[New griefing strategies and tools?]

I am perplexed!  I am the estate manager for about 23 sims owned by a friend.  She and I take griefing of the residents very serious and have always managed to keep griefing to a minimum.  However, over the last several months I have seen a trend with really weird things happening and I can usually tie it back to specific people being present when it happens.  For example:  a former resident that we had asked to leave because of her behavior came back and told another resident that she could take his land and throw him off of it.  When he told her that was not possible,she did it!  She also did some land things to another resident that she shouldn't have been able to do like terraforming, etc.  Has anyone else experienced anything like this?  Today, I found the land around some of her parcels dropped between parcel lines and it couldn't be raised.  She had to revert the land.  She and I both thought of griefing again.  We have actually had someone clear her high prim sim twice.  We can't figure out how it's being done.  I heard that a new utility/griefer tool was out there that has those capabilities.  Anyone have a suggestion or knowledge on the subject?

[Land rights on Homestead land.]

Brief description of the issue.  I am an estate manager and we have an issue that we have not experienced before.  Most people are quite content with one person "owning" one of our parcels and anyone else associated being granted land rights through a land group.  Most of our residents do not "deed" their land to the land group, they just set the land to group. This usually allows the group members the ability to do most that people find important...music, building, returning objects, banning, etc.  However, for the first time, we have a couple in which the man bought the land and the woman is not happy with these "few" permissions.  She wants equal billing and I am not sure just what has to be done to give it to her short of deeding the land to their land group and I am not sure if this will completely fix her issue.  Will deeding the land to a land group give the woman as many land rights as the person who originally rented the parcel?

[How do you get help with land issues during a holiday? No one seems to be answering tickets.]

I am estate manager for 24 sims (estate land).  Our high prim sim which serves as the community center and holds all events is having issues since 7/3/2012 at approximately 7:00 pm slt.  We can see the sim but cannot get to it to restart it.  It's like it really doesn't exist and I have had to log tickets for this same issue with this sim several times already and logged a new ticket around 10pm slt last night.  I cannot seem to reach anyone at Linden lab to restart this sim.  Chat is definitely offline but it appears that no one is monitoring or taking care of tickets.  Is there another avenue for issues that I am unaware of?  There are events planned at this sim for the holiday and this is a revenue generator which is more crucial than ever with the economy in rl such as it is.  Anyone have any further suggestions to get attention to a ticket that is urgent?  Thanks for any suggestions.

 

RE:  We have logged tickets, contacted concierge, etc.  We can't find a linden anywhere and this sim has been down since last night while people should have been there.  Getting a little upset at this point as our first event is coming up soon.  :-(

[SL Performance...or lack thereof.]

Scotland Balloch

[SL Performance...or lack thereof.]

The land is deeded to a land group and auto return is on for those not in that group.  That is something we keep a constant watch on and anything that manages to slip through is done away with.  Gotta love those griefers.  Thanks for the info, I'll double check to make sure nothing has been missed.

[SL Performance...or lack thereof.]

While I understand what you are saying, what you don't catch in what I am saying (maybe I am not being effective, my apologies).  We have educated folks about their scripts, etc.  We have made mono every single script we can and eliminated or purchased updated versions that had scripts not compiled in mono.  I, myself, carry very minimal scripting if any at all most of the time.  Resize scripts I get rid of once I have modified whatever it is to fit me.  We have few things that are just abnormal to account for the lag most feel.  I have literally welcomed a new visitor to the sim and before I can even blink my eyes, they'll remark that it's too laggy there and leave.

I have been to other sims with lots and lots of people there and the lag is worse, yes, but not significantly.  So I don't understand why you don't lag at our place and don't understand why the other places are not significantly more laggy.  There are only a couple others that say they "usually" don't lag.  But they, too, lag sometimes or crash the rest of the time.  I have heard that if you are sharing a server with other sims that are laggy, they can leech their lag over to your sim.  Don't know if that's true but am surely to goodness fed up with banging my head on the wall.

We are talking about, for the most part, a consistent group of people who have been going to this sim on a regular basis for over two years.  So is it really us changing or is the technology not up to date or what?  Hard on this end to guess without knowing how this system is set up.  And hard to make an argument, even here, without more concrete evidence to throw around.  So I guess we're just going to have to keep going until no one comes anymore then the sims go away.  There is nothing more for us to do.  We didn't build this system but we sure have gone out of our way to eliminate all the culprits that have been suggested by Linden and now here.  So nothing left to do I guess.  Thanks for the input.    

[SL Performance...or lack thereof.]

No, it's pretty much all the time and we can hardly even have events there anymore.  There are occasionally people who say they don't lag but cannot figure out what makes them so different.  Their computers are not super machines.  In fact, more often than not, my machine is much better than most.  It's not limited to any time of day.  I am the estate manager for these sims and I never have an issue until I go to the high prim sim.  This sim is divided into two parts with half being residential and half commercial.  Nothing extraordinary nor are things around there unusually scripted.  I have been told a couple of times by Linden that it's textures.  But these same textures have been on this sim since it came about almost 4 years ago.  So totally stumped.

[SL Performance...or lack thereof.]

I have been in SL for almost 2 1/2 years now.  Within the first month or so, I landed in the residential sims that I still reside in to this day.  The high prim sim for this sim series is little changed from when I first came here but I am telling you that performance gets worse every day!  We have scrubbed for bad scripts and eliminated them.  We have eliminated scripts that just don't need to be there.  We have looked for every kind of issue that could cause lag and eliminated it.  The script use on the sim is minimal considering it is a high prim sim.  We just don't know what else to do. 

I have talked to Linden and they keep telling me the same thing over and over and over.  It's us, of course.  My position is this, if things have changed so little, then how can it possibly be us?  We need answers as people complain about the lag sooooo much we are actually losing visitors.  We have long time residents who refuse to come to the community center, which is the high prim sim because lag is so bad.  How do you prove, to Linden, that it is not us and to please look at what is possibly on the server side other than a few statistics?  It is the same old thing...never Linden, always us.  

From where I sit, when the sims are no longer attracting people, the owner of 26 sims no longer has a need to keep them.  Revenue lost for Linden.  While there may be larger land barons in SL, I don't think ignoring this issue is the best strategy.  What can you do?