Newsletter-March 2003

SW City's Official Newsletter - March 2003

EDITOR'S NOTE

Hello everyone,

It looks like February was a pretty slow month. I guess our economic expansion didn't last as long as we'd liked. But behind the scenes we are working on some wonderful things, including a planned project with Goober King to build a realistic and fantastic looking mountain in AWTeen. Things should be picking up soon as well, with the imminent Birthday Bash looming up on us. That's all for now.

Cheers,
SW Chris, Editor-in-Chief

SW CITY'S 4th BIRTHDAY BASHES IN

SW City is four years old! And beginning Monday March 24th at 6PM VRT at SW City GZ, our annual ceremonies wind up with registration for our three (Count em! Three!) building contests. Contestants will have six days to build their dream, er... factory, faaar out house, or a very profitable, um, sci-fi build. Or some combination of those adjectives...

So anyways, the official opening ceremonies are on Friday March 28 at 6PM VRT, and then we will have plenty of fun at a scavenger hunt, wacky races, and then hang out at GZ playing hangman, tic tac toe, checkers, and chess. We will wind down on Saturday with a rousing game of Paintball in the world Nutopia, then tour some of SW City's builds that were built this past year, and warp it up with trivia, the presentation of building contest winners and SW Nitro's birthday party!

As with all previous birthday bashes, contestants in each of the events compete for a certain amount of points. Those points are then totalled for prizes! First place gets a 6 month citizen extension and 2nd place gets a 3 month citizen extension, both courtesy of Active Worlds, Inc. Third place winner will get a $15 credit towards one item from the SW City Store, donated by SW Chris.

For scheduling information and to give your own input into the schedule, please visit the link below!

SW City Birthday Bash Schedule - http://swcity.skywalkeronline.net/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=633

POLL ONLINE AT AWNEWS.ORG

AWNews.org has added a poll asking which feature(s) one would most like to see added to Alphaworld. SW City has long supported the proliferation of the so-called restricted commands move and rotate, and in your travels through the city you may notice that they have curiously been put to use in places. ;) But it appears there are other features as well on that poll like terrain, 3-axis object rotation, and a skybox! Vote for which one you want most to appear in AW, or vote for all of them! At the end of March, AWNews.Org's Editor-in-Chief will send the results directly to AWI CEO E N Z O's desk. Lots of acronyms there... but anyways, click the link below to vote!

AWNews.Org Poll - http://www.awnews.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file=index&pollID=14

SYNTAX'S SW PICK OF MARCH

I wanted the March pick to be something peaceful because of all the controversy over war and all that so I decided to pick Vyseus Park. This tranquil park in Central SW City, located right next to Kithicor Forest, was the perfect choice. It's beautiful trails take you past moss-covered rocks, around peaceful ponds and under giant tree canopys. The Park is a great place to take the family for a picnic when it's nice and sunny (picnic's suck when it's tornado season).

The park has a small admission fee of $1.00 for people over the age of 13 but for anyone 12 and under, it's free. The park's entrance, which is where you need to pay, also has a small pizza parlour and souvenir shop. The back of the building takes you to the park.

If your the adventurous type, you can climb over the park walls into the swamps in search of the rare and mysterious Tree of Eternity named 'Kithu's Weeper.'

Vyseus Park: AW AW 2300.02S 3835.41E 0.00a 276 http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_2300.02S_3835.41E_0.00a_276

SW QUICK LINKS

Website - http://www.swcity.net Discussion Forums - http://forum.swcity.net SW Outfitters Tours and Expeditions Store - http://store.swcity.net Charter - http://swcity.skywalkeronline.net/yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=134