View source for Dreamscape Town Meeting Sep 11 1999

Original article by gloree, courtesy of the Virtual Planet newspaper.
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<div class="wabackground"><p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Hello everyone &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: Hiyas Michael &amp; Delilah</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: the ghosties say HELLO</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair4">Wynn: greetings</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: and D too &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: Esci &lt;grin&gt;&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair7">Spooky Füchsin: hiya&lt;wave&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): My ESP is off, if you have questions and comments, please send them to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: oh no&lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): one of the Acolytes on the ground. In addition, you can also</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: someone is giving me a wedgie</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: &lt;grin&gt; hmmm</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair9">NightStar: NOT ƒ an aco</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): send email (michael@avaterra.com and delilah@avaterra.com).</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: Wert likes wedgies</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: kinda feels nice</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): just like always. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair9">NightStar: HI DJ</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Please also keep movment on the ground to a minimum.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we actually do read email.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;grin&gt; quite often!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: have sent some Michael, but never get a response</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): alternatively, you can voice your concerns in the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): public WA forum at http://www.delphi.com/worldsaway/</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair9">NightStar: and the mailing list too</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair9">NightStar: that was from the cloud &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we don&#039;t read the mailing list at this time...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: opinions can also be posted in the virtual planet</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): so if you want us to see your feedback, cc us ... or use the forum. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: request for no chat onscreen during questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We&#039;re going to make some comments</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): answer some of the email questions we received</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): then we will open the floor to other questions.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Shall we get started?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: request from cloud to keep unrelated ground conversion to a min &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Acos let us please ask questions from left screen to right.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Esci starting</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we&#039;ll let yu know when we&#039;re ready for floor questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair13">Acolyte Esci: no question right now here &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We have taken the community&#039;s concerns to management and have discussed some</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): of the ideas that have been posed by the DS community.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: hehe</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: soon for questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Michael and I have received letters, and have followed the public forum</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): closely to gather an idea of the concerns that are on our members&#039; minds.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): As we have both stated our position: we do not want to close the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Dreamscape, we both have 4 years+ worth of history and love here, and we</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): believe that we can turn the direction of the Dreamscape into a more</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): prosperous community.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Some of the issues that have been brought to us by both members and those who</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): have visited the Dream and left are as follows:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - parking (butt alley)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - dead streets</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - lack of public events</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - lack of interactive events</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - pricing (in comparison to VZones)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - how can we make the Dream more attractive to potential customers/partners</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - the haves and the have nots</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): How can we address these issues? We believe we have to pull together as a</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): community. We have to show our management that the community is serious about</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): wanting to keep the Dream alive. What steps as a community are *we* willing</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to take?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - are we willing to coax each other out of parking, out of our turfs, into the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): streets?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - are we willing to create interactive, publicly visible events?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - are we willing to put an end to the dissention and political nonsense to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): prove that we are a community that believes in ourselves, our members, and our</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): management entities?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - are we willing to embrace potential partnerships, if this is the direction</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we need to stay alive?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): These things are important from someone on the outside looking in. These</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): things are important to newcomers to *want* to stay. We have the power to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): keep the Dream alive. We have to take positive steps together, we have to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): believe it can succeed, and we have to do it together, and not against each</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): other.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Michael and I are not available 24/7, but we do have a staff here that we</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): depend on to work with our members. We have acolytes who care about this</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): community, as much as our members care, and as much as Michael and I do. Our</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): time is divided, we do not deny this, but we are willing to work with the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Dreamscape community to keep it alive, to help it flourish, to show to the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): outside world and our management that we are willing to tow the line!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Although we have members here who have been here for 4+ years, who are</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): considered one of the *haves*, are they willing to gracefully allow these</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): items to become publicly available for the community as a whole? Do you feel</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): these are issues that adversely affect the community, or are they issues that</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): make the Dream more attractive to newcomers?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): It is the time for us to be willing to take the necessary measures, to put</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): ourselves to the background, and push the community ahead. Each of us must</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): put our needs and desires on the backburner, if it means success for the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): community as a whole. Are we prepared and willing to do this?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Michael and I can mandate new policies, we can force change, we can take the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): steps we feel necessary to push the Dreamscape into the limelight, to make it</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): more attractive to newcomers, to make it a more succesful entity. However, if</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): in doing these things, we cause the community upset, we create dissention and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): feelings of personal attack, regardless of our intent--we damage the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): potential.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We have received projects from members that would like to work to do</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): advertising on their websites. A competition to find a marketable approach,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): using webpages, advertising, etc. These are the kinds of things we can bring</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to our management and show that the community is willing to do and accept what</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): it takes to keep this community alive. Take the proactive position: get</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): these kinds of ideas to your Acolytes, persist if we don&#039;t respond</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): immediately, get your friends to stop showing their butts, and turn around and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): chat, get your games out of your turfs, so the streets are alive again,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): welcome newcomers, share your elite status with your fellow members, and do</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): not assume that changes are done to personally destroy your life here.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Work with us, believe in us, and we will do what it takes to help keep you</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): alive.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): These things are serious issues, ladies and gentlemen.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We have to do it together in order to succeed</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and grow.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Before we open the floor for comments/questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Michael and I will respond to some of the issues emailed to us in the past week.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): You need to understand that the future of Dreamscape is in your hands, entirely.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and there is only this chance. If we, as community, cannot change the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): issues Delilah outlined, then we will not be in a position to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): convince upper management to agree with pricing plan changes.</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[Acolyte Electra crashed]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Then we will not be able to attract sponsors and partners for Dreamscape.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): We have said it before, and we will stress once again: This is your world, you have</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): the power to form and shape it - and you hve the power to destroy it.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): If you truly care about this place, then we need your help.