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Only based on review dates, if there are any.

I don't think that's the same thing. That's a wholly different / new feature. If I understood correctly, @Desiree Moonwinder wants a script to be able to get the autoreturn time set for the current parcel. That JIRA is asking for a new feature; to set an autoreturn timer for an individual object, and get the value that was set for that object.

You also have it halfway right. If LL did exactly what you said, what about all the gachas that are already listed? Does every existing product get retroactively marked as non-gacha? Do all products on MP need to be relisted? This would also "punish" non-gacha merchants by forcing them to deal with specific settings that are specifically not related to their product, even if they've never -- and will never -- make a listing for a gacha. The solution for this problem would be to have the "not gacha" option pre-selected, but that would again sink the ship before it sails just like the Gacha category.. And don't get me wrong, this gacha situation is pretty silly. While these new filters are useful, they're only a bandaid to what the actual problem is. Heck, I would volunteer my own time so I could manually go through hundreds of pages of MP and review/move any gacha items I could find. PM me @Linden Lab 😊

Preferences > Graphics > Rendering > uncheck "Enabled Attached Lights (Face Lights)" I think you have this backwards. Here's ALM enabled: Here's ALM disabled (still midnight):

I've sent you L$100. Keep the change.

I don't doubt that this happened, but you can't find an individual person if all you have is an IP address. They need many other general details to find you, which are pretty easy to keep to yourself, especially if you don't use your SL alias anywhere else. (Unlike me, since I use my profile picture literally everywhere so it's easy to find lots of info about who I am and what I do. Very stalkable.)

Since L$ was stable for so long, there's no reason to assume Supply Linden suddenly went haywire and caused the spike. Especially not if large orders were placed way above current rate, which doesn't seem to have been how Supply Liden worked in the past. (The large orders may have tricked Supply Linden to stock at that rate, but the damage was already done by that point if residents were canceling and relisting their orders anyway.) One theory that was mentioned and would actually make sense in more ways than one: money laundering. If you have "dirty money," it's worthless because you can't spend it. If you can dump thousands of dollars into SL every month and be guaranteed to sell it immediately at a small cost (higher rate), that's definitely worth doing. In this case it would also make sense why LL would go on to impose new trading limits, and it seemed to have an immediate effect. Possibly because whoever was making the large orders was also banned for fraud/laundering. If it wasn't LL or Supply Linden bugs or money laundering, what else could explain such a sudden change in market behavior? (Genuine question.) But what ever caused the spike, LL wouldn't tell us simply because their public stance is that they're not going to "fix" the market. If it was money laundering, there would be demands for LL to fix the rate (I'm sure) and it would cost them a lot of money because the only way they could fix things was to buy all L$ above the old rate and prevent higher-rate orders for a while, and it would be really terrible PR for their platform. If it was LL's direct decision, obviously they wouldn't want to tell us. If it was just a market anomaly with no special influence, there'd be no reason for LL to comment on it. Either way, this was three whole years ago. No matter who/what the cause was, it has since stabilized and everybody's had time to adjust to the new rate. At least we're not in the middle of that turmoil now.

Many male AOs have perfectly neutral walking cycles.

Regarding listen events: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:LlListen This means that no matter for how long the script is sleeping or the event queue stays full, the script will always receive all messages in the order they were received by the sim.

I'm back with my homework. Facts Supply Linden injects L$ to fill buy-orders. (supply for the demand) L$ was stable for 5 years at around 248-250:1. L$ had a sudden spike in 2016, getting close to 300:1. Large orders of L$ were regularly placed way above current rate. Many people would cancel their orders and relist them again at even higher rates. The number of sales increased. The volume of L$ sold did not change or slightly decreased. (based on Gridsurvey) L$ has stabilized at around 257-259:1. This is called deflation. The cost of goods and services has dropped at current price. Consumers benefit from deflation due to getting more L$ to spend per dollar. Merchants are hurt by deflation because the L$ they receive is worth less. The deflation stopped as Linden Lab announced changes to trading limits. Conclusions Somebody was manipulating the market. Merchants lost money during the spike. Merchants must've adjusted their prices to avoid losses in the (now past) future. Questions I couldn't answer Did Linden Lab actually benefit from this, especially if L$ volume was unchanged? All of LL's flat-fee money sinks became cheaper; lost revenue unless more people started using them. Marketplace wouldn't have done better unless prices were raised or market activity went up. Does this cover it, or did I get anything wrong and am I missing something?

