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1 minute ago, Ethan Paslong said:

because what you see as social game, isn't for many others, but for many here such things don't come in mind and just judge and try to make fools about people who think otherwise.

Game or not, It IS a majorly social environment. People will interact with you sooner or later, rather you dig it or not. That's undeniable. My point still stands.

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1 minute ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

I think that this misses the point, and it also plays into the false narrative that LL is stripping parcel owners of their rights to privacy at the ground level.

In practice, LL homeowners still have a number of tools at their disposal to ensure that they can have real privacy, even on the ground. What this effectively does is open up a smallish corridor for flying vehicles, and take away people's right to shoot trespassers on sight.

For probably 99% of the time, privacy in the home will still be secure.

Not just flying vehicles, but especially land and floating ones as well. These can have a real hard time getting around ban lines.

Ban list and ignore. That's, ultimately, all the tools most will ever need, imho. But people still think they need even more... Oh, well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I still don't get it... If some people crave for solitude, why not simply go to a private sim? Or why even bother staying in a social game like SL?

But don't you guys worry: We've been asking for ban lines to be removed for as long as I can remember (2005, in my case), and LL has never agreed with it. I doubt they will go that way in the rest of the mainland, unfortunately.

But, try as I may, I can't help but get a "get out of my lawn" vibe out of these people.

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11 minutes ago, Gryphon Ronas said:

So since this discussion is only about the new Linden Homes areas...  You are calling that sparsely populated?

By RL FAA rules? A few dozen ppl? Surely. By SL rules? Not by a long shot. Hence why I stated previously that this comparison made no sense at all, imo.

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25 minutes ago, Gryphon Ronas said:

Airliners don't fly VFR, they fly IFR and their altitudes are actually a fair bit higher in Class A airspace between 18,000 and FL-600 (60,000 ft) MSL so in use or not, your 787's are a differetn animal completely.

14 CFR § 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General.

Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the following altitudes:

(a)Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface.

(b)Over congested areas. Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft.

(c)Over other than congested areas. An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.

Yup, I know this very well. But you insisted on a theoretical "1000 feet minimum" on the post this reply comes from. Read (c) carefully again, please. Also, do pay attention to the word "sparsely", which would probably be 90-95% of all mainland. Technically, we would be able to fly even lower than 500 feet at a lot of places in SL, by FAA rules (which, btw, makes no sense to me at all. SL is a very different beast from RL, imho)

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2 hours ago, Gryphon Ronas said:

This satisfies a vocal minority.  The rest can go suck eggs, apparently.

I have heard the argument that they want to be able to fly over land because in RL you can.  And that is absolutely true.  But you have to stay a minimum of 1,000ft above ground level, and have to maintain clearance of 1,000ft above or 2,000ft to the side of any obstacles.  In SL, fly at anything over 75m above ground level and you are over the ban lines.  1,000ft clearance is about 305 meters.

I think overall this is a bad idea, to restrict the many to satisfy the few.

Oh boy, don't tell this to the bunch of RL bush pilots I happen to know. You would be surprised at how that number is actually off. Remember: Not everything flying out there happens to be 787s... (actually, none of those are flying nowadays, heh)

Also, care to share with us where your numbers are coming from? The "restrict the many to satisfy the few" had me very curious, when spoken as scientific unquestionable truth.

 

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9 minutes ago, CinnamonMousse said:

           FANTASTIC!!!! 

***** BEST NEWS EVER *****

x2

Seriously!

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40 minutes ago, Constantine Linden said:

Hi everyone! We interrupt your regularly-scheduled thread to make sure everyone catches this announcement
https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/435612-securityprivacy-and-new-linden-homes/

No Ban Lines and a LL approved rational security orb (finally!)?

I'm sold! ^^

 

Keep up the excellent work, guys 

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Wow, I'm really pleased with this new continent. Been around since 2005, and very few times I remember being as excited as I am right now. Maybe it's just me, but seeing this huge influx of players into this new region, slowly turning it into a bustling community, is really fun to watch. So much so, that I have barely even touched my boathouse or beach house (was among the first few to get land as well, so got very nice spots for both).

Sure, there's always the oddball here and there with their tasteless builds, etc... But, overall, I'm pleasantly surprised by how careful the current community is concerning the overall looks of their new houses and houseboats. Kudos to all of you out there.

I really hope LL will keep their focus here. If they can manage to keep the current community here as interested as they are now, they are surely going to have an influx of premium players in the nearby future. 

Things like: Rez zones; an airport; a marina; GTFO spots for sea, land and airborne; connecting the new continent to Jeogeot (and maybe cleaning up a bit more sailable area around Sansara); adding a few more cool public areas to visit (I personally think that a distant island or two - think Blake's "Siren Island" - would be great), maybe some offroad trails, etc, etc...

If they can give us enough things to do in the new continent as a communty, Bellisseria may become one of the places to be in the near future.

Now, excuse me for a bit. I just got to go back and watch the community change things around the new continent ^^

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I'm currently struggling with a problem that I can't see to figure out.

The idea behind the script I need is to have it say something when touched, following a list. I need it to say each item of that list once per touch, pausing between items until it's touched again, eventually looping to the first item.

So, if 

list ChatList = ["A","B","C","Etc."];

I need it to say just "A" when first touched. Then "B" when touched a second time, "C" a third, "Etc." on its fourth touch, and it loops back to "A" if touched a fifth time. 

I can get it to say everything at once. To say it in different lines. Even to say it randomly (using a script I got here in these very forums), but I just can't figure out how to make it wait until touched again before it follows up with the list.

I'm quite sure this is something simple that somehow I just can't seem to get a grip.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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On 12/18/2018 at 5:25 PM, Rhonda Huntress said:

 

Now ... look at the bottom picture again.  Tasty.  See the size of his biceps?  The length of his arms?  Those are nice proportions that you seldom see in SL. 

Actually, LL would be to blame here, like most developers in other games with a character creator: they still see upper male arms as just "one whole thing", allowing just a single width and length setting for it, at most. See that picture you and many others loved? Well his arms would look much bigger looking from a "side perspective". Why? Because then his triceps, a much bigger muscle, would also be fully visible. Unfortunatelly, we don't have that kind of control in SL, so if we try to mimick that look, it would actually end with a much "thinner looking" upper arms, depending on how you look at the avatar in question. Basically, we might even get the biceps size right, but end up with the triceps proportions all wrong, with the current tools we have in SL. 

It's why you see so many male avatar with big arms: people want a athletic look, not a scrawy one. And with the current tools, achieving this on all perspectives is almost impossible in SL.