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moff piett // User SearchIs "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 28, 2001, 7:08pm
Blah, I think this has gone on long enough. Some people see a lack of
formal-ish english as a lack of respect, some people see seeing lack of formal-ish as a lack of respect as disrespectfull to their disrespecting of typing out full words (or wurdz, to be fair to both sides). So let us just leave it at that before my sentances get ever more awkward. Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 30, 2001, 12:58am
Well if you killed the Canadian in the province of quebec with an american
gun that didn't have all the text on the gun in english and french, with the french a certain percent bigger, then you'd be in even bigger trouble than murder, you'd be committing a language crime. And in quebec it doens't get more serious than that lol. worlds and citizenshipsJan 2, 2002, 11:27pm
It's quite a mistake for them to charge as much an as rpg. Even if it was
$5-8 a month it would be in a price bracket below that of a profesional game... and aw still feels "in progress" to most poeple. Not worth the 10+ price bracket. QuestionJan 2, 2002, 8:56pm
90% of the people I know that use aw feel just "ok" with the price now, and
I'm constantly hearing them mention leaving aw due to money (at 19.95). Even if I managed to get the $240+ a year (not including worlds, which I assume will also be skyrocketing) I'd have almost non of my friends left.... what they should have done is ADVERTISED aw, THEN done the 3d homepage. I saw hardly any increase in aw's pop from the homepages. Why? Because only people who alrdy were in aw knew about it. 3d homepages are a great idea IF there is a large advertising blitz along with them. But with little or no advertising it's just a money pit to get where we are now. When aw went from free to 20 a month it lost about 80% of it's citizens. AW is just now finaly starting to shape up into a healthy community.. and now they are raising the price by about a hundred dollars... imagine what % it will lose this time. No offence to aw's staff.. since I know most of them and like them. But it seems you guys really have a bloated staff. How about the community and you meet half way. You guys take pay cuts and even lay offs, and we only go up to 30-40 a year? I've heard some pretty rediculus figures on how much rick and jp make a year. heh, how about we get rid of them, they seem to be the biggest costs around here. Heck the only people that seem to matter are Roland and Tom, and perhaps gand and stacy. Maybe you guys shouldn't have hired so many more staff and such if you couldn't afford them. Price Changes: Can we talk? :o)Jan 3, 2002, 5:58am
Uhg, you want them to hire MORE people to their bloated staff? That's
where this problem comes from anyways. Too many costs, not enough income. So rather than streamline their management, they thin out their income... good plan. Let me tell of a tale 'bout a man named George..Jan 3, 2002, 6:40am
Although maybe if we knew the plan we could all rally around it and have
better morale. Right now the common attitude is "what a bunch of idiots!". Since the plan really depends on us, the customers, maybe we should know about it? I'm sure it would help many of us shoulder the burden of the rise in the price if we knew it was all for a good cause and we could understand how it will work. Of course they don't OWE us an explanation. But we also don't OWE them to remain customers... Does anyone have any idea how universe prices will be affected?Jan 3, 2002, 10:38pm
Also the way awcom sells land to universes it works out that it is ALWAYS
cheaper per square meter to buy in aw than another universe. Otherwise it would be a pretty silly business move to sell their product to people who can then sell for less and make a proffit. Forced upgrade to 3.2Jan 4, 2002, 11:05pm
I don't think I could scream amen loud enough!
I absolutly can't stand the whole microsoft philisophy that the more usless resource sucking bells and whistles it adds to it's products the better they are. I'm still using win 98, and I saw a friend who has me or something. Takes about 0.5 seconds to load every window because there is fancy gradients and a background image. I think you can disable stuff like that.. but why even have it in the first place? Something can be user friendly and efficient at the same time. Programs should go more for brutal efficiency. Save the bells and whistles for games. (heck even some games go too far in the animated interface department) [View Quote] New AW object setJan 8, 2002, 6:27pm
TWENTY a month to play the ruddy sims? And people cry about aw being greedy
and a rip off.. jeeze. New AW object setJan 8, 2002, 8:25pm
You should read the couple posts on "Awtowns". Me and goober are working on
that. Will have a totaly new basic building set as well as a few specialised set (ie gand's townhouse set, medival set, future set) that can all also fit together. Although the interesting thing about awtowns is not the new objects, but rather how the world is run. Focuses more on community building than solo building (although of couse you can still solo build). The world will have a dynamic transport system that grows and changes as towns pop up, and towns will be able to apoint reps that will have a say in how the world is run, what new objects would be added and so on. Actualy with Andras' help we would have probably had the world up in a month or so, but it's on hold for obvious reasons right now. New AW object setJan 9, 2002, 12:51am
No website. Just a poorly spelt design doc that's been floating around.
