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Just now, kiramanell said:
Why can you simply not assume work is being done properly?! Like, you know, assume Moles are hard-working gals and guys, enjoying giving to the community, and help build something greater than themselves?!; that sort of thing. Just curious.
And as if they need your oversight to get things done properly, LOL. No, really, LOL.
Seems is quite normal to assume they know it all. You'd be surprized on the number of issues i have found and reported. Again, many people here bashes against me without knowing.
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Just now, Sylvia Tamalyn said:
LOL you would know it if I was harassing you. However, I feel obligated to point out that just one page back, you were pontificating about how moles need to stop interacting with us and put their noses to the grindstone. How does that fit in with your constant distractions aimed at them? Again, just curious to understand your thinking.
The actual problems i have brought to them and they have already solved are not considered distractions.
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1 minute ago, Sylvia Tamalyn said:
How many times do you need to be told to stop harassing the moles? Just curious.
I might think you have some harrassment going on towards me as well 🤔
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5 minutes ago, Quartz Mole said:
Yes, quite right. That's exactly what I said:
You will note that I talk about "the same online forms and reports as do the other Moles" and about what "we" do. I don't see the other departments' reports and schedules, obviously, but I know where everything is in the system, so I know which regions are ready for my attentions, and I know when I've finished with them. I also know that, after I've finished, then in the normal course of events they should become available in the next few days, and that's all I know.
Knowing where something is in the process doesn't mean, of course, I know when it's going to complete that, or subsequent, stages. It does mean, though, that I have a good picture of which regions are nearing completion and how many we're working on, so I can tell you with considerable confidence that there's no backlog building up anywhere to delay releases (LDPW has regular team meetings, and the Bellissaria project managers are in frequent contact with Patch precisely to identify and remove bottlenecks in the process).
I appreciate greatly the information. This is exactly what it's missing, and should be done more openly and not only to just shut up people like myself. Clear information to assure people work is being done properly.
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As much as people likes to interact with the employees, fornwhatever reason, I think is better, productivity wise, that they work in private. It's clearly no time to be part of the community and make friends with each other. Is time to work, and make the work right. People are enfuriated enough.
Let's take that idea of looking at lindens and moles as some mythical creatures of some sort and look it at what it is exacly, workers, just like pretty much everyone else, that happens to work on the virtual world you are so fan of. They get distracted, and they make errors too.
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4 minutes ago, kiramanell said:
How's about you start showing the Moles some respect!? You already almost single-handedly caused the Moles to close off sims altogether, taking obnoxious, intrusive photes, constantly being rude to them, at every turn, accusing them and Lindens of the most outrageous things. It's this boorish behavior, as Beth mentioned earlier, which (among other things) is causing the Moles to retreat again from the community.
Have you no shame?!
There are things you don't get to see. Sadly you can only talk about that you see here and about some exaggerated or false comments other makes.
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3 hours ago, CailetAmbrai said:
He’s afraid they’re peeking in his windows and he can’t see them doing it!
Everyone is welcomed to see my avatar at any time. I find this joke of yours pretty ridiculous.
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3 hours ago, Quartz Mole said:
No, while I don't know in detail what needs doing after we finish with a region, I do know some of the various steps between our finishing a region and it becoming available and, particularly since it involves people who are very busy anyway (including the Land team), it's no small task. Furthermore, whatever your subjective impression may be of how many regions look ready, I attend our team meetings and use the same online forms and reports as do the other Moles, so I know what stage all the regions are at, and I can assure you that we release them as we complete each small batch.
I'm deliberately being vague about how long a delay there is between my finishing off on a region and the region becoming available because the short answer is I don't know, and I don't want to fuel speculation, since plans can be disrupted by all sorts of unexpected events, ranging from the mundane, like unexpected staff absences because of illness, to the more unusual like the multitude of issues that keep requiring "unscheduled maintenance" . However, in the normal course of events, I would say that generally, after we've finished with them, I'd expect the new regions to be released at some point over the next couple of days or so, taking into account weekends, public holidays and other potential disruptors
The big limiting factor, I'm afraid, is how quickly we can finish the regions while still keeping up-to-date on other scheduled work. We're working as fast as we can, but things take as long as they take.
