Cybertown is a new concept in Online Communities. It is a community in itself and provides as well the technology and content for Colonies, enabling its members to have their own "housing" and to collaborate and socialize with others.
Cybertown has its own economy, its own social structure and is even available in 3D Virtual Reality. It is a community that is created by its own residents.
Cybertown is a community of Colonies where you can build your own virtual homes (in 2D and 3D) and interact in the community with others in virtual reality using avatars. This interaction goes far beyond just exploring and chatting with other people. You can become a Citizen of Cybertown, take jobs in the community, earn community "money" (community credits) which you can use to increase the desirability and value of your home by "buying" custom furniture in the community VR Mall and you can open a Club, have your own Buddy List and even create your own VR worlds.
It's a place where you get your own personal chat room, message board, description of yourself and optional photo. When people visit your home in 2D they see whetever info you'd like them to see as well as your photo, if you wish, and they can chat with you or leave messages on your message board. Of course you can also restrict who has access to your home. Most exciting is that you can also choose from many fully 3D virtual reality multiuser houses so people can visit you in 3DVR using avatars (3 dimensional physical representations of themselves) and move around and explore your home and chat with you. You can also furnish and customize your home!
You go to the City Plaza and click on "How Do I?" on the Control Panel. There are 8 colonies to choose from: Sci-fi, Entertainment, Games, Virtual Worlds, Cyberhood, Inner Realms, Teens, 9th Dimension, Adventure and Hi-Tek. Choose one of these and then choose a neighborhood to settle in. Click on anywhere where it says "Free" and you will be taken to a page where you can enter your information and choose your 2D icon and your 3DVR house.
By the way, if you know basic HTML you can create a home page with text, images and links for yourself when you enter your information and this will be accessible whenever anyone clicks on your "Information" link in the right frame.
If you have blaxxun Contact installed, just click on "3D World" and you'll go there. If you don't have Contact installed, then click on the icon at the top left of the Plaza screen and you can download and install it. Contact installs as a plug-in to your browser so that you can explore the 3DVR without leaving your browser. If you're on your house page and click on "3D World", it will take you to your 3DVR house.
Click the Icon to download Blaxxun Contact 5.3.
Well, you can invite your friends over, have family meetings, parties, business meetings or whatever you want. It's your virtual home! E-mail all your friends, give them the address and have fun!
The address is "http://www.cybertown.com/home/NICKNAME", e.g. http://www.cybertown.com/home/Hawk
Click on the "My Info" icon on the Control Panel, go to your home and look at the address line at the top of your browser.
a) THE MAYOR - He/She runs the community and
liaises between the Founders and the City Council via the Founder Liaison
and by co-ordinating the activities of the City Council. The Mayor also handles PR
functions such as press conferences in the community, heading up community
planning meetings and emergency and other meetings of the Council. The Mayor is responsible
for seeing that goals set by the Founders are achieved via strategic plans
implemented by the City Council. The Mayor has veto power in times of deadlock over
voting issues.
b) THE CITY COUNCIL -
Runs the strategic plans and proposes new ones to handle specific areas. Each
City Council member has a specific area of the community that he heads up
- e.g. Community Planning (new areas to be built, current areas to be expanded
or fixed), Events and Activities, Community Information Liaison, Visitor and
Member Support, Maintaining Order etc. Each Colony Leader is also on the Council.
The City Council also proposes and votes on new laws based on the Constitution
and appoints new Council Members and co-ordinates the activities of the various
town Leaders. The Chief Guide and the Security Chief are on the City Council
as is the Founder Liaison.
c) CITY GUIDES - Helping visitors and members
- this includes such functions as Community Guides who help by answering questions,
helping them find things in the community, giving tours, helping them build
homes, manning the message boards, hosting chat sessions and helping with
any problems. Many of the City Guides can be found by clicking on "Newcomers Club"
in the Jumpgate.
d) WORLD BUILDERS - Helping expand and update
the community - this includes such things as building new areas, buildings,
attractions, objects - including furniture and avatars - and features to add
to the community, helping promote the community, repairing and maintaining
the community etc.
e) MAGAZINE STAFF - Acting as an information
liaison between the Founder- and the City Council - and the community - this
includes such things as providing information and announcements to the community
about events, guidelines, news, running the community newspaper, creating
a newsletter, letting the community know about Cybertown appearances in the
media and letting the Founders get needed information from the community.
f) SECURITY OFFICERS - Maintaining order in the
community - this includes such things as checking into the rooms areas and
ensuring that people follow the guidelines regarding no profanity and disruptive
behaviour and no offensive images in buildings etc. This includes Security
Officers being Cybercops, as necessary.
g) EMPLOYMENT CHIEF - Responsible for allocating
and filling job positions in the community by helping citizens locate jobs to apply
for.
h) CLUB OWNERS - Helping members get to know
each other and bringing together members with similar interests - includes
such things as organizing and running special-interest Clubs with message
boards and chat discussion groups
i) EVENT ICs - pending..might be renamed to something else - Includes such things as creating
community events and get-togethers, games, competitions, awards for best houses
and other created objects.
Other duties: NEIGHBORHOOD AND BLOCK LEADERS
(and their DEPUTIES) - They are responsible for
activating new neighborhoods with those responsible (in discussion with the
City Councils) and checking the Colonies with all those responsible for the
neighborhoods and blocks. Those responsible for neighborhoods: Can activate
new blocks within their neighborhood and check those responsible for blocks
and everything in their neighborhood. Those responsible for blocks: Can activate
new properties within their block and check everything in their blocks. Can
check all posted personal images for a property and can accept or deny those
images. An important task is to keep the properties clean and to support all
members within their block.
Go to the Job Application Form in the Employment Office and fill in your info and what job you're applying for. There are Job offers at the bottom of the right frame.
* You automatically earn experience points just by coming to Cybertown (5 per day). If you have a job, you earn 10 points every time you visit. Plus each job earns from 10 to 25 or more experience points per week depending on the job. You need certain amounts of experience points for certain jobs and to do such things as opening a Club. The experience points system is published here and lists all the information as well as listing the various rewards that will be given as citizens reach certain levels. You start with 5,000 citycash dollars. You automatically earn citycash just by coming to Cybertown (20 per day). If you have a job, you earn 20 cc every time you visit. Plus each job earns from 125 to 750 citycash per week depending on the job. You also get 12,000-100,000 ccs for every friend you introduce to Cybertown Referrals
. You can also earn cc by creating objects and selling them in the Mall. One citizen is now a multi-millionairess from doing this. You can spend your citycash on furniture, pets and other objects for your homes. You can also buy bigger homes with more features. You can also enter the CityCash Game of Chance and win hundreds of thousands of citycash dollars. Soon there will luxury mansions and yachts and other items to spend your citycash on.
Go to the Help/Info button in the Control Panel and click on the Contact button.
Not for the 3D parts at the moment as these use technology that they are not yet capable of.
You can "buy" furniture and other objects for your home, buy upgraded homes and personal bots and other items.
If you have a house that you have built and would like to sell it in Cybertown, you can click on "Designer Homes" in the Jumpgate and upload your home(s) there. For all other worlds, you can go to the Suburbs.
If you're in 3D Chat using blaxxun Contact, you already have one. If you want to see it, right-click on the VR screen and choose, "View my Avatar".
In the 3D Chat area, in the right chat frame, select options and "Avatar Library".
Yes - but keep it to workable dimensions, file sizes etc.
We will be providing software that will let you do this.
Read the "Best Settings" information here.
In City Hall usually.
Go to the Citizens button on the Help/Info button in the Control Panel.