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we cannot force change against your will, and not without your</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): cooperation. We are about to drop the &quot;parking ban&quot; in public locales, since it</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): is a rule that cannot be enforced. Everyone can then park and no acolyte will</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): force ghost the parker - but if you do, be aware that it hurts Dreamscape and the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): entire community. It&#039;s your choice.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): The future of Dreamscape is in your hands. There are a few</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): months that will determinate the long-term future.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): So, we have gathered some questions ... and will answer these before</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we take &quot;live&quot; questions.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): This is serious, folks, but we are not in panic mode</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): but drastic situations</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): call for drastic measures.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): So, before I go to a few questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): let me reiterate</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we do NOT have plans to close the DS.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok, questions.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): We will also open up opportunities for avatars to participate more.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Pre-mailed first &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Avatars can become mages.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): We will allow applications for acolyte positions.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we will support a town council as we support the new</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): jungle council.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): someone has to start these things -- but don&#039;t wait for us to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): present you everything on a silver plate. You start it, we support it.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We are committed to this.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): So don&#039;t sit back and wait what others do - stand up and do it yourself.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and you will have our support...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Not just our &quot;blessings&quot;, our active support.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 1) First and foremost on everyone&#039;s minds; What is going on with DS</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): pricing? Are we getting a new pricing scheme?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Let me assure you all these concerns are on our minds as well. We have been</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): actively researching what can be done for the DS pricing structure, as well as</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): how we can further the Dreamscape community. We do not have an answer</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): regarding pricing today: but we would like to hear from you what can we do as</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): a community to make the Dreamscape an industry competitive, successful</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): community.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 2) What does the future hold for DS?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): The future of the Dreamscape depends on its community. Management has no plan</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): nor desire to close it&#039;s doors. We are willing to work with the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): staff and community to revive it.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 3) Are there any plans to allow travel from the DS to the new VZones?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): No, there are no plans to travel between DS and VZones -- they are separate</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): worlds, separate databases. It is technically impossible.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): 4) Do you have any plans to expand the staff? With all the new areas</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): opening or planning on opening, are you looking for more members to help</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): out with that?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Yes, we need a few more acolytes for the various time zones - what we</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): are looking for aree active, visible acolytes -- not answering machines, but motivators.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Expect an application form on a web page soon.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we will be accepting acolyte applications for a short period of time, probably</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): two weeks.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): 5) When are all these new areas going to open? (eg, the beach, Harlequin</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Games, Reagency Hall, KLC...)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Harlequin Games has been delayed -- the underlying code for the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): drag&amp;drop doesn&#039;t really work sufficient in the windows client.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): It didn&#039;t male QA and needs some fixing. The Mac code works nicely,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): so this is probably just a matter of a few weeks.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): There are no plans for Regency Hall at this time, but if you hve</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ideas for that building, let us know (via email).</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): (I received the snail mail letter someone sent me regarding Regency Hall,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I will answer via snail mail.)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): But I really prefer email.... pen and paper is ... umm... haven&#039;t used these things in the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): past ten years &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: what email address M?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): michael@avaterra.com and delilah@avaterra.com</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we exchange email, but send it to both of us.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): thank you.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Kymer Learning Center (KLC) will open this month.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): A first part of the beach will open October 1st ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): We started thinking about the theatre ... which would</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): be a wonderful place for creative events .. and we even have the artwork for</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): an ancient Greek theatre environment.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): What we are afraid of is adding more locales that will not</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): be used by the community. 90% of you wouldn&#039;t probably notice if</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we closed down 90% of the locales. We will not build a kingdom for</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): a handful of locales. So if you want more locales and new areas,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): get out of these turfs and spend time on the street. Host events in the open. If</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): you need support or prizes, ask acolytes, ask Lynx, ask us.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Jungle Bingo perhaps?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): erm ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): perhaps something that is more interactive? &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): 6) DAPI. When will implementation in the public locales be available?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Utilize your acolyte staff please... Michael and I don&#039;t always get to answer these kinds of issues in the time desired.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): oops &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;shushing&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): DAPI .. we submitted the technical request yesterday and the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): techies are working on it. DAPI will allow you to run some of the new</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): games - and will make it harder to cheat at games such</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): as WIAN.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: We cant glue down prizes and boxes in Public locales and people call us Hosts cheaters if we hand out prizes</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): At first, DAPI will work only in two locales.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): well, then you need find new ways to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): award prizes.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We&#039;ll take comments/questions after we address those that were pre-mailed.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Delilah and I both hosted games in 95 and 96,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we do know that it is possible. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: taking suggestions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;bow&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I&#039;m sorry, but I don&#039;t buy &quot;oh, I can&#039;t deal with disrupters outside of</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): my own turf.&quot;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): You can.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): You have an Ignore ESP feature,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): you can manually ignore someone,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): the community has the tool of social pressure,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and of course you can look for an acolyte.</span></p>
<p><span class="wasystemballoon">[There are 214 ghosts.]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Remember, the more people on the streets, the more it is attractive to newcomers.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Remember, what are we willing to do as a community?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Right -- if a new member comes in and doesn&#039;t see any</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): as individuals?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): action going on, why would she want to stay?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Most of you probably checked out other cirtual worlds,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: M one point to clarify for the majority please.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): er, virtual..</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and didn&#039;t see anyone ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and didn&#039;t stay.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): would potential partners want to invest in a dead society?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): it&#039;s the same here.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): or hidden</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): So, anyway, DAPI should be working by end of the week,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: DAPI send/recieve is what you are talking about. Not things like Bingo, Trivia etc that use other DAPI functions.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): for Starway Stage and Library (where the chairs are).</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Right -- DAPI is for games that you could not play</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): up until now.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): There is a thread in the public forum -- http://www.delphi.com/worldsaway/</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): in the Dreamscape section.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Have a look. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): 7) I was a member of Club Caribe back in the C= 64 days. Is it an any way</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: DAPI Developers API used in programing host applications.