So let me this straight. You mentione quite a few times before that tou dont know the time it takes for them to release a region once you are done doing your part, but here, you say you do check some forms and you say that you know exactly at what stage each region is.
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9 minutes ago, crypticzynergy said:
That's subjective. Who determines that the available first gen homes are of equal or greater value than the new ones? You? Linden Labs? Maybe your definition of "equal or greater value" differs from mine. And if you speak of the Linden housing market and comps, well then technically the 1st gen aren't worth much or else you wouldn't have a ton of empty/abandoned ones... But hey, at least they don't look ghetto, compared to the boarded up, abandoned homes in RL.
If i was in charge i would evict whoever is still left on those regions and move them to others. I am not a fan of abandoning things neither but Linden Lab loves it. Those empty linden homes elsewere are costing them money, same money they are struggling getting from you and me.
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42 minutes ago, crypticzynergy said:
I'm not assuming all premium account holders would want a Linden Home... The fact is that SL advertises that having your own your Linden Home (if you so choose) is part of the perks of having a Premium member acct, otherwise it's false advertising. Why pay for a Premium acct if the options you were sold on are restricted because supply's limited? That's not the member's fault for believing the ad. That's the seller's fault (Linden) for selling something they don't have. In RL, when someone sells you something that they don't actually have -- I believe that's called Theft, or at the very least -- it's a scam.in real life they have to offer you an equal or a greater value item. they do have those.
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You mentioned something important there too... it might not be as nice.
Think here for a second.
This is basicly what linden lab has done over the years:
- Create open areas, divide them, sell them... place some roads, welcome areas and points of interest to make it interesting and usefull. (this is good, all good game or platform needs a world to live on)
- Create new open areas, divide them, sell them, place some roads, welcome areas, and points of interest, again. (cause more people has joined, they need space of course, and revenue from land sales)
- this goes on and on
- Create linden homes to make a new way to charge users, create new continents for these homes that the only purpose is to be a home (this works, cause mainland was so busy, was nice to have these new areas)
- create even more continents as the users grow, same idea, infrastructure, create welcome areas and such... but... you can now notice less points of interest, they now put that resposability on the residents to create interest on the enviroment (thats ok cause these areas are still raging and full of life)
-- create more continents with same idea... but. wait... there is not a boom of residens anymore so lets build it and leave it half done (and there that infamous half completed continent)
At this point you have created a huge world using a massive ammount of resources, and usage is slowly declining, making these areas more emply and less interesting, and since you put the work of creating interesting points of interest to residents, your lands are no longer as interesting.
- private regions emerge, even taking actual space on mainland like the blake sea (this works cause these lands are actually mantained and taken care in many other ways)
- time passes, create more linden homes with same idea
- create new continent with diferent idea, lets create a community back on mainland, and lets give more prims to make it attractive! (landlords takes over, doesnt really creates any community)
- bellisseria appears! the idea of creating a community on mainland once again, with the lesson learned! (instant hit, not enough units)
But here is the problem:
- At any moment noone went back and updated/refurbished the maps, the mainland. Areas that were loosing interest lost even more interest. all that ammount of resources has stayed there not generating enough revenue out of it, and still is. White elephants (look it up).
- nor, map has not been reduced according to necesity. whatever has been put online has been kept there regardless (for the most part), again, dragging costs for no reason.
- now you have a large userbase that doesnt likes the land the company has to offer and most option is basicly private regions.
- suddenly you do offer something desirable, boom, but hey, you still got those white elephants abandonned back there.
So.. all this anger, for me, comes from far back.. of course, refurbishing mainland to make it cool and fresh once again would be a huge project, but guess what.. bellisseria is a huge project too. instead of keeping adding more regions on top of empty ones, work those empty regions back to life. It would be much better in many ways.