I don't know, but what I do know is that there's no benefit to doing that. If your monitor is physically only 1080p, going 4K won't even make the image look more sharp. You'd just be losing FPS.

Could someone link other relevant threads so I can catch up on the discussion, then? The mid-2011 to mid-2016 definitely looks weird. Wasn't that period kind of the peak of SL activity though? I would speculate that it's possible that the state of the economy back then could've just stabilized at that level, but I don't know what would've caused that sudden spike during 2016 if that was the case. Were there any significant events/announcements around that time? One thing I am noticing though, is that there was a significant uptick in individual transactions during that whole upturn from mid-2015 until the end of the chart, especially at the peak. A weirder thing is that from 13-Sept-2017 until 15-Jan-2017 the minimum quantity was L$1 and the maximum rate was around 271 for most of that. That certainly looks like market manipulation -- very obviously even -- but this could be done by anyone, not just LL. The L$ trading limits were also changed in December of 2016 and the rate inflation immediately stopped. Edit: Seems like the major part of the chart is explained by Supply Linden filling in the demand, which kept it stable through 2011-2016.

Okay. I was upset and irritated last night, mainly because of Luna. Let's try it again with a different set of spoons. Could you link me somewhere I can find a historical chart and maybe one of those SLU threads. I promise I'll read through them without making any hasty conclusions.

Which is probably why you're not supposed to be able to do it. The exact process hasn't been properly implemented, so the way it works now is just an artifact. I mean, "state changes" are an arbitrary implementation that's very specific to LSL, this could technically be the "proper implementation" if it wasn't for the fact that the compiler tries to stop us from even trying.

Ok, since you're so critical, let's put this more in context, even though it was clear to all the others: to get to a $1000 to withdraw, we need 15% more L$ rather than 10%, which makes the same amount of cut as described in my comment you quoted. For the same amount of L$ that now makes $1000, i would have got $1150 without fee raise AND inflation, and without inflation that would have been $1050 which might not seem much, but that covers at least one of my bimestral bills. Yes, I mentioned that at the end of the quote. I don't disagree with your observation. I guess raising your prices is just totally out of the question and all you can do is let their value depreciate with time. (I'm using the "general you," there are many in these threads who don't like it.) What you said in the post I was responding to was yet another example of extrapolating personal experience to the wider world. "My sales are going up along with someone I know. How come the LindeX rate keeps getting worse??" Dude. That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. The fact that the value of lindens has declined is relevant and an important part of the picture. We can talk about that. The accusation of LL directly controlling that value isn't something I care to entertain. You can do that and I'm not going to argue on that.

Sorry, the different kinds of assistance I've gotten are muddled in my head right now while I'm flustered. I currently get a part of my rent paid (230€) and the 250€ student aid. In the past I used to get the same amount of rent paid (I never get this money, I only pay the difference) and about 500€ (32.4€/day for 20 days per month). Yes, I could have earned more to put into savings. I didn't particularly need more. When I began saving I had a different safety net and by the time that went away, I had enough of my own. I will have to find some kind of part-time job again within the next couple years while I'm in school. Not because I would hit zero but because I would lose my cushion. The reason was because I was jobless but seeking, that's the 500€. (You must prove you're actively looking for a job to get it.) I also had a part-time job at one point which paid me 1080€ post-tax per month, that's where the largest chunk of my savings have come from because I saved roughly half of each paycheck. This isn't to say that you should survive on 500€ ($560), it's not universally applicable because of different economies, personal circumstances (childen, pets, vehicle, poor public transit, etc.) and prices in the local area. What I am saying that when you are struggling, there are always some ways to reduce your own costs. I rarely buy games (my main source of entertainment), I don't have TV or Netflix, I don't drink/smoke/gamble, I rarely eat candy or fast food, I buy groceries by price-to-weight (I compare the prices of butter and fake-butter!), I don't have expensive hobbies, I don't buy new clothes until my current ones are falling apart, I live in the smallest and cheapest apartment I could find, and I deal with a lot of minor inconveniences. The amount of money people spend when they don't need to is pretty gross sometimes.