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): possible to add some of the Caribe features such as &quot;dark&quot; rooms that</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: http://www.worldsaway.com/help/dapi/</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): require a light source to see, &quot;compasses&quot; for help in mapping areas, areas</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): where avatars can take an object from another avatar&#039;s hand (we used to play</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): &quot;Capture the Flag&quot; type games this way)? I know, tall order, but thought I&#039;d</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ask :)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Good ideas -- we love them, but don&#039;t have these features yet. We do have some</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): code for a paintball-kind of game, similar to capture the flag, but it&#039;s</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): just a portion and not really working at this time.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): One of the &quot;soon to come&quot; things are consumable items.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): These are items with a limited amount of charges ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): for example, fireworks can be used 10 times, then</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): the item dissapears. Some of you have already seen the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): edible pizza - this was a prototype.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: &lt;hoping we get to see a BURP after eating it&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair9">NightStar: LMAO</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we will introduce consumable items to Dreamscape first,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): since the idea was born here.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and the last question we received via email:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): 8) Why the rush to offer such a SUBSTANTIAL reduction to the V-Zone folks and the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): DS&#039;ers told we are trying for you. WHY couldn&#039;t the V-zone reduction waited</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): until something could be offered to both. You must see now that a bad message</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): was sent and that we do not expect such a drastic reduction but SOMETHING</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): would have all but eliminated this whole ordeal.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Okay - first off, no, we were not surprised when we heard about the concerns from</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Dreamscape members. But, NRW is not DS, and even though they belong to the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): same company, they are two different services, with a different structure.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): In the next few months, you will see more advertisement for Avaterra worlds,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and winter (when people have more time to go online) is approaching quickly.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Other companies that run virtual worlds are not sleeping, and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): unlike Fujitsu, Avaterra is not going to waste another few years.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): We were hoping to have an announcement regarding DS pricing,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): but sometimes it takes longer to make a decision - it is a complex issue.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: I have a Q and a statement when you are done Michael and Delilah, &lt;bow&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): As we said at the beginning of this town meeting,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): all of you have the power to show upper management that Dreamscape</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): has a unique community, and that you truly care about and for this place.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): If you want a lower price, we need your help and your cooperation.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Also, we need ideas how to market Dreamscape.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Yes, &quot;commercial partners&quot; sounds horrible to quite a few of you,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): but if you want a lower price and more members, then this is something</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): you not only have to accept but also to support.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Last but not least, keep in mind that not everything is</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): under our control, some things are clearly beyond our control.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): &lt;done&gt; Delilah?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): A quick recap before we open the floor to questions:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 1. We are not looking to close the Dreamscape or combine it with VZones.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 2. What are we as a community willing to do to make it more attractive?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - end parking on the streets: we&#039;ve seen enough of your gorgeous tushies!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - come out of your turfs for games/events</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - talk to people!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - be more visible and welcoming to newcomers!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - be proactive!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 3. What plans are for the DS community now?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - we have locale openings planned</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - we will build staff</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): - we will remain committed to making this work</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 4. Is there new pricing in the future?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): this depends on the community, can we make it more enticing? are we willing</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to embrace new partnerships? change?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We are discussing new pricing for DS, but we have to be able to show the</span></p>
<p><span class="system">[ Open URL: http://www.avaterra.com]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): community is willing to make this work too.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Please keep these things in mind as you formulate your comments and questions.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok, let&#039;s open the floor.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: We will begin on screen left please</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: Can I make a Statement re: Economy? Hopefully it will help in a decision, because I have shared this with many nad ALOT agree.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Esci?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Send your questions to the Acolytes on the ground.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: ok &lt;bow&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Ghosties esp questions to any Acolyte on the ground</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Questions only please</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: no statements at this time.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair13">Acolyte Esci: okay, first one:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair13">Acolyte Esci: Why were in the past all these attemps (e.g. banners on websites, etc) constantly beeing ignored by the management?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Hmm...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): To be honest, as Michael and I have only taken this in the past 2 months</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): There have been many banners in the past months...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): this level of involvement</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP to Acolyte Rabbit: why is avaterra competing with kymer business people in one of the most interactive activities we have ... trading. The online auction has not reduced parkers at all.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): which banners on websites are you referring to?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): the advertising in the forums?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: &lt;making room for Electra&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We have had banners running for months in various spots on the web.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I think the WA web ring has a banner -- will surf the web a bit and see what we can find.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): So I&#039;m not sure I understand the question.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): if you have banners that you feel should be supported by us,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Ok then</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): drop us a note with an URL or the banner itself.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Wert?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair13">Acolyte Esci: there were offers for that, avi said.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ah, I have just received this offer this past week.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Myself, so I haven&#039;t been aware of past offers.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: To screen Wert</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair13">Acolyte Esci: was a long time ago, to marketing persons</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: as you are down</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: sorry</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Resend, please. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We, unfortunately, cannot address questions from past management.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: ok I will when my turn&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): There is no past, but today forward.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: It is your turn Wert go ahead please</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: Some Games cant be played on the street. Would it be possible to have &quot;game props&quot; glued in a street locale temporarily for a host to use?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): such as lockable boxes?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: sure</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): There are no other, easier ways to award prizes?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: I have a new game called yahtzee that requires 5 dice for each player&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): ahh, those kinds of things yes</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): The lockable boxes method is fairly new ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ah, okay ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): There will be rooms for that when Harlequin opens ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we can glue dice down temporarily for public games</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): in the meanwhile... perhaps we can add a room to the Bar-L Bar ..</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): for games of that kind?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Store room maybe</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): or we just add a game room to the bar.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I think Electra just volunteered &lt;eg&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Ghostie Question E?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair15">Acolyte Electra: From a ghostie: Does CC have a greater lure? A larger Populartion/attendance? If so, what do you think the difference is re CC and DS?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: well, I was thinking for event days</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair9">NightStar: i saw her raise her hand</span></p>