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Just now, BJoyful said:
Perhaps some people don't know that any Premium Member can purchase a piece of Abandoned Mainland for L$1/m2 by filing a Support ticket and asking to purchase the land (take a SLurl or an LM). The initial investment is $1,024 if you wish to buy 1,024 m2, which is equivalent to just under 3.5 weeks of Premium stipend, and live there rent free and tier free as long as they wish to remain Premium.
There are many Mainland parcels which can be purchased for even less than L$1 per square metre from Private sales. Even though these parcels may not be as nice as Bellisseria, many are very nice and can be as nice as a parcel owner makes them, or alternatively put a beautiful skybox above the land.
If a property owner does a nice job of decorating the land, they could also earn a profit if they choose to sell it later, and if they do choose to abandon it, it's only 3.5 weeks of stipend, not millions of L$. 😉
Then again, extra cost, and time, that noone really needs to pay.
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38 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
They can have one of the older homes AND a 512 plot of Mainland at the same time for no extra costs.
No extra cost is a bit wrong to say there. If you want a land on mainland, you have to purchase the land, not pay the tier, but purchase. Linden homes you dont need to purchase the land at all.
Even more sad is that land lords often take advantage of this and they take all the lands premium members can get with the included tier, and jack up the purchase price.
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14 minutes ago, PrudenceAnton said:
I'm sure LL has capabilities we can only dream of. I know of Fly Cams and if they use something akin to this, then they would not actually have to be physically in world in an avatar but still able to monitor an area or possibly work on it. Such Secrets!
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You can use flycam, just hook up a joystick controller.
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Independently if people can or cannot see the office Lindens arround, we can all see the regions awaiting for them.
There is no point on having the moles slapping regions quickly if the regions are not being set-up quickly.
Let's hurry that up, people.
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Just now, Sylvia Tamalyn said:
The Lindens do have the ability to hide their presence from the rest of us, so you can't really know how many are there.
That sounds like a children story.
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It does seems to me that backing up/delay is actually on the office Lindens and not on the Mole team. There is quite a few regions that do seem ready to go, and you barely see one office Linden popping up from time to time to get the next steps done. A lot of resources being put on the moles but the whole work line doesnt seems well ballance to match the speed the Moles are doing on the regions.
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Lets not forget that some are being paid and some are the one paying. Naturally one will suffer more than the other.
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Just now, Love Zhaoying said:
I can see it happening if someone upgraded to Premium just to get a new home.
That is actually the problem. Many peope have in fact upgrayed to premium, even with the new higher cost (and there why the increase, take advantage of that wave), just to get a new Linden Home, and have found themselves unabled to get one, completely failing their whole purpose of paying the premium.
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Linden Lab is apparently pretty confortable with the users basicly DDoS attacking the website. Let them be.
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I would give it in a way it gives priority to people that has been waiting the most, but is too late for that.
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5 minutes ago, Jaylinbridges said:
The Lindens build and own the buildings below 2000 meters in Bellisseria. If they want to build a 2000 meter high skyscraper then that's part of the city. Above that height, private skyboxes are allowed and owned by residents. I can't see how you can have a LH neighborhood in the same space where anyone can rezz a skybox. So yes, I think LH neighborhoods stop at 2000 meters.
And of course they do have a 15 meter height limitation for residents adding structures on their parcel. ( *Privacy walls or fences should match the theme and extend no more than 4m above ground level. All other structures should not extend higher than 15m above ground level or sea level, whichever is higher.)
The visually regulated neighborhood stops at 2000, the governance doesnt.
I encourage you to put a small store avobe 2000, there is no discovery without some experimenting.
Have you no shame?!
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Posted · Edited by Seba Serpente
Everything was fine until one of the forum knights decided to take the thread to once again throw some attacks at me, calling me disrespectfull and such.
Then the sisterhood, of course, follows.