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  1. 4 hours ago, Joe Sparrow said:

    id be happy with either as long as Guadalcanal got water access.

    Or you can just dig your own water channel down the side of Tulagi and open it up yourself.

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    16 hours ago, Blush Bravin said:

    While griefing is still an issue, it's not nearly as bad as it was in the past. 

    Yep, it used to be an issue. It's not really problem any more, I have a feeling that most of that crowd grew up and moved on to VRChat. My club and boat dock have been open rez for 6 years without a single real problem. But it easy to trigger some people, and knowing they can be triggered into a reaction will attract people.

    As premium only rez zones are no go, I think that rez-zones in the channel only are the best bet.

     

     

  3. 5 hours ago, Abnor Mole said:

    Hate to burst y'alls bubble playing with maps and such...

    but just be aware there is no mechanism for the lab to flip, reverse or rotate regions and all their contents. ;) 

    Pfft

    It just needs Patch/Grumpity/Ebbe to wave their magic Sailor Moon wands in sync!

    (Now I have visions of Ebbe in a Sailor Moon dress btw)

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    Inserts typically naiive dumbo-user "this is easy stuff, Photoshop has a layer transform..." workflow suggestion that makes any typical developer cry, and any project lead try to steal some of Governance's copious Vodka supply

    1 hour ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    So tell, what do you image they are saying to each other?

    It's very seahorse Rorschach like for sure!

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  4. 2 hours ago, Blush Bravin said:

    My new guesstimate -

    I've noticed there are more phantom regions on the map opening up more space in that area than I previously noticed. In the shadowed SSPs you see a few boxes (regions?), but you can see they are phantoms when you take a closer look. So I'm wondering if more is to come for those areas. Pure speculation here folks. 

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    Nope, nope, nope... that triggers my OCD pretty badly! It has to be like this, Blush!

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  5. 10 minutes ago, CoffeeDujour said:

    ...promptly...

    Yes, but maybe less promptly, as only after governance finish another keg of vodka, and 15,000 "my ex-BAE said I was a ....." ARs.

    (Obviously I am joking, I used to own most of the Cha region about 5 years ago, so I did see a lot of this group, and they are mostly well behaved, apart from Marianne McCann who is a bit young to drive a battleship, she doesn't reach the top of the walkway guardrails)

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  6. 2 hours ago, Tank Kwaszes said:

    I know our community of sailors and pilots here would love the opportunity to take long cruises to the other continents.

    \o/ WWII games in the SSP ocean. The Japanese Imperial Navy could invade Smalltown USA.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Blush Bravin said:

    There's a problem with your numbers though. Considering that a premium paid annually is only $72, which equals to $6.00 a month.

    Yep, and that means the lab get even less money for that mix, so is worse off. The $237.50 is the most they can earn for a packed to the gills region.

    Balancing that is that there are a lot of $195 a month grandfathered/buy down fulls in the hands of the agents.

    And of course, as a bonus are the people they tip into premium who were free and landless before. Nice housing can do that.

     

    (edit: poop, I am messing up my post:like ratio private-game, I will stop talking for a while. Forums are addictive)

  8. That tiny home might be nice on the beach, as a beach shack.

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    24 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:

    I didn't understand Shudo's post and math above at all so this isn't a comment to that. BUT --- I am SURE Linden Lab has done the math and believes this change will be good for the bottom line.  

    25 plots per sim at US$9.50 each = US$237.50 vs $295 cut privately the same way.

    And yes, I am absolutely sure the lab have done the sums too, Patch and Grumpity and all the people there are pretty expert at the fine balance. Yep, our current crop of managers know their jobs pretty well compared to the dim dark days of 2010.

  9. 16 hours ago, woroschilow said:

    Also, it's contributing to a professional appearance. ;)

    Likely the opposite, it will make you seem paranoid.

    All your creations are protected under the Berne Convention and you have the USA's DMCA process to take down anything that people do copy (and it will happen)

    You get zero extra protection from anything else, except maybe a sneaky watermark hidden in your vertices ;) .

     

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  10. 1 hour ago, Joe Sparrow said:

    Hoping that's the case, the location of Guadalcanal only allows for port access on our main sim. if the waterway runs to subak along side us we would be able to make use of both sims for ports which would be somewhere between ideal. and the greatest thing anyone has ever done for us! fingers crossed

    The channel is hitting the top of the continent and stopping there. The question then becomes will the lab add water around the edge down to the main internal ocean and Tulagi.

    Counting, it would need 19 extra regions to join Tulagi up to the channel.

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  11. If they look normal front on, then it's going to be the invisiprim like effect of rigged alpha.

    What they are doing is removing the plants on the wall for those pixels.

    No cure I know of.

     

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  12. 1 hour ago, Marianne Little said:

    How large part of the LL income is the tier for landbarons?

    Based on my estate, I pay 4:1 premiums. But I am not a cookie cutter, so have nice common areas.

    As an example to this 4:1 ratio, if I have 20 people renting, then I am giving the lab 80 x $9.95 of tier. They get US$760 from me, or US$190 from individual premiums. What throws this off of course, is parcel size.