<p><span class="system">[ Acolyte Electra crashed]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): wert, yes - shouldn&#039;t be a problem.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Pest open menaing public locales</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: ?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: street, public rooms etc</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Club Connect/NRW has a different culture, and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): the community there has a different history. Things are</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Club Connect/NRW = VZones &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): different, not better or worse - just different. For example, there</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): are no prize heads in VZones, and the sponsorship program is</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): different. I don&#039;t know why it is, but 90% of the VZones games take</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): place in public locales (at event days), while in DS 90% take place in turfs.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I think this is one of the reasons why VZones appears more</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): populated.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): These are things you can change easily ..</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ask the host of your favourite game to move it</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[ The current population is 478. The highest populated areas: Temple Street, Apartment Lobby Area, Orchid Street, East Fountain Area.]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): to a public locale.</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[ ButterRose , Acolyte Esci, Delilah (World Events Manager), Michael (World Manager), Acolyte Twilight, Acolyte Chloe, Acolyte Mondo, Acolyte Jess, Acolyte Rabbit, Wert P Gumby, Wynn, Spooky Füchsin, Journalist, Alt Ego, NightStar, and 207 ghosts.]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): so more people can attend... and those who walk by can join the game. Most</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): of the regulars don&#039;t check the events schedule frequently, and new</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): people don&#039;t even know what event days are - but they DO know what</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): games are when they walk in a locale where one is going on.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: And there are many unused locales here.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: waiting for a host</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Alt Ego a question?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: Yes, a lenghty one</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Questions only please</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: If you are interested in keeping the quote-unquote &quot; Dream&quot; alive, then we need to keep the &quot;Economy&quot; alive as well. DO NOT make all the things available that the older Avis have worked hard to get. The &quot; Dream&quot; that I saw when I came here is to aquire..</span></p>
<p><span class="system">[ Acolyte Jess crashed]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: why the sudden change in the Economy?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: MORE FISH!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): In an attempt to make it attractive to new comers</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: I have 2 questions from the clouds</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Because people are leaving Dreamscape, and join NRW because</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): they can get their dream heads from a vendo.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Or let me say it in a more blunt way ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ... we don&#039;t make Dreamscape for 100 people. If we want Dreamscape to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): grow and expand, we need new members - and many of them. New</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: Yes Ghostie, there are many things I cant afford, but I work to get them</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): folks do not feel welcome if they come in and live the life of a</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): virtual beggar and underdog for a year before they can &quot;afford&quot; a</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): virtual self that appeals to them.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Again, and I will continue to repeat it, what are we all willing do to individually and as a community to ensure new members, to keep the old, to be an attractive community?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I don&#039;t work in my dreams -- why should I have to work here?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I mean, if you are American or Canadian and have</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: then why should wehave T&#039;s?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): free local calls, then I can see why working isn&#039;t so bad.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): But those European members pay at least $1 an hour.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): To buy stuff ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP to Acolyte Rabbit: Why is avaterra competing with one of the most interactive activities we have .. trading? The online auction is competing for business and not reducing parkers.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: Buy stuff?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): But why should you need 500,000 tokens just to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): buy a cool head?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: at 600 a day?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: NOT</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): right.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: WOW, what head was that and who bought it?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Not every item will lose rare status. But we have to provide some enticements.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): that&#039;s why I think cool heads should be 600T and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): not 500,000 &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: you need to win Games and sell to get the rare stuff</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: economy is an all day debate</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes it is, Rabs.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Perhaps economy questions can be delt with in a seperate town meeting?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: Then set The T&#039;s to a hourly rate and no limit</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: at a future date?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP to Acolyte Rabbit: please ask mine</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Are we willing to make these kinds of changes though, ladies and gentlemen?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: I will be there &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Hourly rate and no limit = even more reason to park,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Twi, ghostie question?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): or are we more interested in our personal position?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and even more disadvantages for those who pay</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: 2 questions: 1) will there be specific advertisements for the DS? 2) will the login process be made more stable?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Harsh, but a fact at this point.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): for local calls.,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: I Park in my teuf or the Elev c</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): It is not American!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: turf</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Yep.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Will there be specific ads for DS -- that depends on what we do from this day forward.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: in fact, I have 5 Avis parked in elev c now</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): But you need to consider that half of the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we can&#039;t say yes or no</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): members cannot park ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Yes, and by parking five avatars you contribute to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): The login process will be more stable -- it has been being redeveloped this week.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): the inflation, to the server load (without improving the</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: flooded with economy questions/statements... will there be another town meeting for it?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): quality of the service) and therefore support higher prices.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Yes it seems to be a popular issue M and Del.</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[Spooky Füchsin crashed]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes, we&#039;ll schedule another meeting regarding economy, as time permits.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We need to address</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): TODAY</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): how we can move forward</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: I am satisfied with yer answers, thanks, I have taken enough time</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): HOW can we get management to drop the hprice here?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): (I do realise that higher prices motivate people to park even more.)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): What are WE willing to do?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok, Rabs</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): go ahead &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Ok</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Thank you.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: For ButterRose mostly</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: A number of people have asked about double billed accounts.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Trying to hide in the background</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: How can they address this issue best?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Good advice Abbi</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : I&#039;m here</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: slow down esp&#039;s please</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Go ahead, BR &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Do to unforseen problems</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : we were behind in billing</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : we realize that this incovenienced a few folks</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: can you send me a basecap or a coffe mug instead of a refund if I am doubled billed?&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : and I have handled those issues</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: ah I recall this posted in the community forum BR</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: about missing bill months</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: etc</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : so if you were double billed and NOT billed in July</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : you may send me a copy of your statement and I will see that you are properly refunded</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): if you were billed in July</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): then double billed</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: a very good place to look for info folks its free its packed with good stuff</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: http://forums.delphi.com/worldsaway/messages/</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : if you haven&#039;t been billed in a couple months</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): but if you were double billed in August, and NOT billed in July</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): (and include as much information - acct name, world, parts of cc number, etc. - as possible, so</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : then send me your acct info</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : and I will look into it for you</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: we need links to it here in the DS.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes please &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): that Carolyn does not have to ask three times)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : I believed that we were all up to date</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt; Ange</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and be patient with our dear Carolyn</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): she&#039;s working her fingers to the bone</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Yes Jewell</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and we&#039;re going to be providing relief</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: where to email ButterRose?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Diana head ghostie &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): but help her by using the forms and supplying all the information you can</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to avoid delay</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): don&#039;t send:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): cancel my account</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): or:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I can&#039;t get in.