Abnor Mole
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This part of the image is very telling. The simulator is having to spend a vast majority of available resources running the 5000 scripts in the region, leaving nothing left for anything else (Spare Time is 0.001). That may also be why the Scripts Run % is hurting as it tries to keep up with demand. It may not be one or even a handful of scripts causing the problem, but simply far too many scripts overall.
It's also a problem I notice in many places across the grid where someone will create a detailed venue but use nearly all the simulator resources in the process. It runs beautifully when it is empty, but performance degrades quickly as soon as more than a handful of people (agents) show up. It is like building a truck with a max vehicle gross weight of 16,000 pounds and a dry vehicle weight of 15,500 pounds. By the time you add a driver and fuel, it has no capacity remaining for any passengers or cargo. That is why a good rule of thumb when building out an entire region is to reserve at least half the simulator time for agents.
This is of course only in reference to simulator or server side lag, not client side or viewer lag which is more dependent on your computer and internet connection.
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The rules on what is and is not cheating are left somewhat vague on purpose. Otherwise people try to find loopholes and claim they aren't "technically" cheating because nobody said you can't do this or that. They will look for ways to stay within the letter of the law while running roughshod over the spirit of it. Meanwhile, others will weaponize the reporting process to harass people who are doing something they feel is technically not allowed but is completely innocuous. Someone parking their avatar while they go to the bathroom isn't a problem. Someone parking their avatar on a quest item and using movelock so no one else can get to the quest item IS a problem.
Cheating is when someone is using or wearing ANYTHING that lets them fly, run faster, teleport, harass other players, go places they normally can't get to or gives them any sort of an advantage they don't have otherwise. If the Lindens witness it or are offered proof that is what the person is doing, then they can be banned from LR. And AFAIK those bans are permanent.
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Leave all of your scripted attachments at home.
Don't do or say anything to someone you think is cheating that they could AR you for in response. (two wrongs don't make a right)
Lindens need proof, not just someone's say so. The more irrefutable the proof the better.
Always give a time and location (including the name of the region) when reporting something.
Ignorance of the rules or "everyone else was doing it too" is not a viable defense.
Play fair. Be nice. Have fun.
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There are two gift boxes that have always been in Winter Wonderland and are NOT the Winter Swaginator prize boxes. They are in the sky (at least they are for now, until the Swaginator event has run it's course). The actual Winter Swaginator prize box should be at ground level.
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It sounds like you had quite the adventure.
Maybe that could be considered a prize in itself.
Or maybe consider it a primer for the RL holidays that are soon to be upon us.
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Crystals reappear randomly on a rolling cycle. So X number of minutes after someone picks up a green crystal, that crystal will rerez again someplace within the region among the rest of the crystals. The fact is it random is why there is no point in camping certain spots in Linden Realms anymore. And no, I'm not going to tell you how many minutes.
Find an area no one has been in for a while or is hard to get to and you have a better chance of finding the higher value crystals.
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Just now, Love Zhaoying said:
Should it be “can’t”? I read carefully!
yes, that's what I meant. Thank you. ?
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19 hours ago, phaedra Exonar said:
@Abnor Mole I see Linden Realms is down again, I've some other quest not working that had not been reported here yet, All the mole profile say to put in a support portal ticket but there's no category for Linden Realms, so how and where is the best place to report them?
quest 3 at the swamp I touch the page to get the quest then when i try to do the quest it's saying i have no started the quest.
[15:19] Magellan's Journal Page: What does it say? Oh no, more lyrics... “Hate to put your foot down in the toxic water. Rock monster eat ya, look out for muddy mortars. Find what you seek across the big old gross and green river.” *groans*
What does it say? Oh no, more lyrics... “Hate to put your foot down in the toxic water. Rock monster eat ya, look out for muddy mortars. Find what you seek across the big old gross and green river.” *groans*[15:20] Tyrah: You did not touch the page from Magellan's Journal to start this quest. You may continue, but you cannot complete this quest unless you return and touch Magellan's journal page now.
NOTE this is the 2nd time I'm do the quest , I've all ready completed all 4 once, wondering if that's part of the issue? but I was able to complete the first 2 again.
If Linden Realms is offline or the portal is closed you can be sure we know there is a problem (because we are the ones who closed it). It seems there might have been a problem communications with the KVP server last night. That would explain why it wasn't registering that you had touched the page.
I'll give you all a strategy tip while I'm here. Since green crystals are scarce and you need one in order to complete the first quest, once you finish the quests don't redeem all of your crystals yet. You need to finish the quests again in one week, but that doesn't means you can't *play* the quests again ahead of time to get ready to turn them in next week. So, if you have at least one green crystal you found while running the quests you just finished, play the first quest again BEFORE turning in all your crystals. After that you can also do the remaining quests any time within the next week. You don't have to wait until the week is expired. When the week has expired, turn in the quests and repeat the process. That way you shouldn't be stuck in a situation where you need a green crystal and can't do anything until you find one.
