New SW City Times out as of today! Enjoy. 😛

Alright…the problem is solved.

For the past 2 weeks now we’ve been having problems with the news software. After having no news on the site for about a week, uninstalling CuteNews and reinstalling NewsPro countless times, I finally know what the problem is.

I send an ICQ to Chris that says “Chris, newspro isn’t working again” and he’s like “Oh, it’s probably because of all the SPAM. When we go over the limit, the service provide turns off writing to the account so we can only delete.” Me: “>______<" All this trouble over SPAM. Now that I know the problem we should be functioning fine from now on.

Yeehaw – Friday was a grand day in SW City as we had huge turnover of people that attended the bash. I was told 26 people at one point of time, and they came in waves. The fireworks had a great crowd and AWI changed it to night mode and put out a world message to advertise it. We had 3 showings for the fireworks, the last two being unplanned for but were thrown in for the second and then third wave of people.

Syntax gave a nice speech about SW City and then cut the red tape officially opening the new City Hall, located at 2291.8S 3670.5E.

Later the subway challenge went off pretty well, with Ferruccio in first, Captain MAD Mike in second, Espilae in third, “Syntax Jr.” in forth.

The new game at Mango Land was then released, The Lava Chamber, but unfortunately no one could beat it (how come I’m the only one that can beat it? >_<). The remaining crowd then hanged out on Velothi Island at the local coffee shop where they could also check out the new Stargate next door. Special thanks go to Daphne for advertising us at AWGZ and AWGate, Archergirl for covering the event on AW Radio, and to Mountain Myst from AWI who gave us night mode. Cya tomorrow, our last day of the bash. Pictures

Today SW City turns 5 years old! While the real bash events don’t start till’ Friday and Saturday (except the building contest which starts today), we did have a tour of old downtown SW City. Here is a chat log if you missed it:

http://files.swcity.net/historical_gathering.txt
Hope to see you Friday!

Here is what you’ve all been waiting for, folks! The SW City 5th Birthday Bash schedule is out and you can view it at http://birthday.swcity.net!

First events and dates are as follows:
-Wednesday, March 24th @ 10pm VRT
-Friday, March 26th @ 10pm VRT
-Saturday, March 27th @ 10pm VRT

Note, the first event of each night is at 10pm VRT, remember that!

Hope to see you all there! It should be a wicked time and the best Birthday Bash to date.

After a year or so after release, the ol’ glossary has been given an update. Learn the official SW’ian meaning of your favorite words like “Nougat” and “Andrew” or even “AbMo”. You can find the glossary in the downloads section.

Caution: For mental well-being, non-SW City residents should stay clear of this document.

UPDATE: Added a word, more abbreviations, and touched up appearance.

Besburn River, now surely AW’s longest river, has doubled its already massive size. It now extends from East Irenic to Ideika’s beltway, a little over 3,000 coords away to the east.

Besburn River is 17 months old, and its end destination is Horizon City, some 13,000 coordinates away.

SW City Teleport Circle is now open! It is a small little area packed with 22 teleports to all around SW City. Visitors to SW City can now easily access all areas of the city and even get a little preview of the buildings, as there is pictures on the teleporters.

I am thinking about making another Teleport Circle in that area to include even more of the great building SW City has to offer. So check it out and go exploring! 2212s 3605e 180 or just go to Town Square and head west.

There’s been a recent technical boom happening around SW City.

Velothi Island, CSWC – The roads come to life! It has been recently discovered by the mayor’s secretary that deep in the SW City book’o’laws, it was deemed illegal to drive on the roads. A correction granted by the city council has breathed life onto some of our roadways. Check out the highway as the ‘crafts zip down the road. In recognition of this new activity, a raised cafe has been built where you can sit down and relax with a cup of coffee as 5+ ton crafts blast by you inches away.

Also, our trusted Chris has rejoined the ranks of builders, and came back with a bang! I can honestly say he’s created Active World’s most innovative teleporters. It’s a bot-free synchronized teleporting booth, where you watch a real sweet effect go off should someone decides to teleport outa there.

All this can be seen along the road at 1688S 4775E 180. The cafe and the teleport are side by side.

Syntax Estates – Syn’s cooking up a new adventure game now that special commands are back. I don’t think I should comment much on it ’till it’s more developed, but I’ve seen a preview and it’s absolutely amazing so far. I’ll let him post more info about it when he’s ready 😉

Also in recently developements, 3 new bridges have developed. Tridom bridge is a small bridge along highway 10 over Vishara’s River. May be small, but it’s quite impressive. Also Flint’s Memorial Bridge is in the works. It’s along CMM International Highway northbound from Sybit to the Outerlands. Lastly a 70+ coord bridge Ferruccio is working on is a unique half-suspension bridge. It’s SW City’s tallest bridge now. It’s along highway 10, east velothi to the Outerlands.

Lastly, tons of work has been done south of Town Square. Areas have been revamped, detailed, roads and grass cleaned up, old buildings touched up, and Teddy’s old abandoned sub-com has been given some attention to make it look nicer. Syntax also did some work closer to town square to the east, areas owned by SE.

Other completed builds: Velothi Sewage Plant, Sharman Mines Ore Extracting plant, and much more of Ferruccio’s Mountain has been complete.

I have added a new desktop which is entitled “Nimbusian World”. You can only guess what it has on it. Mosey on over to the Downloads page if your interested in using it.