Parhelion Palou

A script that can give a notecard & LM upon entering a region or parcel would use the LSL functions llGetAgentList (which can be set to list all avatars in a region or in a parcel) and llGiveInventoryList (which will put the notecard & LM in a folder to make them easier to find). The script should keep track of which avatars it has given inventory to so that it doesn't continuously offer inventory to the same person. Check the Marketplace if you don't want to write it yourself. However, I don't think it's a good idea to offer the notecard/LM unsolicited. Many people are annoyed by it. If renters have visitors the visitors really shouldn't be given a notecard; annoy the visitors and you could lose renters. If you have a parcel that's used as a rental office or information area you could possibly give the notecard/LM to people who are in that parcel since you can assume they'd be interested in the information.

Just a quick little clarification: The house does remain owned by Linden Lab but that isn't the reason it doesn't count against the parcel's land impact allowance. The root 'prim' of the house linkset is outside of the parcel, so the LI of the house is counted against the common land rather than the parcel the rest of the house is on. There's no magic exclusion from parcel LI counts for LL owned items.

Mollymews has the only good answer. You need to select this setting for your parcel. If you can't then I assume you're renting; you could ask your landlord to set it for you. When you restrict sounds to your parcel it also keeps you from hearing sounds from other parcels. It's very similar to the setting that keeps people outside of your parcel from seeing people inside. If they can't see you then you won't be able to see them.

The Head of Hardware (I forgot the title) who spoke in a video a couple years ago said LL's data center is becoming obsolete. They decided it would be cheaper to put SL on the cloud completely than to build a new data center. I'm sure they thought it shouldn't be that hard; they'd done it with Sansar and could use the people who did that work. I would've loved to see the look of horror on the faces of those people when they saw the SL code base. The data center was set up to get the fastest possible data transfer between the servers in order to reduce region crossing problems. I don't see how they'd be able to guarantee that on something like AWS unless LL could arrange a similar setup there. LL has said they won't tell us that they're moving simulators to the cloud until after it's done. One clue might be region crossings getting a lot worse.

I don't see why Linden Lab would want to spend the resources necessary to create a new client (including rewriting the OpenGL graphics SL uses to the API that the Playstation 4 uses). That's a lot of effort for uncertain financial gain. I suspect LL's learned enough from Sansar to avoid taking unnecessary shots in the dark. A few hundred G-rated regions that would be interesting to people used to PS games would be hard to come by, and they're scattered all over the grid. Note: Moderate allows nudity and private sex, so M-rated regions are out. Between M and A ratings that's most of SL. Would a PS user be interested in paying SL land prices to be able to build something that's interesting, assuming they could find a G-rated region that rents parcels? Sony assumes the game developers are responsible for the content of their games. SL's content is user-created. Who would be monitoring everything available for sale to PS users to make sure the items meet whatever standard Sony has set? Maybe LL would have to add a PS rating to the .Marketplace. And yes, there *is* that little matter of SL being limited to 16-year-olds and up.

You're funny. I assume you're roleplaying.

Interesting -- this comment about big companies leaving hasn't only come from you. The big companies left by around 2009, so it's not a recent thing. Why would people bring it up now?

The SL servers (that aren't off somewhere in the web like CDS) are in a facility in Arizona. That facility is aging & needs to be replaced, which is why LL is trying so hard to move to the cloud. It's cheaper than building a new facility.

Today I was at the Breakfast Club breakfast: Here's one that @Clover Jinx and @Rhonda Huntress may like: I'll probably put the rest on Flickr once I go through the pictures to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Per Linden Lab, the name change feature will use new lists of last names. Existing last names won't be offered.

The first explanation I heard for dropping last names was it was done due to a database design problem. LL stores a number for your last name and retrieves it when necessary from a look-up table. They chose too small of a data type for the number/index, and estimated they'd run out of numbers if they kept generating new last names. Remember that it's not just existing residents who take up names, but all of the people who sign up for SL. The simplest solution was to use Resident as a last name, keep the remaining index values for custom names/RegAPI use, and discontinue offering last names to new sign-ups. If that's the case, then part of restoring last names is to fix the data type for the name index. It could've been done before, but the Resident fix was definitely easier. The explanation is plausible and is definitely more believable than all the conspiracy theories that have popped up over the years.

