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    A. E. Defender Plugin Message

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    A.E. is the brand name, and one I've had run ins with in the past. Indeed, there's a corner of my property that occasionally gives people an A.D. Defender message -- even though the Defender in question is some 200m away from my parcel. Faulty scanning, I assume. I've had some scripty friends and a few Lindens poke at it, but its yet to be resolved.

    New My Second Life profiles

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Cio Koba wrote:

    Thanks to a private informer I will call just W I have discovered these new web profiles, they seem like a kind of FB or Twatter.. Anybody else has tried it? By the name its only a demo so i guess it still lacks features, I would like something more close to FB where you could upload photos, know what your friends are doing, etc. And all of this integrated In-world,of course (seems you can already do that but i dont know how..).

    I've been using them for a week or so. They're pretty good, though there are some features I want to see added in, and some modifications to the default settings on privacy and notifications.

    It's all public knowledge. No need for the cloak and dagger stuff. ;-)

    http://my-demo.secondlife.com/marianne.mccann

    *Expect* your profile/picks/groups data to be incorrect or outdated. This is currently on the Aditi (beta grid) copy of the database. 

    Bear in mind a few things...

    1. It is not connected to Facebook, Twitter, etc. It may eventually have ways you can auto update to these services *if you choose to.* It will not be a mandatory part of the profiles. You can also display links to other social entites, but again, it is not a requirement.

    2. It will have a 'geolocation' feature. That is, posts to the feed done while inworld will tag your location It will be turn-offable when you make your post. I personally hope that make it opt in versus opt out, even though I am liable to use it frequently.

    3. You can protect your wall. Currently it defaults to only be accessible to Second Lifers (good) but under privacy tou can set it to only be used by friends (better).

     

    Hanson infohub needs to be replaced. Others?

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Pussycat Catnap wrote:

    If it was me I'd call up one of the local Republicans to borrow a shotgun and put the voice servers of SL out of their misery...
    :)

    But oh well. I'd love to see at least half of them go no-voice. But the Linden's love voice so much I didn't even bother mentioning that suggestion...

    They might as well just turn this thing into skype and shut down the 3D portion... that seems to be how they use it anyway.

     

    A thousand times this.

    FWIW, all I've really seen voiced used for in the hubs is to insult noobs or play tinny music. Every so often, as if by accident, an actually conversation breaks out.

    Hanson infohub needs to be replaced. Others?

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Pussycat Catnap wrote:

    They should all have build on with return at 5, and object entry on (only if this is needed for vehicle rezzing, otherwise off), but scripts off.

     

    Scripts off could be problematic at Violet, Hau Koda, Barbarossa, Hyannisport, and Moose Beach. each of these also have items for vehicle use in their areas, and no scripts would likely affect functionality.

    Turning off voice at some of those, OTOH, would make for a much more pleasant experience -- but I don't see LL shuttering what is viewed as a core functionality of the viewer in an area for noobs.

    I like your suggestions, BTW, In some of these I'd also like to see more on the local areas surrounding them.

    Hanson infohub needs to be replaced. Others?

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Hanson is really a mess. It wasn't that good to begin with, IMO. FWIW, I think the majority of the "not a full region" hubs need to be reconsidered and/or shuttered. The exceptions (again, IMO) likely being Iris, Miramare, and Ross. Possibly Hyles, Bear and others, if they were updated content-wise.

    Full region hubs like Hyannisport, HauKoda, Moose Beach, Violet, etc are more the way to go, IMO, but even here they need a revamping of content, and -- and this I don't know how to handle -- a bit more time spent on helping keep these "social" places from becoming "anti-social" places.

    Novatropolis (Hippoden, Hyperion, Loki & Ni) Community

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Osprey Therian wrote:

    I had a big scenario that I would've loved to've seen when the teens were ported to Agni. I wanted all the newcomers to dress as zombies, infecting the population. There could've been reports and videos ahead of the event that talked of a strange sickness spreading like wildfire...

    A lot of people would've participated, I'm sure.

    That would have rocked.

