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Nov 7, 2003, 12:34pm

Given that for example you need to have a bot to seed if
you somehow wipe out your world (backing up your world
is another example) it would make sense that AW have a
very basic 'official' bot that you can get as a world owner.

Another good reason for that is that some people may not
trust bots made by third parties, especially if they are new
and have not had time to develop a trust in any of the existing
bots.

Seeding an object, and doing a save/restore of your world
are arguably key features without which owning a world is
'incomplete'.

While this can be done using the administration utility, that
utility is overkill for what most people (especially new world
owners) would need. Most of them do not host their own
world, but simply need a friendly way to back up and
restore, and possibly to wipe everything, and then seed a
starter object.

Nov 7, 2003, 1:55pm

Maybe somebody could make one, send the source code to AW and AW compile &
release so that everyone knows its OK

~John

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Nov 7, 2003, 2:55pm

Sure.

They might add the source to the 'basic bot' into the SDK as an
example as well.

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Nov 7, 2003, 4:52pm

Give AWI Source code? Ha... haha... hahahahaha

- Mark

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Nov 7, 2003, 5:09pm

Well if they trust AWI to download AW browser then they'd trust AWI to
download any bots *shrugs*

Hmm.. AW never release any bots do they? lol

~John

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Nov 7, 2003, 5:17pm

The 'world admin' utility is an SDK app I think. It just has too much stuff
in it for most new world owners.

I suggested this because getting a new world can be a bit overwhelming.
There are a lot of different 'pieces' you need to all work together. It
would
take most people a while before they got around to locating a bot.

If AW just supplied one, they would be introduced to that stuff right away,
and with a simple bot it would be an easy learning curve.

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Nov 7, 2003, 5:46pm

Or... get someone to do automatic backups and propdumps...

imatowns.com
virtuallylearning.com

etc etc etc

- Mark R
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Nov 7, 2003, 10:35pm

You have a revolutionary way of thinking about business.

In case you hadn't noticed, most companies have learned that 'batteries
not included' is a lame excuse and that people want things to work
right out of the box. Most devices come with batteries *in the box*

They are often crummy batteries, and that leaves the market wide open
for third party battery makers, but the consumer didn't have to wait to
enjoy their purchase.

I kind of wonder how many new world owners have accidently deleted
that one object they start out with, and had to wait overnight or over the
weekend to get someone to come and bail them out. That's really not the
kind of first experience you want someone to have with the product they
just paid you money for.

But this situation is easily foreseen, and it is very easily avoided with
little effort on the part of AW, either because someone in the community
would offer to do the work of packaging a simple bot at no effort to them,
or because Seamus can pop out the source for it like you might squeeze
a pimple.

So your many arguments as to why they should not do this don't convince
me it's not a good idea.

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