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Feb 1, 2004, 4:30am

Here's how I see it: In AlphaWorld, it takes longer for people to discover
a tourist town. Therefore, tourists have a longer amount of time to make a
larger town and establish more stuff. Then, when the deleters come along,
they are *extremely* frustrated that they got their huge down deleted, so
they want to prevent it by subscribing. This is not the case in other
worlds, because they can't build enough stuff (in time before the deleters
come) to be as affected enough by getting their building deleted to
subscribe. If you were a tourist, and you just got little builds deleted,
you would assume that that's all AW can offer. If you establish a large
tourist town in AlphaWorld, you will see what it is like to have a
mini-community, and you will be even *more* eager to subscribe if you have
such a creation, like a mini-community, deleted.

Feb 1, 2004, 5:52am

The way I see it, tourist building in AlphaWorld would boost revenue for
AWI.

Feb 1, 2004, 6:17am

Read it again, before posting you're confusion. I explained it pretty well.

Feb 1, 2004, 8:55pm

Without tourist building in AlphaWorld, none of those inspiring people will
be able to show themselves to the potential subscribers. If tourist
building ever gets enabled, perhaps an organization of people willing to
help start secret tourist towns in AW could rapidly increase the userbase.

Feb 3, 2004, 2:32am

I think re-enabling tourist building in AlphaWorld would be an interesting
experiment to see what happens with the userbase. Of course, it's been over
two years since tourists were no longer allowed to build there, so it will
have to be advertised in some way.. if it isn't through word of mouth. I
think it's worth a try..

Feb 3, 2004, 4:53am

Back to square one. How will we convince AWI that this is an
experiment worth trying? They would likely just ignore this thread, and
treat it as trifle.

Feb 3, 2004, 9:40pm

AlphaWorld's new rating is PG-13, while the default browser doesn't go up to
that setting. Talk about user-friendly :P baad move AWI, but I doubt you'll
do anything to fix that eh?

Feb 8, 2004, 5:29am

maybe it scares the hell out of you because under *its* rules, you must have
done something wrong ^,^
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Feb 12, 2004, 5:03am

The ambient and directional light for AlphaWorld used to be white and white,
but now it's grey and grey. Why was this change made? I liked it better
when the ambient and directional light in AlphaWorld was white and white.
As strange as it may sound, it was more fun to build in a brighter, more
well-lit environment. That, and the darker lighting screwed up some of the
color-matching. So, I request, please change the world lighting back to
white and white like it used to be.

Feb 23, 2004, 1:49am

I am posting this in the community group because this is more than just a
wish, it is something that would affect the community.
One worry that AWI seems to have about enabling tourist building in
alphaworld is how rapidly the disk space will increase, and how much load it
would put on their servers. One idea could be a tourist build restriction
radius, Say, tourists can build anywhere withen 20,000 coord distance from
gz. It would allow tourists to build in alphaworld if they want, without
making it easy for them to build there by accident in the first open space
they come across, and without bringing back quite the volume of tourist
building they had before removing tourist build privs. It could also reduce
the load on the server, and greatly increase publicity for alphaworld by
word of mouth, as tourists would be wanting to show other tourists their
builds/towns.

Feb 23, 2004, 8:50pm

That hasn't been the case for the most part. Tourists building in
AlphaWorld got a really good taste of what Active Worlds was like, so they
were encouraged even more to buy a cit.
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Feb 23, 2004, 11:09pm

I knew you'd post here, with your anti-tourist ideals. Unfortunately,
brock, you are wrong. Look what has happened to Active Worlds ever since
tourist access has been so restricted. It is not just the prices that has
been driving people away.
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Feb 23, 2004, 11:12pm

