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Jan 13, 2002, 4:07pm

that doesnt help. What if you run a bot that needs to cover your whole
world? and its not for a special event. Of course AW WANTS you to buy more
cits to get more bots

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Jan 13, 2002, 7:12pm

thats not the point DUDE......wishlist doesnt mean "things that are real" it
means "things i wish for"

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Jan 13, 2002, 10:31pm

i said i wish that bots woudl have a greater range not HOW DO I GET A
GREATER RANGE FROM MY BOTS....its a wishlist which means anythign in here
somone WANTS that isnt already implemented

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Jan 14, 2002, 2:27pm

no duh, i didnt ask for the asnwer, i suggested a new feature

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Jan 27, 2002, 11:32pm

i KNOW what i CAN do....i was just puttign a suggestion on the wishlist
board ok?

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Jan 18, 2002, 7:41pm

happens to me also so i think its not just you. and now the fog seems more
like a wall then actual fog

server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Well I was messing with fog settings today.. I seemed to notice that if
you
> turn to face your South-West or North-East the fog seems to lighten or
> dissappear until you face away from it.
>
> Possibly is anyone else getting this problem?
>
> --Bowen--
>
>

Jan 29, 2002, 6:16pm

nice wishlist...but i just have to say that ActiveWorlds is just like any
other company and needs to make money, or it wont exist. I Kind of agree
with you on the worlds but that is also a major income source so making them
all low would make them lose money. I DEFINTILY afree that world sizes
should at least be doubled for their current price. Also cits are a major
source of income and cannot be free (im not commenting on the new prices...)

[View Quote] I wish...
- there was no limit to privately-owned world size, especially for worlds
not being hosted on AWC servers... all worlds should be the size of
AlphaWorld and there should only be one world price, preferably a low price.
Worlds that are not hosted on AWC servers don't use up much AW bandwidth, so
why should larger worlds on independent hosts cost more? It doesn't cost
AWC any more to provide the heartbeat for a large world than it does for a
small world.

- citizenships were still free.

- the concept of "community" included everyone. The less fortunate souls
who were with us and using v2.2 are now gone from our midst. People like to
think they are doing something for the "community" when they are really
doing things for themselves and their small group of friends,... and
outsiders, the less fortunate, or the newbies are often shunned or made to
feel that their input is not welcome. I've been around the 'net for a
while, and I still remember a time when the internet was considered the Last
Frontier... a place where people shared their skills and knowledge for the
betterment of the technology, and to promote a real sense of community but
without all the headaches of government (which is what we were actually
trying to get away from), and the rules and regulations, etc., and people
weren't just in it to get rich quick or to assume some kind of perceived
power and control over others. Too often I've seen groups form,
announcements of such groups being formed, only to go to the posted
website(s) or the first organizational meeting to find that all of the
so-called leaders had already been self-appointed, the agenda had already
been decided, etc. It often reminds me of high school, or like when little
kids form a clubhouse and only the COOL kids are allowed to join. You can
often tell this kind of group is forming when the *Rules* are already
written, and people have been appointed as *security*. I guess the insecure
need to have security.

- people weren't so picky about spelling and grammar on these boards. We
aren't getting graded on how well we write, the whole point of these boards
is to share ideas and exchange knowledge and information, etc. If people
feel they are being judged on how well (or how poorly) their written skills
are, they are less likely to continue to post in these newsgroups. I've
also noticed that the most vocal spelling and grammar correctors often have
errors in their own messages... if you are not perfect, don't be so picky or
whine at others who do not write perfectly... that makes you look like a
hypocrite if you do that.

I'll probably get flamed for this post, but I don't care. It's my wishlist,
and I can wish for what I want to... today I can, anyway... maybe not
tomorrow.

--
Áine

Today's subliminal thought is:

Jan 30, 2002, 5:56pm

if they got rid of aw owned worlds like AW and AWTeen it would most likely
create a huge uproar and destroy the community. A lot of peoples aw
experiancce is just building or town runnign in worlds liek that. I think
that the useless worlds liek the millions of test servers they have and the
useless clones called "3d homepages" should go. That would save a lot of
world list space and free up some names and also bandwidth (since they host
them all).