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): or:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: problem url is best place to start</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): help me!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): that doesn&#039;t tell us much &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): LOL</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: or the forum</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): yes &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : post a problem report</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: url anyone?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : that way I do get all of your information</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): yes</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): &quot;yes&quot; is a good url.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : http://www.avaterra.com/help/help.htm</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: http://www.worldsaway.com/help/report_form.html</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: can I email her about more fish?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: hehe</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): http://www.worldsaway.com/help/report_form.html</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): thanks &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : that has both the billing/other and technical report form links</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Thanks BR &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: re&#039;s Jess just in time for your ghostie question</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : fish - hmmm..not my fortay lol!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Next, Rabs?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Jess?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: tons of questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Using the form really helps to get support and answers much faster.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: lost my previous typing tho</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: ack</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: can i list a few?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: k ask the most popular</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: one please</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we answer questions via email too -- delilah@avaterra.com and michael@avaterra.com.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Put &#039;question&#039; in the subject.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: the most constructive might be why not have free trials without a credit card</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair5">Alt Ego: Thank you Michael, and I will ESP you the Date when it is set &lt;bow&gt; &lt;wave&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: let people see our world &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): That is: not billing stuff, use the form for that.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: thank you ALt for joining us</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): If we had a Free Area in DS, we could consider this.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We&#039;ll mark this as an idea to present.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: How about like in Habitat II where the viewing is done as a ghost only...we use to have that&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): It wasn&#039;t utilized here.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We had it functional</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: oh&lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): but no one really used it.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: maybe time to try it again?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and I think we shouldn&#039;t offer it before there is</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): These are the good ideas we need to have emailed to us</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): less public parking and more games on streets, &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): so we can evaluate and address them with our management.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): true</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: ghosties.. I will email the questions I recieved</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): if they are suggestions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): email, but we&#039;ll try to address the questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Mondo, ghostie question?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): don&#039;t pose suggestions in the form of questions, LOL</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: from Darc Lyte: is there any possibility to add sounds that an avi can make such as: Hello, goodbye, etc...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : we have an e-mail addy just for suggestions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : suggestions@avaterra.com</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): It would be an addition to the software</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I think voice support is something you</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and it would be fun &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: what criteria have most weight when deciding what new locales , features , eventsto put time into</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): will see soon.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Ghosties please email your suggestions instead of having them asked here today.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Criteria for new locales: Will they be used? Are they suited for</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: We would like to stick to the topics that Del outlined for this meeting if possible.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): their purpose? Do they fit into the current setting?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Your help in this is appreciated.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Criteria for features:</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Do we have a chance to get it onto the programmers schedule?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Do we have a chance to get it onto the programmers schedule?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Do we have a chance to get it onto the programmers schedule?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Chloe, ghostie question?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: Question from ghosty: Why are there so many different routes in the jungle that go unused, the locale spaced could be better used in the town</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): (still looking for something to bribe that guy with.)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: bribe them with fish&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): The Jungle Committee (see Skinner for details and if</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): you are interested in participating) and we are currently talking about</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): jungle issues ... yes, I feel we could make the place less confusing and</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): more efficient. But we are not trying to turn Dreamscape into a</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: a jungle must be confusing &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Its a jungle out there.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): big city ... peaceful places to relax are important.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Yes, but if confusing means that people don&#039;t</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: NightStar a question please?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: when M is done of course</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): use it, then something went wrong.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I could not do this job without my daily pot of green tea. &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair9">NightStar: I am e-mailing, thanks &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: .</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Journalist?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: no thank you, I am just listening</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Esci next question?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Butter Rose I mean</span></p>
<p><span class="wasysteballoon">[ There are 149 ghosts.]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: sorry BR</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : still here &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Anyone? &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: How come we dont have any links to the Delphi forum here in the DS?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): or shall we wrap it up?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: good point Wert</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP to Acolyte Mondo: Why is avaterra competing with one of the most interactive activities we have .. trading? The online auction is competing for business and not reducing parkers.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: we can do that</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Good question and good point</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : E - you here?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: It shall be linked</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: Icy suggests a rally: One avatar can make a difference</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: I have always wondered that and felt that DS was unwanted there due to this fact</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Michael? May we link inworld?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I like it!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: well, not really totally unwanted&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): yes, sure.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Where do you feel it would be most visable?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : I think The community center is a good palce?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: it should be at several locales</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : For newbies.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: as like the other links</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: One comment from a number of folks</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: why is avaterra competeing with one of the most interactive activities we have here in DS</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: they would welcome tasteful sponsorship if it ment lower prices</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): The RAs suggested a message board in the elevator 2 locale.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : William - good place as well. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): that is linked to the Delphi forum.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: sorry didnt mean to hit enter yet</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I dropped the ball, sorry.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: lots of esps requesting polls/voting on sponsor issue</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Voting as in &quot;we want this specific partner or we don&#039;t want it&quot;?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): It&#039;s not like there are hundreds of sponsors that want to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: no</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): advertise in DS ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: as in: do we want sponsors versus closing the world</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Hmm.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): It is rather ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: that was short version &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ... do you want sponsors and a vivid community with lots of</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): new people and a lower price, or do you want to preserve your</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): elite status and see how the community falls apart.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): &lt;shrug&gt;&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: I want more fish. &lt;said quietly&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: why should come the many new people - and stay here - if they can go to the v-zones for 1/12 price?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: yes that is kinda what they would like polled</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we need a fish vendo .. just to make Wert happy. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[Acolyte Esci crashed]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: DS is Y2K compliant as long as your home PC is</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Dreamscape&#039;s culture is different. VZones does</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): not appeal to everyone, just like DS doesn&#039;t appeal to everyone.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Do you want to keep it alive at current pricing?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): You also get two avatars here in DS ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): No changes.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): .. it&#039;s just one in VZones.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: actually I think the question should be will sponsors/ads be done a way to keep the Ds from loking like NRW with all the billboards.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Do you think it can be kept alive this way?</span></p>
