Chris Corvinus

The thing about Second Life, and I think the one thing that sets it back the most, is the fps (framerate per second). I know the whole thing here is you can create whatever you want but you can't. You can only create what your computer can handle. You can only go to places that your computer can handle and lets be real here, Second Life looks like utter crap on low graphics. Its not visually appealing at all. Years ago I took a 30k region and completely decked it out using up all 30k prims (why pay for so much and not be able to use them all?). Naturally as I added more, the fps went down and I tried to combat that by deleting many many many many scripts, alot were useless. Creators go script crazy in here. I even found a resize script for a plant! It helped but so many visitors complained they could barely walk around and mostly cammed which ruined the intent of finding many of the hidden areas and surprises. The place was made and designed as a lush AAA video game world. And I am sad to say, its not possible in Second Life to maintain that without a FPS of 5 or less which is unbearable even on low settings and I have a beast of a rig. I am comfortably on ultra half the time. Plus, the time it took to design the sim and someone comes in on the lowest settings, they aren't going to visually see the effort you put into it. Second Life is not this platform where you can create anything you want. FPS ruins a lot of that from a landscaping perspective. Its not worth designing sims like that. And the funny thing is, I promoted that sim outside of Second Life to help bring in new people. I brought in a few real life friends and after a few days, they just left and never returned. Their complaints? Lag/fps, visual quality, horrific ui, ridiculous learning curve, inventory, and resource hogging. So while Big Tech is looking at the Metaverse, and while Linden Lab is one of the pioneers of it, they have also fallen deeply behind. Focusing on mobile and avatar motions with webcam is....to be blunt, quite stupid. No one is asking for either of those. As someone who has experienced severe issues with the platform even on a modern high performance rig, its a problem and it should be addressed.

ABSOLUTELY FREAKING NOT.

These are literally all basic requests that many games and platforms already have. That last one though...good luck

SL makes it hella easy tho.

What about land painting tools to replace the aging terrain tool? Or the ability to terraform real cave systems? No ones thought about this in 15+ years? I mean, MINECRAFT beat you to that idea. Stay in 2006 tho.

And that....is precisely why Second Life will never change. Sure, it will get a few minor updates but it will forever be known to the rest of the world as an ancient platform to laugh at because it never progressed past 2006. It will be laughed at as the program older generations use....and trust me, its been that way already for a very very long time and its nothing to be proud of.

I did suggest a compromise as my ideas were reaching radical levels.

Yes. Who is "us"? This idea isn't for you. Its not for those who have been here a long time. The old needs to be thrown out and the whole thing revamped and upgraded....properly. If SL does not grow, it will die. Thats fact with any platform and you know it. Nobody likes change, even me. But I will compromise and say mesh ability should be added next to prim tools.

This. But, I will say that there should be a museum-style sim dedicated to the ways of old. Just make sure new people never see it.

What they should do is replace building in prim to building in mesh. Get rid of prim altogether. Its simply too old and obsolete.

Because both Roblox and Minecraft are FUN. No overbloated UI's with a billion things to learn. New people come here and theres literally nothing to do except walk around aimlessly.

Its not so much the visuals, its the prim. Mesh has advanced significantly. I think its always good to show the best of Second Life to new people after they arrive in world for the first time. First impressions matter.

Because that is what SL is to the rest of the world. Old. Dated. Ancient. Bringing the creator back won't do any good when you have a reputation for having outdated content. From that video, Philip came back to bring SL into mobile which is severely laughable. Might wanna clean up the business reputation first before showing off even more outdated content on a modern smartphone and tablet. And honestly, I have negative zero trust that Linden Lab can produce a 3D app for SL.

Yeah I have no need for that as its a super private region I have through LL. Its my home, basically. Group enabled only. If it were public, I would still have group enabled and use the access list ability. I haven't used an orb in forever, haha.

I need an eyeroll reaction. The forums needs an eyeroll.

Oh, I know. People are horrible and crazy in here. Not everyone but it does seem like a lot.

I know. But sometimes they make countless alts. Its crazy. I dont think theres a limit to how many alts one can have. And your block list isn't unlimited.

Thank you, everyone. I ticked the box so only friends and groups can IM me and also have a new message for them!

Well I can tell you dont use firestorm haha. I found it though, thank you.

How can I do that?

Well see its feb (lovers month) so I guess some troll wanted to start drama.

I thought about that but....the avatar quality is horrible. So is most of the items on their marketplace. If I could move my whole inventory over, I would.

I was just pointing out that I was wrong in my original statement that owning a region means ultimate privacy. Its not when someone can use online trackers to track when you are online and message you to harass.

Yeah no, that's not going to work unless I want to spend thousands of actual dollars to rebuild my landscaping, decor, and house inventory. I enjoy landscaping on this platform.

Correct. That's what I meant. All you have to do is use an alt to track another avatar (that hides their online status from those not on their friends list) and you can continue to harass them.