Parhelion Palou
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Lindal explained how the system works. There may be bidding bots, but they aren't causing what you're seeing. Only the system itself could respond that fast.
Or put it this way: Someone else did outbid you, but they may have done it well before you started bidding when they entered their maximum bid. You enter the highest amount you're willing to pay for the parcel. The system handles the bidding.
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10 minutes ago, Beth Macbain said:Must. Have. Steamboat. Now!
(And I just bought one of those crazy expensive Rattletrap boats last week, damn it!)
That's what I thought when I first saw it. I bought it then realized I'd need somewhere to sail it. I bought a 2K mainland parcel on the water (literally on the water) to dock it. I was lucky; a few months later Bellisseria came down to meet the mainland there. The boat is 40m long, 9m wide, and I've never bothered to measure how tall. Can't dock it at a houseboat.
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I found the rez zone at the treehouse dock and tried out my Bambino. Sylvia will be a slow-moving obstacle; at full throttle I got the Bambino to a little over 8 knots. I also tried the paddle wheeler (the Dixie Belle, also at Bandit) again. Size comparison:
The narrower stretches are fine as long as nobody else is around. You wouldn't want two of these things passing there.
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Parts of SL just aren't that interested in avatar appearance. The education/nonprofit community is still majority system body. I know some who still use the avatar they started with in 2005. They're in SL to work. They don't tend to have homes or get out into the rest of SL much, so trends elsewhere don't take hold.
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2 hours ago, Elisaisabel Munro said:
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Regarding your question: I needed to read and watch a LOT of youtube videos that explained what's going on. The thing with the appliers after the new mesh bodies was, and still is, difficult to understand and a scam, the same as with the the heads... you buy the skin applier and need to buy the applier for the body, because the skin applier is just for the head.. and not every head. THAT IS A SCAM. I refuse to buy extra appliers.. In the past, the classic skins were for the whole body.
It's not a scam. Other than the Omega system, which mostly works with bodies and heads that support it, there's no commonality between different makers. If a skin maker made an applier that worked for a full avatar it would have to be for a specified head and specified body. When you consider all the possible combinations the skin maker would have to create thousands of appliers for each skin. A head applier is designed for a particular head because heads from different makers are done differently. The applier won't work right with each. This has nothing to do with Linden Lab. Like most of SL's content, it was all done by residents. Yes, BOM does help matters.
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Regarding the knowledge curve, a friend of a friend just started to play SL, and he didn't understand a thing! The tutorial at the begining didn't explain much. It is not user friendly. You have to waste hours on end to grasp stuff. He wanted to meet people, have sex.. but, yes, i think nobody would have wanted him with the system avatar.. It is simple to say: "Stay with the system avatar!" while you will be looking like a time voyager from 2010. It wont happen. Don't ask from other what you woldn't do in their place.
The tutorials at the beginning teach you to do the basic things you'll need to get around in SL. Mesh avatars were created by residents and are all done differently. It would be impossible to do a tutorial on them that wouldn't scare them out of SL. Choose a starter avatar, change its clothing (there's some in the inventory's library), and hang out awhile before spending a lot of money on a mesh body and head. A newbie wandering around asking for sex isn't going to get far anyway.
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I'm not in a position to buy lindens, but i worked a lot gaining them in game. I remember the campers...... but LL decided to take them off the grid... WHY???????? Now if you don't sell anything, be an escort or host, i don't know what can you do, besides eating cristals in linden realms or beign humilliated by the software of the voodosploders, that knows you IP (which is illegal) because if you "click too much" you will be banned from all sploders, using any avatar you have.. and LL cares nothing about it.
Linden Lab didn't take the campers off the grid. The people who owned them did. LL changed the algorithm it used to calculate traffic. The campers didn't help the land owners after the algorithm was in place, so they ditched the campers. If the sploders are within the Terms of Service, Linden Lab won't do anything about them. That's expected.
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5 hours ago, Coby Foden said:The boat is: Bandit Bambino
Creator: Analyse DeanI've got that boat as well. It's small enough to use on the rivers in my own region, but it takes some practice to get it to turn quickly enough. Except for a very old sailboat, I think all of my boats are from Bandit.
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On 4/29/2020 at 10:35 AM, Coby Foden said:One image more from http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Randelsham Forest/88/208/51
I sailed all the way through the long winding inland lake with my small tug boat. I saw no other boaters there.
This Randelsham Forest region is the most beautiful one among all the log house regions.
My house is along the narrow stretch, so I can rez on my land and move the boat onto the water. So far I've used a sailboat, 40m long paddle wheeler, a couple of power boats, and a submarine to go up and down that lake. Smaller boats can extend their trip by taking the canal that goes to one of the long oval lakes in adjoining regions.
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Even Lindens make mistakes. 😉 I call them regions but I'm not bothered by people calling them sims. I might orbit them, but that's just for fun.
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A door lock is no security at all in SL. Never has been. If you're worried about someone entering your parcel, set up the security orb.
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Yah, but the graphic card isn't that important anyway. Why aren't we comparing processors, ISP speeds, disk access times (loving my SSDs)?
I get better framerates now with infinitely better scenery than I did in 2006 though my current computer cost less than the old one. I'm not going to insist that SL be able to run on a 2006 computer. I'll let someone else tilt at that windmill.
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40 minutes ago, ChinRey said:
That's true but it is a bit beside my point. I don't think you can get that performance even in a completely empty region these days.
