Steph Catseye

try to login "at home" if you don't have the drop down box in the startup screen you can activate somewhere in the preferences! If you don't have a home location set it would most likely put you in a region nearby!

i have heard all sorts of things from AMD users... before this version it was displaying shaddows on 20.000 meters height, it would not show shaddows from a prim, only my avatar. I heard from a friend who kinda managed to get the new Version toaccept his card that she has the same problem, shaddows would only show on Linden ground, not on prims and no shaddows coming off the prims (floor not full bright of course) Drivers are up to date for both of us! Working fine with the other viewers and works best with Singularity! I also heard from others that the alpha layers are disabled when they turn on shaddows and others say it works just fine!

Acheron Gloom wrote: Without the LL viewer we wouldn't have third party viewers... If only I could rate posts 'dumb'... You're right :-) if we only could :-) I said stop developing and not, travel back in time and stop inventing it! LL is about 2 years behind of other viewers based on the speed of "accomplishments" You might not care for any of these features and for many residents the basic mode is just good enough! Having said that, Second Life is based on user created content and since ANY other viewer is making the creation of content as user friendly as possible, LL is completely ignoring ANY of these features! The big difference is that the alternative viewers are created by residents that use the software on a daily basis with all it's features while the Lindens sit on a round table, occasionally someone gets send on the grid to link 2 boxes to test "functionality" none of them has ever had to do what decent builder or clothes designer has to do everyday... for that matter... stop developing!

I believe that Firestorm will be the Viewer everyone is using in 1 year or so, it let's you decide what kind of menus you want to operate with and even the beta is pretty stable already!

Maxine Kohime wrote: Woot woot! It offers all what V2 can give you^^ ..and MUCH MORE! All the stuff you ever have dreamed to have! I dreamt that Ian Somerhalder is gonna merry me! If it's not built in the viewer i will sue you :matte-motes-big-grin-wink:

I'd suggest to run a performance logger! The graphics card should be ok, not sure if the processor and ram can handle it! A performance logger will tell you exactly what short comings there are, also one would need to know in which resolution your run SL whith what kind of settings and if you enabled shaddows or not because if you run it in Ultra Mode with Shaddows in any higher resolution i would believe your system is already providing on the limit! Recording Full Screen your graphic card should handle well! Again.. use a performance logger, even the windows built in one can give you some ideas!

Charolotte Caxton wrote: I have been using V2 for a little over a year now and every update, including this one, makes everything better. Maybe its your system, not the viewer? It can hardly be my system when it runs in ANY other viewer! It is the ridiculous settings of LL that won't allow me to turn on shaddows simply because it doesn't recognize a graphics card which sold 6 million times world wide! If you read the entire post then you know i tried it on 2 systems, both state of the art, above that actually! I am fine when people like the Viewer 2, super fine to be honest, however i am not fine when improvements are entirely ignored! Like I said there was a time when I loved the viewer but even when the other viewers are based on older source code they are still more developed and that is something LL has not considered yet! Given the fact that nearly 50% using phoenix and 20% the other viewers and only 30% (mostly new residents) use Viewer 2 you have to realize that the original viewer has become the alternative viewer! With all their presence and power, a small group of people have taken over only by word to mouth! I guess that explains that the majority doesn't agree with Linden Labs "development"

Well said, they are developing viewers for themselves and not for us! You probably missed it in my lengthy post, i am using phoenix and singularity already!

