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Apr 26, 2005, 3:45am

It would be nice if aw could separate avs by type, in particular, categories
that are set by world owner specific to usage. Like...

- tourists (only two, like aw stipulates) at the top
- bots (as many as the list can hold, this way when you change any avs below
the bots are not affected)
- citizen guests (as many as the list can hold and still allow for the
following)
- citizen privates / world members or staff / PSs / CTs (as many as the list
can hold)
- specials would no longer be necessary, or perhaps move them under tourist
for bot use (so that changes in any avs below that don't affect the bot's
avs)

The list would be a drop down menu listing categories such as above, the
user would only see the categories that applied to them thus they couldn't
wear avs they are not suppose to wear. If a user hasn't the rank they can
see the higher rank avs if worn but they can't see them on the list and they
can't wear them. Like a tourist would only see tourist avs on the list (as
the do now). Citizens not a member or staff of a world would see the tourist
& citizen / guest avs. World staff (PSs / CTs / Owners) would see all all
the avs on the list. Bot avs don't necessarily have to even be on the list
but if they are they can be viewed by anyone the world owner allows. Now I
mean the avs can still be seen, what is hidden is categories that don't
apply to particular visitors of the world. If they can't see the avs on the
list they can't wear them but will be able to see them if others are wearing
them.

It would also be nice to be able to wear your own avs in any world should
that world choose to allow that. I would suggest if AWI is implementing this
as we speak, that you would allow this in awgate because the more avatar
diversity there the more people might be enticed to pay the reg fee. As long
as we can still pw our avs they should be as *secure* as ever.

And I still have the pet peeve about autodumping / autorefreshing the
avatars.dat file rather than forcing a whole world refresh :o} Have the
browser check the avatars.dat file and if it's been updated since it checked
last (the date is older than today) it does a backup copy of the old (it's
important to backup the old rather than delete it!) and then it downloads
the new ... before you even enter the world you are visiting! This seems
like a simple idea to me but then I'm not a programmer LOL

LNH

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