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I am slightly more hopeful than Lucia, but based on 2021 LL performance, she's more likely to be right than wrong.

This strengthens the argument for a little more structure on mainland. Bellesaria security orb and skybox rules on Mainland. Sim surrounds should be discouraged, and not permitted in urban areas or adjacent to roads, railroads, or waterways. Offer a land swap to parcels on isolated islands for people who want isolation. (Useful hint: If you need a wall that badly, consider trees. Anne Erotica has a set of low-prim trees which combine to form a solid surface. Looks equally good from inside and outside.) Not too much structure. Just enough to keep the junkyness level down.

That old Mole joke may have become stale. At one time, nobody really wanted to go to the south end of Satori, but there's more beyond the bridge now. There's a rail terminus under construction at the south end of Satori, with a rez zone so you can rez a boat and go to Bellessaria. Things are getting connected. Incidentally, don't teleport to Fenric region by name. The default landing point for the region has an aggressive security orb. Not only is it only 10 seconds, you can't fly and you're in a walled courtyard. Then "You have been banned indefinitely".

I went to look, and I see the price has been reduced to $750 per week. There's too much vacant land for rent in Kama City. Prices need to come down even more.

We do have more of a sense of where LL is trying to go since Mojo Linden came on board. It's to move SL in the direction of being more alive. Better performance. There's some slight progress on speeding up the viewers. Facial expression tracking. That's on the 2022 roadmap. Now, with Rosedale on board, better voice chat, using the High Fidelity spatial audio technology. SL looks dead compared to most virtual worlds. Fixing that now seems to be a priority.

The second one isn't hard. You can do it now, with some effort.There are some objects that won't let you click on them unless you have line of sight. At least one brand of door does that. You could put that in open source AVsitter as an option. Then, if you made sure everything in your house had unscripted sits disabled, nobody could do a "sit" to get in. Set a teleport destination for the parcel outside the house, and they can't TP in by specifying coordinates.

I'd like to have the "Avatars on other parcels can see and chat with avatars on this parcel" also prohibit camming into the parcel from outside. (Yes, a viewer could be modified to override that, although you still won't see avatars because the server isn't sending you avatar updates.) With a second checkbox, require an obstacle-free line of sight to "sit" or "teleport" within that parcel. That would cause walls and doors to actually keep avatars out. That feature would be useful not just for privacy, but for roleplay and game sims, as an anti-cheat mechanism.

Options for super-premium: One piece of minor mole work per quarter, such as curb cuts or wall removals along roads so you can attach your driveway to a road. 30 second delay with a warning on security orb ejections. Better tools for managing large business-type money balances. Payout via SWIFT or FEDWIRE or ACH or SEPA instead of PayPal for amounts above US$100. A mansion comparable to The Grove Estates or Fruit Islands.

You can do that now, with a phantom vehicle. Yava Pods are phantom vehicles, and will go through things. So will most trains. (That's silly, but the SLRR is mostly single track without usable passing sidings and signalling.)

Off the lobby of the Cocoon roleplay sim there is a small mall with good cyberpunk clothes.

If you have a box with the textures, you still have them. As long as they are in-world or in inventory somewhere, they do not go away.

This has been a big problem with the Zindra safe hubs for years. At one time, so many bots piled up at one hub that they were forced through walls by the physics engine. Here's my solution. Waiting Room Manager. "Please have a seat." This is a demo I have set up at my workshop at the southeast corner of Vallone. It's a simple experience script. If you stand within 10m of the bench, and don't move or chat for a long time, it displays "Please have a seat" and sits you on the bench. That's all. You're not stuck; you can stand. The seating at safe hubs and social islands should be set up like this, with the timer set to an hour or so. (For demo purposes, the bench above is set to 30 seconds.) That would gently move bots and AFKs to nearby seating, getting them out of the way and making it clear they're not active right now. It's a polite way to deal with the problem. Forcing a logout or ejecting them would be overkill. As a user thing, it's not very useful. because you have to accept an experience, which bots and AFKs would not do. So I don't sell it. LL already has experiences into which everyone has been opted, so, at LL-owned locations this can be applied to all avatars.