[View Quote] [View Quote] A world the size of AlphaWorld takes no more "box" power than any other
world. Storage space and X amount of bandwidth per month on a remote host
to run the world, yes, but in that case, a world owner would be limited from
building beyond his/her willingness to pay for bandwidth and storage
capacity. In other words, just because you have the space, doesn't mean you
HAVE TO fill it up. And yes, it's all a money game... jack up prices for
something that costs you nothing, as MacB illustrated in his post.

As far as income goes, AWC makes no income from AWC-owned worlds, such as
Alpha or Mars or Yellow. In fact, those worlds COST them money, so does the
Educational Universe (generically speaking) and it's worlds. If money were
the sole motivating force behind the recent changes (and perhaps it is),
wouldn't it make more sense to eliminate the things that are costing you
money every month and which are not producing income? Makes sense, right?
So why does AWC continue to keep these non-viable worlds and universes
running? Sentimental reasons?

If citizenships are a viable source of income, why make these drastic
changes in citizenship pricing which will discourage people from buying new
citizenships or renewing old ones? Eliminating tourists... I can see both
sides to the reasoning behind this -- they are a drain on resources and
produce no immediate income, but, on the other hand, most citizens started
out as tourists (I know *I* did), and having tourists is like having a
gateway through which you attract people into buying citizenships and
becoming actively involved in ActiveWorlds, and thus, having Tourists is a
long-term income producer but not an immediate income producer. If you want
to sell more citizenships, you don't jack the price up 500+% and in doing
so, discourage people from buying them.

It's advertising, forming key partnerships with other related corporations
(B2B), and marketing your product from one end of the 'net to the other that
will produce income. Right now, we have over 1700+ worlds and 95% of them
have NO USERS in them at any given time. Do you think this encourages
people to buy a world when there are so many worlds already there with no
users? Come this time next year, if something regarding these new
citizenship prices doesn't change drastically, there will be even LESS users
in all those worlds. This is income-producing and is perceived as a way to
"save the company"?

>
> Ditto as cozmo said.

Sorry to disagree, but I believe that the day they started charging for
citizenships (and thus, dividing up the "community" into Tourists and
Citizens) was the day the downward spiral of finances began. That "divide
and conquer" mentality continued with the forming of the PK's and GK's and
the entire hierarchy and pecking order that came from all of that.

>
> ?????

It doesn't include everyone... that's the reality of the situation. If you
think it does, then likely, you are a part of the problem. If this program
is a "community," then the "community" would have a voice in what the
corporation decides to do. It doesn't. Even among the smaller groups
within the "community" (beta testers? cy awards? avvies?) there are usually
no more than half a dozen people making all the decisions and
rules/regulations for that group, and deciding who should and shouldn't
belong. It isn't like there is a random lottery system in place, nor even
an unbiased voting booth.

> - people weren't so picky about spelling and grammar <snip>
>
> no I can't talk perfect english, but part of the reason some people are
> picky is because half the time you can't understand what people are saying
> because of their broken english.

The biggest problem I see is that many people who live in the United States
think that everyone in the world should act like and conform to the
expectations of U.S. people. We are very U.S.-centric here, and we have to
get out of that mode of thinking. Face it, we live in a world of diverse
people who may be coming into this program from Russia, China, Zimbabwe,
Korea, etc. They don't all have English as a first language, and they
should be admired and respected for even attempting to communicate in our
language, not put down and belittled because they have trouble communicating
in writing their thoughts and ideas to us.

> wishlist, and I can wish for what I want to... today I can, anyway...
maybe
> not tomorrow.
>
> This is my first amendment post, flame away.

I try not to flame, for the most part (though sometimes that can't be
helped, depending on the level of idiocy I'm dealing with at the time. hehe)
I enjoy debate, though, and I try to encourage people to voice their
thoughts

Feb 3, 2002, 2:44pm

then give yourself bot rights....

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Feb 8, 2002, 9:15pm

this is just my opinion but this would just make it easier for mass
telegrammers to send me spam. hehe. I dont know WHY you would want to do
this unless you were sending an advertisment that they porlly wouldnt want
but with the new telgram blockign features i guess it would be ok with me.

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Feb 8, 2002, 10:05pm

at least you could always block all telegrams from that person in 3.3 and
perma-mute them :)

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Feb 8, 2002, 11:48pm

well...if they go so far as to do that i would definitly report them if i
know it was the same person. But really, it only takes one second to block
someone and i doubt they will have the $7 a month or whatever it is to buy
more cits. It shouldnt be to hard to block them. But you never know...

