Phil Deakins

Medhue Simoni wrote: JeanneAnne, I'm guessing, is a total socialist. I've no idea if she's a total socialist or not. What I'm sure of is that she is a super-fault-finder. She mostly finds great fault with whatever is in front of her at the time. She reminds me of someone from years ago. I've never been a union person but I was necessarily in a union for a short time. We had a shop floor meeting about a pay rise. One guy at the back kept shouting any negative thing that came into his head on the subject - just for the sake of being negative - a super-fault-finder. At one point he actually shouted "We don't want a pay rise!", just for the sake of shouting something negative. He really did. The rest of what he shouted was against the company, etc. (that he'd only just joined a matter of days earlier), but that one took the biscuit.

JeanneAnne wrote: i dont want to make LL an offer .. i want residents & players to organize, set up a non-profit consortium, collect dues or fees .. & for the non-profit cooperative to make the offer And how much in the way of dues and fees would you put in? Don't answer that. I already know the answer - nothing. i talked to my brother about hosting an open sim type grid .. he has 2 young children & doesnt have time for it .. i prolly will explore other virtual worlds eventually .. & if i find something i like better than SL ill be thrilled .. for the time being tho .. i like SL .. i just dont like the corporation that milks it as a cash cow w/out dealing w/ griefers or providing any useful user assistance & who arbitrarily imposes ToS w/out any input about what WE want You don't have the right to want anything in SL. You're merely a guest here, and guests don't get a say, or even a view, in how things are.

JeanneAnne wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: What gives you a right to know? i have a right to know how much the parasites are sucking .. why shouldnt you & i know? You don't have a right to know at all. You're not a paying customer so you don't have any rights at all. You're merely a guest without even the right to complain about anything.

Rotsuoy Demina wrote: If I contact LL and they can get my $L back, would it be unwise to attempt to purchase the item again, and would they just shake their finger at me if I lost my money again on the same item? The marketplace is riddled with faults so my answer to your questions are, (1) find the item you want and then go to the seller's inworld store to buy it, and (2) I don't believe that LL would wag their finger at you if you tried to buy it again and failed. It's their system and they must back it up. It's not like you are buying directly from another user.

This poster (lingoes) is brand spanking new - the ink is still wet. It's 3 posts don't properly fit the threads they are in and look like they will turn into affiliate links in the not too distant future - common method of forum spamming. I've reported it.

It's all part of growing up and learning that actions have consequences - sometimes undesirable consequences. Maybe if you follow the appeals procedure that someone linked to, you may be able to get into SL again - and maybe not. All you can do is try.

Yes, LL gets it wrong sometimes. The large "Objects" number in Jenni's screenshot really means prims, and the "Active Objects" number means objects. They got the word for prims wrong. I'm sure there are other places where they get it wrong too. But we generally know what the word means in those cases. It's in things like chat and posts where it's best to use the precise word - to help with clear understanding

It would make things clearer if you used the word prims when you mean prims and objects when you mean objects. E.g. a single unlinked prim is 1 object and 1 prim, but 2 prims linked together is 1 object and 2 prims. You've used the word 'objects' at times when you really meant prims I was the one who, in your other thread, said that it's LL and it wouldn't surprise me if they failed to accomodate Land Impact at sim level. The Linden you quoted effectively said that they failed to accomodate Land Impact at sim level. However, I don't believe him. I think he did what someone suggested and looked it up - and found out of date information. If what he said is true, then some parcels using Convex Hull (or None) to reduce the Land Impact of objects would cause other parcels to disallow their correct allocation of prims - an unlucky 1024sqm parcel wouldn't be able to accomodate 234 prims, for instance. The Linden did well to check it for you but he did bad because he checked the wrong place - imo. ETA: Jenni's post confirms it.

Winter Tenenbaum wrote: I chose for myself to command respect from my male counterparts in both lives. Command respect? You chose to command respect? You don't get any respect by commanding it. Respect is something that has to be earned.

It's a part of the html page that is at the top. That zonkster Title shouldn't be there at all. It looks like your system has been compromised. If I had that, I'd remove the viewers from my computer, and everything associated with them, run a full anti-virus check and then install a viewer from scratch. ETA: it turns out that zonkster is "a short messaging service that lets users send IMs to any resident inworld from outside Second Life". So that bit is ok. If it's only on your screen for a short time, such as during logging in, I'd ignore it.

Loki Kahanamoku wrote: I should have been clearer on what I was saying. I was told to change the basic shapes etc that were not scripted or twisted or sculpties. Yes, change basic objects, but try it on others too - you never know.

