:49pm

Another example of AWTeen getting all the better treatment :P

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Mar 26, 2005, 5:49pm

And this is related to the AW community... how?


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Mar 28, 2005, 2:35pm

*smacks comit* You should know better :P

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Apr 1, 2005, 4:09pm

Settle down with the namecalling, Bodhi. It is unnecessary.

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Mar 28, 2005, 2:35pm

Thank you very much for making the GZ look much nicer :D

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Mar 29, 2005, 5:32pm

X___________________________________________X at how hard that was to read,
but interesting chat logs to say the least, if those give full context.

Judging my his first post, I don't believe duskbat was saying that they
brought eject bots to his outpost. He said "they WILL bring a pk bot to my
outpost in AW" which is a mere prediction.

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Apr 1, 2005, 5:39pm

Comit can do a much better job at a courthouse, and he did ^_^

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Apr 28, 2005, 7:34am

That is an interesting statement, considering in your own signature you
point out that your town, Hamsterville, is located at 5029N 500E, exceeding
the p1000 conjecture :P

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> has to be *at least* a P1000.
>
> THAT is BIG.
>
> Just my opinion :)
>
> Cheers for now :)
>
> PC Hamster
> Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
> pchamster at comcast.net
> Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))
> http://hamsterville.tripod.com/
> HAMSTERVILLE GROUND ZERO - AW 5029N 500E
> SKYPE ME at patspodcast

Apr 28, 2005, 7:42am

I'd like to be able to see whether an invite I send gets accepted or
rejected, much like the join requests we already have.

Jul 16, 2005, 10:57pm

That's going to be interesting, trying to keep all of the contestants
from giving out coordinates :D especially since it's AWTeen, and
someone's bound to stumble upon it when randomely exploring.



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Jul 16, 2005, 10:46pm

[View Quote] Just about anything except for most stores and factories.

> 2. I, myself am into building landscapes mainly and wondered if anyone
> else is?

Yes.

> 3. What types of things have you created?

Houses, mountains, starships, office areas, various gardens,
skyscrapers, also lots of things related to major builds in sw city.

> 4. What is your favorite theme?

Very few themes I don't like. I really hate victorian though. Dunno why :P

> 5. Favorite thing to build?

Huge projects.

> 6. Or what particular build are you most proud of?

The palace at AW 2218.41S 3983.53E 0.92a 180 for now, but probably not
for long.

> 7. What types of special effects or aspects do you like to incorporate
> into your builds?

Lots of astarts.

> 8. Has anyone else's builds inspired your building?

Just about anyone with a good idea, whether they're a n00b at building
or not, will be inspiring.

> 9. What inspiration causes you to create your builds?

Just about anything.

> 10. How long have you been building?

Since 2001.

> 11. How did you learn to build?

SS Goku taught me for the first day or so. After that, it was all
self-taught.

> 12. What do you credit for your success in building?

Probably the SW Core. It seems that they are the only active community
left in Active Worlds. Without the people around, I don't think I would
be building that much.

> 13. What feature/function do you use most in your buildings?
In the current build, about 90% of the objects are 3 axis-rotated.

> 14. Do you have a special texture or object you use frequently?

Rock2, flat36, and woodpost seem to be the main textures I use in houses.

> 15. What features or functions would you like to see added for building
> in AW?

Larger cell limit. Larger cell limit. Larger cell limit.

For new browser features, I want the ability to stretch and skew objects.

> 16. What Objects would you like to see added for your building pleasure
> in AW?

Curve objects that don't have messed-up gradients and are not
misaligned. More objects based around the 1 click width of the pp01_n,
perhaps a nice .5x.5 meter square.

Jul 19, 2005, 6:36pm

If you want to make the text bigger, simply hold ctrl then rotate the
mouse scroll wheel.

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Jun 1, 2006, 3:52pm

[View Quote] Roadkill did a test to see how many objects can fit in the old database,
and with the new. 74 objects could fit in a single cell, with a large
cell limit, under the old database. Only 55 of the same objects can fit
with a large cell limit under the new database.

I am not building anything in Alphaworld until AWI does something to
compensate for the more bulky database. It's just too difficult to
alter what's already there.

Jun 6, 2006, 7:59am

Because of the new mySQL database, it is extremely difficult to edit
buildings that were built under 3.6. Objects filled the cells more
quickly. In order to compensate for this, AWI raised the cell limit in
Alphaworld to huge. This worked perfectly, and I was finally able to
continue my building. Just a few minutes ago, in the midst of building,
the cell limit was reduced back to large, thus cutting our effective
cell space in half. The construction is, thus, halted once more :P

It's extremely difficult to build with the cell limit fluctuating like
this :P I was even ready to write an email complimenting JP on the
decision to raise it.

Jun 6, 2006, 9:42am

If they did that.. would be the ideal solution, though it would be a
good idea to make large cell limit the equivalent of whatever huge is
now. That way, no builds made over the last few days will be left
incomplete :X

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Jun 6, 2006, 3:30pm

The cell limit is still not quite at its 3.6 ability.

3.6, Large: 74
4.1, Pre-cell space fix, Large: 55 (~25% drop on what we had in 3.6)
4.1, Post-cell space fix, Large: 65 (~17% drop on what we had in 3.6)
4.1, Pre-cell space fix, Huge: 89 (~20% increase on what we had in 3.6)

On another note, I find it to be a little painful to have the cell limit
raised 20%, then lowered again :X even if it was back at its 3.6 level.
AW seemed to have worked just fine under huge :O Wouldn't be too bad
if large cell limit were redefined to be the equivalent of huge.. along
with redefining the rest of the cell limits. That way, like I said,
every build made over the last 4 days won't be left incomplete.

Anyway, thank you very much on your efforts, so far, to fix the problem :D

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Jun 6, 2006, 4:25pm

Indeed. The alphaworld servers seemed to have handled huge cell limit
just fine.

AWTeen has a mega cell limit, movers, global chat bots, terrain bots,
not to mention a *much* larger OP, and I bet its database is growing
just as fast, if not faster, than alphaworld's. Their servers seem to
be just fine :D

Perhaps it's time for a change.. upping the limit in Alphaworld (to
huge, perhaps?) with the 4.1 release would certainly be an improvement
that many would appreciate for years to come. ;D

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