Rule of thumb is: Once you have a green, even if you are within the week and can turn it in, do the first quest again so it is completed before the week runs out.-
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4 hours ago, Jaylinbridges said:
The goggles in the desert do not rezz or work in LR 182. Its been like this for 24 h ours. Impossible to complete the 2nd Quest this way. Have to keep going back to the portal and hope we get transported to a sim copy of LR that works. Please fix it, many frustrated when they finally get to the desert and find they wasted their time.
THanks
If something becomes broken, let us know and we'll try to fix it as soon as possible and figure out what is causing it and how to keep it from happening. In the meantime, you can go back through the Portal Park and try to get into one of the other instances (there are 6 currently).
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14 hours ago, Fionalein said:
After a day of new LR I decide to side with the Brazilians who posted in here before:
Here's my resume of the new LR: Thank you for slapping me in the face, LDPW.
The new Realms are a lag fest - even when I was alone on LR41 I had severe problems in reaction time after pressing any key (for most time it worked but it won't help when you loose control midflight on your way tho the next stepstone due to a sudden lagspike). I managed to do the first 3 amulet parts, I managed to find the 4th one, but had to realize the last stepstones had a shortened distance to jump where you have to finetune how long you press forward during the jump. This is almost impossible to do so across the pond. And this time unlike part 3 there is no respawn nearby, you have to find all your way through the caves again. @Linden Lab Did you even test it? I mean not in your ivory tower of lab, no, out in the streets by logging in with an ordinary DSL connection by let's say sending an employee with a laptop to the next Internet Cafe in town?
Whom do you try to attract? All in all this game now only attracts those who try really desperately or who have a superfast connection and a powerful computer - this is not your regular userbase. Sure now it is full of folks trying - but that only is until they realize they stand no chance. This Jump and Run nonsense is what kept me from trying PaleoQuest ever again, and it will keep me from trying out much more Linden Realms. I daresay the interest in the Realms will soon decline as ordinary people will move on to something else. Who will remain are the lucky few with both a good connection and machine and the "I'm no quitter" maniacs... while the first ones are OK as they are mostly folks like you and me, the second kind will soon make the new Realms an as unpleasant place to be in as the old ones were.
To those that claim it will keep away cheaters: No it won't - IMHO it is only possible to do with either extreme luck or cheating. So while less folks will collect the crystals now I wager the cheater percentage will even rise now.
I'm sorry you were having lag issues. We load tested the game with as many as 20 players in a region running, bumping into things, dying, collecting crystals and playing the quests. We were using the same computers and internet connections we use as residents in our normal everyday SL lives. They are all your average laptops and desktops. (I wish I could afford a superfast gaming rig and FIOS. I really do.) Locations of people testing varied from multiple parts of Europe, North and South America. I ran as many as 5 instances of the viewer with testing alts accounts all playing simultaneously. We monitored the framerates, simulator resources and time dilation and watched for any noticeable lag during all of our tests. I personally tested the game on both my desktop and my laptop, over cable internet, DSL, a sketchy wifi connection, and even tethered to my phone's wifi hotspot. In some cases I reduced my graphics settings accordingly, but I never found there to be significant lag while playing. It wasn't enough to prevent me from being able to play, anyway. It actually made the lag in many other places more noticeable to me when I would leave and go just about anywhere else in SL. So you shouldn't be having any more lag issues in the new Linden Realms than in the rest of SL. In fact it should be better than most places in that regard. We obviously don't have any control over what other residents wear, but then again we all have the ability to control maximum avatar complexity in the viewer's graphics preferences. Try the game with your graphics at a lower setting and see if that improves performance. We tried to make sure the game looked decent at lower graphics settings too.
And yeah, that last jump is a nasty one. It still gets me most of the time too, but that's part of the challenge.-
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The SL15B gifts were each only available for one week only. There isn't a way to go back and get one if you missed it for that week.
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9 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:
It also stands to reason that users will not use a particular feature/addition in the way that they were "intended" to be used.
Yes, the law of unintended consequences, which end up having consequences of their own. That's how we get new features like estate tools that prevent people from putting up ban lines.
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On 9/5/2018 at 9:03 PM, iamyourneighbour said:
I think mainland owners should have options to nominate land for linden home generation. And the premium user can choose whether they want to be allocated in linden residential estates or private community lands. The core issue I noticed is that people who uses linden homes usually are not familiar with land purchase.