I don't know though since I don't have a GTX-260 to test. What I did was compare becnhmark tests of it with ones of gpus I do know and that isn't reliable enough to draw firm conclusions of course. It would be really useful if we had a set of tests over the years using exactly the same hardware to render exactly the same scene. I'm sure LL as a serious software developer does something like this or something else to keep track of how software updates affects performance (ummmm.... errr... they are and they do, right?) but they're not telling us the results.
OK, here's a test:
My usual settings: Firestorm Ultra with draw distance 304m, shadows on everything
Low setting: Firestorm Low (draw distance 64m, no ALM, pretty much nothing interesting)Test Location 1
Note: There's an avatar at the far left in the scene, but definitely not wearing anything mesh. I'm in the scene, so there is a mesh avatar, but a Dinkie is pretty efficient.
Usual: 74 fps
Low: 109 fpsTest Location 2
Usual: 124 fps
Low: 270 fpsThe second location is at 3300 meters with content I control, so it's not terribly far off from an empty region.
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I put up 36 copies of an object that had a mere 33,916 triangles for a total of a little over 1.2 million. I got 320 fps with my GTX1060. Yeah, it's way better than the 260 but I've had that card for 4 years. It's not the latest & greatest by far. I'd try the 260, but I think I sent it to electronics recycling a couple years ago.
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13 hours ago, ChinRey said:
Thanks.
This is off topic but I had a look at some of the other posts too and found this:
That was 2011. Judging by the benchmark I found for the GTX-260, you'd probably get 20-30 fps if you redid that test today - 50 at most. Visual quality has improved of course but not that much so it's mostly overhead that has built up over the years.
Such a hard test. Asking a computer to render 1.2 million copies of the same thing. The processor was probably bored doing it and the graphics card didn't have much to do either. You can't use that as a comparison to something you'd find on a typical region now.
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1. This is not a question.
2. Answers is not a place for advertising. There are subforums under the Land forum that can be used. Which one depends on where your rentals are.
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I forgot that they were used that way. It's been a long time since it's happened to me. I do see 1 - 2 day olds at some of them. I assume someone who doesn't realize the onboarding process has changed sent them there. LL could do those newbies a favor by putting up teleport signs that send them back to the right place. Right now they're getting signs to teleport them to nonexistent locations.
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2 hours ago, Maitimo said:
These will be ad boards on neighbouring parcels, so whoever owns or is renting them. But I don't think newbies get sent to the old infohubs these days. My last new alt was sent to the Firestorm Gateway after the initial learning island.
Maitimo is correct; newbies go through the learning island and then on to a Social Island or one of the official gateways. Linden Lab doesn't send anyone to the infohubs. They're out of date and generally useless. Time to wipe them out.
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1 hour ago, Frigga Freidman said:
Off-topic: Some serious weirdness going on. Just logged on with my alt to go to a newly-acquired house and there was an on-screen message: "Choose a male or female avatar. You can change your mind later." Is this a throwback to the early days? (I shut it down immediately, so didn't see what changes my avatar may have undergone.)
That's a part of the current sign-up process. You pick male or female and get whatever starter avatar the system gives you. I'm very curious (I'm a cat after all) as to what happened to get that to come up after login.
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16 minutes ago, Jennifer Boyle said:
Added after seeing new posts: Multi-core processors have been out ten years or so. Is it too much to expect LL to update its software to be able to utilize their power after that long? It seems to me that that should be more important than adding features like experiences.
Please re-read @CoffeeDujour's post just above yours. And no, a second video card isn't going to help. A GTX1060 runs SL just about as well as a RTX2080.
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I always thought that song started "I'd like to buy the world some coke."
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2 minutes ago, Drakonadrgora Darkfold said:
I doubt it took as long as you think since they had the system once before. doubtfully it was so complicated to re-enable it or add it back in. they were just waiting for the right time where they could use it as another cash grab scheme.
Two responses to a conspiracy lover are enough, so here's the second: Second Life *never* had an automated ability to change an existing user name until now. Originally the user name was the identifier by which almost all of SL interacted with the avatar. The original naming system was a simple thing to create. Going back through 17 years of code to find and fix all the places where a user name was used rather than the UUID was a very big task, and it's likely LL has missed a few things. LL could change a user name before, but it took having a staff member go through everything to change any reference to the old name to the new name. If name changes were done like that now, they'd probably cost hundreds of dollars.
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6 minutes ago, Drakonadrgora Darkfold said:
it may have been in the works for a long time but it never was added back in until sansar closed down. which is kind of funny really.
The name change was added when it was ready. That took a very long time and had nothing to do with Sansar. Name changes became available after COVID-19 caused worldwide "stay at home" orders. Just a coincidence? Perhaps not.
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2 hours ago, Crim Mip said:
If you rent from somebody else, they are the owner and some of the parcel controls won't be directly available to you (there are things that can only be done by the parcel owner).
It's not uncommon on estate regions for the renter to buy the parcel with the cost set to one or two weeks of rent. They can then do everything parcel ownership allows, limited by region settings and the covenant. The owner of the region can reclaim the land as needed.
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LL says wait 24 hours for the name change to fully take effect, so I'd guess within 24 hours.
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It's safer (in terms of AR avoidance) to use the Linden one unless you get a 3rd-party security device that can be set to ignore anyone between 400 - 2000 meters altitude. I suspect newer residents tend to rez the gadget then forget about it.