I really dont WANT multiple recipient telegrams but if it was implemented
that would make spamming easier but i guess i could just block them.

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Feb 11, 2002, 12:49am

I get what your saying but isn't it just a chat world. (no offense) Who
really cares...?

[View Quote] AWSingles is open to tourists.
AWSingles is owned by AWC, not privately owned.
Doesn't having AWSingles open to tourists go against the "new policy" that
the rest of the universe's world owners have to comply with? AWSingles was
not on the original list in the letter from Rick regarding the new pricing
and new policies.
How do they reconcile that?

Aine

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Aug 30, 2001, 1:37am

LOL

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Sep 3, 2001, 12:52am

who friggin cares.....shutup..everyone knows it and i've stopped trying to
change him for a while now...even though hes still a fucking moron

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Sep 3, 2001, 12:53am

and he's not "stopping" you....what *will* stop you is stupid meaningless
posts that noone likes to download

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Sep 12, 2001, 4:43pm

actualy the verizon building is pretty close to those buildings. But service
hasnt stopped and nothing else is going to happen in the same spot. So stop
being paranoid

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Sep 12, 2001, 8:16pm

do you see anyone here posting lose their internet? no....if your arent
using a major ISP anyways you might be efected but most big isps have other
offices and escpecialy dsl have many central offices. So it is unlikel all
your data has been blown up.

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Sep 13, 2001, 4:27pm

most likeley if anyone got there space deleted to it was around the same
time as you

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Sep 23, 2001, 4:02pm

well it's true!

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Sep 25, 2001, 4:31pm

WOOHOOOOOO 3.2! Now we'll see if it's worht the wait....

--
- Cozmo Of Cozmo-X
World: A'Dude

Sep 25, 2001, 5:51pm

wow your comp is better then mine and mine works fine! i couldnt find a
performace diferance between OPenGL and D3D so i wnet with D3D (at least
until i test some more) i upgraded word servers and am behind a personal
firewall (without aw configured for it, that is until it does it
automaticly).

AMD Athlon 750 mhz 128 mb o' ram and Nvidia Vanta. Both modes works the same
or better then 3.1 i cant really tell. and DSL connection

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Sep 26, 2001, 4:39pm

actualy like most poeple havent i HAVE read the help and it says it loads
all objects appun entry and it does not load all objects in view....the ones
farther away are seen from cache

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Sep 26, 2001, 6:57pm

who the hell cares...i persoanly dont its no diferent then before.

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Sep 26, 2001, 7:49pm

actualy mine is better then before i get around 50 compared to the old 10

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Sep 25, 2001, 10:04pm

When i resize my window it says unable to load camera or something and shuts
down...before it just said not enough memeory, what does thi smean?

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- Cozmo Of Cozmo-X
(website coming soon)
World: A'Dude

Sep 27, 2001, 4:26pm

it doesn't recache unless you switch video modes and even then it only does
the textures

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Sep 27, 2001, 6:27pm

to have your visibilty set permanet to 120 you have to chnage it in settings

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Sep 27, 2001, 6:31pm

Sep 28, 2001, 7:04pm

im not an expert on stock nor a stockholder myself BUT i do know alot about
how it works. I just got REALLY bored and decided ot look at aw's stock.
Heres what i see:

AWLD
Last Trade 0.52 Volume 17,100
Change -0.03 (-5.45%) Avg Volume 8,256
Bid / Ask 0.55 / 0.63 Mkt Cap (mil) $4.47
Open 0.55 P/E N/E*
Prev Close 0.55 Div Yield N/A
Day's Range 0.52 - 0.55 Annual Div/Shr None
52-wk Range 0.40 - 1.68 Market NASDAQ

again im nto the expert but the last time i heard the stock was "hovering
around a dollar".....to me it looks like it droppped 5.45% and is now at
about 55 cents. I'm not saying anything but maybe it COULD raise after they
get 3.2 working (if they ever do)

Note: THis has nothing to do with my opinion of aw just i thought you mgiht
liek to know cuz i was bored

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- Cozmo Of Cozmo-X
(website coming soon)
World: A'Dude

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