Think about it, there is no logic in what you said. For one, tourists don't
have free reign. That was already but back at the beginning of 2002. And
secondly, if tourists were removed from worlds altogether, they would never
know what active worlds was like, and they would never subscribe. Think
about what's better for buisness, brock.
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Feb 23, 2004, 11:12pm

but back = cut back
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Feb 24, 2004, 1:02am

that would probably add more load to the server than tourists themselves
lol. It would have to keep an IP record of the tourist (likely to change as
well) as well as a computer ID.
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Feb 24, 2004, 8:42pm

"Respectfully, who are we to criticize AWI's business policy?"
Because, we have all seen what has happened to Active Worlds when they
raised their prices and cut off tourist access. It has been slowly dying.
You can see the signs everywhere. Organizations have been shutting down
because there aren't enough people (like info squaraes, and UTN). You are
assuming that AWI knows how to run a buisness. If you look around, you can
see many citizens with more buisness sense. AWI needs criticism. If nobody
criticized their tactics, we would likely still have an alphaworld without
move commands or 3 axis rotation.

Feb 29, 2004, 7:44am

It would be nice if he modeled out some of the floors inside the skyscraper,
so you could explore offices or apartments.
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Feb 27, 2004, 7:06am

wow is *that* far from the truth. Jesus told peter "on this rock I will
build my church" Peter became the first pope.
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Feb 27, 2004, 7:08am

I wouldn't call a few years a long time (from death of Jesus to formation of
the church), but what carlbanks said doesn't make that much sense either..
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Feb 29, 2004, 7:30am

I never said that Jesus wasn't Jewish. You completely missed the point I
was making anyway; als,o I have no idea what you were saying "no" to. If you
were saying "no" to my whole statement, then you deny that Peter was the
first pope, and you deny that Jesus said to Peter (according to the Bible)
"upon this rock I will build my church."
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Feb 29, 2004, 7:35am

It's also the fact that he died that way, and forgave all our sins at the
same time, even those who persecuted him and nailed him to the cross. he did
all this while dying on the cross. I would say that's a pretty hard thing to
do, but considering you are likely an athiest, everything I said is
meaningless.
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Feb 29, 2004, 7:38am

according to historical records, nobody had to carry the whole cross, as it
was impossible to do, since the whole cross was just *too* heavy for anyone
to carry. Also, it would be inconvenient having to reposition the vertical
piece of the cross every time, pounding it into the ground or whatever was
necessary to keep it into position. Carrying the horizontal piece was hard
enough, as that part alone weighed over a hundred pounds.
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Feb 29, 2004, 7:41am

where did you get this random "factoid" from? They broke their knees, and
stabbed them in the side. It would have been very inconvenient to cut off
the feet, as a simple stab in the side would have done the same job, a
better job at that. Breaking their knees is also much easier than cutting
off feet :P
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Mar 1, 2004, 4:30am

what? get some sources before you start spewing stuff out of your butt like
that.
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Mar 1, 2004, 4:32am

I want to see some sources, bowen. I don't care if you have a Ph.D on the
subject
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Mar 2, 2004, 6:32am

er, I already knew that they broke their legs, and stabbed them in the side.
It was the feet thing that I don't believe :P
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Mar 2, 2004, 6:36am

carlbanks is turning a difference in opinion into an attack on the person
with the different opinion, baad move. That's what terrorists do =D they
start focusing on the person instead of the opinion.
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Mar 1, 2004, 5:31am

so we should also have the freedom to choose a removable hotep hat for the
hotep, or a weight-changing virgil, or how about all avatars don't wear
white shoes after labor day? Your suggestion doesn't make any logical
sense. They are just avatars, it's not like you are seeing something you
aren't supposed to see up the skirt of the woman avatars. Other users don't
care about the posture of your womanly avatar. They don't come to active
worlds to see that.
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Mar 2, 2004, 6:21am

russian world HAS no flying seqs O_o
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Feb 29, 2004, 7:23am

I could probably work out something for you, if you just want it to move
back and forth slowly, a simple rotate command should suffice, but if you
want it to spin fast AND slowly, that will require two or weather vanes in
the same place, and appropriate manipulation of astarts to make the desired
weather vane visible, or not.
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