Parhelion Palou
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10 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Curmdgeon alert!!
Get off my lawn! Actually, the idea was to mark it as not applicable so the tab doesn't show to other people. Saves time when going through a profile.
ETA: However, it would be useful for showing additional picks.
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If you accidentally abandon land you're renting on a private region, notify your landlord rather than Linden Lab.
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3 hours ago, Coby Foden said:
We need a new tab in the profiles named "Family".
If so, I'd like it to have an option to check "Not Applicable".
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Mel and I were wandering around at sunset ...
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1 minute ago, Selene Gregoire said:
Sorry. Someone already carved my name into the Group W bench when I wasn't there.
You weren't litterin' were you?
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33 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:
No one should be worried about getting bothered while in VR. The first time someone gets into the space of a VR user and gets smacked by accident will usually be enough to stop any further intrusions. People usually pull back when they know they will hit someone but a VR user won't.
Holding an air horn and wearing hearing protectors, get about 5 feet (~1.5m) behind a goggle wearer. Set off the air horn. Scrape goggle wearer off the ceiling. So far I haven't convinced anyone to buy VR goggles. Bummer.
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2 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Well, this IS a happy coincidence. One of my old hobbies used to involve the following:
- Applying poultices made of smelly, boiled herbs and dung to abrasions and cuts inflicted by maces, swords, and spears
- Fastening blood-sucking segmented worms to people's bodies to assist in the healing process and relieve the humours
- Resetting bones broken by falls from horses after being hit by sticks, by crudely forcing the two fragments back together (without anaesthetic).
- Amputating limbs damaged by axe cuts with a dirty, blunt saw (without anaesthetic).
- Cauterizing the resulting stumps with a burning log or stick (as above)
- Drilling holes into people's skulls with a hand drill to relieve pressure on the brain (vide supra).
- Holding screaming and squirming patients down if someone else was performing any of the above.
- Fetching a priest to perform the last rites on my subject.
There was anaesthetic. You forgot about the whisky.
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Considering that this is the only time the cost has increased in at least 12.75 years, it doesn't seem so bad.
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@Caleb Linden No updates to SL until July?
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My female alt (who has a Maitreya body) is 5' 7". Not too far off.
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56 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said:
Are we maybe talking about different things? It's my impression that one can own a one-region Estate without paying Premium membership. (Right?)
The upfront cost of acquiring an Estate region exceed the Premium subscription fee, so maybe it's not a practical distinction anyway?
You're right -- there's no need for premium membership to own any number of private regions. The reason to rent a region is generally to avoid the upfront cost of buying one because you don't plan on using it long-term or you can't come up with the initial cost.
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3 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
How existing SL users feel about the LL viewer isn't really what matters. What is important is does LL need to change that viewer to help with SL retention. IMO, the viewer sure does not help make the SL experience a great one for new users. If frustrated users are not really determined and/or manage to find out about other viewers, that may play a lot into their decision to leave SL and not come back.
So long as LL doesn't try doing another basic viewer ... never again. I watch my kids (well, they used to be kids) playing video games. I don't know how they keep track of all the key and button combinations needed to play. Any SL viewer seems simple to me after that. But perhaps disabling some of the complex stuff initially, along with an obvious way to get it all back.
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Getting the community to like LL's viewer is simple ... mass hypnotism. Or perhaps incentives like free downloads if you use the LL viewer.
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6 hours ago, RoxyCyn said:
Regarding the new land pricing/monthly tier changes. I applaud these new changes. I have 2 homesteads from the same well known landowner and I've been very happy with the service so far. One I've had for 7 years and the other for almost 2 years now. With the announcement of the new tier pricing for full regions I contacted the realtor/land owner and they were not even aware of the changes. I discussed it at length and provided the link to the page explaining the new changes. Today I contacted her again because I'd like to move to a full region now for my home and business. The response from this rather large, well known realtor/landowner was a bit disheartening:
"Hello! here is a message from one of our higher ups "During the past 24 months we reduced a lot of rental rates on a lot of sims/parcels. Now Linden Lab lowered some of their rates while raising other fees. As always we will observe how that impacts the market and adjust accordingly so that supply and demand gets properly balanced and expenses covered.' " "we do not have tier price adjustments yet as we still have to study the impact so we can adjust without losses."
If they are going to continue charging the old tier pricing with the new changes in-place, this new pricing is of no benefit to the end user that's willing to pay tiers to maintain businesses, homes and provide regions for others to use. Charging the old tier to the end-user/customer while getting a reduction directly from Linden Labs effectively overcharges the end-user on the monthly tier while creating higher profits for the landowner. I seriously doubt that was the intent of Linden Labs and in so doing will defeat the purpose of the land tier reduction, in my humble opinion.
The maintenance fee for a full region went down $20 per month. That works out to L$5040 per month for the entire region, or L$78 per month per 1K sqm rented. Since the credit processing fee went from 2.5% to 5%, the region owner will want to offset the increase. That takes L$21 off of the L$78, leaving L$57 per month per 1K sqm rented. That's not enough to increase people's interest in renting. Therefore I doubt Linden Lab was trying to reduce people's rent. It was a small handout to region owners & maybe enough to get people on the fence to buy a region.