How big is the world? I'll have to talk to tombone about that. Goober says we should shoot for a mars sized place. I can't officialy say anything about awc or tomy-cakes being involved at this point. NO! no basic aw build objects. Totaly new set. Actualy major Tom said he'll disown me if I use any aw objects in this project or something to that extent hehe. Although the shapes and sizes will almost exactly match, except the entire world will be on base 10, rather than a mix of 8 and 10 like AW. This is going to be a new world, not yet another re-hash of alpha world. But don't worry, it will have a very flexible basic generic path with simple walls that could fit in a castle underground factory on the planet Putget. Basicly if you want to build with aw objects there are alrdy more than enough worlds to do that in. We want to move on from that. Also may use some of the new objects added to aw, but I'd have to scale them so the curbs don't come up to one's knees, and couches arn't big enough for one to live in. Perfectly lovely objects but I'm not sure what Gand was thinking with the scale. Maybe the curbs are half a meter tall in the Toronto area hehe. Actualy I was going to speak to Thomas about awtowns but he's been sick and not in the office. Then again I don't blame awcom staff for being "sick" this week hehe. New AW object setJan 9, 2002, 6:22pm
I always try to keep to scale in AW, but to look "right" things tend to be
about 15% bigger than they should. As long as EVERYTHING is 15% bigger is looks fine. It's when you get some things like walls being 15% bigger, but cars being to exact scale that things start to look.. well.. like aw. About adding objects. One of the main features of the world is every month or so a vote for additional modulas of objects, and maybe yearly or bi-yearly add a pack. A modual would be like "extended modern furniture" or "additional medival roofs and walls" while a set would be "compleate sci-fy building set" or "victorian house set". All sets and moduals will be to the same scale, and all objects to the same base dimensions so everything will fit together (unlike aw and its new objects). New AW object setJan 9, 2002, 8:20pm
Other than Goober helping with the higher level orginisation, I have zero
actual "grunt work" help on this project. And it's on hold till aw sorts its self out more. So don't hold your breath. pass protected objectsJan 12, 2002, 12:22am
These are gand's objects. Every modeler at awcom has a dif opinion on what
to do with their models. Stacy is cool with giving things away for free, while gand likes to keep things a little more secure. In the end awcom has the final say since they are technicly their models, not the modeler's. Gand was the one who uploaded the objects personaly, so it's posible he just forgot to take off the password. People there are human you know? I find when ever awcom makes a little mistake or change everyone jumps on them as if it's some evil conspiracy to violate your "rights" or the community. Rather than freaking out why not just ask gand or awcom about the objects and why they are passworded? Might be something as simple as a mistake. pass protected objectsJan 12, 2002, 6:05pm
Here's another newsflash. I talked to gand last night and he was surprised
at this whole thing, since the objects arn't passworded. Managing information in AW cultureJan 17, 2002, 2:15am
Now that Tom is incharge of who gets the heave ho things are quite a bit
more tidy, or authoritarian depending on your views. But Tom is a good guy and he only boots people when they truly deserve it. Managing information in AW cultureJan 17, 2002, 5:45pm
Well.... yeah he's ok, but when it comes to slacking off and building and
hanging out with friends while at work he really needs to apply him self more. > > Yeah, Toms fukn cool :) > > F. > > Managing information in AW cultureJan 17, 2002, 5:53pm
Yeah just like all those teens and students that can't play terrible games