Friend, I spent years doing absolutely nothing but struggle alone on 750€; no plan, no school. It's miserable, which is why I'm back to school. And it did get worse, I lost over 60% of my income when I started school and I had to take a loan because of it. I've only just recently started, I have another 3-4 years of slog to go. This is post-college. That loan I took was less than what I had in the bank too, because I don't want to risk borrowing money I can't pay back. I have plans to have a part-time job at some point, but even if I mess this up, I don't have to be in fear of that loan I took. Unfortunately I can't read my post for you, sorry. All currencies fluctuate in value, whether or not LL is manipulating this one specifically is a whole separate discussion that I don't care to have. I understand your views, that's not the problem. I just disagree with your views and would like to discuss them but you keep making personal jabs at me because you don't like what I have to say, that's the problem.

You're talking to someone who's in poverty within the poverty margin, and I still consider myself financially responsible because I have saved myself a financial cushion. I am not living on the edge with 250€ per month. There are no sudden expenses that can surprise me even as I make less than peanuts. I can live on negative income (and I do, my expenses are slightly greater than 250€, I don't have the exact number at hand but I estimate 400-500€) for a couple years at the current rate. I don't need to be "part of the machine" or "do what I hate." The answer is yes and no. You don't have to "waste away your life working a job you don't like in a system that's against you" if you just manage you dang money. You don't even have to do something you hate, you can just do something that's "kinda tolerable" while you build up that safety net. Then you can throw it aside and focus on what you want to do; and comfortably survive with less without worrying about a 5/10/15% permanent changes in income, or the month-to-month fluctuation of your sales. I'm completely fine talking about my personal finances if that's what it takes to get through your dismissal. Of course they have the right to complain. But your question is framed in a misleading way. I don't believe Linden Lab is being unfair with the new rates. These numbers are still reasonable, we can come back to it when we're even closer to the 30% they've touted. (Not 30% MP tax, total.) I've also already agreed that the way these fees have been increased is arguably unfair, see @ChinRey's post with the big red letters. For the record, I don't "trust" that the numbers LL comes up with are "the best" for the platform. I base my opinion of "acceptable fees" on what other similar stores I'm aware of are using. If everybody was going 10/90, or 33/66, or 50/50, I wouldn't tell any one of them to lower their rate because at that point the market has agreed that that ratio is acceptable and successful. These fees are pretty nebulous/arbitrary, as in "how do you quantify that your part as the platform is worth X%?" LL is also in a much better position than you or I to make guesses on these rations because they have absolute statistics on how much money merchants cash out. There is no increase you can make anywhere that won't push someone out of the platform or into the danger zone, besides taxing the customer directly which I want more of than just the flat fee for buying L$. I don't buy L$ or cash out L$, so I'm the embodiment lost revenue for LL. Hypothetically, if we were back in SL's first day and there were no other online stores, you could argue that this is LL's platform and therefore they can take 75%. How are you going to argue that's not the case? This subject is incredibly complicated and there's more to it than just our opinions vs LL's opinion. There's no way to absolutely know ahead of time whether you, I, that guy selling sim-crashing breedables, or LL is correct. What the best fee is specifically for Second Life can't be just calculated like taxes on personal income. That means that you can't know it either, no matter what you make, how hard you work, or for how long you've been a merchant. Your only reference point is yourself and a small crowd of people from among hundreds of thousands. Even if everybody you talk to is doing great and sales are going up, that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people who are suffering a steady and painful decline. Edit, btw: If you're withdrawing "$1000", it doesn't matter what the exchange rate is. That $1000 is just equivalent to a different amount of L$ at the time of withdraw, but it's still $1000. The change in rate only matters if you've been holding onto $1000 from a long time ago, in which case the decline does mean that the lindens that were once worth $1000 are now worth less and you have in fact lost more money. Actually, I guess it does matter if you don't change your prices to adjust for inflation. I wonder if other (non-SL) stores do that?