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1 hour ago, Ivanova Shostakovich said:
For people who love skyboxes and want a more enticing premium experience, could raising the maximum build height be an option? Or do things get too wonky that high?
Things start getting wonky below 4096 ... not good to raise the limit higher.
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3 hours ago, dokitten said:
I might have a silly question, but i hope you''l forgive it of me since i'm stil tad noob around the forum *blushes and hides under her desk*
Which is the diffrence between this thread and the https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/405992-how-does-your-avatar-look-today thread ?
This thread is the older of the two and was more formal. People generally listed what they wore in the pictures. The other thread was for informal pictures ... what you happened to be wearing that day. That one has morphed into the thread for the fancy stuff, leaving this one to fade away slowly.
Both are too fancy for me, though I'll post twisted pictures at times. I stick to
for my more photogenic alt.
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29 minutes ago, Cakewithfruit said:
To be able to make money you have to consume a product,
the island and the premium land are consumables,
how to remunerate employees, equipment and expenses,
I would like the company to publish statistics, I would like to know,
how many users are premium, how much island there is currently online, how many employees,
and much more.
Private company ... they don't have to give you anything.
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LL has their own data center and their own servers in it. The reason they're trying to move the simulators to the cloud is because the data center is now too out of date to support newer hardware, and going to the cloud is cheaper than building a new data center. This is from a talk given by the Linden in charge of the data center. I suspect their Sansar experience caused them to underestimate the difficulty of moving to the cloud. SL would be way more complex ... for a start, the code is old and Sansar doesn't have region crossings. The Linden also mentioned some hardware that wouldn't work right if put in separate racks, indicating very tight timing constraints. They have to get away from that too.
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Being able to have multiple (at least 2) experiences would be appealing to me. One for production use (currently just teleporter portals), and one to play with (feel like being a ball in a pinball machine?). I like having 90 days of transactions stored because I tended to forget to collect them every 30 days. Those two are the reasons I'll continue with premium now that it will no longer be profitable (L$400/week stipend from 2006). The increased offline IM count is nice, but wouldn't be necessary if I dropped some of the over-chatty groups. The rest of it isn't important to me.
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1 minute ago, Erwin Solo said:
Perhaps. However, Sansar appeared when the Stock Market was frothy for VR. Occulus Rift sold for US$2 Billion. Sansar might have done the same, but now the opportunity is past, and we'll see how it plays out.
LL said years ago they wouldn't be moving Sansar features to SL. Sansar is virtual worlds; SL is a virtual world. After that, the code is too different and the architectures are way too different.
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20 minutes ago, Bitsy Buccaneer said:
I'd like to know more about the problems in groups. From what I understand, the large groups are most affected so removing accounts from some of those should have the most impact. I can take mine out of a couple of big ones I don't really interact with any more.
How about smaller groups? When do the problems occur? All the time or just when chat opens up? Would turning off group notices help?
Just wondering if there's more information available. I want to do what I can to help reduce the problems, even if it's small.
From what I remember back when LL improved groups (and found that commercial solutions didn't help), allowing us to get to 42 ... group chat is sent to each region that has someone in that group on it. The simulator sends the message to the group members on the region. There must be a controller that receives messages and distributes them to the affected regions. Anyway, the more people in the group, the more of SL is involved in processing the messages. Add more group slots to avatars and there are that many more groups all sending messages through the system. A group used as it was meant to be used - for administration of a parcel or region/regions - wouldn't stress the system. It's using groups as a chat system that's causing the problem. I wondered years ago why LL didn't set up a second type of group that worked outside of the simulators and went directly from avatars to the controller. I suspect that's too far outside of SL's architecture, or LL tried it and it didn't work well. Clarifications to what I've said are welcome; I think I maxed out my memory capacity long ago.
I don't think my alts are in any groups other than my land groups, but I should check. Getting out of unused or rarely used large groups is a good idea.
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2 hours ago, Rhonda Huntress said:
No female nips. No genitals. No rectum. No sexual activity.
Pasting male nips over the female ones doesn't work either. 😉
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On 5/19/2019 at 2:00 PM, JonC Weatherwax said:
Cheaper Land Tiers!
For premium accounts, that was done in April 2018 via doubling the tier allowance (as Solar said). If you're talking about private/estate regions, there was a price cut in July 2018. LL won't reduce their income from land without offsetting it in other ways, so everyone become premium and buy more from the Marketplace ... the land price cut you want is up to you!
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1 hour ago, animats said:
Your own little square. All to yourself. You can put up security orbs, walls, and ban lines. No one will bother you ever again.
If that's what you want, get off mainland and move to one of these. Several big landlords are in this business. This one is in Monet.
Or they can stay on mainland and do the same. Mainland has had the same lack of rules for 16 years. LL isn't going to add any now.
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Is there a way to disable the "Abandon land" button?
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I never see an "Abandon" button, perhaps because I own the region. 😉 But when I was renting, I was very careful around that button. Maybe there should be a cover over it, like there are over the 'kill power' buttons in computer rooms and labs.