If you haven’t noticed already, Alphaworld has been sporting a new sky for the past couple days thanks to SW Comit. He has put in his own time and effort to create a new and more realistic sky, sun, clouds and stars for the world, as well as updating the mountain textures. There will be more tweaks to the sky as time goes to make it better, so keep an eye out. Thanks, Comit!
In a holiday promotional act for AW 5.0, AWI has just renewed all citizens across the board and sent out a mass email to the userbase, free to use AW until January 2nd. Got an old, expired friend? Be sure to let them know!
Alphaworld and the rest of the AWI public building worlds had building disabled in preparation for the release of Activeworlds 5.0, which will hopefully meet its release date of December 1st. If you are a regular Alphaworld’ian, there’s still a lot to do like playing SW City Interactive, editing and taking pictures for the SWiki or admiring the new forum updates!
In case you hadn’t already heard, big congrats to SW Chris for winning Lifetime Achievement in the Cys this year! Syn and I also got one for ActiveWiki. Pretty k00l. 
You can check the full list of winners and event details over at the ActiveWiki.
Byte spent the night working on a bot that mips unmipped images: MipBot v.0.3! If you have any mass-mipping to do, be sure to use his handy new bot. The bot details and download link can be found in the release thread.
Been wanting to get v4 rights here in SW City and Alphaworld? Now’s your chance! See Flagg’s post for details on the upcoming event.