There was a point in my Second Life when I loved this viewer, learning the new menus wasn't that hard and graphics seem to be slightly better, having said that the recent release is just *bleeping" me off to an extend where I realize they are going nowhere! I quote from the SL release: And, it’s easy to enable. In the SL Viewer’s Advanced mode, choose Me > Preferences, go to the Graphics tab, click the Advanced button, and just check Lighting and Shadows. (If your graphics card can’t support this option, then it won’t be available.) Then, you will experience the magic of Second Life like never before. For more information, see Lighting and Shadows. Of course it is only easy when you got one of the 4 graphic cards they support! If you have an AMD Card like I do it won't even give me the option to turn it on even when it would diplay it in Ultra Mode and 60 FPS! So back to my laptop with Nvidia Graphics and there is the same as always, it won't display the shaddows correctly! That is 2 times top notch hardware where it doesn't work while it works in Imprudence but kills the Alpha Layer and no snapshots possible and it works like a charm in Singularity, a piece of software created by one person!!! SO why can 100 knuckleheads not achieve what 1 person can? What really bothers me in this viewer is that ANY alternative viewer now has the copy and paste functions in the building window! If you ever had to make 50 prims with random sizes to the same size you know how frigging great that tool is! Why do I need to Shazam music on my iphone when other viewers can display the title? Why do I still receive frigging pointless group messages even when I turned it off? Why is there no auto response? Why no temporary uploads, or even HD based previews? This above and other things i can't recall at the moment is why the SL Viewer has to die! In my opinion there has been no accomplishment since January! Announcing a new search is not an accomplishment, it makes people get back to work on their SEO again after we finally figured it out! My suggestion... fire the coders and invest the money into advertising so this platform starts growing eventually! The recent viewer is good/bad enough to get the newbies through until someone tells them how fine Singularity or Phoenix works. I was willing to give SL2 Viewer it's 5th chance today, all other viewers let me know that my graphic card is uknown to them but they won't cut me on the possibility to switch on features because of that! I run shaddows with Antialiasing 16x on the other viewers just fine, but SL would not even let me try! Well Done! (that was sarcasm just in case one of you Sheldon Coppers is reading) <--- that was sarcasm too!

I agree with you Chelsea, in fact i made a post like this 2 months ago! There is shady competition out there and customers who don't read or don't know how to get on the page where they can read the info! I have one free outfit out there that "sold" 15,000 units and got 23 ratings! I have another regular item that sold almost 1000 times and got 6 reviews (5 x***** and 1x *) it is listed as a 4 Star item which doesn't represent the quality and the customer opinion! To rate a product should be more prominent like it is on eBay, hell even my Pizza Delivery is sending me email reminders to rate the quality of the Pizza! This way it has no point since cheating in both directions is to easy and the realy quality of the product is not displayed at any time! This is one of the typical cases where the Lindens mean good and delivery a proper system but don't know it from everdays usage as a customer and or a merchant and wouldn't understand our concerns even if we told them!

Tari, I certainly respect your opinion and don't intend to change it! I can only say the day the product was listed as a 1 star review it stopped selling on marketplace while it was continuing to sell steady in world! I believe fashion items which such a huge amount of competeting products are affected differently! It is too easy to skip them since there are so many other products to choose from! In General good reviews do have an impact because it boosts your search rankings, hence more exposure, more clickthrus, more sales! Do people care for the reviews? I believe if there are hundreds of 5 star reviews nobody would care, if there is an item that is rated with 1 star I do believe they would care! I know it would make me think twice!

I'd agree that one bad review doesn't have an impact among other good ones! However, if there is only 1 review and the customer is lying about particular things and make it sound reasonable then you got a problem! It is not a slumb or anything, all other products perform the same as before, just this one stopped since the day the review was posted! Stats don't lie, customers do! In the end of the review that "customer" claimed she would be so disapointed because she usually buys so many of my products and trusted the good quality! I checked.. it was her first purchase ever, no other sales on MP, Inworld, Gifted items or store card usage! Just a lie! As I said I am living from my SL income and I don't rely on this particular product, and even if it wouldn't have an Impact on my sales there are principles involved and nobody should temper with their principles, especially not when it was a targeted attack from a person that gave 4 other 1 Star reviews with other designers creations and never a good one! Such things need to be stopped and when you flag a review there is no appropriate option in the drop down list to report this correctly!

Replying to all of you above, first I'd like to say to Monica that there is a comment option, I can and I did respond to the unfair review and so did other customers! I admit the comment link is tiny but it's there! :-) To all others that replied I'd like to say that this have been very good responses and I come to the conclusion that the power I was asking for might be abused the other way around! Hence not the best of my ideas! However while reading your responses and the season premiere of southpark I had a tiny vision and it looks like that.... not kidding about southpark :smileyvery-happy: In order to protect us from unreasonable and unwarranted reviews how about that... When someone leaves a 1 star or 2 star reviews a short check list pops up that explains under what circumstances one should give a 1 or 2 star review! Such as unfunctional, color not as described, missing items, false advertising etc... If one agrees to that check list and insist on the low ratings and the merchant can somehow proof that these claims are false the reviewer should loose the review priviledges or maybe a 2 day banishment or something like that! Maybe it sounds like too much punishment for a foul review but in the end of the day some people do actually live from their SL income and such a review has an impact on my real life! The Items I was talking about was selling 5 times a day and now only 4 times in 2 weeks, which is a difference to date of round about 17,000L$ and based on the low review per sale ratio this will continue indefinetely, while good reviews would probably give me 10 sales a day based on higher search rankings and better trust, I am doing basically no sales at all which makes a difference of 430,000 / year based on sales before the review and potential 800,000 / year with good reviews, let's not get cocky and only work with stats i can actually proof ... well that is round about 1,700 USD per year on a single item, if this foul reviewer gets away with it they will do it again and again and we are talking about a real serious amount of money! They can easily cause a 5 digit damage per year and in no business environment any of that should be possible! I raise the question if this is even legal!

