ENGINEERING NEWS
In June Munich Engineering met with Tony and Pascal and went over the co-ordinating of the next steps for Cybertown. Since then, a lot of Engineering's time has been spent with great work on fixing security holes discovered in the system. Soenke and Lothar also worked on implementing the new Control Panel, the "How Do I?" pages and the updated Instant Poll. Martin worked on a big update of the Clubs and Peter Pock worked on the updated Instant Message Center, online people counter and Security Alert system while Peter Graf worked on stats and on further security issues and Kristof helped on various matters. The new Control Panel with the "How Do I?" pages and the Jump Gate and the Clubs update were released on the 8th and have been very well received.
Also recently released was Robert's work on the new infobot in the Plaza (Mina) who helps by answering visitor questions. We also installed the new Tourist Info Center and about 30 new custom avatars built with blaxxun Avatar Builder
Arriving soon in Cybertown within the next 3 months:
~ Customizable pets (cats/dogs) and bots (butlers/aliens) for
homes.
~ A new part of the mall that will allow people to set up shop for themselves
and offer real goods and services (as well as goods and services offered by outside
merchants)
~ Improved message boards
~ New custom forums place where residents can start discussions on
specific subjects
~ VR meeting places in each of the Colonies
~ New Animated Guided Tour
~ VR City Council offices
~ A new powerful avatar creation system
~ Visible names on the neighborhood and block/house maps
~ A way to show what Colony a citizen is from when chatting
~ A hugely updated "My Info" system showing much more data
~ The ability to upload their own pictures to their homes as well as
customize them in other ways
~ A new Entertainment Complex featuring streaming movies, music and
interactive games
~ and much more ..