    I have two 300 Prim parcels on my whole estate, the rest are much larger. For many people in my market 300 prims isn't enough (even when I link the house and trees outside into the common allotment, as I do)

     

    In that one preview region there are 25 x 1024 parcels, so it's a revenue of US$237.50, GF full region is US$195, so they make $41.50 more, but non-GF full is US$295, so that's $58 less. (assuming it's cut the same way)

     

  13. 2 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    You're going in a different house! Get the square meters of the house *I* showed, then let's see you stuff all your furniture in it LOL.

    The houses are on a rezzer and can be swapped in and out as the tenant likes. That one you show is a bit tacky compared to the lovely B&A you show, but people are weird, at the best of times... it's possible some people will have a use-case for a tiny dog-box. Maybe they are residents who love living outside, so the house is nothing more then a prop.

    I am someone who prefers outside myself, my go-to homes for myself are the big Elf building from Compulsion, the + shaped home from Maven, and the  pavilions from Trompe Loeil because they are all so open. If I were making my home on one of those parcels the house would be fully empty and all my LI would go into the garden. (I am assuming that there isn't an option of no-home)

    41 minutes ago, Fionalein said:

    Interesting, do me it only offered "country house" which in my mind conjures 3 story palaces of the English nobility...

    "Holiday Home" I think. "Country House" is a bit pretentious.

    Prok is an experienced and published translator, I'd actually love them to mention the correct translation, please :) .

  14. 11 hours ago, CoffeeDujour said:

    It's going to be fairly trivial for one person to totally consume all their neighbors vram just by rezzing regular furniture and decorative gacha tat.

    I keep thinking back to that gatcha cigarette, and matches thing in a real old thread when we first got the wonderful mesh LOD stuff in FS, that thread where the matches each had their own individual texture.

    This is the trouble with gatcha stuff, by and large, it's often incredibly unoptimised junk, and ideal to make your neighbors scream.

    Times like this one wishes the viewer had a robust occlusion system.

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  15. 6 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    My ping times to Google are 15ms. To SL, 90ms. In scenes shared by people from opposite sides of the globe, someone's gonna have longer latency, but SL users currently have NO mobile access, so anything is an improvement.

    If you are typing on a casted game, then the delay between characters entered is 2 * ping + the compute time to render that small area of screen, compress it, and send it, then decode it your side.

     This means if you type hello to someone the text lags significatntly.... using the 15ms to google and guessing 10% for overhead: H 33ms, E 33ms, L 33ms, L 33ms, O 33ms. From experiencing doing this in my job all day long, it's disconcerting.

    And of course, your ping time is excellent and will be different to someone in Hawaii or Alaska.

    The ping time to SL isn't comparable to this, because when you type HELLO it's local, and not sent to SL until you hit enter.

    Yes, for those with nothing, close to a datacentre the game can run from, it's an improvement over nothing, but is it usable as a main driver for long term use? Not sure there. In my job I hate it, even between my home and the main office. It becomes hell if I am going into Hong Kong, London, Berlin, New York.

    6 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    As for energy consumption, the incremental cost of a rendering instance should be comparable to the incremental cost on a mobile device or PC. The energy is going to be expended somewhere. 

    Sadly no. Data centres need cooling due to the nature, number, and horsepower of the servers. Your PC at home can happily cool to the ambient.

    There is also a lot of extra waste. Googles PUE is lowering, but it's still higher then home. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal/

    Additionally when you finish with your PC at home then it gets turned off, unless you are an online sleeper. The servers in the caster's datacentre are running 24x7.

     

    Edit:

    And of course, the elephant in the room in this is bandwidth. According to their tests as reported by a number of news-sites, to get 1080p, 60 frames per second, requires approximately 25 megabits per second. In Akamai’s most recent State of the Internet report back in 2017, it claimed only one in five households in America could get 25 Mbps download speeds. So most people will be running on lower resolutions then 1080p. You can see this same effect with youtube and how often (especially at peak times of the day) it's impossible to look at the 1080p stream without buffering.

    I really don't see Stadia being much of a panacea for anyone, unless you are out and caught short and must use a phone. And in terms of that, the Lab have hinted they are doing initial investigations.

     

    One last thought, assuming SL becomes available on Stadia. Every single login you will start with a fresh cache and empty inventory. What will that do to the Lab's infrastructure if all those users are doing it multiple times a day? Will the asset/inventory servers grind to a halt for the rest of us as they spend time sending full inventories and caches to people on their phones?

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  16. 5 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    The resources being brought to bear to solve latency are significant, and driven by far more than just gaming needs.

    Ye cannae break the laws o' physics.

    Unless google put servers within 5-10ms of everyone then that service is unusable. Huge swathes of the planet will need to be dotted with server farms so people can play games, and those server farms use a hella-lot of power, from both driving the equipment and cooling the equipment.

    Temperatures in one capital city reached an astounding 44.5C here this year (thats 112.1F in American measurement) do we really want to risk further damage to the planet's environment powering thousands of server farms so people can play SL on their phones?

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  17. Still in search, so unless that changes it's an admin hold or short ban and not a perma-ban.

    You need to keep lodging tickets and ask reasons. Also, be aware that sometimes your avatar gets stuck and will report "This account is unavailable until 2064, please try later" which is a bug. Have a friend/alt IM them in world and then try logging into a new region, over type home with "Aswan" (be aware it's maintenance time this second, so might be wise to try later!)

    Good luck. Bans and holds suck, but they are soon over :D

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