Newsletter-March 2004

SW City's Official Newsletter - March 2004

EDITOR'S NOTE

February showed a resurge of activity among the denizens of SW City. Syntax actually renewed a few days after I sent out the last newsletter and has been building and improving things ever since. SW Comit started work on revamping Velothi Island and most of us pitched in here and there refreshing the area around Town Square Park. And of course, we all got together to plan SW City's fifth birthday party. Everyone should come to at least one of the events of the four-day long bash, because it's going to be awesome. You can read more about the party further below.

Cheers,
SW Chris, Editor-in-Chief

SW CITY TURNS FIVE

Five years! Wow. It's hard to believe that we've been at it that long. And so we want to put on the best party that Active Worlds has ever seen. Three days if pure fun, starting March 24 and lasting through the 26 and 27. That's Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

Our building contest this year is a rock sculpturing contest, and you will be able to begin building on March 24. On Friday, we commemorate the openning of our new city hall with Comit's new corona fireworks. We're even trying to get the nice folks at Active Worlds to change the sky to night for a brief period of time to set them off. One of the newest events will be our Subway Challenge. This is a totally awesome event where teams of players race through the subways of SW City. If you ever wanted to see all of the places in the city, this event will help you check a lot of places off of the list!

There are more events as well, and we wish you wouldn't miss a single one as each is sure to be packed full of citrusy fun. See the full list of events and their times here.

SW City's 5th Birthday Bash - http://birthday.swcity.net/

STAFF UPDATE - SW COMIT

I created a more official entrance into the Sharman Caves on Velothi. It's an ore extracting plant, and ore cache. This is located in the utility/industrial sector of Velothi which is on the west end on both sides of the highway.

Been doing some much neglected work to the sewer system; more specifically the sewage plant, which is where it all goes. Not the most glamorous work but someone's gotta do it, =D but to liven up the icky plant there's a bunch of nougats.

Later this month in March we'll be constructing the Velothi Outerlands bridge of Highway 10. A semi-large bridge of 70 coords. It'll be a half-suspension bridge.

STAFF UPDATE - SYNTAX

That past year has been a pretty hectic one for me, both in and out of Active Worlds. About one year ago from this month, I was finishing up my Grade 12 in good ol' Manitoba, enjoying my last months as a high school student. Obviously I was pretty active in the SW community as I had so much free time. Graduation came and gone, and it was a good one. Getting the top scholarship offered to our school was a big helper for good ol' university, which I would leave to after finishing up my summer job at the local gold mine (which paid reaaallyyy well, btw). :P

University rolls around, and this is where things sort of get mixed up. Active Worlds isn't as much of a priority as I have so much homework all the time that has to be done. I just don't manage to get on AW as much as I would like. This means that I barely get on AW at all. From August to December I get absolutely no building time, or SW City time for that matter, in at all. This is pretty obvious to all who take part in SW City on a regular basis.

Oh well, Christmas break rolls around and I get back into it after catching up with all my old friends after being away from them for about 3 months (...catching up for 3 minutes and then partying the rest :P). I do some building but then the ol' cit expires and I can't build anymore so I just do behind-the-scenes work on the website and stuff. As you all know, I've since renewed and done some cool stuff on File Island.

That's about it for me!

STAFF UPDATE - SW CHRIS

For the last year, I've been busy. Busy busy busy. :P The end of school had me focussing on finals, and afterwords I worked for my uncle's booming business at www.wiebetech.com, where they sell high quality portable firewire and usb devices. In August school started and I really began to work on a small sci-fi film I'm working on.

We actually started shooting it, but the camera broke on our third day, so filming is on hold until this coming summer when we can get a better script put together and sets built. Also going on during all this was school. So you can imagine that I haven't been in Active Worlds much.

Just in the last month I started fixing up a few areas and even developed a beta version of a Stargate teleporter ring system on Velothi Island. Everyone I've showed it to was really impressed by it. I plan on sticking around AW for awhile, so telegram sometime and we'll chat.

STAFF PROFILE - ONILINK

A few months back I stopped getting on AW to play the MMORPG Ragnarok Online only to find that I had forgoten to cancle my citizenship, so I had to pay over $80 in overcharge fees because AW took money out of my account when it wasn't in there. After having paying that I felt I had "spent" enough on AW and take a break. After I finished up with Ragnarok I joined up with SW Comit and Captain MAD Mike in Horizons. Been playing Horizons for about 2 months or so, and I finaly renewed my citizenship at the end of this February, and I plan on staying around for a while, and fix up things around Saddle Creek. :)

SYNTAX'S SW PICK OF MARCH

This months pick, like the SW City Biodome, is also a result of SW'ians gathering together and working on a specific area.

Carschall Tip is located at the most northern part of Sybit Island and was a hub of commercial and industrial activity...until August 18th, 2002. Before scientists at the Mount Griffin Observatory in Central SW City could alert the proper authorities, a meteor named Pelma entered Alphaworlds atmosphere. Much of it was burned up but since it was so gigantic, a fair chunk still remained.

What remained of the Pelma meteor travelled approximately 75404 coordinates over major AW cities such as R-Town and Yeti City in the atmosphere before smashing into the shoreline of Sybit Island. The resulting impact blew away the ground and created a crater which has since filled up with ocean water. The shockwave created blasted all the buildings, destroying most of them immediately. Cars were tipped and trees were de-rooted, which gives you an idea of the power of the meteor.

The SW Army moved in, evacuated the area and built a research facility that studies the meteor.

If your going to visit Carschall Tip, do so at your own risk. The SW Army has determined that there is a fair bit of radiation still present in the area which is also visible to the human eye. The adventure around the ruined office buildings and factories is worth the risk, though.

Carschall Tip - AW 1456.50S 3694.05E 103 http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-b...ort.cgi?aw_1456.50S_3694.05E_103

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