like EQ and UO for 10+ a month. I mean look at online RPGs. They are dominated only by the rich and adults, there are almost no kids on that because as we know, kids can't get access to credit cards, and can't afford 10 bucks a month. Many people might play games like EQ, but there is no "tourist" mode, you need a credit card to even TRY it. What a stupid business move, that's why EQ gets no new players. Also 10 bucks a month is insane, so games like EQ only have a small handful of players. Heck you can't even build or freely explore in those games, it's just endless tedious level gaining. In aw what you build is yours, but in EQ when you die some of your items and EXP is taken from you by the company! What a rip off!! That's why EQ has hardly any people, no new people, and only rich adults. So as we see from this example, 10 a month charges for programs on the Internet is a terrible idea because no one will pay. > Of course that all is just me, but I think many students or teens will have to leave (or decide, if you prefer). Managing information in AW cultureJan 18, 2002, 12:08am
heh actualy the entire thing was very sarcastic. It's in responce to so
many people saying that because it needs a credit card to try, and costs 10 bucks a month students and young people won't be able to use AW. Well just look at online rpgs. Totaly dominated by students and kids, and it costs 10 bucks a month and needs a credit card. Managing information in AW cultureJan 18, 2002, 12:10am
Well when ever I invite Tom over, he's always "working" or something.
Jeesh. He treats this whole aw thing like it's his job or something. Virus alertJan 29, 2002, 5:42pm
Is there actualy anyone on the planet earth that doesn't delete on sight
emails with titles like "check this out!" with an attachment or "look at these sexy pictures" or "100% real amature" ? If they don't, they deserve what they get. Virus alertJan 30, 2002, 8:29pm
If it was up to me there would be a well trained government group that finds
out where the spam is coming from, goes to that location, and beats the living shit out of them. Doesn't matter if it's new mortgage rates or a pill to increase ejaculation, they get a shit kicking. I think that's fair don't you? Same with big companies that install spyware and other such things. Oh and companies that install other junk on your computer without really asking and it's hard to find/remove. Oh and any company that has a program that changes your bookmarks or other settings. And short/chubby women who wear capri pants. Bad Taste - Joker CYFeb 2, 2002, 11:01pm
I don't get it either. The only thing I can think of is some sort of very
very sad over reaction stemming from being way too serious and anal about AW and associating CY as an embodyment of those feelings. Much in the same way some christians became upset and said it was "in very poor taste" over someone painting jesus with cow shit or something, but having that type of a reaction over an old 3d model from some little 3d chat and building program getting a funny hat put on it for a themed card set would make me so so sad for that person's life who's priorities are that fouled up I'd cry for days. I've seen some pretty amazingly silly over reactions from people taking aw too serious (and seriously in the wrong way, as in rather than putting an ounce of energy into not overlapping and building horrible stuff they spend their days complaining about community this and awcom that, but that's a whole other issue I could rant about for .. well.. minutes.) but if I'm right this would top them all (well most). I really REALLY hope I'm wrong and sinew was simply referring to the colour scheme or layout being in poor taste. If not I'm just going to stay crying my eyes out in the corner and shaking my head back and forth for days (not unlike my reaction to most of Marcus' topics). Bad Taste - Joker CYFeb 3, 2002, 5:45pm
Exactly my point, it's just an av. It's old, a little nostalgic, but
that's about it. Don't make it out to be a holy symbol that needs religiously sensitive tippy-toeing around when dealing with it. It's quite fitting as the joker. It's such an ugly terrible excuse for an av, yet so revered by some people. Seems like a joke to me. Heck why are we even talking about this? It's a ruddy playing card, who cares. That's my last thought. This conversation really sums up the aw community to me. Tiny stupid little issues getting argued eventualy turning into a giant 60+ flame war. (honest hosting thread anyone?) So, we've made our points, no minds are being changed. Let's toss out this topic since most card games I play don't even use the joker. Done, over. Moving on now. patriots?Feb 4, 2002, 6:30pm
What's with the signs and welcome msg in alpha world? And more to the
point, what are the "patriots" ? Some sort of aw contest or something? I never heard of it. |