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No really. It worked wonders for me .. starting over with a clean inventory, not burdened by hundreds of pairs of shoes that aren't worth the time it would take to rez them.

That's something we have to try and counter. New doesn't mean griefer or alt with a nefarious purpose.

Having been the victim of a stalker who copied my name, profile, used alts at places I frequented, messaged people near to me with hate speech (in my name), used disposable scripted prims rezzed all over the mainland to send me unblockable messages ... created accounts with my friends names and harassed them in the same way, created social media accounts on other platforms (that were thankfully much easier to get removed) .. I have to say, I doubt very much that your abuse reports have done anything - Myself and friends sent a huge number of reports, we logged everything so we could provide context to LL staff, support tickets. phone calls to LL support (where I was told "sorry, there is nothing we can do"). I have zero faith in LL's ability to deal with a determined harasser. Maybe the jerk just got bored and found a new target or game to play.

There are a number of problems with global chat .. for SL, its going to be the sheer number of people who can participate. IF it were possible to add that to SL, and it's not, the messages would fly up the screen so fast that it would saturate your PC and network, not to mention being literally impossible to read. Do you really want to be in a chat room with 46,000 other people at any given moment. If you did slow it down the chat would mostly be people wondering how to disable it, shouting HOOOO and asking if liking transgirls makes you gay. Yes, I also play an MMO with trade chat and it's universally junk and adds zero value to the game.

It wasn't that long ago that RP sims were getting their moderators banned for sharing local chat conversations. It's also painfully easy to socially engineer setting someone up for a ban as people believe, incorrectly, that they are in the clear because everything was said in local. I've seen it happen.

I use a combination of 2 cunning tricks. Catznip auto inventory sorting .. I buy something, and it's auto-magically placed in a folder "Shopping/<region name>/<date>/" .. unpacking items places the folders in the same location in inventory as the original item. For everything I purchased before this feature was added, I either search .. or have simply forgotten I own it and depend on other people to remind me.

Moving isn't really an option .. nor should I have to.

Mainland .. and due to a suddenly discovered Catznip bug (that will totally be fixed in the very next beta) , I can't derender stuff on land I'm banned from. Might have to check if FS is similarly affected now I think on it.

If a man builds a skybox at 80m and it plunges your parcel into shadow .. and he blocks you for being critical of his architectural prowess .. does that count as griefing ?

The lights revert to a point light.

200L a post ... that's insulting. Writing is a real world skill, that in this case will be published in the real world. Paid by the word in US$ .. the equivalent can be paid to an Avatar in L$ should everyone wish.

Could be the way your specific items are scripted or configured.

You can fake mirrors. Sort of .. this works in all clients. Rez something. Add a specular texture, set it to "blank" and then put the values to the max. This is your mirror. Facing away from the Mirror prim - Take a picture of what the mirror will see. Create a light source, set to projector, apply the picture and point it at your shiny object Scale the projector so it matches the aspect ratio and apparent size of the "reflection" I did a fairly detail write up on this over on the Second Life subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/secondlife/comments/8btvrb/lighting_your_home_creating_fake_window/ Adeon Writer followed up with a decent video guide on how his portals were created There is a fair amount of play with shiny settings and the actual image to get the effect you want. You can reflect a room or windows on a object, make shiny floors that reflect windows etc.

I dearly wish SL had better animation controls, they are painfully lacking for all but the most mundane applications.

The music is coming from up in the sky, it's Caramel Dancer

If you had a copy boat, setting it to temporary would cause it stay out only as long as you were sitting on it. Don't set this on a "no-copy" boat as it will vanish and never come back.

LSL has no way of knowing how long an animation is - the max is 60 seconds I think. So for dances they will simple loop round and round once started. Use a timer to switch to a different dance at a set interval.

Not all problems have the same cause, the SL viewer is a very complicated beast. I hate to say it .. but, have you tried running Windows? Apple viewer support has always been less than optimal.

RLVa is developed in Catznip so should have the same / slightly newer code vs the latest Firestorm.

Pictures really don't do this mess justice. Infinite planes at all angles everywhere flickering madly. I'm amazed this is still going on.

All regions have the same amount of land capacity. A multiplayer can be set on the region that allows parcels to have more that the normal amount of land capacity, however so the region doesn't run out should you try to use more than the region total, you have to limit the number of items placed on some parcels in order to leave more for those that will be used as "double prim". A good example would be the Horizons regions. Each is divided into a number of "double prim" 1024 plots separated by a lot of low prim linden owned infrastructure (roads and the like). The region total land capacity remains the same, the biggest parcel has minimal use with enough left over to allow the 1024 plots to have a higher than default allocation.

The cheapest I have seen at the moment are 30K each.

First up, a sanity check. Install the official client and see what happens .. PITA I know, but it will rule out firestorm being the issue. If the same thing happens, Firestorm do offer some solid support options http://www.firestormviewer.org/support/ and might prove helpful - you can't be alone in this problem. If you aren't manually updating your gfx card drivers , then its entirely possible that a windows update has come along and replaced your working drivers with something less than ideal for playing SL. Manually installing GFX drivers yourself is almost always preferable, i suggest you start with the Sony website and see if they offer downloads, failing that, good ole google with "<exact model of laptop> radeon drivers" might prove useful.

Us Horizons folk wouldn't be caught dead in Bay City .. I shall send an alt >.>

It can't be the mainlanders, there are so few of them. Most of all continents have been glomped by large land owners, covered in ugly 2007 era full-bright housing and then put up for sale at exorbitant prices. Perhaps in order to force people into the very worst land occupancy option available - Rented mainland. I mean really, if you're renting you should be on a private estate. Being a parcels "owner" in name and having full unrestricted access to all the provided land options, better curation, privacy, and in many cases living on an region with no direct neighbors can't really be beaten. Opps, went off on a bit of a tangent ... so sorry. What we're we talking about again, mainland automated vehicles? Love em .. although they could do with a face lift.