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Dyna Mole

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  1. OK, gang .... The thread is rambling now and the comments are getting edgy. I'm going to close it and go watch RL fireworks.
  2. Now that someone in another thread has decided to make me actually pay attention, I think I probably ought to point out that this conversation has been wandering today from whatever its basic topic is. Please do remember that threads in this forum are supposed to be SL related and stay on topic.
  3. Sorry. I've been doing wholely molely stuff and letting @Quartz Mole do the heavy lifting in the forums this afternoon. Besides, with a few exceptions the forum rowdies have been elsewhere (playing with RL fireworks?) today. I thought that you wouldn't notice I was AWOL.
  4. Hi, gang -- This feels like a good time to remind everyone to stay on topic and to avoid posting comments that are intended to provoke an angry response.
  5. Yes, I agree. The thread has finally wandered deep into the wilderness and doesn't seem to have much chance of finding its way back. It's been fun.......
  6. If you are reading this note today (June 23, 2023), please note that the thread was created in 2011 -- twelve years ago. Posts made in 2011 are out of date. As Rowan Amore notes above,
  7. Hi, @Drayke Newall. Thanks for the mostly constructive observations. I have had my head down working on other things most of the day and have only just found time to read through this thread. In doing it, I feel I have to offer an explanation for what you see as an apparent flaw in Fantasy scripting. Most LDPW scripts have some sort of trap door provision that a mole or Linden can use either to diagnose a problem or do a quick check to be sure that things are working as designed. All streetlights, for example, have a touch activation that only responds to a mole or Linden and then only makes the light reverse its state (ON or OFF) for 10 seconds. In the Fantasy theme, most of the bioluminescent objects( plants, rocks, pavement, house roofs ... ) contain that provision so that we can tell easily whether the glow is OFF because it's daytime or because its script stalled. A Fantasy region has hundreds of those objects, all listening to a central server that monitors the sun angle and checks to see when the season (and hence the color scheme) should change. Having that quick diagnostic switch makes troubleshooting much easier for us. It shouldn't make a bit of difference that a non-mole or non-Linden can't activate it. It's like all those doors in other people's houses that you can't open either. I'm tempted to suggest that your friend overreacted on this occasion. BTW, in case you wonder ... all those scripts just sit idle, doing nothing at all unless they are pinged by the region's central server or are touched by one of us. Their total impact on region resources is miniscule. Thanks again for taking the time to do a careful review of our work.
  8. Hi gang! Thank you for staying pretty close to the thread topic. Please remember also to keep the tone of discussion civil. If you have a personal disagreement with another poster, take it off line.
  9. OKAY .... Enough. This thread is a place to share peeves, not a place to hurl darts. Please return to our regularly scheduled programming.
  10. And Quartz. Don't forget Quartz. Or Abnor.
  11. Hi team! The thread wandered quite a bit off topic a while back, so we've pruned things to get back on course. The question at the start of the thread is "Where are the Lindens?" (specifically, where in the forums), so please head back in that direction.
  12. Hi gang! It looks like this entertaining discussion went off topic a while ago and has become a shouting match. It's time to take a break.
  13. Hi gang! A very gentle reminder, mostly because I don't plan to stay up all night watching and I'd kind like to see this thread still alive in the morning ... Please remember to stay on topic and to resist the temptation to strike out at other posters personally. It's easy to get sidetracked and forget what a long thread like this is all about. In the heat of a discussion it can also be tempting to criticize other people instead of their ideas. Just don't.
  14. Hey, team... The conversation seems to be getting edgy and it's starting to repeat itself, so I'm going to go ahead and close it.
  15. Just a quick reminder .... The forums are not an appropriate place for discussing specific TOS violations, because of the possibility of naming and shaming other people. This thread asks a good question, using an in-world observation as an example of a problem but not identifying who might be responsible. In most cases, though, it is better to submit an Abuse Report and let the Governance team decide what to do next.
  16. Hey, troops ... It's fine to have a robust discussion, but let's not start throwing things at each other. If you disagree, please do it without using language that is sarcastic, pointedly personal, or intended to pick a fight. Take it off line, if you must. The thread has grown far enough that it's also a good idea to step back and focus on the theme. It's easier to have a constructive conversation if we're all headed in the same direction.
  17. Hi, team! There have been some good suggestions, looking at the OP's question from more than one perspective. I'm going to go ahead to lock the thread now, though, because it's starting to feel a bit testy. @oliviarodrigovirtual For future reference, if you feel that you have encountered a possible violation of the Terms of Service, the best way to bring it to the attention of Governance is to submit an Abuse Report. Here's a quick guide to how to do that:
  18. For the epic grid-wide searching adventure Tyrah and the Curse of the Magical Glytches, LDPW moles created dropping anvils, dropping pianos, bear traps, sinking mudholes, runaway buses, whirlwinds, meteors, and all sorts of other perils. You can still run across them in selected surprise spots around the grid. Lots of fun with physics (and other things).
  19. That's a timely observation. The topic of the thread is the updated policy about scripted agents. Conversations about Tilia are interesting, but are headed in a different direction. Let's leave it here and get back to the thread.
  20. Let me interject a brief reminder that this is the Answers section of the forums, designed as a place for people to ask questions about how SL works (or doesn't) and get short factual answers from other users. It is not a place for lengthy discussion. That is much better suited for one of the other forums, often General Discussion.
  21. Please remember that if you have a personal disagreement with another resident, it doesn't belong here in the forums. As always, hearty, even vigorous debate is welcome as long as it is on topic.
  22. OK ... now that all the aliens have gone home or been shot down by our intrepid Mole Interceptors, I'll tell you what those balloons seem to have been saying in Morse code. We recorded four messages, sent randomly: Plese dont shoot me I love most peeples Im a wether bloon Im harmles swamp gas plus a fifth message that was nothing more than a burst of static. The aliens were obviously terrible at spelling. I assume that's because they were not speaking their own language and Google Translate wasn't much help . BTW, if you spot an alien ship or balloon that evaded us, please let us know.
  23. Clever ideas. We were limited by the allowed length of a sound clip (10 seconds), which means that any message had to be fewer than about 20 characters. That ruled out messages like yours, sadly.
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