Parhelion Palou

One exception is if the source is a live stream rather than a file. In that case anyone who connects starts seeing/hearing the content at almost the same time as others. There will always be differences due to different paths through the internet, connection speeds, etc.

Note that the initial cost to buy a region includes the first month's maintenance fee. Starting with the second month you'll have to pay $249 each month to keep the region.

The Firestorm people would have a bigger sample than LL does, but I don't know if they can release what they know. @Whirly Fizzle, does Firestorm keep data on the number of users who have each common type of graphics cards/chips? My guess is the percentage of RTX users is pretty low ... the cards are new, overpowered, and expensive for the typical SL user. From what I've seen in the forums, laptops with weak graphics capability are commonly used in SL.

It might show that there's a limit between 10,000 and 100,000. Then it's merely a matter of trying a 50,000 character post, etc. to determine the exact value. It wouldn't take a lot of posts to find at least an approximate value, but a mod might step in before the process is complete. Perhaps split the trial over several threads?

"Hello! We regret to inform you that you've been ejected from our parcel. Have a nice day!"

Here I am ... definitely a guy.

I don't think the devil avatar was that busty when I gave it to her. Perhaps the t-shirt?

Today I've been terraforming. That lead to having to modify almost all of the paths in the region. No sense showing a picture of that, so here's Mel (female alt) out window shopping. She didn't buy any windows ... saved me some L$. Every alt needs an alt skin ... No Red Bull, but she's got wings ...

LL didn't want Sansar to be the next step for SL users. Sansar is a bunch of separate worlds where only the owner can build and nothing is built on-the-fly. It was meant to be used by creators and companies to build VR experiences. Unfortunately for LL, so far that audience doesn't exist in quantity. LL is trying to broaden the target audience to PC users; that isn't helping much either.

You rang? My first alt's first name is Sundog, by the way. I was too lazy to come up with something original.

To make it more fun ... a mainland region has mainland limitations. You have more control over a private region.

If you're going for the human starter avatars they're all classic avatars, just like the old days. The alpha is to keep the body from poking through the mesh clothing they're wearing. You need to detach the clothing and the alphas in order to get down to the skin. Some of the starters may have painted-on underwear, but most that I've seen don't. Someone else is bound to come along with recommendations for skins, etc. Skins for the classic avatars are fairly scarce, especially for female avatars.

In case you didn't know: A full private sim is 20,000 LI/prim. It can be upgraded to 30,000 by paying an additional $30/month. In my case I bought the region, then submitted a support ticket to add the 30,000 option. It may be possible to do both at once now.

Well of course men's beards carry more bacteria than dogs ... dogs are a lot bigger and heavier. You can't put many of them in a beard.

The transfer of private regions from one owner to another is done through LL. They will check to see if the person buying the region owns at least one full region before doing the transfer.

There are 10 Brendens that I know of, some Heavenly, also Natalia, Riley, and Selena in the series that have rez dates in May 2009. They're not identified as survey bots in their profiles (or weren't when I was seeing them in 2014/2015), so they got added to my bot boot list.

Not that strange; my newer alts have some of their own things. It saves logging my main on in order to rez stuff for them.

This is a bit off-topic ... the customers of this clown are also being ripped off, in a way. For L$2000 they're getting a decorated Linden home, but it's for a single use. If the owner decides to change homes or decor, all the owner can do is return the items. I wouldn't want to pay L$2000 for that; I could buy a lot of stuff myself for that money and get to keep it.

Or go up one level from where you're reading this. There's a link to create a support ticket on the right side.

Really ... you wanted the wall of text? Go to the Blake Sea, roads, or some of the other mainland areas that are commonly used by vehicles and look. In the Blake Sea there are generally more people hanging out on islands than are actually moving, and the total number of people isn't that large anyway. Now consider that the Blake Sea and the other areas are a small part of mainland, so you can't claim that there are so many of those areas that the overall total is significant. I'm only specifying mainland since estates can easily ban or regulate orbs if they wish. Would you leave SL because you couldn't fly over someone's parcel? For that matter, isn't it likely that region crossings are a far bigger problem for vehicle owners than some parcels they can't enter? What percentage of vehicle owners would leave SL because of security orbs? Niche case isn't dismissive. Modifying the simulator code to add a feature that would only be used in a fraction of SL is a niche case. It's also not that easy a feature to implement. How do you keep someone from building within an altitude range, considering that you still would have to allow vehicles? You could block non-physical objects from being within the range, but not all vehicles are physical. You could decide that anything that's in the range for more than X seconds must be static and therefore get rid of the object, but what about slow-moving vehicles? You could allow everyone's objects to enter *except* for the parcel owner's, but it doesn't seem fair that the parcel owner couldn't fly over their own parcel within the corridor. For that matter, what happens to parcel permissions within that range? To be fair to the parcel owner, the people passing through that range shouldn't be able to see anyone above or below if the parcel is set to not show avatars. Is the corridor set for public ''allow entry" and "allow scripts" even if the parcel isn't? Is doing all this worth the risk of making the simulator code less stable? The security orb disagreement doesn't really have a solution. LL can't change LSL to stop zero-second orbs, because separate functions do the detection and the ejection. They could add something to the TOS (applicable to mainland only), but what delay value would be reasonable? I discourage the use of orbs at ground level on my region, but if used they must have at least a 10-second delay. For some vehicle users that's OK, for others it's unacceptable. If the land owner is dealing with a stalker then perhaps a very short delay is OK, but anything more is unacceptable. If LL requires too large of a delay, they *will* lose people who need the security. It's not likely they'd lose vehicle owners by leaving things as they are since vehicle owners already have the problem with orbs and they're still here. And finally ... One positive thing that could be done without messing with the simulator code is add OpenSpace (I assume LL can still create them) regions so vehicles have better channels and more places to go. If LL wanted to offset the cost of running the regions, they could charge for using them. It doesn't solve the security orb disagreement, but it does meet one of the biggest desires of vehicle owners (other than making region crossings seamless). It would also be nice if LL would set some standards for themselves & the moles for the width of channels.

Any tier decrease big enough to interest landowners is unlikely to be offset by increased retention within the small part of SL that's into flying. Increased retention also has to pay for the cost of modifying the simulator code to handle a case that would only apply to a small percentage of the parcels in SL. LL needs really good reasons to touch that code; it isn't something that should be done for niche cases like this.

Why should LL decrease their income for something like that?

This thread is making me way less sympathetic to vehicle owners, especially the ones who using flying vehicles. It has helped boost my creativity as I come up with interesting things to do to ones over my parcel. If that was the point of this thread, then it's been achieved. I still have an old balloon and a sailboat, though I don't have much time to use them. When I do use them I check the map first to find a route that keeps me off of people's property. Part of the fun is coming up with a way to do it. If there wasn't a way I'd pick a different destination. I've accidentally hit ban lines and orbs before, but I don't whine about the mean ol' land owners who broke my immersion.

Here's a solution: Create a Vehicle Owners Association group and everyone in it donate tier to the group. The group buys land to use for boating/driving/flying/pogo sticks so that everyone can use it. In the meantime, stick to land that's set for public use (explicitly stated by the parcel owner in the description or parcel name) or Linden-owned land. (As in the parcel owner is LL. No BS about who ultimately owns it because of course LL does - they can turn off the servers and it all goes away.) There's a lot of empty land on the mainland. Use that. This has already been said: Talk (nicely) with people who have zero-second orbs. Some of them may have no idea that there is a delay setting. The "there ought to be a law!" attitude leads to trouble. And finally, something appropriate to the thread:

Lindal Kid and Rolig Loo ... got it.