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Jul 16, 2002, 1:00am

Yea, heh, don't switch vid cards, One because the only thing better then a
GeForce 4 MX for 3D games is the GeForce 4 Ti 4600, and Two because DirectX
8 on AW is just REALLY buggy, I've gotten bizzare things with it too.

Aug 23, 2002, 5:20pm

The only way i believe to "Get rid" of hackers, is to form a nice
relationship with them. Instead of banning them, or trying to stop them,
which will only make them mad, AW should try to contact them and work out
some sort of deal. Maybe even pay them to "hack" into AW, and point out the
holes. Hackers are not evil, and the "good hacker" position it being taken
by many companies, even Lego released documents on their micro
computer(called RCX), so that hackers could more easily manipulate it. The
results of such an action? Lego got more money from all teh hackers who
bought parts. Not bad eh? So a good relationship with hackers could benefit
AW...no more cit stealing, no more "bad hackers", and with less disruption
to teh AW comunity, more people will stay, and this means more money for AW.
The cost of paying these hackers will be no fee at all for the benefits AW
will receive.

Sep 12, 2002, 3:02am

That isn't how you do it, your suppose to go to your local arts and craft
store, buy tons of those weird magnet things you put on fridges, go home,
stick all of them on the computer, maybe even toss a couple under the cover.
Outlook and AW will never cause you any more trouble ;-)
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May 30, 2001, 12:06am

This is a possilbe world theft alert. My world(Billy!) is being hosted by
someone who is not suppose to. Only two people have the password and
settings to my world, one i know is not hosting, the other is not on AW at
this moment. If ANYBODY has the power to contact AW Server HQ ASAP, please
do so, tell them to cut the connection with whom ever is hosting on my go,
just in case that someone who is hosting has stoped and my world is back to
normal. Either way, this is possibly a world theft and hack. I want as many
people as possible contacting EVERYBODY about this. Thank you.

May 31, 2001, 12:59am

Ok, here is how it goes. My world is back and running. I did contact PKs,
including Baron. MY pass was changed and I did contact AWCOM. I wanted
everyone to talk about this cause if AW ends up with 1000000 in their email
box, BOY are they going to do something. So this not only was a way to get
my world back in order, but a way to stop the hack who has been doing this.
I have learned from one of the replys to my message this happend to them, so
I would suggest an alert of a hacker or virus. Most likely a virus, being
that a hacker would take more then a single pass. Well I'm not pointing
figures or saying "BOMB!" on a plane, but this is a precaution we must take
all you world owners.

Mar 8, 2002, 3:24am

This is no offense to the maker of ActiveWorlds, it is a good peice of
software, and no remake has been completed YET. It's one in a million. But
besides that it has SERIUOS memory problems. I don't get illegal ops
anymore, but ALL of my icons get switched around. It starts accessing memory
it shouldn't. My friend has to format his comp every couple of months
because of AW's problems. I don't think it's becuase AW has memory leaks,
but rather it trys to use other app's memory, heh, which i guess avoids
memory leaks for IT, hehe. My gut feeling is that it's teleporting cache.
You know how you can go back and forward with your teleports. I don't know,
i just think that is probably what it is. That would explain why it only
dies when AW has been running for awhile....cause the teleport list just
keeps growing. Handling the mass amount of object info has GOT to be a
painful task too. Anyway, that is just all that i think.

Aug 29, 2001, 11:57pm

It seems all good, until you get to the Transparant problem. I really don't
think I will use it if there are problems with rendering objects. We NEED
masks. If we can't use them, then you have to replace masked textures with
complex objects......no one has time for that.

Also, 200 meters of visiblity! Who has a computer that can render a scene
with that many objects? I don't.....I can't even go above 40. Someone with
an AMD and a GeForce card might be able to get 10 FPS from it....I don't
know, maybe not even that.......It would be cool if you could see 24FPS with
200m visiblity, but for now that ain't happening. AW Techs, don't increase
Visiblity until you make a 3d engine that has NO lose of speed and is writen
in ASM. Or until better computers come out.

Feb 15, 2002, 2:46am

I am creating a new bot. I will not go into any details about it. But I
would like to know if anyone knows any good fantasy races. Races like Elves,
Dwarfs, ect....So far I have
Human,Orc,Elf,Goblin,Troll,Dwarf,Hobit,Ogre,Fairy,Brownie,Ent. Does anyone
have any to add? I'm trying to get to at least 15 of them.

Thank You.

Feb 15, 2002, 8:40pm

Well, from what I can tell an orc, ogre and goblin are ALL different, no
matter how small the difference may be. A brownie is the smallest Human-Like
race...they aren't really fairies. Tx goober king for those ideas...I'll add
a couple of them.
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Feb 15, 2002, 8:41pm

wow......well...I'll look into those, haven't hard of half of them, heh.

Feb 15, 2002, 8:44pm

i wont have wizards, that will be one of the rules of my game...once again I
wont go into details of why. Imps....are....well.......small and stupid :)
In Final Fantasy 1 they are just there to help you get your first experiance
points.

Feb 15, 2002, 8:46pm

No, the bot wont be in VB. It is meant to handle LARGE amounts of data in a
LARGE world. The entire bot is in c++. Because other sections of the game
are going to be more extensive the complexities of stats have been removed.
Only the stats that are plainly required have been added. But thanks for
offering to help.

