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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.

I'm here to announce that all of Edition 2 Swiki Cards are now in-field and are obtainable. That means all 70 available Swiki cards are out there somewhere for the taking, so get out there and start hunting! Don't believe me, look at SW Comit's profile. Good luck!

Alphaworld has been down for much of this week for ongoing maintenance.  Tom (Flagg) noted on the AW Forums that "AW is down for maintenance as we work on repairing the world's mover system."

A timetable has not been given on when the world will be restored.  However, in the meantime, the Universal Immigration Officer message encourages us all to check out some of the other public building worlds, which isn't a bad idea.  Have you seen Mars, Yellow, or Winter lately?

I've updated the Ultimate Teleport List again, cept this time I've transformed it into something bigger.  The Ultimate AW User Guide now makes great use of the User Guide tab and has transformed it into something extremely useful for a general audience.

This user guide contains most all topics that the general AW user will be exposed to, and a myriad of teleports also.  Still heavily SW City biased, but it's getting pretty broad.  Topics included range from simple to advanced building topics, bots and the sdk, and even various gaming worlds.

http://awportals.com/chronicles/article.php?a=293

A HUD icon for Scarabian User Terminals has been added to the HUD on the bottom-right of the screen for global chat users.  In order to access the SUT icon, you must be listed in the #swcity chat channel.

You can do this by saying ^jc #swcity anywhere in Alphaworld.

Thanks a lot for the great add, Mark!

Check out a new prototype gallery I'm putting together. It's about time that old screenshot gallery on swcity.net be replaced

http://www.swcity.net/www/gallery/

The major infrastructure project connecting Seawing Island (aka the Imperial Strand) and Sybit Island has recently been completed. Awesome work Ferruccio for the epic engineering

You can see a picture here and see it at 1683S 3795E 1.16a.