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Aug 14, 2001, 3:29pm

What do you mean? Provided you have your land completely covered, there was
no way to vandalize. The only thing that comes close is lighting, rotate,
and move - and still, provided you have your land covered at least 120
meters from all your stuff, you should be ok.

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Aug 18, 2001, 1:42am

Me too...

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Aug 21, 2001, 3:22am

Hey this kinda like my "Total time online poll" a few weeks back: What's
everyone's total objects built (in Alphaworld)?

You can find out at https://tangent.imatowns.com/awps/firstobject.php

Aug 21, 2001, 11:21pm

Forgot to include my own =P

Search results for earliest built object:

Citizen: 297649
Location: 2176S 3435E 9a (Teleport) (View Map)
Built: March 29, 1999, 7:12 pm (Eastern Time)
Model: street3.rwx
No description

Total search time: 3.3742 seconds.

You have built 282,446 objects in AlphaWorld.

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Aug 21, 2001, 11:22pm

Derek, I'd like to say I know everyone who's built that much in Alphaworld,
but I can't. Anywho, where do you build? I'd like to see all that stuff
O_O

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Aug 22, 2001, 3:52am

lol that helps. Not about ready to explain 42.9 billion square meters or
100.82 trillion cubic meters if you wanna go up and down (although you can't
build that high or low, I just felt like throwing in that big ol' number,
hehe).

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Aug 22, 2001, 3:59am

Cool, if you don't mind building spot to spot, stop by SW City at 2217.4s
3609.8e 90, you'll probably make a fine addition to the town =)

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Aug 22, 2001, 3:54am

There's an ASCII directory at AW 2046s 3731e 270. You can also just use
your computer character map but I think the directory displays it better =)

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Aug 23, 2001, 5:12pm

[View Quote] According to the AW Mapper, the number of non-empty cells is .92%, so I
think there's room for some more people =P

> How small is too small?

Hopefully there won't be less than 5 people in the world at a time like some
*other* public building worlds.

> I was just thinking about what a good community we have here in AW.
> About 1000 people, right? 2000 people max who spends a few hours a week
> building, chatting, and contributing in general to the general
> community? Of course, not everyone checks the newsgroups every morning,
> not everyone is an Alphabit Phalpha or a Goober King or the other
> great community leaders we have, but everyone who comes in for a few
> hours a week affects how things happen in their own little ways.
>
> As it is right now, things feel comfortable. Most everyone gets along.
> Of course, as is human nature, there are folks who don't like each
> other very well, and there are folks who downright cause trouble. This
> is natural: it happens. However, the community is never going to be
> the same as it is right this instant, (and this phrase applies at any
> time on any day), and I am wondering what its future is.
>
> Will it grow?

The people coming in and coming out seems strangly even `,'

> Will it shrink?

Maybe. AWC might release an amazing new building world in the next century
or two =)

> What will be the long term effects of any growth or shrinkage that may
> happen in the next few minutes or hours or days?

Depends on the people. For example when I stumbled into Alphaworld, I built
there for over 30 months and made a huge ol' city, that's a pretty long term
effect, eh?

> If it shrinks, will those left over become even closer and the community
> work better than ever? Or will we get too close and all start to get
> sick of each other?

I'd probably have to shrink a lot...

> If it grows, will those new additions simply add to the current
> wonderful community? Or will we become too much like the community of
> Earth in which you cannot just be friendly to everyone as it is right
> now because we will have too many of the more negative elements? Or
> could negative elements develop within us because of the growth?

Couldn't tell ya O_O

> Will public building worlds become underpopulated and shut down, or
> become overpopulated and have everyone fighting for land? Or will they
> just grow and shrink as needed?

AWC doesn't care about underpopulated worlds as you can tell.
Overpopulated? Nope.

> Will things change as usual? Or will things stay the same for a change?

Change, very very slowly.

> -JV
>
> --
> John Viper (#296714)
> jviper at jtsoft.net
> http://www.jtsoft.net
>
> "Life on Earth may be expensive, but it does include a free trip around
> the sun..." -anonymous
>
>

Aug 29, 2001, 5:00pm

*gonna start acting like Eep*

Suck filter twit. lol jk =P

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Aug 29, 2001, 5:35pm

Alphabit's post got me thinking that maybe I should announce this place I
made awhile back. It's called the Optishmizer, a shop I made.

Inside you'll find 13 freeware downloadable programs that can help your
computer anywhere from RAM to drivers to security holes to a slow hard drive
uncache speed, to name a few...There's even an anticrash program (which I
found works pretty good for AW). There's also 2 other things that can help
your computer that you don't need to download.

AW 2337s 3813.5e

Sep 29, 2001, 1:29am

No it never really hovers. It bounces from about 50 cents to a dollar all
the time. It was just on the bottom of that bounce =P

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Sep 29, 2001, 1:27am

Like I said, I like my midis, but all the midi players in my computer play
em' like 3.2 does - bad (for me at least). Is there any midi player out
there that can play midis like 3.1 did? Right now I gotta go into AW to
hear em'.