Feb 15, 2002, 8:48pm

As I posted to another reply I wont include magic or things that pertain to
magic. I wont go into the reasons why. Yea....i kinda have my lips shut
about this, but I want the project to be secret.

Feb 15, 2002, 8:49pm

Thank You all. I will look into the races I don't know and see if I like
them, and add the ones I forgot to add.

Feb 15, 2002, 8:53pm

In "Lord of The Rings" a halfling is another name for a hobit. I would think
a dark elf would be Orc(according to LOTR).

Feb 18, 2002, 11:35pm

not really. Orcs are elfs that were abused and mangled, and everything else
bad...so they are kinda a "Dark" Elf

Feb 18, 2002, 11:37pm

yea....not that powerful....they are kinda like teh "bugs" of the fantasy
world.

Feb 18, 2002, 11:39pm

Yea, i've done VB->C++ conversions...did it with my WAR bot......quite a bit
of work, but the best thing is that you can do it offline, cause you know
that the code works(unless you have a typo).

Feb 19, 2002, 10:55pm

Ok, first problem is, it would be the same as deleting "Not a Citizen"
builds.....Second is...I don't think you can get rid of AW, but a better
solution would be a full delete....go to the server and reset the world,
then rebuild GZ. But that comes with another problem...in seven years it
would be in almost the exact same situation. See my point?

Feb 23, 2002, 7:49pm

chris is right. It's just a bot and it's not a hack. As long as it doesn't
hurt people i doubt that anything is wrong with using it. Of course it's
common sense to tell people what you are doing...maybe have the bot say
"Your world is being scanned so it can be added to a search list. If you
don't want to be on the search list please contact [botmaker]". We all learn
lessons in life and I'm glad it was MrGrimm who first made this bot and not
some other person, at least he knows what he is doing. So, let's put it this
way...this was a test run....and the next bot will tell you what it's doing
and then something else after that...it's called BETA testing. One person
can't think of EVERYTHING, so give him a break.

Mar 2, 2002, 4:52am

Here's a common one for me:

You know you live in the year 2002 when you say LOL to someone instead of
laughing.

Ok, i don't do that....but i get close.

Mar 2, 2002, 4:45am

I have started a new project. Some of you have heard about it, but most
haven't. I am trying to keep it as secret as possible, so not much info is
going to be directly posted, YET. I have worlds to test my bot and objects
in, but no perminate world. The project is a new type of RPG. I have named
it an RLF, Real-Life Fantasy. The new genre of games takes RPG games and
puts them into your hands. These games include EverQuest, Ultima Online, and
others. My game of course comes closer to the definition. :) One problem in
it is that I need a BIG world to make it fun. It would be somewhat pointless
in a small world. Not something i want my project to come to. I don't have
money to pump into another world...or any world for that matter. And the
kind of world I'm looking towards is a P-50 or P-100....like $1000+. So I
have one option remaining. Sponsership. I need some kind hearted person, who
also wants to attract vistors to their stuff :), to provide me with a world.
I doubt that I will find such a world in AW, THUS I'm looking more towards
an outside Universe for support. This accually helps tho. Becuase i believe
this project will be interesting enough to attract citizens, thus boosting
the Universes populatirty. And what does a universe owner have to provide?
Little. Only a world, which costs them nothing, and strong hosting
abilities, which the universe should already have. So in a buissness matter
of things sponsering my project costs you nothing and gives you major
results. There is little to lose.

Short Version of message: I need a kind hearted universe owner to sponser
my project. I need a P-50 or P-100 world with FULL hosting. Hosting needs to
be as quick as flint to support my bot. The returns of hosting my project is
User attraction. People will go to your universe looking to play my game and
then will eventually begin to gain interest in the Universe that provided
such kind help. Please assit.

Thank you!

P.S. If you ARE a universe owner and need more information you can contact
me. Bill at vectracon.com but I will not give out very many details. This
project is to be kept as undercover as possible.

Mar 2, 2002, 6:51pm

Two problems with AWC sponsership. One, i already have one projected
sponsered by them :) And Two....Last time i checked they had a project some
what like what I have already sponsered....but the creator of the project
seems to be dead or something :-\

Mar 3, 2002, 7:07pm

I doubt it.

Jul 16, 2002, 12:57am

dude, don't post replys like until you know what the heck you are replying
to. Lord Fett's PBL bot is not just PBL but also CTF. And DON'T you dare say
"Oh, look, they changed one little thing, SOO much different." Lord Fett put
more work into that bot then you would believe, so don't go off being mean
to him.

Jul 16, 2002, 1:36am

See? people don't read things and then reply to them...how do they even know
what they are replying to without reading it? beats me... "And DON'T you
dare say
"Oh, look, they changed one little thing, SOO much different." " Did you
even read that? By what I see no, because you just did the exact thing.
People can be so cruel sometimes, putting others down so far.

Jul 16, 2002, 1:40am

No not really, Capture the Flag can also be other things. In Tribes it isn't
Paintball, and yet you still "Capture the Flag". But really what it comes
down to is the most experienced world with the most features is the one that
gets respect. Even those little changes are useful, because if you have the
choice of playing in a world with them, and one without them, people will
choose the one with the extra features. I suppose that sounds a bit
non-individualistic, but hey, it happens :)

Jul 16, 2002, 1:47am

Do it.....right now. If it is easy then make a bot with EVERY feature that
Lord Fett's bot has in ONE day. If you can do it, then you gain my respect
and bragging rights, if not, then I insist that you stop what you are doing.

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