The Boys are back in Town

KraemerG and Partymaster has been seen in the city recently. KraemerG is one of the earliest core team members and Partymaster is long time team member too.

Welcome back guys!

A milestone

A milestone was achieved when Horizon City ad was placed to Alphaworlds ground zero. It would have been almost impossible to have anything placed on display there just some years ago. This is one small proof that AW is slowly going to better direction: users get heard much better than before. Thanks Flagg!

Central area mapped

It's been over 2 years since I last time made a map in AW. I will someday update the old map over Horizon City. It will take hours to scan the whole area. Meanwhile I made partial map over the city central area. The area shown in this map is about 220 x 150 coordinates. The old map covers 1000 x 1000 coords and was made in 2004.

Gate Network in use

The Gate Network, which is quite similar with the Stargate in TV-series, has now expanded to Horizon City. You find it here. It connects several virtual locations within ActiveWorlds universe.

Streets turn

New standard for the city streets is released.

Some of those old street.rwx -objects are already replaced with new objects. Replacing all old streets seems nearly impossible as there were 35.001 street-objects in the city when I last time checked. I scanned all objects in the city area with a bot in January 2004. Each object covers 10 x 10 meters of land. That makes them cover over 3,5 km²! Each ten meters of new streets takes 11 objects. If all of the old ones would be replaced, the addition for object count would be over 350.000.
Gonna let beltways to be as they are...

Monorail Tracks on new track

Parts of the old monorail tracks near the city GZ will be moved to new path. The oldest parts were built in September 2000 and some of it has to be torn down now, as a part of city improvement campaign.

 

City history in Wiki

The city history from 1999 to this day is now added to Horizon City page in ActiveWorldsWiki. It seems that most of the city activities happened in 2000 - 2003 and that there is a blackout from 2004 to late 2006... Well, check out yourself!