Linden Homes were always originally intended to only be "starter homes" and provide a means for residents to experience land ownership first hand before diving in and spending L$ on land purchased or rented from other residents. It stands to reason that many people still using a Linden Home aren't yet familiar with buying land because they haven't gotten to that point. Linden Homes also come with many restrictions. Once a resident decides they want something with less or different restrictions they can choose to do that and abandon their Linden Home, making it available for someone else. Most of those restriction are done in region or estate wide settings. This makes it impossible to mix Linden Homes with any other land or estates. They will always be their own separate little community.
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I am shocked... SHOCKED that you would think of that before I did. ?
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Hi Harley
If you press CTRL+M to open your world map and type in "Sandbox" you can rez there and open it. Or just follow this SLURL http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sandbox Cordova/132/199/26 A sandbox is a place where anyone can rez objects and build things. It normally 'cleans' itself after a few hours and deletes anything left behind. It is a place for residents to play and experiment with building things.
The region Maturity Ratings limit what type of content is allowed in a region, but it by no means indicates that the content there necessarily *is* for adults only. I can assure you that nothing in that region where the gift box is would be considered adult content. So even if someone changed there settings temporarily just to get into the region to get their gift, they should not be exposed to anything in the immediate area that is inappropriate.
And I can attest that Guy is definitely over 18
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When building supportive objects on both sides of a region boundary, make sure that the physical box of both objects is on the same level. If you don't, when you cross from one direction your avatar will be standing *in* the support object instead of on top of it, and you will often fall through even though it is not phantom.
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10 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
Thanks. I truly have no clue what was up with the first few copies that I rezzed - SL quirks, sim quirks, my own session quirks - who knows. I do now have copies of everything that is modifiable.
SL has been acting funny recently. I've had more than a few occasions in the last week when it would not let me edit objects, L$ balances were not showing, or I had to relog to get items to appear. That may have been part of it.
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Much of what the LDPW makes is for games like PaleoQuest, Horizons, etc. We have to be super vigilant not to give out or attach game items with perms that might allow someone to find an exploit and so we have erred on the side of caution. We've probably allowed that to taint our thinking a little when it comes to things like prizes and gifts. We've made a concerted effort with the SL15B gifts to apply perms that make better sense than we have in the past. If something can be modify and there is no pressing reason it can't or shouldn't be we are going to do so. I personally checked all the SL15B gifts myself. Unrigged wearables like the jewelry have no mod scripts in them, but you should be able to edit and resize them manually. And yes, I just used 'taint' in a sentence.
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5 minutes ago, Alwin Alcott said:
totally depends... lot of channels are partly in private hands, by the, more or less, wrong idea to keep parcels running into the channels..if people put things there it's their normal right for using the parcel.
If it's in private hands it is not a public channel. I'm referring to land owned by Governor Linden or the LDPW (most often marked as "Protected Land")
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Most of those channels are small or narrow due to the fact they were originally made waaaay back in the day when everything was made from prims and limited to 10m in any axis and 32 prims for a vehicle. Most boats in SL were much smaller back then because of this. You didn't see 60m long and 12m wide 200LI container ships on the Linden Seas the way you do now.
And yes, if you see someone blocking the channel please abuse report the encroaching objects.
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Hey everyone! Just wanted to pop in and let you know that a few hours ago we added some regions to the north of the shopping regions. They are short extensions of the mall but it gives a place for people to teleport to and cam shop until there is space in the actual shopping region they want to go to.
They are brand new regions so they won't show up on the world map yet, but they should show up within the next 24 hours. We hope this helps.-
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Hey guys! We know the shopping regions have been very VERY full. We just added 4 overflow regions to the north of the shopping regions. They are small extensions of the mall where people can teleport to and then cam around to see what is for sale until space opens on the actual shopping regions. Because they are brand new regions they do not show on the world map yet, but they should in the next 24 hours or so.
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Maybe that could be considered a prize in itself.
The new Realms are a lag fest - even when I was alone on LR41 I had severe problems in reaction time after pressing any key (for most time it worked but it won't help when you loose control midflight on your way tho the next stepstone due to a sudden lagspike). I managed to do the first 3 amulet parts, I managed to find the 4th one, but had to realize the last stepstones had a shortened distance to jump where you have to finetune how long you press forward during the jump. This is almost impossible to do so across the pond. And this time unlike part 3 there is no respawn nearby, you have to find all your way through the caves again. 
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While it does have the mid 20th century America suburban feel (yes, that's what we were going for) the community forms the social aspect of any society. This being SL those foreboding feelings of oppression should vanish as soon as Jon and Ward Cleaver across the street wave to their bi-racial furry daughter as she leaves to go off to welding class and no one thinks anything of it.