Lock Haven

8000 South, 8000 East
Teleport from here, or take a long stroll...
Walk to the first gate at 1 North, 3 Eastand look for Lock Haven's gate in the SouthEast concourse of the Teleport Station!

Lock Haven is a new planned community open for immigration in Alpha Worlds. It's been protected from the inadvertant mischief of the area around Groud Zero and has plenty of open space near the town square!
The rules for immigration are simple: Be considerate to others! There aren't any police to preside over the following laws, but we ask that you please follow them all. After all, there's a reason for every law!



Laws



No building on other people's property. While seemingly common sense, many people do in fact vandilize, either knowingly of unknowingly, other people's property. So please find the place where you plan to build your house and only practice there! And when you do build, be sure to coat the surrounding ground with walk graphix so that the encroachment feature prevents anyone from littering your yard.


Don't get land-greedy While everyone really wants a huge estate and there is plently of room on Alpha Worlds, very little of it is close to the teleport gates. So please be considerate and only take what you really need. If you still want more land, walk outside of veiwing range of Lock Haven and build away to your heart's desire!

Don't build too dense or complex. You may have a fast computer, but not everyone has a Pentium-133... The town square has been left open for a good reason! Press F12 to activate the frame rate counter to keep track of how fast your computer is redrawing the screen. Use the rate near the square as a goal to meet for your house. If the rate drops below half that, you've built too much! Leave that huge fountain for your mountain resort and plant a single tree instead. Your neighbors will thank you for it! (And remember that you Will have neighbors, even if you're the first on your block to build)

Don't abuse animated objects These functions have been added for our enjoyment, but you must fight the temptation to coat your property with tvs, waterfalls or flames. Use one or two to enhance the appearance, but realize that animations slow down screen updates! Instead, use glass panels (the pp16 series) because they're the most speed-friendly.

Don't abuse "actions" The actions, able to be tagged on every object in alpha worlds, can very easily be misused. Keep in mind that what you think is funny, such as teleporting passerbys that walk through the invisible wall, is, in fact, a seroius problem! (Which is why teleport is a Z-status only action) Other actions also have the ability to be misused. If we find that people have been doing this, steps will be taken to ban those people from Alphaworld, and their property destoryed. Look here for more help

Put up a mailbox! The mailbox isn't there so much for people to send flattering comments about your home, but so that people can contact you if there is a problem (such as you just built your house in someone's front yard, or that gesture you sculpted into your yard is offensive) This also lets us warn you so that you don't put hours of effort to fond out that your entire house had to be deleted...

Help




You dropped into AlphaWorld but you don't see any houses. Give it a few minutes. Eat lunch, read this docs page. Surf the net. Eventually, the graphics will load. (Well, unless it says "standing alone" at the top of your AlphaWorld window.)"

You don't know how to move Moving around is very easy. It can get confusing, thought, if you've never been to AlphaWorld before. If you hit the arrows and don't move, it's because you're in cursor mode. Try single-clicking the left mouse button on the grey Message/Description box. this should let you move.

You don't know how to build I don't feel like writing the entire thing out again... Look here for the full directions.

Contact Mayor McCheese for immigration information or just to say hi.



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