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Registering a building in the database requires the following info:
Citizen Name: The name of the citizen who built the structure that you're submitting. If the building was made by "Not a Citizen", put "NAC" as the Citizen Name. Please do not submit buildings that were constructed by a tourist. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, tourist buildings tend to get deleted by malicious users, and therefore aren't really appropriate for the database. Secondly, if you do submit a tourist building, that makes it much easier for a malicious stranger to find and delete your building. If you are building as a tourist, and you want your building to last, it is best not to publicize it too widely. :-)
Citizen Number: The number of the citizen who built the structure. You can get this by right clicking an object in the building and looking at the "Owner" field. I need this so that people can search for buildings by a particular builder, even if the name is not known. (EG buildings by a particular NAC).
Building Type: This is the category that the building falls into. There are 15 building types available to you. They are listed in a drop-down selection box on the Add Entry page. Most of them are self explanatory. The "Celebration Sites" category is for areas devoted to birthdays, weddings, memorials, and party areas. The "Landscapes" category is for mountains, rivers, forests, islands, and things of that nature.
Building Age: This the year that the building was constructed in. I am only interested in the year, not the month or day. Right click an object in the building and look at the "Built" field to figure out when it was built. There is a drop-down box of available years. So far as I know, there are no buildings from earlier than 1995, and precious few of those.
Comments: Here's where you get your say. Feel free to write whole books worth of commentary, as long as you can do it in 100 characters or less. Please note that HTML is not allowed in this or any field, and will be stripped from the field before entry into the database.
Coordinates: Here is the part that makes it all worthwhile, and makes it easy for people to find your building. All buildings are assumed to be in Alphaworld, since this is not a database of the entire AW universe, just its primary world. If you've got a great building in Mars, you'll just have to publicize it the old-fashioned way.
The database supports the full scope of AW teleport commands, with the exception of relative teleports. That is, you can't specify negative or positive values to the teleports. Most people never do this anyway, so that shouldn't really matter. As a rule of thumb, use the coordinates just as you'd use them in AW.
You can specify the north/south east/west coordinates down to a tenth of a meter, and the same goes for altitude. You can even specify the direction that the person will be facing on arrival. For complete details on the format of AW teleports, please see the AW help file. Ignore the bits about relative teleports, and you will have a thorough knowledge of all your options. Be careful with teleport coordinates. If you make a mistake, you will need to send me an email so that I can fix it, which is a pain to both you and me. So be careful, okay? :-) Fiddle with it from inside AW until you get it right, then just copy and paste. Please note that if you want to specify a directional coordinate, you *must* specify an altitude as well.
Now that you've read all that, why not proceed to the Add Entry page?