    Novatropolis (Hippoden, Hyperion, Loki & Ni) Community

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Pussycat Catnap wrote:

    Curious that this piece got left on the teen island when the rest of Bay City teen moved. Novia Albion may not officially be Bay City, but well, for all intents and purposes Bay City's community really is from the Shermerville sims through Nova Albion and into the Bay City sims.

    This chunk looks awfully awkward left where it is.

     

    Nova Albion was there first, and has/had it's own user base long before Bay City was even a glimmer in a mole's eye. Ditto Shermerville, Blumfield, and West Haven. Heck, I suspect there are more than a few who wish that Bay City remained a glimmer. Sadly, there is some disunion between the two cities.

    Nova Albion is "not officially Bay City" because it's not Bay City, and I would hope it never would be. If anything, I've referred to the area as "the tri-city area" for Nova Albion, Bay City, and the suburbs. 

    Second Life Wish List

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Spectran wrote:

    Gosh, I'm new here.  I fell like i MIGHT  be saying something stupid,  But I still feel that the need to complain might be something beneficial.  I would wish that Second Life Forums would contain a whole 'Wish List" subforum.  It is manufactured by jinnis after all, right?  What else do I wish for  'Second Life'?  Plenty of wish for its evolution!
    • Better graphics over time-- can it compete with PS3 and Xbox360?  Can it compete with film?
    • Better interactivity-- how easy or possible is it to go jetboarding, skiing, snowboarding, parachuting, flying a kite, adventure gaming, imagining anything, interacting with the environment in any which way?
    • Vehicles please!  Or at least the ability to run, fer Christ's sake.  Am I missing something here?  There should be the ability to purchase your avatar a vehicle, be it a flying saucer,  truck, scuba gear, jet pack, cheetah, snail, or portal gun, all with different speeds.
    • Better sound synthesis-- when there's a song playing, I don't want to suddenly hear it.  I want to slowly hear it more as I get closer to it, just like it is in 'real life'.  Same with voices.
    • Better customization over time-- customize the flash of light that happens when you warp to new worlds.  Customize the way your voice sounds.  Customize the censorship.  Customize the desires.  Customize everything!
    • Earn your magic-- maybe you shouldn't even let these people fly to begin with.  Make it a game.  Do you realize how much you could be selling?  !00 Lindens per angel wing~!  Okay, maybe we should fly to begin with, just as in a dream.  But can you imagine how much more is possible, and what secrets to behold?  Only when you won sacred dragonfire can you see what lays behind the curtain!  Make it perfectly accessible for people to create a video game in each world!  How about the Sims version 900000000000000000!
    • Make a complete synthesis with the genius of the computer!  Can you Skype people you know at second life while driving down the street?  What's their cyber-cell #?  Can I watch true cinema at the cyber-through theatre?  Can I completely interact the virtues of my PC with the the Cyberian outback?  Certainly possible! 
    • Infinite programming possibilities
    • And I'm sure I could think of a bagillion more.  Can you?  In good conscience, what would you suggest?

    • Better graphics: check out the advanced lighting and shadows in the most recent client. Will it compete with film? Not likely. One has to be able to move in real time in these environments, not have their pre-rendered.
    • Each of the things you mentioned is currently possible. Could likely be easier, but definitely possible. I know there's vendors for each of the items you mentioned, and definitely some different adventures to be had.
    • Run: Command-R on Mac, Control-R on PC. Vehicles: there are plenty of people that sell 'em
    • You can do that now. One could build an environment that people could not fly in unassisted, or without a certain group rank.
    • You can use SL voice in much the same way as Skype, inworld, both in the world and via IMs or Group Chat. You can watch films inworld, and there are theaters to facilitate this. You can also use shared media and parcel media for same.
    • Not ure what you mean by infinite programming possibilities.

    Now then, my wish list...