<p><span class="wasystemballoon">[There are 150 ghosts.]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): If each of you are willing to continue to pay current pricing, without changes</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[ The current population is 466. The highest populated areas: Temple Street, Orchid Street, Apartment Lobby Area, East Fountain Area.]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: ghosties, I will email all of the suggestions I received from you - they are asking for questions dealing with the current topics&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): if you are willing to gamble that this can keep the DS alive</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: nothing like esp bombs</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: lol I have been saving text ghosties</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: and will forward it</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): then that is what we will communicate to our management.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): If you believe it cannot succeed</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): without a price change</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): then we MUST be willing to do so.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): willing to change.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Of course we would make sure it was done tastefully.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Of course we would consider the content of the DS</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Your ideas</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): your actions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): what you all do from today forward</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): will be the guiding light to the direction we go</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): if you want to change it, make a difference ... as Icey states</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: get Pepsi or Coke for the consumible soda but be sure our avatar burps when it finishes the can &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): ONE avy can make a difference.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): If you don&#039;t want to embrace change, and leave things as is.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): then when changes occur across the industry</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): including within our company</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): keep that in mind.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: not esps saying they want things left as is</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: What about a reward system for bring in friends</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: how do you think the schedule? first making ds attractive for newcomers with more public gaming, so they want to stay, and at a later time reducing the price?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: or do you think to lower the price first?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: like a special ribbon for people who bring in 10 new accounts?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): can we lower the price</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): when our streets are dead?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Ok one second please folks if M and Dels screen look like mine its solid white text</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I think that&#039;s a great idea, Wert.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: so you think to keep the price high, but hope the newcomers will come</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): No</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Why should the company lower the price</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): if the community is not willing to grow/change?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): If elite status is the desire, if empty streets are the desire,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): It is giving and taking, folks.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): then you pay for it. &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We are trying to make it work both ways.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): But we can&#039;t if the community isn&#039;t willing.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: ok, I need to ask this serious question.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP to Acolyte Rabbit: what elite status are they talking about</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): If you want a cup of coffee to your cake, then you need to trade a piece of your cake for the coffee. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok, Wert -- serious question.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;relax&gt;&lt;relax&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: getting esps wondering who said they said they didn&#039;t want change</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Let us have it.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: same here Jess</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: We all know Michael and Delilah have the DS best interest at heart. What assurances do we get that Upper management, the guys that make the final decision, that the DS wont be closed this place anyways? We saw the same</span></p>
<p><span class="wasystemballoon">acolyte jesse: Sorry, that avatar does not exist in this world.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: Thing in Hotel where promises were made and yet it still closed.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP to Acolyte Jess: what elite status are they talking about?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We have the word from upper management that they will not close DS, IF the community is willing to grow.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP from Acolyte Jess: i have no clue</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: I still have my prob with the scheduling - I gathered we gotta do everything much much more attractive for newcomers first, and then, some time, the price could be lowered</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: but I still think, newcomers come rather for lower prices</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: I, personally, want to be sure this will be around in a year before I put more of my heart and soul in to this place.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken esp">ESP to Acolyte Jess: would you please ask?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We do agree, Wert.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Journalist...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I do understand what you are saying,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): but...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Your heart and soul are already in this Wert</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): in order to get Newcomers here</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): the oldcomers</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and your fish also, Wert.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): need to show their faces</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): it has to be a compromise</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we don&#039;t have the power to just drop the price</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we have to show our management</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): that this community has not died &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: is this from you? or from the big boys?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): that it isn&#039;t hidden in trufs</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): It is from both of us</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: a ghostie has a good point: this is a world - and worlds always change&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We have talked about it in depth.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we have argued</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): cussed, discussed</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): pleaded</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: It still scares me that we havent heard word one from the execs &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We are your link to the Execs</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): you&#039;ve got to trust us to share with you their position</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): as well as our own</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: ok slow down ghosties&lt;grin&gt; I am a small dog with an even smaller brain&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: but with a big fish &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Our positions are for inworld issues...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): this is both inworld (community)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and business perspective.</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[There are 141 ghosts.]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Michael and I are being as open and honest as we can be.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): It is serious here &lt;shrug&gt; we don&#039;t want to close DS, we have been assured</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: Can we see some sort of promary letter from the execs stating they have no intent to just close this down</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): that if we can make it more attraactive</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): it won&#039;t be.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): No</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): do you not trust us?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: and that this isnt some ploy to get us to go to NRW.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I&#039;m not going to ask my CEO</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to write a letter</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: promary as opposed to antimary?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): giving his word</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): when I have just spoken it</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: i thought you had little brain</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): If you do not trust us</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): then we are not effective.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: We trust the management that we can talk to</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I give you my word.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: however we dont trust those &quot;upstairs&quot;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Are we not here to talk?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: we have seen to many promises made and brtoken</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Not by this management, have you?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Do you think we would come here and tell you there are no plans to shut down DS if</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: as well as things done to undermind our Dream here</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): there were any plans?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: ghosts asking how long we might have to change</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and we have a good relationship with upper management,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: and if ther is any way to measure it</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): our CEO does not lie,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and neither would he have to lie.