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NW
Corner Garden
|
Village
Apartments
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NE
Corner Garden
|
|
Cafe
D'Armore
|
Park
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Little
Shop of Essence
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Hot
Tubs
|
Park
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Face
Value
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Event
Center
|
Park
|
Body
Shop
|
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Net
Noir
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CC
Entrance
|
Libary
|
The
three park locales were given individual names like
Park of Serenity, Park of Promise etc but were later
renamed to Promise Park.
The Little Shop of Essence was a small shop
that sold spray cans and accessories, Face Value
sold heads, Body Shop sold bodies (not dead),
Event Center was a stage locale/knicknack
store, Hot Tubs were general chat locales,
Cafe D'Armore was a great coffeehouse locale,
Net Noir was a bar and the Libary
was a building with a great auditorium and frequent
author chats.
The
right side of Club Connect was extended to reveal
a HUGE complex for XOOM.COM and an area called
Metaphysical Courtyard which housed Astrology.net
and other partner locales.
Topiary
Park was linked beneath the XOOM locales as a set
of chat locales, with an Under Construction
road block at the end.
In
the early days of Club Connect, Role Play
was introduced very much like Hotel Silicon and
Dreamscape, although the scale of it was more relative
to Hotel. The main sign of this was during Halloween
98, when all the guides were turned into cats (animal
heads werent in the vendos yet) and Caretaker John
entered a mysterious portal... only to return one
week later with a further portal leading to the
Halloween 1998 locales.
Caretaker
John got lost in a strange dimension shortly after
Halloween, and was never seen again.
Fight the Addiction day saw the introduction of
the first real sexual material in VZones,
in the form of an adult only area featuring drug
vendos, mild fetish items (black masks) and drinks.
The turf had 7 rooms, and the seventh was a dungeon
locale with chains, very much like the Dom Den locale
in Seducity. Yes, there was a tiny bit of Seducity
in Club Connect for a little while!
New
Radio World
When
Hotel Silicon closed down, it was moved to Club
Connect, which was renamed to New Radio World. A
train station was built below the CC Entrance, which
gave avies access to the other cities in NRW. Also,
some changes occured in and around the Club Connect
city. Here is the layout after the main locale shuffle
when New Radio World was opened:
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NW
Corner Garden
|
Village
Apartments
|
NE
Corner Garden
|
|
XOOM.COM
|
Promise
Park
|
Metaphysical
Courtyard
|
|
Delphi.com
|
Promise
Park
|
Frontiers
|
|
Event
Center
|
Promise
Park
|
Variations
|
|
Net
Noir
|
CC
Entrance
|
Libary
|
|
Serenity
Park
|
Train
Station Entrance
|
Topiary
Park
|
The
left side of Club Connect was later extended to
reveal Reel.com, PlanetOut/Allegro Music,
Cliffs Underground, Virtual Vineyards,
Serenity Park and New Radio Star which
never opened to the public.
Topiary
Park was made into a partner area with a Paydoor
(like Delphi and XOOMs). The train station allowed
you to travel between cities, with the use of a
very cool Bullet Train. Considering that the Hotel
had just closed, Silicon Valley was the first city
to be given the NRW treatment. Here are the city
opening dates:
December
1998
- Silicon Valley, Detroit and Winter Wonderland
January 1999 - Commerce City and Phoenix
Febuary 1999 - Worldsaway Airport/Honolulu
March 1999 - Seattle
May 1999 - London
July 1999 - UFO Chat
After
these city openings, the whole Train idea was dumped
completely, and the layout of NRW was altered again.
VZConnections
Once
again, the world was given a major makeover. Key
locales were shifted around the cities and unused
locales, such as commerce city and the event center
were deleted. This is the layout of VZC:
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NW
Corner Garden
|
Village
Apartments
|
NECG/Topiary
Park
|
|
San
Fransisco
|
.
|
.
|
|
Delphi.com
|
Promise
Park
|
Turf
Furnishings
|
|
.
|
.
|
Engravings
|
|
Seattle
|
Promise
Park
|
Honolulu
|
|
London
|
Promise
Park
|
Silicon
Valley
|
|
Variations
|
P
Park Entrance
|
Phoenix
|
|
Detroit
|
CC
Entrance
|
|
|
|
VZ
Millions
|
|
In
November 1999, San Fransisco opened
along with VZHauntings for the halloween season.
XOOM.com and the Hot Tubs were moved to SF.
December
1999, the Christmas locales opened up behind
NE Corner Garden, and VZ Millions opened to celebrate
the millennium. VZMillions was a huge set of locales,
based on different themes. It was basically a portal
world like VZConnections with its own small cities.