I believe anyone merchant as realized by now that the new system is not very review friendly, there has been more reviews during SLX times! Having said that, the rule applies that bad news spreads faster than good news and the same applies for reviews.... one of my free items has 9030 delivered units and only 20 reviews! My best non free items has 1123 delivered units and only 5 reviews (4x5 star and 1x1star) the one star review is completely unreasonable since nobody would sell "Junk" that many times! In the end of the day my bestseller is now a 4 star product even when I know from countless conversations that my customers are absolutely satisfied with the product! Anotherone item of mine was sold 278 times and hasn't received a review yet, this items was recently reviewed with 1 star, packed with a couple of lies and I believe it was a competitor since the same person wrote 5 more 1 star reviews with other merchants! Someone there has an agenda and now my business takes an impact due to unfair, unreasonable and untrue reviews! Certainly I have flagged the review and other customers felt obligated to write a counter response to that "customer" but again... in the end of the day my item is listed with 1 star... hence it is officially junk! Interesting side note, whenever i received a 1 star review those persons did not want to be found in search! Coincidence? I hardly think so! Finally coming to my point! Customers shall not allowed this power! There need to be guidlines, there need to be IP checks.... and 1 Star / 2 Star reviews need to be reviewed because I swear to god, the most of the times it is some douche bag competitor without integrity and business ethics! Since I pay around 6k for a product listing and the area where my products are listed are tagged as "MY STORE" I demand the power to delete 1 star and 2 star reviews! A busy Linden is not the final resolution! I would not allow any customer to intentionally bad mouth my products at my SL or RL store! None of my items is 1 Star item, that's a fact! The review sytsem doesn't pan out because 95% buy and forget, most Marketplace reviews are friends boosting the search rankings with sales and reviews which is probably okay since there is no rule against it? Everyone judge yourself! However MP part of my business and as much I would want to see Marketplace to be a platform for builders and designers instead of an Inworld killing weapon, as long as it is there I am obliged to use it to stay competetive! We need the power to resolve unfair reviews ourselves, it is our shop it is our advertising space and we should be in control as long as we are talking about 1/2 Star Reviews coz the most of the times they are not reasonable, there are shades of grey and not only black and white! I am reasonable enough to see mistakes and fix them, but when someone simply lies about your product what can you do to make people understand that this is untrue! Would a Linden Reviewer actually get the item and check if the review is legit? No he wouldn't... and based on the low percentage of reviews 1 single bad review can impact your business and decides if you sell this item 5 times a day or zero times and that has nothing to do with providing an opinion... This is a sophisticated form of griefing and those people should loose their reviewing priviledges!

working fine for me too had that once, a reset helped to fix that!

Just to report something positive in between the many negative apocalyptic reviews at one point i had 80+ deliveries queued up (including freebie) and all of them have been delievered! While they were not delivered i downloaded all the names that have not received their purchase yet and put it in a 80L$ mailer system and informed them about Marketplace issues! Got a lot of "thanks for the info" responses to that mailing! It took less than 5 minutes from the idea to the execution and people felt comforted by being not left alone in the dark! Technical issues can happen, they simply can and as frustrating they might be it is better to use your energy to provide a positive support to your customers instead of wasting energy on "Negative Linden Thoughts" I love my customers, they are the best... they deserve to be informed and since Linden Labs clearly has issues with that because of their office hours i consider it my job to do it for them! After all it is my business, my income and my reputation on the line!

Brooke Linden wrote: One other question that has come up concerns negative reviews received due to failed deliveries. Please flag the review using the link provided below the review comments, and these will be removed from your listing if the failure is due to a technical problem with the Marketplace. Do people actually have the power to write a review prior to receiving an outfit? If so please stop that!

