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  1. nah, you just never hear from intelligent weapons owners as they don't go out and rant on forums about how their guns don't work when they're not loaded (or indeed rant at all except about gun grabbing liberal democrat sissies) :matte-motes-nerdy:
  2. do you have anything to contribute except another baseless rant about how bad LL is, Sam?
  3. Theresa Tennyson wrote: There's a "safety factor" built into the prim allowance so that if you put in prims up to the limit the sim shouldn't behave badly, especially with the new "land impact" scores which give a more realistic picture of server load. Also, regions have allowances for temporary prims, prims worn by avatars, etc. However, if there are people rezzing objects like vehicles you should allow a certain number of free prims - I think 256 should cover the biggest conceivable vehicle. Once a vehicle is "driven" it no longer applies to the base prim count. you wish. I've a boat that's 880 prims land impact. Of course it's also 120m long and 20 wide, so rather impractical to sail around. Got it as a group gift from a store, suffice I never bought anything there after seeing the requirements on their promotional offers TBF, most vehicles try to stay clear of the 32 prim mark for performance reasons on sim crossings (which was the original maximum for vehicles).
  4. Syo Emerald wrote: BrynneBaileigh wrote: I find that mildly disappointing. I used to rely on it to weed out those who begged for money and those who could hold their own. If they had no alt, nor a payment method, I wouldn't deal with them. Shame. I find that pretty strange and...not very nice what you said here. Does that mean you think everyone without PIOF is a potentional beggar, a second-class user or someone who is only inworld to cause some trouble? sadly there's a lot such bigotry sadly. Like the idea that everyone who's got a name of "Resident" is an alt or griefer and should be harassed. Or anyone who's under 1.8 meter is a child avatar and therefore a pedophile.
  5. another problem is that many a sim was built at least in part by people who no longer log in, people even who have died rl and their creations being kept as a memorial by their friends (I help run one such place). Delete those accounts, and everything that goes with them, and you end up destroying the memories people keep of their loved ones who died.
  6. no, it just means the avatar feeding names to the one that handles the invites is still there. Another thing they do is join a group, list all the members (I guess they'd use a specially modified viewer for that), and bulk send group invites. No need to be in the region at all, at any time, unless the group is set up to not allow joining except from a bot running inside the region, in which case they'd need to pop in for a few seconds to arrange the group invite.
  7. Orca Flotta wrote: I also find Mr Bearsfoot's posts often to be very knowledgeable and levelheaded. Anyhoo, my advice would be to not just run the usual speedtest but do a tracert to SL. This will show you on which hop you'll have the worst ping. Who knows, it might be close to home, at your local exchange (multiplexer, DSLam), or maybe already on your own premises. quite in contrast to temin's rant, which is just the plain extremely low level of idiocy I've come to expect from the pathological whiners that are a main cause for LL staff to not participate actively in these forums and generally not bother even trying to help most residents. One has to wonder why someone who's so dissatisfied with the product still continues to use it.
  8. nothing new, been going on for years. Don't see an increase either, roughly the same level been going on for as long as I've been in second life, meaning 1-2 per week on average.
  9. Gadget Portal wrote: Moral of the story? Look at the URL before you give your username and password to strangers. moral of the story: never enter your SL username and password on any website that's not HTTPS enabled, and then only on sites that live on the secondlife.com domain. In other words, only on https://whatever.secondlife.com And don't ever give your account information to anyone anywhere else.
  10. Porky Gorky wrote: jwenting wrote: because we care about these forums, maybe? You're also not paid to whine and complain, yet you do so incessantly. Why? Whinning and complaining is what the internet was invented for. Complaining and looking at pussies......................on lolcats.com, obviously. meow, can I haz cheezeburger? :matte-motes-nerdy:
  11. Perrie Juran wrote: Profaitchikenz Haiku wrote: You could turn him into a bot and script him to go door to door... An actual practical use for Pathfinding! I'm in awe. Hmmmm......can you set a bot up to follow a 'path?' you can have a pathfinding object follow a set of coordinates, sure.
  12. well, maybe a job as a living statue. No need to walk, talk, or indeed do anything at all. But I doubt you'll be paid for it (though some of them do have tipjars, where people can pay their owners to have the sentence increased).
  13. nCore has red, though maybe not the tone you want. Drakke has great red boots, and some shoes as well. I love my Graves ruby ankle boots too.
