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Triple Peccable

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  1. I'm not sure LL understands the long term consequences of the big push to get buyers to use the Marketplace instead of inworld, especially when coupled with the current search placement algorithms. In my case I sell only high end, expensive items. I have created a successful inworld business with these products, and I've made it to the first page of the inworld search results. This has enabled me to easily pay tier on a substantial amount of land for the last few years, and still have some left over for profit. Now, however, it seems very few are shopping (or searching) inworld, so all the effort and money I am spending to achieve the good search results is being wasted. Since the Marketplace search results are so heavily biased towards free and cheap products, my business has dropped by at least 50% (and is still dropping). It won't be long before I will have to get rid of about $350 USD/month of tier (and advertising), keeping only a 512 plot for my inworld store, all because of the way Marketplace searches are ordered. I can't believe I am the only one facing this issue, so in my opinion LL will continue to lose more tier while increasing the abandoned land glut until something changes. The extra commissions they are collecting by encouraging buyers to use the Marketplace can't even come close to the money being lost as merchants give back large chunks of land. I don't think any Lindens will read this, but on the off chance one does, please try to see how the current Marketplace search algorithm is killing the higher end expensive products, how that negatively impacts so many merchants who have been paying a lot of tier over the years, and why that tier is now in the process of being lost. In my opinion, either more weight needs to be given to the higher end products in the Marketplace search, or the inworld search placement should factored in when ordering the Marketplace search results. All I know is that if something isn't done they will for sure lose a chunk of change from me, and probably many others as time goes on.
  2. Uncheck the box (in About Land options) that allows residents to see and chat with residents in other parcels. That will prevent any open chat (including shouts) from crossing parcel boundries.
  3. What I have noticed relating to the super long rubberband issue that throws you off the vehicle is that it very rarely happens with full prim regions. It is at its worst when trying to cross into an openspace region that has sat unused for a long time. It is almost like the simulator has swapped something out to disk, causing a delay long enough to knock you off your vehicle (even a 1 prim vehicle) when you try to enter the "asleep" region.
  4. Hmmm. The Grid Status page says the rolling restarts are completed, but my mainland main server channel region did not restart and is still running last week's code (the region is Joffy). EDIT: Nevermind, I just read Oskar's post. As far as sim crossings are concerned, they do seem better for full sim regions, but homestead mainland regions (which is the bulk of the Linden protected water sims) has problems. It seems to me that if they sit unused too long, they get swapped out to disk. When I try to enter a rarely used homestead sim, sometimes the time dialation goes to .01, and by the time the sim recovers your avatar has been separated from the vehicle you were on. Once the region is back into the server's memory, things are usually ok for a while, but it isn't long before the same problem happens again. I think this is happening because too many homestead regions are getting stuffed into one server, and something has changed causing them to use more memory than they used to. If anyone else has noticed this, please chime in.
  5. Hey Oskar! Looks like LeTigre is getting reverted?
  6. I agree with 2 things mentioned in this thread: (1) Sales were quite good until this last week, and now are worse than they have been in a long time. (2) When sorting by "Best Selling", my products are listed in reverse order. It is perfectly reversed: The item that has sold the least is first, and my best selling item is last.
  7. The problem with that idea is that I sell my items boxed. The permissions of the box are completely different than the permissions of the objects inside the box.
  8. That's great, but are we sure that nan and inf are the only two problem strings?
  9. Well, if you would like to be the one to create the JIRA on it, feel free. Left the way it is, it will continue to cause hard-to-reproduce obscure script crash problems.
  10. Yep, you're right. "inf" returns "Infinity" as the typecast result. Now that I know this is a known issue, I will code around it. Then I might get around to a JIRA (although I'll be surprised if there is not one already created). Thanks.
  11. Ok, but I still have an issue with this behavior. The string does not have to equal "nan", it only has to start with nan. If the string was Nantucket, I would get NaN instead of 0.00000, then when that result gets used in a calculation a fatal script error occurs (Math Error). This causes obscure bugs. For example, I had a visitor who's first name was nana. My "working perfectly" script suddenly crashed with a Math Error. If this is not a bug, then i will have to test strings to make sure they do not start with "nan" before I typecast them. I should not have to do that.
  12. Well, I didn't think that typecasting a string to a float is anything unusual. If the string does not contain a numeric value, then it should always return zero.
  13. Please explain this script's output (when it is mono compiled): default { touch_start(integer total_number) { llOwnerSay((string)((float)"nan")); llOwnerSay((string)((float)"anything other than nan")); } } Here is the output: [14:05] Object: NaN [14:05] Object: 0.000000 If I don't compile it in mono, I get a script error instead of the output: [14:07] Object: Object [script:New Script] Script run-time error [14:07] Object: Math Error Unless "nan" has some numerical meaning that I am unaware of, this looks like a bug to me. Any comments?
  14. This problem is exactly why I created this tool. I got tired of crashing all the time too, and it's a great help: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Ban-Line-Parcel-Full-HUD-Essential-for-all-Vehicles-Explorers-and-Landlords/1269113
  15. I think it appears only after you add the item to your cart.
  16. Try pressing Control-Shift-4
  17. I finally got logged in, it just took a while. Just let the login screen with the progress bar sit there until you either get in or get an error. Don't keep stopping it and retrying or you'll never get in.
  18. Yes, I am having a hard time getting my alt logged in, so it isn't just you. I don't recommend anyone try to re-log right now...
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