Build 1196
Starting with AW build 1196, you no longer need to include mip=on for your pictures, as this is now the default. It’s about time eh?! 
Now we just need a way to mass remove all those “mip=on” to reclaim cell space 
One-day sale ends soon!
As of this post you only have about 2 more hours before the promo ends. Hurry!
One Day Sale & Twitter Contest
Tom announced a one day sale for December 31st — existing citizens (everyone, because everyone is renewed right now!) can buy a 1 year citizenship for $29.99 that also comes with a small world. Following that purchase, you can buy a 1 year citizenship for $39.99, which also comes with a small world. World server license fees will be waived during this period.
Follow Tom on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/Virtual_Flagg and retweet this tweet for some phat loot in the form of cit extensions or bot limit increases.
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Personally I think these prices are great and its good to see that they’re starting to consider lowering them in events like this. 
I particularly like the throwing in of a P-5/5 world… kinda sweetens the deal a bit.
Anyone else gonna take advantage of this?
Small OP Update
The Alphaworld t_awhedge##.rwx objects have been optimized for better performance now accept pictures.
UPDATE: Also just found out that a new variant for the prism prims have been provided by Tsukasa, designed to be used by Shear and Skew: p1pri####s.rwx and p1pri####t.rwx.
Everybody renewed! And a big sale!
It’s Christmas time for AWI – everybody has once again been renewed until January 4th. There is also going to be a big sale special on December 31st. You can see Flagg’s post about it here.
AWG Enhancement
AW Build 1183 brings a much wanted feature to AW:
Build 1183
23rd Nov 2010 beta
Objects loaded through a group file from local disk, will be selected as soon loading has finished.
Loading objects from disk has improved by 6 times in speed, and the loading progress is displayed in the chat log.
In summary, not only do AWGs load faster, but they built in a selected state. No more needing to build directional variants of all your AWGs!
This sounds like a good excuse to finally update the AWGs on the academy