It's iOS, Android comes later. It's also a text client, as in used for chatting with people in-world. LL says they may add more features later.

As @Beth Macbain said, the Lindens are still out & about in SL, both under their own accounts and using their Linden accounts. I've seen Lindens in-world several times this year. Some of the existing Lindens were in SL before they were hired.

Voice and whatever else was shut down at safe hubs because the people there abused it. If a toddler hits someone with a toy you take the toy away. LL never promised VR support for SL; they tested it and decided it wouldn't work well with SL. Some things have been moved to the cloud but so far there's no word that they've moved the simulator servers to the cloud.

It's a feature in Firestorm and perhaps other viewers. Sometimes it gets confused and cams to the wrong location. Once it does it continues to show the avatar that location on the minimap though it's not there. I think that leaving the region then coming back resets it, but that was a test I tried a long time ago. The bug usually sends my camera to <0,0,0>. In my case that's fine, because I use the feature to work on things at ground level when I'm on my build platform (at 3300 meters). I just need to get my camera to ground level, then I can cam to whatever I want to work on. (Yeah, I'm lazy.)

I recently went from Hanibaram in the continent below Bellisseria through the channel and through Bellisseria then to a short channel up to the continent that's above it. I brought an alt along. Other than the alt getting unseated at the first region crossing, the next 109 region crossings went fine. I was only doing 15 - 20 knots though. SL is a general purpose sandbox. It wasn't designed specifically for vehicles, and certainly not as a flight simulator. SL isn't being neglected, but I doubt Linden Lab has much interest in spending a lot of developer time on making your flights better. They've got many other things to do.

You can't set it per parcel. By making all land on the region have the same owner, the prims get shared as well. You could stuff 20,000 onto one parcel and have none on the rest. So ... decide how many of the 20,000 each parcel should have. Put it on a notecard and send it to everyone in the group. They'll each be responsible for using About Land->Objects to make sure they're not using more than the notecard says they can have.

In this case the Lindex was very accurate. Here's today's buy screen: It's exactly the OP's purchase, with a 2-day estimated time to fill. If you want to get the Lindens quicker and use a limit buy, set the rate to a lower value. Something like 264 would've been filled in a few minutes.

You can't, at least not in a way that would allow the individual parcels to have different owners. If they're all owned by the same group you can decide how much LI each one can have, but you'll need a gadget that checks the prim/LI count in each parcel in order to enforce the limits. ETA: If the 16 parcels use up all the land on the region, the only way a global object bonus can work is if some of the parcel owners agree to use fewer objects then their parcel allows. If a per-parcel bonus was possible it would be the same. The maximum LI of a region is not changed by the object bonus. In order for some parcels to use more others must use less. Generally a region is set up with public land such as a park that is kept to a low enough LI count to allow the rest of the region to use their 'bonus' LI.

Are you assuming the person behind the screen will log both avatars in at the same time? I doubt that happens often.

Linden Lab doesn't have a height requirement for SL. Read the Terms of Service and Community Standards to see. Land owners can ban her from their land if they wish. They can ban people for any reason. Go somewhere else if that happens; it's not worth worrying about.

The solution is obvious - climb the trees.

Since all died, and assuming you tried them on another (script-enabled) region, then it's likely something happened to you that killed the scripts in the HUDs. The easiest fix is to use the body, head, and AO delivery boxes to get new copies. If you didn't keep the boxes you'll have to get them redelivered first. Your other account wouldn't have had the same thing happen to it, so its HUD(s) wouldn't be affected.

You don't hang around many newbie places. Asking where to get sex and where to get money are fairly common questions, though how to get a better avatar is probably the most common.

Facebook's VR investment is the equivalent of loose change found under the couch cushions, so VR's success isn't that critical to them. All the research that can be done won't fix isolation. People don't like being isolated. What if someone is sneaking up behind you? If it ever does get popular (you may be as old as us ancients by then) I'm going to sell a book called "101 Tricks to Play on Goggle Wearers".