[Pricing on Land through LL, Location?]

maybe Land Use Fees but thats for mainland parcels

[Icecast2/webm stream working so so in SL and i don't understand why...]

not sure what is going on but i suggest Azuracast, it installs icecast and liquidsoap for auto dj and has a cool web interface to better manage your radio station but does require at least 4 gigs of ram

[Lindens]

i just buy direct from the lindens via the inworld Buy L$ button

[Does anyone know the real truth behind Second Life Servers?]

ok i just quickly scrolled through this thread.

LL's overhead cost is more then what they pay for AWS.
Theres employee's to pay that do all the techy work to improve and keep the regions online
other services like FreshDesk for support tickets, Canney for feedback
Im sure vivox is charging to use their voice system.

So their overhead is high im assuming so where else they going to get the money to cover costs?
Yes LL can cut down abit like make their own support ticket system, i'd write it all for just $500 USD
But FreshDesk is pretty awesome to use.
Not sure about Canney or what Microsoft is charging to use Github for bug reports but i know JIRA is expensive.

And as i always say about other games that has microtransaction stores. Dev's gotta eat too.

Hope that helps to understand why region rentals are expensive in SL compared to other virtual worlds.

In short, LL charges alot per region due to overhead costs including AWS fees.

[L1 Homes]

ok back on topic

When will the original homes be discontinued?

[Bellisseria's 5th Anniversary Celebration!]

wow 5 years of Bellisseria and i still cant spell that name right
Congrats to the Lindens and Moles on making a great place for SL.
Cheers to another great 5 years.

[Can we have the release notes for 2024-03-18.8333615376]

zomg yall are bugging the lindens over floating while logging in? i think theres more serious issues to focus on then to fix a floating issue.
So ya float on login, not a big deal eh

Fixing PBR related bugs so firestorm can release a update is kinda a big deal.
My issue is loading speed but thats because im caching to my hard drive instead of my SSD.

[Getting that feeling again :(]

i get bored with sl at times too but theres so much to do other then clubbing or playing inworld games.
flying, driving, sailing, railroading all on the mainlands.
learn to play with prims or learn the inworld scripting language called LSL.
Find a roleplay community, theres tons out there both private and mainlands.
Firefighting is fun, so is driving a taxi for people.

[New computer]

On 3/25/2024 at 7:27 AM, Lennox2024 said:

Hello! I need to buy a new computer for SL. I wonder if this is gaming computer will work. 
Shark gaming Shark Maelstrom R706 Gaming PC  
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X processor
1 TB SSD & 16 GB RAM
MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ventus 2X OC
ASUS PRIME A520M-K motherboard. 
 

  

get 32 GB of ram. trust me i just got another 16GB stick and sl has been fabulous
i just ran around the snowlands with draw distance of 256 meters, no lag other then firestorm freezing because it cant keep up.

[New computer]

3 minutes ago, filz Camino said:

 

It depends very much on what you are doing in SL. 

Firestorm uses about 3Gb when I'm alone in my skybox, and as much as 20Gb if I am in a busy club with 40+ avatars (and that is also with my 12Gb video memory maxed out).

(Try going to Peak nightclub, which is usually pretty busy. A quick test there right now shows Firestorm alone using 18Gb).

 

yea sounds about right for FS, i lag, ram maxes out and gpu and cpu heats up at clubs

right now sitting at 60% usage with fs, chrome and discord open as well as my f-secure security manager

[New computer]

17 hours ago, AmeliaJ08 said:

Can you list your other hardware? I've never seen Firestorm consume more than about 12GB. I have a lot more but I just don't see this high RAM usage.

3.2Ghz and a nvidia 1650 SUPER with 4GB of ram that FS barely uses. Majority of fs rendering seems to be being stored on my motherboard ram then the nvidia.

[SSP?]

24 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

The inworld map seems to update around 12 noon SLT for me.

i've noticed the map doesnt update during the weekend and yea during the week day its usually around noon SLT (3pm eastern)

[SSP?]

1 minute ago, Persephone Emerald said:

Yay! Maybe we can get some waste water treatment plants too. I think it's horrible that waste water goes directly into the Linden water without being treated first.

like in Cecropia theres a waste water pond there.

[Second Life railway map]

ty got it out at RTC HQ in Crumbi on platform 2 (P2)

Hope LL rebuilds the WARR line soon. Someone already placed some tracks on it in a area

[Has anyone else had a huge drop in marketplace sales recently?]

i noticed a decreased to but dont care. im not in it for the money. i just like to see people have fun with what i create.

[New computer]

these days 16GB ram just wont cut it enough. im actually getting another 16GB ram stick tomorrow so i can run firestorm at 32GB. FS keeps maxing out my ram so the more the merrier

[Is Second Life the best metaverse?]

to all those praising opensim. i guess you praise theift as well since most of the content in opensim are stolen stuff from SL including belliseria homes i have found, thats why i left OS and uninstalled the OS version of firestorm

[Are there contingencies in place?]

1 hour ago, Riodan said:

2. Is there a Second Life 2.0 in development? And if so, what engine is being considered?

SL is already at version 7 both the viewer and server code with the release of the new rendering features

[Casperlet]

probably cuz the amount of gift giving going on right now
Also i hope the lindens can move casper stuff over to the same data center as SL is in, OVH is ok but their network speed just isnt up to par as the rest of the internet. Asuming Caspertech is still using OVH.

[Repetitive Collision Sounds While Driving...]

Wednesday and it looks like the RC's got reverted back to the PBR release to cancel out that thud issue. I guess to give the programmers more time to fix the issue in the new year.

[SLB20 Opening Ceremony Lab Gab - Announcements?]

1 minute ago, Nika Talaj said:

You weren't surprised by "Lifetime Premium"?  I was!

didnt surprise me. had a feeling lifetime was coming

[Second Life Mobile 2023 - First Look]

On 5/12/2023 at 7:34 PM, Glaznah Gassner said:

Can you please check if SpeedLight viewer runs well on Chromebook? We have no such device available for tests

nice ya got avatars working. grats

[Casino in Second Life? is Gambling Back?]

banks are illegal. Gambling is illegal yet LL can get away with this Helios Casino. like WTF?

[Unfair]

On 4/13/2023 at 4:25 PM, diamond Marchant said:

hopefully, nobody lets randos join their land group

thats why i use a bot to do invites to the land group. its safer that way.

[Unfair]

5 hours ago, belindacarson said:

SOME people just use a "click this to join group" board.

that opens the land to griefing and people parking their vehicles without paying.