    • Better social tools. Give me an inworld feed. Similar to what's seen at my-demo.secondlife.com, but with that wall presented inworld. I want those tools to be in there, not require me to load a webpage to see 'em. Also, I want https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2008 and https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-17022
    • Oblong textures.
    • An improved viewer UI, particularly with better audio and medial controls and a more accessible UI overall.
    • Additional inventory sort options. Recently used. Favorites. Other customizable options
    • Additional appearance pane sort options. Allow me to have a "favorite outfits," or make nested folders. That way I could have all my summer clothes in one place, for example, or business wear in one, fun stuff in nother, etc.
    • Additional friend's list groupings. Let me set up a list of business contacts, close friends, neighbors, etc.
    • Better building alignment tools.
    • An improved base avatar, perhaps a couple base system avatars (a quadruped would be nice, a "tiny" or "child size", maybe a dragon one with a tail joint and wing joints in addition to arms and legs, etc). Maintain "Ruth," but have additional base options in the system. Allow for the use of any of these.
    • Improved ground texturing. Allow us to "paint' our textures onto the mesh somehow, or otherwise provide set texturing without the perlin noise random seed that is causing ground textures to go a bit nuts now. Allow them to be higher resolution, or allow us more control over repeats, blends, etc.
    • Revisit existing Linden plants and trees. Maintain the legacy plants and trees (it would simply be too much to force people to replace in builds), but introduce new, improved versions. Perhaps make a "2/0" set of the old favorites that take advantage of more modern technological abilities.
    • Imrproved group functions. Allow for more flexibility in group abilities.
    • Have the ability to rez and use scripts set onto parcels with an optional whitelist and blacklist.  

    Those cars on the mainland roads. Grrrrrrr.

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Polenth Yue wrote:

    I don't want to see all use of the roads banned... just for those who do use the roads to consider how heavily they're using them. And that does include being open to talking about it, without accusing people of lying if they find a problem.

     

    Something I'd ask all vehicle runners to consider is that you're not watching the vehicles for most of their journey. You don't see all the problems. It might be the vehicle is doing something it shouldn't, because it hit a situation you didn't expect... but if your first reaction is to say it couldn't possibly be happening, it isn't leaving many options for people living by the road. It encourages people to AR rather than send an IM explaining the problem.

    Ya, agreed. 

    Really, I think it comes down to a common "fair use" policy. How much is too much? Are there any specific things you can or can't do on the roads? This sort of thing. Making the roads too difficult for a number of users to actually use is not the answer. Nor is allowing a small handful of users to dominate the roads, making it too difficult for the majority to use. I'm sure there has to be some reasonable balance.

    Those cars on the mainland roads. Grrrrrrr.

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Yevad Doobie wrote:

    I have been in discussion with the 2 main people with automated vehicle projects for a long time and we are looking to maybe get official guidelines up on a wiki page for greater clarity and to try and prevent these types of arguments.  Boundaries have been set by Blondin, though there is no official record of this.  Now Blondin has gone, we are not sure who to contact at LL.  The TOS and Community Guidelines are not specific enough really.  A line needs to be drawn, for sure!

    --

    I would like to see the haters sit down and have a conversation with a partially sighted resident, or a resident with motor control issues.  I know some people with such problems that appreciate them enormously!  Unfortunately, most of the haters are too blinkered to want to see sides of the issue such as this...

    +1 to all the above. I think this *is* a case where some rational discussion would help. I know I'd definitely never be willing to support something that would remove the Blake Sea ferries, let alone the Bay City Trolleys (and I still want to see the return of the Nova Albion one, for that matter!). There are also many great examples of Resident created automated systems that do provide an effective and fun service. Again, I'll point to Cubey's planes, especially the new route through the Southern Passage as but one example.

    Heck, the argument here is largely split on how much fun on particular maker's vehicles are versus how much they detract from fun/possible TOS issues with said vehicles. So let's find the line and move on.

    So yes, by all means. I feel you on the "who to contact" issue, though. They so need some front facing folks to handle these issues. 

    Those cars on the mainland roads. Grrrrrrr.

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Pussycat Catnap wrote:

    There shouldn't be moment like that - with a road crossing through private land.

    I've ridden one of the mainland touring pods and passed by one of those - with my pod avoiding it.