Loki Kahanamoku wrote: I do have a support request in to LL to try to find the answer. But, the guy I spoke to last night in live chat didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Live Chat isn't manned by LL employees, and they have little to no experience of SL, so that doesn't surprise me.

It's an interesting question. Certainly parcels can go way above their standard prim allocation by using the convex hull option on objects, so you'd think that a sim can go way above its standard 15,000 prims. But it's LL and it wouldn't surprise me if they failed to make the change at sim level. Incidentally, changing all your objects to convex hull is bad advice. You need to change only those where it results in a lower Land Impact than the number of prims in the object. Objects with scripts in won't reduce and will often increase, and complex objects, such as a dining table and chairs made with 1 prim will actually increase. (There's no pointin changing 1 prim objects because the Land Impact is never zero so there's nothing to be gained ) So be selective about which objects you change. I.e. when you change each one, look if the number increases or decreases.

Shaeria Greymoon wrote: I'm a bit confused here Peggy... Live chat personal have little to no experience with SL? what are they doing on the support staff then? Live chat used to be manned by Lindens. Then LL farmed that particular support out to a support company in England (surnames were OnTyne). Then they changed support companies to one in the U.S. (surnames are Scout). In other words, Since LL staff stopped doing it, Live Char workers have little to no experience of LL and SL, and Live Chat support has deteriorated a lot. They can do some things but they are very limited.

It's calendar month. As long as you own some land, your billing date is always the same date each month, and on that date you pay in arrears for the previous month's peak useage. Note that your are paying for tier, not for land; i.e. peak tier useage. So, if you have some tier donated to a group, but you don't personally have actual land for that tier, you still pay for it.

I can let you have the MLP system. It was always a freebie. You could put it in your existing bed (after moving the bed's current contents.to your inventory) and 'play' with it so you get used to knowing how to add animations and adjust their positions. It comes with a few mediocre animations so it's easy to play with and get the hang of. Let me know if you want it and I'll send it to you.

Probably most sex beds use the MLP system, and the freebie bed you already have almost certainly uses it. As Amethysat said, you can put your own animations into it. It's very easy but you do need to know how. The MLP system comes with a notecard that explains it, so check the bed you have and read the notecards. If your bed does use the MLP system, open the notecard card called .readme. It's near the top of the Contents. Scroll down to the section headed TO ADD ANIMATIONS and take it from there. Once you've got the hang of it, it's very simple.

The major problems with the marketplace are for sellers, not buyers. LL has made a right pig's ear of it.

Vegro Solari wrote: Just an idea, if you need the old avatar back, maybe a friend or someone here can look up your old avatar by name, and then tell you how many days old it says you are, or what the date of "birth" is. The OP can do that him/herself

Rya Nitely wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: From what I read in the Merchant forum, the marketplace is a real shambles. I think you're paying too much attention to the views of a very small group of people. The number who post may be very small, but the fundamental faults are real.

Just a quick comment on something you said early in the post. I dislike LL (the company - not each individual) enormously, and I often say so. But I don't criticise LL for anything and everything. I criticise them only for things they do wrong. I'm not going to list them but I'll just mention one of the things, because you listed it for kudos in your post. From what I read in the Merchant forum, the marketplace is a real shambles. LL has made a real pig's ear of something that worked fine when they took it over. They tried to improve it but they made it much much worse. You listed it as a positive. I would list it as incompetence at LL. Furthermore, when they took it over, under a different name, they promoted it so unscrupulously that the promotions were literally intentional acts against their own paying customers. I won't get into details about it, but it's just one of the reasons why I dislike LL, the company, so very much, and I'll criticise LL when they do wrong things. I don't mean things that I don't like. I mean things that they do that are literally against their own paying customers.

Just out of interest, the reason I didn't like how he played the role was very specific. His predecessor (I'm not good at remembering names) used to talk quickly at times and it was hard enough to get a grip on understanding and following what he was saying, but I sort of managed. Matt Smith seemed to be copying that but he spoke even faster at times and it was impossible to follow. It seemed that he was emulating David Tenant (I remembered his name while I was writing) but doing it even more so, and it made the whole thing hard to follow - for me, anyway.

LMAO! (if Johnny Vegas is who I think he is - Monkey ads?) He'd make an.... interesting.... Dr. Who lol

I stopped watching when they got the current actor. I watched the first 2 of his episodes but I didn't like him in the role any I haven't seen any since.

So did (after I read your first post) I but I didn't see anything to indicate the OP owns land. I didn't examine the many groups though.