The real world? Alright. My yearly post-tax income IRL is currently equivalent to $3350. I get 250€ into my bank account per month. It has been like that for about a year, before that I was getting about 750€/mo for a couple years. I'm a full-time student. I live alone and nobody else pays for my bills. I pay my rent (apart from a portion of my rent which I'm entitled to from the Finnish government), I pay for my phone, I buy my food, I can't afford a car so I pay for my public transit. I ride a dang scooter (the ones you push with your feet) to school. I've still managed to save a decent amount of money during this time. Don't tell me I don't know what it feels like to struggle, because I bet nobody in this bunny farm is as pressed for money as I am. There are a lot of things I'd like to say right now but I'm still a decent person. I'm sorry if my comments frustrate you, but the feeling is mutual and I'm not going to change my mind until somebody actually makes an effort in explaining why I am wrong instead of being uppity and telling me to shut up because you're taking things too personally.

You wanna elaborate on that? I did not use $50K as an example because I think that's what your average content creator is actually making -- US or otherwise. I used that number as an example because it's a lot of money but the loss is still small. It's about perspective. If we cut that number in half, $25K, the loss gets cut in half too. Percentages are proportional.

I absolutely agree with everything you said, besides the disagreement with this part. (Edit: Misworded what I meant.) But first: LL brought up the example of "other platforms taking up 30%" when they announced MP tax going up from 5% to 10%. This is deceptive because those other stores use "real currencies" instead of the intermediate one we have to sell away separately. Back in 2017, LL took 9.7% of your income in total (MP, LindeX, Processing), before you received the money. Right now they take 17.49%. That's a lot closer to 30% than 10%. But I think, in principle, the idea of increasing fees for merchants is valid. Like you said, though, they haven't gone about it the right way.

The event queue can hold 64 events, and the 65th event is ignored/discarded. I think this is explained by the way a busy sim schedules scripts to be executed. For example, when you're in a sim with "30% scripts run" per frame and you click on an object while it's not in that 30%, it won't even get an event because it isn't running. This is just untested speculation.

There is nothing wrong with recursion or infinite loops, they should be considered "standard practice" as far as the LSL engine is concerned. Stack-heap collisions don't hurt the sim either; but not having them definitely would. The jury's still out on hot-swapping states...

I should've put an asterisk in there somewhere. You're not supposed to be allowed to change state from within a function. These don't compile: function() { state new; // ERROR : Global functions can't change state } function() { integer i; if (i == 0) { // stuff } else { state new; // ERROR : Global functions can't change state } } if and else if work fine. It's a bug. I couldn't explain why/how it works or what the implications are. @Rider Linden?

Events will stay on the "event queue" until the script's call-stack is empty. (Meaning, all functions have finished executing.) If the current state is changed from within a function, that function will immediately return with a zero-value and will not continue when the state changes back to previous. vector function() { integer i; while (++i < 10) { llOwnerSay("loop counter: " + (string)i); if (i == 5) { state new; } } return (<1,1,1>); } default { state_entry() { llOwnerSay("default state"); vector returned = function(); llOwnerSay("function returned " + (string)returned); } } state new { state_entry() { llOwnerSay("new state"); state default; } } The above script is an infinite loop from 1 to 5.