    Some moles will tell you there's nothing they can do about something like that, but I've seen others make very inventive road shapes - and even seen things that a mole told me there was nothing that could be done about, get later fixed by 'someone'. A small curved segment to the road could fix the problem in that screenshot.

     

    From the look of that road, I'm betting that is somewhere in mid-Sansara. 

    Back when Michael Linden chairs the LDPW office hours, he discussed situations like this. The roads build in the pre LDPW days (especially the 2003-2004 era) often did not concern themselves so much with parcel boundaries. This has led to situations like this, places where road was returned by a land owner, and other "fun" things.

    FWIW, the Moles are factually correct. There is nothing they can do about the above. The old ROWs are owned by maintenance, and they can't fix those legacy spaces. That said, Michael Linden could. Best bet is to ticket it, and let him take a look at fixing that issue.

    Those cars on the mainland roads. Grrrrrrr.

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Yevad Doobie wrote:

    Hmmm...isn't that from the same person that wants to get protected routes split up and no-object-entry parcels inserted?  

    I want to say that something like that was mentioned by him in rail community meeting on 6/3, but I wasn't able to spot it in the minutes. I distinctly recall everyone saying "Uh, no" or something along those lines.

    Me, I still feel that the creator of these things, no matter how well-intentioned she may be, has overstepped her bounds. There *are* some spaces her vehicles should not go, but she has managed to make vehicles that have nothing more than a rudimentary AI, and don't understand that not all LL owner parcels are created equal. The Route 6 bridlepath is one of these, IMO. There's a spot on Jeogeot where the LDPW made a "tunnel" at request of landowners there who did not want a road - but her vehicles don't "see" that distinction. Indeed, the mainland is full of exceptions that a human does see, but her drunken drivers can't spot at all.

    By the same token, I do fall on the side of "tone it down" in regards to those vehicles. I think there's too many, and I think they can often annoy. I have at times found it hard to enjoy the roadway, because I'm getting pushed off the road by some particle spewing vintage steam tractor whatever. 

    There are a number of automated systems I really love. Aside from the mole ferries, trolleys, balloons, and water trolleys, I am also fond of Cubey's planes, Qu Qi's ferry, the GSLR and ONSR, The Kissling ferry, cars, and telehopper, the Lost Lakes balloon tour (which I was delighted to see still operates!), and likely a few others I've forgotten. I also loved the old Linden SLRR trains, back when they actually worked.

    Yet each of those do have a distinct difference to what this particular user is doing. None of the above roam freely. Each has its waypoints and travels to same, and doesn't go beyond them. Each also has at least some form of self limiting: Cubey's planes autodie without a passenger, there's only one of Qu Qi's ferries out on the water, the telehopper is also solitary and slow, etc.

    I definitely would not support holy terrors like no entry or whatever on the road. That would be like tossing out the baby avatar with the bath prims. I want to be able to use the darn roads, and that would make them functionally hobbled at best.

    I would like to see some sense of what is and isn't allowed for a single Resident to do on SL's ROWs. How much is too much? Is there a limit? Who should even be allowed to set such?

    "I'll report you!"

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Love Leonoase wrote:

    Speaking as a mature adult, the whole use of this "I'll report you" card is entirely childish to me.   

    My suspicion is that those who scream "I'll report you!" are the least likely to even know where to find "Report Abuse" in their viewer. Meanwhile, I'm I'm reporting you, I'm just doing it. I'm not sitting their yelling and screaming about how I'm gonna do it and them those big ole Lindens will bust your butt. Like Love said, that's childish - and there is a difference between childish and childlike. ;-)

    Have I ARed? Countless time. I have land next to three different infohubs, and I've been assaulted for being a kid avatar. I've got a pretty well-worn rut leading to the AR menu selection. I also know a time or two where I participated in AR parties. There are definitely times ot take that action.

    Stamping your feet and screaming about reporting someone? Why waste all that time an energy when you could be doing something fun? Just do it (presuming merit) and be done with it.

     

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