Metaverses Properties had this link as the top ad result on Bing for "metaverse". They have a map with "virtual properties" at https://tilia.earth/ It's a lot like Upland - you buy spaces on a map of the world, but can't do much with them except trade them. LL's Tilia does Upland's money transfers. Now, is this Linden Lab's Tilia, or something else? Is Tilia now competing with Upland? Acquiring Upland? Connected with this new Tilia? Completely independent but with a name that causes customer confusion? Or what?

It's superficial, which is about what you'd expect. It's not like playtesting from game development, which is more useful. If LL really wants to fix the onboarding experience, here's the usual user experience testing approach: Pay non-users to participate in a 2-3 hour study that pays about $100. Usually this is done in some place like a mall, but during COVID it probably has to be remote. They get a task list. Log in, create an avatar, and do a few things - talk to someone, visit a club, look at a house, visit a museum, play a game, ride in a boat... Give a list of maybe 10 tasks. Do any 5 and you're done. Record video of both screen and user during this. Have the video logged. Typical job for psych students. Logging focuses on where the user got stuck, failed, had to back up, had to ask for help, showed annoyance or anger, or encountered a bug. Make a highlights reel of every place where more than one user had trouble. Show highlights reel to everybody involved in product. There are commercial companies which can assist with this. The trouble is, it definitively establishes where the product sucks. Many companies can't handle the truth.

Not sure. I've had windows fail in my Bellessaria house. Some window shades stopped working. I'm told that using the mailbox control panel to change the house and then changing it back can fix this, but haven't tried it. I don't know if that resets the access list.

Search for "Dance Rug" on Marketplace. There are lots of them, and some have Copy and Mod permissions. You should be able to replace the rug part with a blanket. You might need to add some sits, which you can get from an animation store. So this can be made by minor mods to off the shelf parts.

OK. For new users who don't know this: The Second Life viewer is open source. You can look at the source code yourself, and you can compile, build, and run it yourself. Most of the third party viewers are open source. You can build them yourself from source. Quite a few people, including me and two of the posters here, have worked on the source code of viewers, built them from source, and know what's inside. If you watch system performance with a viewer running, you'll typically see one CPU at 100% and about half a CPU load or less spread over other CPUs. That's the main thread running flat out, and some other stuff such as asset downloading and decompression in the background. If you just stare at the same scene for a while, the other CPUs will stop using time once all downloading is done.. If something was cryptomining, you'd see all the CPUs and the GPU maxed out. Not happening. So, no, the Second Life viewers are not doing crypto mining.

For this sort of problem, I'd suggest going to Firestorm Help Island and letting one of the helpers talk you through fixing the problem.

You're right. My bad.

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Yes. I think that's a good feature. A curse of SL is all those avatars standing around, doing nothing, unresponsive. I went to one safe hub and shouted "Is anyone here not a bot?". Silence. I have a bench set up at my workshop in Vallone, with an experience that seats anyone who stands nearby without moving or talking. It's set at 30 seconds for demo purposes. I'd like to see those at places where bots and avatars pile up, set for maybe 30 minutes. If they're not doing anything, move them to the waiting room seats and get them out of the way.

I suspect the problem is in that part. If you want further help, please post something we can run. Thanks.

Try searching Marketplace with "General and Moderate", which gets you furniture without expensive sex animations. Unless you want those. If you need a serious looking in-world office, there are places you can rent them. The SYZM Tower has some impressive ones. That place, in "NTBI", is worth a visit to see what an office building in SL can look like.

"&" is the bitwise OR operator, not logical OR. 2&1 is 3. 2 && 1 is 1. Use "&&" in IF statements unless you are dealing with integer bit masks. Calling "mathproblem()" inside of "mathproblem()" is recursion. LSL allows that, but not much of it. Each time you go deeper, it uses stack space. Too much will cause the error "stack-heap collision". Use a loop instead. I don't see why the division by zero is happening, though.

Yes, that bug yielded some insight into SL usage. LL changed the login reply code slightly in a way that the LL-based viewers, including Firestorm, tolerated. (Nonstandard XMLRPC reply, if anybody cares.) But Radegast and various bot-driving programs detected the error and refused to log in. Suddenly the number of logged in users dropped by about 20,000. It would be interesting to see a count of "active users", ones not be marked as "Away". Make "Away" users yellow dots on the map, instead of green.