  14. Freya Mokusei wrote: There's no reason to make it very broad at all, they use a repeating series of less than a dozen Indian mainland +91 (0) 900 numbers. Filter would take like two minutes, Lithium has the functionality already. Lack of help should be assumed to be intentional. today it's Dubai apparently (though I didn't open the posts, the flood of headers mentioned Dubai).
  15. for under 30s, there's money trees. Of course those do require payment information to dissuade people creating armies of alts to farm them, but that's only a minor hindrance.
  16. Perrie Juran wrote: X3aV wrote: How do you or anyone else know how often a Linden employee reads the forums? You can state that they do not respond, but unless you are monitoring them, yourself or anyone else has no way of knowing. You are right, I don't know for a fact how often a Linden reads these. Maybe some of them do on their lunch break for a good laugh. We do know that out side of the Technology/Server Forum, responses are in the category of the miraculous. When we do see them log in, for instance CommerceTeam Linden, they post their update and log right out. I just did a check through Users On Line and there wasn't a single Linden listed. That is about par for course. eta shpelling to be fair, they could have a corporate policy to not post here under their Linden accounts to prevent getting flooded with requests and complaints from users. This is not in fact an uncommon policy.
  17. Nova Convair wrote: A sploder is payed by several avatars. Some time later there is payout time. If the winning avatar is no more in sim at that time the script is unable to retrieve the avatars name, but can still pay out since it needs only the uuid for payout and not the name. The name it displays is then unknown or av offline or whatever. note: It is possible to get the name of an offline avatar but thats a bit more complicated to script. Why do people scream exploit who don't know whats going on? Observing sploders in several clubs for weeks on end I've found many will consistently pay out the bulk of their proceeds to a small number of avatars, most of which are not in fact in the club at the time and didn't pay in anything. This is not restricted to avatars that might have been there earlier, as this goes on for cycle after cycle over an evening. E.g. ObviousClubBot Resident gets 90% first run of the evening, 80% second run half an hour later, 75% third run 20 minutes after that, 90% fourth run 10 minutes in, and isn't in the club at all (not even elsewhere on the sim). And then there's indeed the payouts to anonymous avatars, which could be indeed former visitors since left but again these happen even during runs in which all the payees into the sploder are still in the club when payout happens. So yes, there are rigged sploders out there. I don't know if it's the majority of them or whether I just happened across an unusual spread, but in my experience of several dozen clubs over the last half year or so they are indeed the majority. And club owners wonder why many regulars don't bother to put money in sploders... At least the 50/50 sploders I see in some clubs are honest, in that they state quite clearly only half the money paid in gets paid out again, the rest going to the club. Nothing wrong with that.
  18. KarenMichelle Lane wrote: I so understand. Here in the US we've come to expect these things on our corporate supplied cars and corporate supplied phones. The laws on this are very iffy. In some states if you park your car only in your driveway you have an expected assumption of privacy from this sort of thing. The argument goes - but as soon as you choose to drive onto a public road you willing give up that expectation. Civil Laws are all over the place on this and it is different State by State. We have such a huge fraud problem in the US that Companies large & Small use these tactics to uncover it and many times cross legal boundaries in the process. company cars is one thing, the company can fit tracking devices to those (though they will in most places have to notify employees of the fact). Hiring someone to illicitly place one on a private car is another matter entirely.
  19. There's always the zero-prim approach of visiting your tenants around the time they need to pay their next installment and talking with them. It's not as convenient if you have a lot of tenants of course, and requires you to actually do your bookkeeping, but it works.
  20. because we care about these forums, maybe? You're also not paid to whine and complain, yet you do so incessantly. Why?
  21. sounds fishy indeed. Transfer region ownership, at the cost of $150 one time. Then continue to collect rent to the amount of $295+profit and for a few months pay LL that $295 using a throwaway alt, then keep collecting the rent while stopping payments. Worst happens, the throwaway alt account gets shut down (it's no doubt created using an anonymous email address that can't be traced to the actual address). If your, his customer's, account get shut down as well the scammer couldn't care less. Indeed, arrange to pay LL directly and stop paying the alt "manager".
  22. it will work, as in the viewer will start and you can log in. But you won't get an enjoyable experience, in that you will need to turn your graphics and everything else way down and still not get even halfway decent performance.
  23. hmm, news to me. Interesting option, and a good help to get rid of griefer stuff if you're on the mainland (my guess as it's off by default on private estates and can only be enabled through the debug console is that it's going to be off on most all private estates).
  24. personally, I'd recommend not getting any prim/mesh boobs. You don't need them to look good, and all the appliers do is make the boobs take on the same textures that your standard ones get just from wearing the skin (or clothing).
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