Chronometria

They make some sense. The problem here is that Tier is too costly and people are feeling the squeeze. Linden homes suck, but living on the mainland in a 512 sucks more and frankly, renting and having your landlord go bust sucks a lot too. LL seems to regard owning land as a luxury, which has led to half the grid being abandoned and the other half being in the hands of land sellers all squabbling between one another. The fact that some landowners pay the equivalent of computer or small car ownership for their sims is way, way too much to spend on virtual entertainment in the current climate.

My fear is that it will drive the common resident further away from learning to build. I build things and bolt on sculpties or scripts and that suits me fine. However I am always alarmed at the numerous residents i meet who are in awe of my skills because they are fearful to give building a try at all. LL seems so be catering to the top level of builders with mesh, but the problem is that they are already the top level builders and mesh only benefits them, it doesnt raise anyone up further. The vast majority of builders are now two levels below as opposed to a mere one. Why is this an issue? Because if very few folks build with mesh, then most folks wont need to upgrade their viewers and thus nobody will buy it or want to wear it. The top builders have skilled themselves out of the market by mastering a technique that nobody really needs. Most people are quite happy with sculpts and would rather LL worked on improving basic building features than add another level of quasi-quantum mumbo jumbo that a tiny percentage will utilise. The only thing i got excited about was the return of large prims to the grid. That alone is probably making second life a happier place for a huge number of builders. Did it take months of work? No, but it was a simple matter of improvement that brought the greatest results. Majority happiness will prove the point as Mesh simply doesnt catch on.

It will make a big difference for creator ownership too. I think we have all gotten sick of being told that someone else made out stuff, just because we had to use their megaprims. It's not always possible to alter that with a well chosen root prim and this will probably help the asset server quite a bit.

That is indeed a very successful club. The only place i have on my list that matches those numbers is dance island.

Big prims - time to build some airships and spacecraft. :matte-motes-inlove:

Recently i was looking over the Jira to bring back second names for Residents and many of the people who had posted comments said that it "felt" wrong to lack a proper surname, or that older residents felt a strange kinship when they ran into someone who had the same second name as them. I find that second life often brings out strong feelings within us that are hard to understand. We create bonds that are hard to explain to others and perhaps this strange connection to us is what gives second life the power to express some issues strongly, like helping us to deal with death and loss. There is something going on that i cant really put into words, but once in a while i recognise it on my travels. Canoro raises a good point about the ability to help with issues like depression. I am a member of a depression support group and have seen people gain a lot of strength from some of the things they have experienced in second life. I once watched the sunrise and a group of meeroos waking up, with someone who was feeling really rough. It lifted his spirits.

Dear all, Sometimes on my wanderings i run into something about second life that moves me and feel the need to share that here. I was chatting to a friend of mine when she said she needed to go to Mocha cathedral and she told me that she goes there each week to re-light the candles that people have put there, to remember their lost loved ones. Nobody knew she did this and she got no reward from it. She told me that she felt she was helping take care of the thoughts people had placed there and helping their prayers be heard. I felt it to be quite a humbling thing to know that there were people out there who were making these kind, selfless and spiritual gestures on behalf of folks they didn't know. I was also moved that there were people out there placing builds like Mocha cathedral that were doing real good and that were themselves costing their owners a lot for no return. I feel that even though second life is just pixels, it continues to have a special, healing power that i have seen nowhere else, even in real life. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mocha/154/180/41 Though you cant see it, many of these have a text message above, telling their story. Each is placed for a loved one. Many prims must be set aside as there are many candles!

I stood at a junction the other day and watched one of these crash, followed by another.....and another, until they were all a mess of vehicles, some on their side, others trying to get back on the path. It seems to me that the presence of a watching avatar somehow messes these up and i cant work out why. Often i have stood to watch one and it has immediately gone haywire.

Oh and i would also bring back second names.

I would flip all the legacy abandoned land plots into the auction queue and see what took place.

I am curious, what is the item and why is it so special?

You really should have given viewer 2 a proper test out. You could just have been in basic mode, which makes a lot of limitations. Otherwise try firestorm, but you`ll note that its a lot more like viewer 2 than you may have expected. At the very least give that a good test out.

Thats a lot of posts you have there Ceka.....i guess its blue for life! Thankyou for the pie Cinnamon! I envy those purple advisor people, they are very cool.

At last, i have been recognised for greatness and have achieved member status on the forums. Behold my new blue bowling pin thing and send tributes, all you lesser, yellow bowling pin people. :matte-motes-nerdy: I will accept donations of pie.

My account is by no means old, but i`m already looking through the various items i have, some of which i have built and i`m seeing "built by unknown" on a great many. I was even given a notecard yesterday and when i checked it to pull the profile of the person i was talking to.....it gave me the wrong one. Why is it that the identity of items and made objects is so easily lost in second life?

We are certainly seeing a situation where there are building disenfranchised residents. It used to be that a fancy builder used sculpts and that made them professional, but soon there will be a level beyond that with mesh, leaving normal prim builders even further down the line. The message is that if you dont use some sort of external 3d modelling program, just dont build and thats not good for anyone. I can buy sculpts to give that extra level of realism to my builds, but that depends on finding the right ones at a reasonable price and many "builders kits" are priced far beyond reasonable. What we may find is that when mesh appears, it doesnt catch on, because the vast majority of builders are still chugging along with the basic tools and making do with what extras they can scrounge from the skill level above them. Mesh is way up in the clouds for people still doing the odd "bolt on a sculpty". When the results of this become apparent, then maybe the basic building functions will get a brush up and some improvement. That, after all, is what the majority of residents take the time to try and master (and note well, that many, many residents dont even get that far).

I put it down to the explosion of vampirism in second life. Though a good few vampires i meet are lazy and just look perfectly normal, which is a bit sad.

Well, i cant log into marketplace, so decorating my new office in insilico just isnt going to happen. Customers like me simply cant access your goods it seems. The silence about it all is all the more concerning.

Was surprised to find i still couldnt log in. This isnt fixed yet?

Cutting out the shadows will also improve performance, so its a win win.

Even the strongest second life avatar cannot fight the power of the Nothing.

Worth remembering that it isnt related to avatar age, but is measured in days from the upgrade. I`m not sure if it applies in this situation, but it did puzzle me when i went over my time, only to realise that i was freebie for about 2 weeks before i upgraded.

Thats because you cant replace it with an attached item, its actually part of you. I had this the other day when i accidentally clicked some newbie eyes in my inventory, trying to clear them out of an old folder. Caused me a lot of hassle trying to remove them. Many newbie items are not really items at all. You basically need to go into the edit appearance section and make a new, blank look for yourself, from what i remember. Eventually it will let you remove the hair somehow.

Well, this looks to have become a long term battle and a real public test of Linden Lab's ability to protect successful merchants. The griefers are continuing to assault the meeroo sims and have demanded 800US Dollars in payment to stop their attacks. Apparently the Lab's are now taking this seriously, but no details on how they have "upped their game" have been released. Some meeroo owners suggested that the police be brought in as money was being demanded with menace...a potential "cyber crime" It's also proving to be a real test of marketplace, which struggled to cope with demand. The marketplace boxes were actually destroyed by demand and had to be rebuilt. It also apparently affected the marketplace server itself.