Sep 30, 2001, 4:51am

Thanks. Took a *ton* of testing to find the configuration that was like 3.1
but I finally got it just now ^_^

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Oct 1, 2001, 2:12am

The second Tuesday of each week =P

Sep 30, 2001, 9:33pm

Hehe, here's another poll =)

Who went back to 3.1?
I'd say over half the people I know either went back to 3.1 or don't like
3.2 but don't hate it enough to go through the trouble of going back to 3.1.

Sep 30, 2001, 11:11pm

Well I hope they fix my #2 bug in my community post or I'll be gone from AW
;_;

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Oct 2, 2001, 12:08am

It says *up* to life imprisonment, that being the worst penalty for doing
something like, oh I dunno, the code red virus maybe?

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Oct 4, 2001, 8:44pm

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You said pop ^_^

Dec 8, 2001, 3:28am

I'm not egotistic, I'm just bored
This is a story of my cyber life up to the forming of SW City, so gather
around the campfire children, it's story time =P

Many years ago, back in the days of yore, my family just got hooked up to
the Internet. Me, being a big Nintendo fan, went to www.nintendo.com. I
signed up for the forums and it was time to pick my first username. Super
Mario RPG for the snes was one of my favorite games, and Mallow was favorite
character. Mallow was taken so I chose meanmallow, just to be sarcastic. I
met a fella' named Chris there when I put up my idea for a game, which we
now know as Super Smash Brothers (it was totally my idea in that forum, they
only changed one thing about it!). Chris became my first Internet friend.
He helped me discover instant messagers too. Later I got a hot game -
Command and Conquer: Red Alert. I was pretty interested in this multiplayer
feature. I installed the game using my 8x CD-ROM onto my blazin' 120 mhz
Pentium with a whoppin' 16 MB of ram. After I got use to the game, I signed
up for mplayer, which hosted the multiplayer games. My new username was
Sheller. Being somewhat of a computer newbie, I thought mplayer was all for
Red Alert and that name would fit for a war game. Oddly, I never did figure
out how to get Red Alert to work online until a couple years later (but we
won't go there). I got side tracked and ended up spending a lot of time in
the chat lobbies. Mind you, this was the first time I've been in chat. I
can still remember asking "what's :) mean?". After I learned the ways of
chat I look elsewhere on mplayer. I learned about a magical word called
"shareware" and it's beautiful sister "freeware". I downloaded a shareware
gamed called Scarab. Scarab was an old open air shooter game, similar to
battle mech games but the mechs were human sized. After a week or so, I
changed my name again. I like space, so I decided to rename myself Comet.
However, being bad at spelling, I spelled it Comit (after all, wouldn't the
E make the O in comet sound like "comb-it"? lol). I decided to just leave
it though. I really liked scarab and I learned about clans, which were
basically just teams for the game. I started up my own called YWD
(YWD...tsk tsk tsk, such an awful name. No one I'm telling any of you what
that means =P. Chris and Syntax, you better not tell anyone! >_<). After
about two months, the clan, about up to 8 members, agreed with me that we
should change the name. We chose Scarab Warriors, aka SW. We also decided
to do what most clans did and put the SW tag onfront of our names (hence I'm
SW Comit). About a year later, in spring, my friend in school, Gadget (that
was his username, although he didn't have the internet at the time. He also
did the art and logo for SW which is dotted around SW City), told me about
AW. I downloaded it and immediately teleported to America world, which he
talked all about. Can't remember my first day too well, all I remember was
blue sky and many black dots. I was very surprised when I heard music. I
never knew about MIDIs back then, and I thought they were lengthy WAV files
and blamed the slow downloading on them. I started up a tourist town in
Alphaworld GZ maplet with a few other SW members (SW Enforser, SW Nitro
Excell, SW MadCow, SW Chris, and me). I remember getting an area full
message when I tried building my walls outa wall01.rwx objects. Took me
days to figure out how to make objects without dragging them from a
neighboring build. I've always been an awful newbie. A month later or so,
we moved to America and started a small town. No surprise, but it got
deleted shortly by someone who hated SWs (evidence of the signs left there).
Then we started yet another tourist town. I don't know how it happened, but
even though I knew that one side of the world was forbidden building zone, I
somehow build on that side on accident. It was a great tourist city, pretty
big. Also, at this time, SW was at it's golden age. It was the biggest
Scarab clan, 50 members,, and the 2nd oldest surviving. The town was
surrounded by a huge wall with a working rail road track ontop (pretty good
for a tourist I'd say). Probably a month later the town was deleted, lol.
Two days later that whole side of the world was covered with grass. I
forgot to mention, I didn't register with AW because these were the days
when spending over the Internet was still not trusted by most people,
including my parents. Pretty bummed out about the event, I returned to
Scarab for a long time. I dotted on AW every now and then to build a
tourist town, knowing it wouldn't last long. I built two more in
alphaworld, one in mars, and one in yellowstone (actually I ditched that one
due to lack of objects, lol). Scarab now reached the end of the
line...cheating was introduced into scarab like a plague. A hacking program
was spread all over, easy enough for most people to use. Even I had one,
although I only used it offline. Player skills became obsolete. I resorted
back to AW (after a long period of playing Faldon, the first MMORPG I
played). I wanted a tourist city that would last longer this time. I flew
a few kilometers out from AW GZ, unaware of how huge Alphaworld was, since I
never knew about the AW Mapper. I dragged an object with me for a long time
out to a open field. In my tourist mind, I thought I'd be safer if I could
stay clear of other builds. I raised the object 100m in the sky and started
a city in the sky. This time I only invited the most trusted SW members -
SW vice-president SW Nito Excell, 3rd in control SW Magnum, scarab's #1
player SW Kila (now known as Sojiurn), and SW Kappa (dunno how he ever got
there, lol). All but Nitro were new to AW. Lucky for me, Magnum liked AW
so much he registered and convinced Kila to register too. Me and Magnum
were good friends, and he gave me his credit card number so I could register
too. Now that we were registered, we thought it was pointless to stay in
the air, so we made a road down the surface and started New SW City, which
is SW City as you know it. SW Kila made the first build - a pub. We
invited several more SWs to AW. Now that I was a citizen, I liked AW more
and spent a long time away from Scarab. Scarab was so corrupt that I
declared my resignation from SW, after 1 and a half years of running it.
Nitro took over and held on another month, but lost interested since I was
gone (him and I are best friends in r/l). Magnum disappeared and I've never
seen him since. From what I know of him, he had too much of a thing going
in r/l to have time for the computer. What I regret most about all this is
that I never got anybody's email address because I relied on mplayer's
telegram system so much. Nitro still plays scarab to this day, joining clan
to clan. He claims SW was restarted by old loyalists, but could never hold
onto it. I don't know why I never took the SW outa my name even though I
quit. Something weird that you can't put into worlds. Maybe it's just a
symbol of all my scarab days.