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: it doesnt need -plans- it needs just a bad hair they when one of the owners realizes the profit is not high enohgh &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): How soon do you want to see a price change? the quicker we can prove the desire of this community to survive</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: but its ok, of course we do trust, there is no other choice</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): the sooner we can get an agreement.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Well all I can say on this is that I have known M for about 4 years. And Del for about 2 to 3. And I personally will stand behind them and offer all the support I am able to.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: personally I dont care about the price&lt;grin&gt; I think its well worth the 20 bucks&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Thank you, Rabs &lt;bow&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: the concern I&#039;m hearing is not about the price</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: its about the possiibility of closoing</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: keg of beer is in the mail right Del?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): they indirectly affect each other, do&#039;nt you think?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="wainfoballoon">[Acolyte Chloe crashed]</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: I&#039;m getting alot of esp&#039;s of support</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): the pricing, versus closing</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): if we are able to lower prices</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : sound of feet running towards dels place and the keg &lt;snicker&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to keep it attractive</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: wtg SpecialK</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: lowering the price is nice but I am happy with the current price and am more concerned about the future existence of this world.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to prove we are worthy -- for lack of a better word</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Yes what can we do to help?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we don&#039;t want to lose members to VZones because of price</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: w/b chloe</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): or because of social activity</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: thanx &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Help by being social animals</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: get out be seen</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): yes &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: say hello to people</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): become the DS Socialites</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Socialytes &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and drop all these petty political issues, they</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: we need to start &quot;social street clubs&quot;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: gangs&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): are not important and not helpful.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: agreed Pest</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Can I make a commnet?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: not more groups, just all individuals working together &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes, BR</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: less standing around and more socializing</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: hehe Icy Q</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : I have been internal with WorldsAway, Avaterra from the start</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: yes On avatar CAN make a diif!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : and I have never seen a CEO work as hard as ours</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : he went out and fought hard</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : to make us live</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : from under Fujitsu</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: It isnt really to hard we are just asking you to enjoy the DS.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : he is bringing in more</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : than was ever thought possible</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : and hired awesome staff</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Agreed Bunny BeefCakes maybe event days should be in the streets</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : like Michael and Del here</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : to help us move forward</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : I truely do not belive he will let the dream die</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : you must help us to help YOU</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: yes but they have another viable product....how profitable is the DS at this time and will be inthe future if all the efforts of upper management is not here?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): our most historical employee, for those of you who do not know: ButterRose is our own lovely Carolyn Bowman.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : When they bring folks into our worlds</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : it is like Micheal says</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : we must be visable</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): But two profitable products are better than one.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : true</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Exactly &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : or three or four</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: ok, from the ghosties</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : but we here internally belive in DS</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: boiled down ... what exactly do you want from us to be more profitable?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We know this is near and dear to all of the hearts of the people here.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : just as much as any other world</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): After 2 hours, we need to consider to wrap up.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : k</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: ya Kenn bingo is by far the street game</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : I&#039;m done &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): thanks BR &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): What do we want from you?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: other hosts should get out more</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we want to see you!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and not your cute fannies</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: foulette at NuYu is becoming a contender</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): stop parking</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: foulette?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): talk to people</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: r</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: bingo &lt;shudder&gt; I should have never brought that to this world&lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: Scramble is a good street game.. i always host outside np</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): hold events on the street</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: KYMER!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): give us your ideas for possible partners for DS</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): what would fit into Kymer</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): be willing to grow</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): work with us, trust us &lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: oh, I have another question.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I have not put my word on the line before</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and if I have to eat it...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I&#039;m gonna be ticked.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: We were promised monthly town meetings....what happened to that idea?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: sorry for not pulling punches&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Lack of Time</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: welcome Megan &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): it is a fair question</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): We dropped that ball - no excuses.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Stay on us</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: eeeeek Ange that sounds like work!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): we get pulled in many directions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): 1:00 PM on Saturdays seems to be a good</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: jaz: we should have our own meetings, then take the issues to M&amp;D</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): time for most everyone ...?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): that&#039;s a good plan too, Jess</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): very good</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We&#039;re not unwilling to come and talk</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We&#039;re not unwilling to be available</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): our schedules are tight</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Transcripts I am sure will be posted in VP</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): but we&#039;re here as often as we can be.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: and the Clarion</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: and the Clarion</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: if DS could have a free trial w/o credit card... for People who do not have one or can not get one</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): You also have an incredible Acolyte staff</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: ha ha beat you Twi</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): with whom to address these issues to.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: hehehe</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): They love this place as much as the rest of us.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): And work furiously</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Anything else?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): or did I miss anyone?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: Dark Lyte: Why not make the streets a free area so newbies can see whats going on, and if the like it they will go on to full membership.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: yes</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Free areas are an idea submitted...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: poor Del her idea of an evening off is being online at home as opposed to the office</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): LOL Rabbit!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): she&#039;s online all the time, anyway.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): BR telling stories again?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I am &lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): as is Michael &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: and they dont even letBR out of the office I think</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: trial access w/o credit cards</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): She&#039;s chained to her chair.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : yep- chained to my desk - lol!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: hey, I know what thats like&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Isn&#039;t that the 3rd time... for trial access?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: I got a 4 foot chain and a big ole bottle &lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: &lt;sigh&gt; only 2 for me</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Del gives me a cracker and a little water every now and then</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : rotfl</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): That&#039;s because it&#039;s an important issue, Del.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : kidding</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): if people can try something before they buy it,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Oh, OK -- thought I clarified</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): that it was a good idea</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): they are more likely to purchase it.