 One of the most unpleasant experiences an individual can have in a virtual world is to find everything they've built erased. This is often the case if you happen to be a tourist because Active Worlds does not protect anything tourists build in the public worlds. That means if someone, tourist or citizen, discovers a tourist build they can delete everything without consequence.
Tourist building is considered to be practice by Active Worlds; therefore, Peacekeepers can do nothing when it occurs. There is only one way to protect builds and that is to get a citizenship. With a citizenship a build is protected even if the citizenship lapses. Just recently Active Worlds made a very generous offer to renew citizenships that had expired. Everything built on the expired account is still in the public worlds and, once active, available for additions and modifications.
If you are a citizen and discover that your build is gone, sending a complaint to the Peacekeepers will not result in action. However, if the person who deleted your build harasses you then you do have grounds to request assistance from Peacekeepers. Should you decide to build as a tourist you should consider the following suggestions:
- Use the AW Mapper and find a large empty space in AlphaWorld
- Find a citizen with a bot or Peacekeeper you trust and asked them to place the seed object at your site
- Never tell anyone the coordinates of your build…ever
- Consider building underground so the AW Mapper doesn't see it
- If you want to share what you've done, take pictures
In closing and addressing those who delight in deleting tourist builds, it is considered rude and inconsiderate behavior.
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