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Jun 28, 2000, 3:11pm

Currently only caretakers or those with eject rights can use
aw_teleport. This is probably to prevent jokers from sending people to
arbitrary locations. But couldn't this method be used safely if the
person teleported by the bot was also the bot's owner? (the SDK would
have to check that the session_id was a session_id of the citizen_number
used to start the bot)? If someone makes their own bots teleport them to
bot-selected locations, then they have only themselves to blame if they
don't like being teleported.

The documents say that "this method is primarily intended to allow
bots to teleport human users around in a world". But, as described, it
is a privilege only given to citizens who have worlds of their own. It
would be nice for ordinary AW citizens to offer tours of their property
on public worlds like AlphaWorld, Mars, or Meta. If aw_teleport were
extended as described above (the person teleported must be the bot's
owner), you could offer tours of your property on public worlds.
Ordinary AW citizens could script a tour & then post it on a website for
download. Anybody could then get the tour script & run it on their own
TourGuide Bot, which would teleport its clients from location to
location, on all the AW worlds.

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