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: Midi: why did the trials change from a month to 15 days?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and that we&#039;d look into it. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Thal email M with the multilingal web page idea</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): The first 2 times.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: michael@avaterra.com</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I think it&#039;s always been 14 days.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: I like it</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: ok, I have the new token earning scheme</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: English, German and Fish</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair17">Acolyte Twilight: ROFL</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: you will recieive 1 token for a certian letter used each day</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we are having trouble to keep our single-language pages updated, do you think we</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: and that letter will change each day and we wont be told what letter it is&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): could maintain multilingual ones? &lt;EG&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: YOu can do it M</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: he is gonna hit me now</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I think BR has some spare time..</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): maybe Sunday nights .. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): No she doesn&#039;t &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Thalifuchsin has voluntered</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: actually, I do have a suggestion for the parkers</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I have her scheduled.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): yes?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok, a few comments from ESPmail after Wert.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: you might want to try raising the tokens earned as a ghost</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): I&#039;ll comment on that one later.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: see if they will park as a ghost rather than as an avatar.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Þ</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): But then everyone will be a ghost.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: hmmmm</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): LOL</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): no one would be on the street then</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: more comments about bring a friend inworld rewards</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): not even parkers &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: so make it like 5 tokens</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: ya Wert remember when a ghost was 30T?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: yes I remember you got half the Token if you ghosted</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: makes sense</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: not that much difference&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: 62T</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Ok, a few comments....</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: they did Switi</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: I remember the 30/60 thing</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 1. Acolytes included in being more visible -- yes -- we wawnt to see them out there too!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: yes</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: it didnt seem to make a difference</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): 2. Why am I not available to discuss Event issues?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I have Events Acolyte -- Lynx</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): (maybe we just need an entirely new way to earn tokens,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): to keep event issues going in DS</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): not based on online time.)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Caretaker Colors in VZones</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: daily flat rate</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): I read Emails</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and forward to Lynx and/or Colors to fulfill requests</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Failed in old Habitat. (sigh)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): with comments.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): We deal with questionable issues at weekly meetings.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Thank you for the supportive ESPmails.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): It sounds like we are ready to make the difference</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): show our faces</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: All tokens will be converted to fish&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): what are we made of &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Anything else before we wrap up?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: lol Del</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: lol Wert</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: more fish?&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes, we&#039;ll consider Free Areas for DS &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: can we talk about more bigger fish?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: I will forward the list I have</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and maybe the beach will have some fishie stuff</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: &lt;doing fish dance&gt;&lt;react&gt;&lt;react&gt;&lt;react&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and shells?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Michael?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): to make that Evil one happy &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): yes?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): es todo?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: skirts?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: new shoes</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: j/k</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: ooo, I want a skirt&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): This is confidential, so we never told you .. but,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: \shorts then</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we are actually working on new bodies.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): No Michael and I aren&#039;t having an affair.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: rofl espers&#039;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Oh</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): &lt;g&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: noAngel, the bodies will have the same old shoes&lt;shrug&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): No, we don&#039;t have an affair. Geesh. LOL</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): LOL, he&#039;s so quick!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Alana/Hayley holds the key to my heart. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and besides ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Delilah and I have been friends for a long time.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: athletic w/larger mammarys</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: Delilah and I are having the affair&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Del suggestions for an avatar based event committee</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): since before we joined Avaterra.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): LOL Wert!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: to help Lynx and Colors</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes, virtual life long friends.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: oh save text</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: send to Mrs Wert</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: oh no&lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): uh oh</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): well, Delilah said she scheduled BR for Sunday evenings ...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ... so..</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): see how rumors get started?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): ... hmm...</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: how much will it cost me, rabbit?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair11">Journalist: have fun, all &lt;bow&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: cool a pay off</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): billing issues</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): you twit</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: take care journ &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): LOL</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : Huh - scheduled me for what - too many esp&#039;s</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): lol</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): A member based event committee</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): would be a good idea</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Yes!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we would love to see this.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: yes, Digger, 10k each&lt;sigh&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : fabulous idea!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: we kinda have it.. the event coordinators</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): So, everyone, much thanks for coming to today&#039;s town meeting.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair12">Acolyte Jess: thank you for coming, Michael and Delilah.. I will email the comments I received in esp, ghosts</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): We have most certainly missed many questions,</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Yes, thank you all</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: Yes thank you all for your cooperation in keeping this organized</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: and for participating</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: thank you Michael &amp; Delilah</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): so again the invitation to send us email.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): and to post to the public forum.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: The october Town meeting will be when?</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Thank you to the Acolytes for taking the questions</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: In October</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and Wert</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: ,eg&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): and BR</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): we&#039;ll put a message board with a forum link in</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): one of the elevator locales.</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair16">ButterRose : And in the community center please for newbies</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: yes sir we will do that asap</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): will do. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: no problem Angel&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: yes ma&#039;am</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: you can talk dirty to me anytime&lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpairavatarself">Delilah (World Events Manager): Keep the dream alive -- one avy can make a difference!</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): Ciao, everyone. &lt;grin&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair8">Michael (World Manager): (she is so quick)</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: niters M</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair3">Wert P Gumby: see ya Mom&lt;wave&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair6">Acolyte Chloe: night &lt;grin&gt;&lt;wave&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: &lt;wave&gt;</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair10">Acolyte Rabbit: and dont forget the WARaffle drawing at 5pm in the turf WARaffle</span></p>
<p><span class="spoken wacolorpair2">Acolyte Mondo: bye ButterRose</span></p>
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