Elisha Kling

My main beef with Second life and the recommended specs to successfully run and operate second life from your home pc is that currently the draw on ones pc resources are escalating so fast older machines are unable to continue coping. A machine I bought just one year ago, that was capable of supporting three Avis at high without crashing can now barely sustain a single avi. I have recently bought a custom gaming machine very capable of competing at the highest levels of most online games, and yet SL performance is extremely limited at ultra, tolerable at high and only really functional at med. Sl has always been a resource Hog and it seems to me that changes over the past year have created a resource monster, greedily devouring any and all resources we can throw at it. We hear of great improvments and increased stability, but do those who call for better enhanced graphics quality really ever sit down and think?? SL is what it is NOT because a few computer genius'swith all powerful wonder systems can make some stupid unneeded unwanted unheard of advance in thier itinery of in world product. SL has grown to the size it is because it appeals to the masses, those hundreds of thousands of people who enjoy the community, but cannot always afford the latest and best machine, cannot afford to upgrade to a newer machine every few years, and hey they even sometimes enjoy running more than one avi at one time. Therefore if I were asked what would I want out of SL my answer would be stop advanced developement, stop increased graphical enhancement. get the system stable and efficient, remove the bugs of which there are still many and when you have actually achieved, these few goals then ASK the general community what we would like and share with us the possible increase in required specs BEFORE implementing change.