After that, Kila changed his name to Sojiurn and left SW City. He could
never stay committed to one clan in scarab, same goes for AW. I opened SW
City to non-SW members. Pern was our first resident, but she left cause she
had a town of her own to run. I ran SW City for six months after that by
myself. I liked building too much to care about building a community yet.
Kila, though, stumbled into Utopia ran by Utopian Monarch. Before that he
was known as Selkie1 and he was another resident of SW City during those six
months. Kila joined me one day and brought alone Syntax and his friend
Spiderman. Syntax was pretty impressed by SW City and decided to stick
around. I offered him a sub-community, a plan I've been thinking on during
this hours of building. Everything after that is pretty modern news.
Syntax brought Captain MAD Mike who started a sub-community, and I brought
Chris, who was also SW, and he started one too. The government system just
kinda fell into place, it was unwritten and just kinda evolved. In fact, it
was only about 4 months that we finally documented the government of SW
City. SW City will be 3 years old next April. I'm NOT totally certain,
correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the 2nd longest surviving city in
Alphaworld, with Pink Village being 1st. Largest in physical size. Sound
familiar? Uh oh...time will tell O_O

Wow that took awhile to type =0

- Comit

Dec 9, 2001, 5:00am

Good guess, but my lips are sealed =|

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Dec 9, 2001, 5:50pm

Sure kellee ^_^

you too cmm, I don't know anything about you before port alpha O_O

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Jul 6, 2002, 2:10am

*boggle* at why nvidia is so popular. I've looked at a million benchmarks
and reviews, and ATI provides more power for the buck everytime. Just go to
pricewatch.com and look at the price comparison. Roughly, the 7500 compares
to the g3, the 8500 compares to the g4.

I'm looking forward to the Radeon 9700 which is due next week. First card
in the world with 128-bit color, and so powerful that it needs it's own 4
pin power cord to run the cooling, lol.

- SW Comit

Jul 6, 2002, 5:29pm

There's over a thousand other words out there bud, go somewhere else then.
They bought the world, let them place whatever rules they want. It's like a
guy trying to get into the girl scouts =\

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Jul 6, 2002, 9:34pm

I think any private world owner should have the right to make whatever crazy
rules they want, even if they unfair, "mean", or wrong, and not have the
governing forces (AWC in this case) start nit picking on what you can and
can't do. Stuff like that is how we slowly but surely loose our freedoms.
Call them jerks if you want and move on, their rules will be their own
undoing.

The only exception I can think of right now is if it classifies under X
rating and the permission to get in isn't set accordingly.

And, racistic and sexist aren't the same thing. I'm all against any racist
rules, but if a private world owner wanted to do that, then go ahead - but
they'll obviously have a good deal of negative publicity as payment for that
rule, lol. No one's forcing anyone to go to that world.

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Jul 7, 2002, 12:15am

My brother's ex-girlfriend was a garbage driver. She was nice =)


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Jul 7, 2002, 4:38am

Waste management pays more than you think ;)

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Jul 7, 2002, 6:45pm

Waste manage could be garbage truck driver (but it's also a few other
things), just like inventory associate is a shelf stocker. They like fancy
titles I guess =P

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Aug 13, 2002, 6:07pm

*rolls eyes* why would you wanna back up that beast =P

really needs to be touched up...

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Oct 15, 2002, 2:15am

Well they always said we're switching into the digital era =P

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