It should shut down but for other reasons :-) With all due respect to anyones opinion, i believe it is safe to say that deliveries been more than smooth until a couple of days ago! However, Marketplace should shut down because it will kill Second Life communities eventually! Mall sales are in MASSIVE decline already and land owners most of the times need tenants in order to pay their tier! This is one of those topics where SL doesn't know their own product well enough and where they don't understand that a regular person cannot afford to run a club or some sort of other venue without renting out space to merchants! The red flags dancing in the wind like mad!

To me everything shows no matter if I am logged in or not! However deliveries seems to be queued, i am waiting for a delivery and my customers are waiting for theirs, friends report exactly the same! It would make sense to hire an intern that puts a warning message on the front page, regardless what it shows in the order history, many customers don't even know about their order history and will contact me anyways, even when they haven't been charged yet! I don't mind giving a proper service, it is my job to do so , what I don't like is the possible negative association with my brand, which most likely happens with those who are read resistant and don't know how to call up their Order History or automatically assume they have been ripped off!

rofl it appeared on grid status almost simoulatneously to my post! Interesting that Marketplace deliveries are borked as well today! I wonder how that is related! Probably a service provider issue? Dunno how Marketplace deliveries actually work!

since you encouraged to discuss, I would like to say that I disagree in every single point you made! SL is way way waaaaay more stable as it used to be! I can't even remember when I crashed the last time! I remember asset server issues in the past that made nearly any interaction impossible... grid wide! I remember when rolling restarst of new versions broked the grid for the next 2 weeks because of new desaterous bugs! Computer and broadband can become as advanced as possible when you are on a sim with 4000 textured prims and scripts + 30 people with hundreds of textured prims all in your drawing distance then this takes time to load, especially since all designers use 1024x1024 textures nowadays! Try to load that amount of textures and applications in Firefox and you won't have a faster loading time either! While rezzing i run at 18 FPS when all is rezzed i have stable 45 FPS! I used to have 12 FPS in the past! SL is not ready for the mainstream yet, mainstream is not ready for SL yet! With the new CEO who ran the Sims franchise mainstream will be introduced to SL but this won't happen overnight! SL always had and still has a lot of potential, i know many businesses including my own that are more efficient as they used to be, i can work without much interruptions, the only REAL problem that I see on the horizon is that Marketplace will kill the communities that depend on malls eventually!

Wast just about to change my profile, when I noticed there is no profile, instead i got a message "Frame load interrupted by policy change" I just changed hardware and first assumed it got something to do with me until some friends asked me if I am experencing the same problem! I am sure it will be fixed soon just wanted to give those a head up who maybe assume something is wrong on their end!

I was refunded today in full! I never had doubts because in those things they have always been fair! So far i can report that the Linden that contacted me wasn't able to reproduce it! Please don't talk about an intentional cap since it is utter nonsense, as long u got the funds you can spend them on whatever you want! My Resident Level would allow much higher payments or withdrawals, having said that their is no inworld spending limit! It was a bug, but there is no obvious pattern yet what has caused it! I will see next friday when I try again :-) Bottomline: I catched a supporter on the phone who was tired, this guy sheds a bad light on the LL Support, but in the end of the day, someone who cared more took the wheel in the hand and refunded me on a Sunday which i thought wouldn't be possible! All's good!

Thinkerer Melville wrote: Comment: http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2011/04/gtf-model-i-just-got-ripped-new-one-by.html TKR You're awesome! ♥

Holocluck Henly wrote: You invest HOW much per month to show on top of search?! Well, it looks like there's a cap on it now. Unless you have a contract with Linden Labs over an agreed monthly infusion, I don't see where you have any leg to stand on, virtually or otherwise. You choose to use a social site for business. It isn't a business site people are using for social gatherings. Sorry, i am not following you at all! 1) there is no cap it's a bug 2) you don't need a contract with LL, resident levels are the only thing that restrict your monthly selling & buying limits, classified ads or any other form of advertising is unrestricted! 3) i don't infuse money, it is money I had in world already 4) SL is not a Social site. FULL STOP! Second Life is a real life simulation and is what one wants it to be! If it is a facebook extension for you it is a business for me! Since my first avatar in 2004 people trying to categorize Second Life, ask 10 people and you get 8 categories! Even if SL was for scoial gatherings, each single avatar needs, hair, clothes, shapes, shoes, skins etc... probably a good idea to offer such items for money, isn't it?