During Day 9 our main world server at CASA went offline due to disc restrictions. The server was offline for approximately 20 hours, resulting in  building during Day 9 being lost. At the request of members of the '30 Days' community Day 9 has been re-run to enable a full 30 days of building to take place.

'30 Days in ActiveWorlds' apologies for the down time, however it was pleasing to note that within 15 minutes of the server being placed back online, 9 users were building in the world.

'Stick', a tourist builder in 30 Days lost an entire house as a result of the server error during the original Day 9. Sticks' loss was highlighted by the fact that he had also lost a building during the vandalism attack of Day 4. To this end, and quite understandably after the amount of hours invested, 'Stick' was ready to leave '30 Days in ActiveWorlds'.

During Day 7 and Day 8 the user names in '30 Days' have begun to become familiar, with a group of users often in the world for over 3-4 hours a day. Betty B, a citizen builder in '30 Days' has been a notable contributor to the world and stepped in to offer 'Stick' a free citizenship. 'Stick' is now a citizen of ActiveWorlds and building freely in '30 Days'. A sense of community sprit has developed.

This community spirit was underlined when the 'High Commander' of the Alpha World Terrorist Group  made an entry into '30 Days'. During a conversation with Smithee (the world owner) and BettyB the High Commander admitted ordering the vandalism of the world which occurred partly during Day 1 and extensively during Day 4. A number of users voiced there opinion against vandalism, although discussion was subdued to the threat of further action. Following the admission a number of threats were suggested of further vandalism and the possibility of a full scale hack on the server to bring the world down.

The Alpha World Terrorist Group has been known to Circle of Fire for some time. Since the threat to 30 Days and the admission of vandalism the user behind the group has been traced via his Internet Provider and action has been taken. In the unlikely event of further vandalism we have developed an MS Access query which will quickly remove any vandalism orientated building.

Good building during Day 10!

A gif animation of the worlds development during the first week of building is available here (69k).

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