Reason: Router Maintenance
Date: November 22, 2002
Time: 3 AM – 6 AM CST (UTC -6)
Benefit: Increased Network Stability

We will be performing router maintenance Friday November 22, 2002 between 3 AM and 6 AM CST (UTC -6).

Users will experience a brief outage (<10 minutes) during this maintenance window. Some latency may occur as traffic re-converges.

Thank you,

Steven Leggett
Tower Host

A new guide has been published featuring the trees of SW City. Check it out if you’re interested.

Gutz’ Isle, now nick-named Burning Isle, erupted in flames tonight. Reports say it was arson starting in some dry trees. Some eye witness reports say they saw Syntax start the fire, others say it was a missile attack from Yeti City, and a few still blame it on the heat caused by the after-effects of the destruction of Vortech Industries. One odd fellow openly admitted to causing the fire, showing authorities the used flame thrower and explaining how he did, and even showing printed photos of him in the act, but it was discarded due to laziness.

In other news, 18 Nimbusians were brutally murdered in a back alley.

It was recently discovered that a large amount of midis from the sw_city3 server were deleted without warning and for no apparent reason. Unfortunately none of these midis were backed up. However, if your AW browser has no download cache limits, you may have it laying around in your computer.

If you find a dead midi under sw_city3, post it in this thread, and maybe someone will have it in there cache.

Happy Birthday to Espilae who turns 15 today! Have a good one, Espie! – SW City Staff

As part of the Planetary River Network (I think that’s what it was called, lol), Rubicon River, the second river of this project with Vishara’s River being first, has begun to make its way throughout AW. It’s primary route will be east and probably stopping around 8000e, and might make its way down to Horizon City.

There are no plans to end this river into a water body, like Vishara’s did, and will be added to as time goes on.

UPDATE: The river is being renamed. Click here to vote for the new name: Vote

Dreamer2 won a Cy Award for Olympic Park in Yeti City in the category of Creative Vision & Application Object Design/Texture Application.

SW Comit won for Praxton Oil Rig in the category of Community Development in Architecture/Urban Planning/Design.

SW City has also won for Community Initiative for a Community or Town! Three years of serving the community has payed off and we thank those who voted!

The CY Awards will be kicking off tomorrow! At 7pm VRT on Saturday, October 26th, the ceremony will start! After the ceremony, there will be a reception from 10pm VRT to 11pm VRT.

But before the Ceremony, be sure to join us at SW City Town Square at 6pm VRT for our annual SW Pre-Cy Party! Lots of fun, festivities and memories before heading to the Cy awards 1 hour later as a group. Hope to see you there!

As Chris stated, the server was down for a while. But now it’s back up, with a whole new forum!

Our SW City Forum has been upgraded to YaBBSE, an excellent piece of software which includes the option to create polls and stuff. There is even a calendar! (yay)

So check it out, the forum is back online @ http://forum.swcity.net. Thanks for being so patient!

…that we have disappeared from the face of the planet for the last few days. Our forum was slowing the server down so my host had to yank us until we could upgrade to a less… ubiquitous resource-hogging forum. All the messages are still there, and Syntax is working hard to get the bugs and kinked worked out. You may want to wait a day or two before you start posting, but at least the website is active now. 🙂

Cheers, and apologies,
Chris