VZSci-Fi Opened, along with its own set of cities
(only one was open).
VZ Millions closed down and a paint center was eventually
built in its place.
Phoenix became the Desert Zone and Topiary
Park formed with a set of locales taken from VZ
Millions to form Park Zone.
A wedding chapel opened.
San Fransisco closed and the Game Zone opened in
its place.
VZConnections
last known layout was the most advanced to date,
and was the easiest to navigate.
|
NW
Corner Garden
|
Village
Apartments
|
NE
Corner Garden
|
|
Game
Zone
|
.
|
.
|
|
Wedding
Chapel
|
.
|
.
|
|
Delphi.com
|
Promise
Park
|
Turf
Furnishings
|
|
.
|
.
|
Engravings
|
|
Seattle
|
Promise
Park
|
Honolulu
|
|
London
|
Promise
Park
|
Silicon
Valley
|
|
Variations
|
P
Park Entrance
|
Desert
Zone
|
|
Detroit
|
CC
Entrance
|
Park
Zone
|
|
VZSciFi
|
Paint
Store
|
|
But
then, the cracks in the brickwork started to show;
quite literally!
Lets
do the timewarp again - not.
How
crazy life gets when the members are given a little
power...
A timewarp of catastrophic proportions hit the world
20th August 2001, as we prepared to make
the leap from VZConnections, to newHorizone... the
same world, plus improvements, on a more stable
server.
Planned to last for three days, the timewarp gave
members total freedom to do whatever they liked
in the time between the world was 'saved' and the
opening of NewHorizone. Novelty body changers
were installed in Honolulu, allowing avies to change
into chairs, oracles, animals... the world went
insane. Caretakers went a bit crazy too, as they
proceeded to paint the locales of VZC with hideous
colors... oh, and the village lobby was transformed
into a nightclub!
The first delay came... two more days and
NH will be open. In that time, the staff 'duped'
a plethora of accessories and items for the enjoyment
of others. Locales began to flood with water, making
way for ship-bodies.
The second delay hit VZ, and the unthinkable
happened... we were given POWERS inworld! Unfortunately,
this turned VZC into a battlefield, and it was quite
difficult to remain unghosted AND unfrozen for more
than 10 seconds at a time. Still, the ability to
teleport made up for that... imagine 'ambushing'
someone in their very own turf! Oh wait, thats mean...
After more delays, the disarming of the powers and
the public opening of the guide lounge, NH finally
opened on 2nd September 2001... much to the
relief of others!
newHorizone
Hardly
any difference to VZC layout-wise, NH was VZC with
added scenery, vendos and locales.
|
KVZN,
EZBoard, AOD,
Hill Top
|
.
|
.
|
|
NW
Corner
|
Village
Apartments
|
NE
Corner Garden, PLD
|
|
Game
Zone
|
.
|
.
|
|
Wedding
Chapel
|
.
|
.
|
|
Delphi.com
|
Promise
Park
|
Turf
Furnishings
|
|
.
|
.
|
Engravings
|
|
Seattle
|
Promise
Park
|
Honolulu
|
|
London
|
Promise
Park
|
Silicon
Valley
|
|
Variations
|
P
Park Entrance
|
Desert
Zone
|
|
Detroit
|
CC
Entrance
|
Park
Zone
|
|
New
York
|
Paint
Store
|
Chicago
|
|
VZSciFi
|
P.S.
Back
|
Boston
|
Over
time, alterations were made to this layout...
VZSciFi was closed due to lack of interest, and
PLD took its place.
KVZN was moved in-between PLD and New York.
AOD closed down.
EZBoard replaced Delphi's role and location.
All shop-esque buildings (excl. paint store) were
moved to the right hand side of the world, and turned
into the "Market Place". Additional buildings
were added here.
Some cities were moved from one side to the other,
to make way for the marketplace.
Oh... and the illustrious Village Porch got a makeover!
Although, it was not greeted with the greatest of
enthusiasm.
Now in 2008, many more changes have occurred since
with a higher enthasis being placed on Cities and
Countries as opposed to small purposeful buildings.
NA based/inspired cities such as New York, Seattle
and Las Vegas are all placed down the left hand
side of NH, whereas the international locations
such as London, Venice and Sydney are located down
the right-hand side. All the smaller buildings such
as Engravings, Turf Furnishings etc were all moved
from the hub to other cities, generating more traffic
in these otherwise unused areas.
Controversially, photo backdrops were used to create
some of the new locations, which don't quite fit
in with the rest of the artwork.
