WolfBaginski Bearsfoot

If it is Viewer-Server that's the problem, there might be a difference between viewers, but it would depend on just where the problem lies in the Viewer code. Would any developer have ever bothered to work on that part of the system? Still, it would make some sense to report the Viewer being used. I routinely use Firestorm, and sims do go missing, or take a very long time before they suddenly rez. Usually, it's still possible to teleport into them, and the built-in radar system in Firestorm can list the people there. But I shall have to see what the changes have done.

Agreed, the HUD creator should be your first contact. Though it doean't help anyone to talke about a non-specific combat HUD. I am not a heavy user of such things, but I know they are used for different sorts of combat.Is the HUD for combat with guns or bows or swords or ever, God knows why, rabid armadillos? If you don't tell anyone which HUD, how can anyone know they have the same problem as you?

Yet I made the old SL Kessel Run with the new code, starting about 23.45 on the 11th and completing the trip ar about 00:15 on the 12th. I shall have to check whether there is something wrong now, after the RC roll-outs, But I know my connection is bad at this time of day. Sim ping and packet loss might be nothing to do with Linden Labs.

From the Grid Status it seems we are back to a prolonged roll-out process. Sim crossing seems to have improved.

It could well be network traffic, Arabella, but I can't see any obvious reason why the traffic is worse now that it was a year ago. Sim crossing is definitely worse. I was hopeful when the threaded code was introduced but, apart from the process not totally failing, all the gains have vanished. Today it's even been hard to walk from one region to another.

I've just logged in, I'm on an MC server, and you've finally got it right. No lag. the grieing stopped, and the mucis stream I'm getting from the parcel is working fine. I don't know which server farm has the server 127.0.0.1, I'm having problems,doing a reverse lookup, but the ping time is great. It's wonderful. Oh... Sorry. I was logged into my own OpenSim instance. Nothing to see here...

I am getting weary of the vagueness, Even the latest official blog post on the subject of Project Sunshine reads like just another "get the right viewer" campaign. I get no real sense of any progress. I have seen, somewhere, claims that the sim server code is already deployed, and is lurking under the surface, waiting to be switched on. And there is going to have to be some testing, some sort of transition period, as Linden Labs finally finds out just what the loads on the network and the baking servers are really going to be. How long are we going to be left on tenterhooks about this? When is somebody going to say something as simple as "It starts next week"? Saying "A server-side update, rolling out soon." isn't just simple, it's starting to look simple-minded.

I was doing a few high-speed runs on Mainland roads today, and while sim crossings were jerky, I only had one failure in over a hundred crossings. The vehicle you use, which is a scripted prim, can make a big difference. This was on Linden roads, which are mostly good, though the prim road does not always match parcel boundaries, and assorted banlines can affect you. I've made test runs before. I have data on the vehicle/route combination I was using. Since I had cleared my cache, to remedy some corrupted textures, texture loading was a big issue for the first run, but complete failures were still rare. I am not convinced that the primary cause of the problem is Linden labs' servers. If it were, I would have seen worse than I have. [i can recommend this motorcycle for testing. It's free and not too heavily scripted. I find this Grumman Goose to be a good aircraft on long flights.]

The problem with all this is that these styles of name can be used for fraud. I've been warned about the method a few times, and this [oursim]Management name is pretty muich essential to the fraud. Stand around in a store with a name like that, tell people the vendor is broken, but you can arrange manual delivery at a discounted price. Some fool pays the money, and takes a while to notice the goods don't get delivered. Personally, after my experiences of the last couple of months, I'm beginning to doubt whether Linden Labs does anything to act on Abuse Reports. Maybe they still act on reports of underage players, but some of the griefer accounts are apparently still around. (If there was fraud going on with this account, Linden labs say they have chat and transaction logs. Do they check? I just don't know.)

This is pretty much what I did from the UK. From my UK bank account, with internet banking set up. I was able to make a direct payment to Paypal. In the UK, the bank clearing system is very fast. The GBP/USD rate Paypal uses in this process looks quite competitive, better than you can get for a direct Card payment. I didn't have to change my Primary Currency. The Paypal system design will use the USD first for a payment in USD. If you're actually putting USD in your SL account there is a 25 USD minimum. There's also a fixed fee for LindeX transactions so I would not recommend spending less than 10 USD in a single L$ purchase. The 25 USD minimum is a little less than the quarterly Premium payment, so if you have to pay that it's no big deal.

I can remember when the LindeX prices fluctuated a lot more. The way it has been over the last year, it has looked almost too stable to be behaving as a real free market. Most the of fluctuations on the TPEs were related to real-world currency movements, rather than the L$/USD rate shifting. One of the features of real markets is something called arbitrage. With more than one market, there can be a price difference between markets, and traders will buy in one market to sell in another. I can remember when exchange rates for real currencies were fixed, and I am not sure that it is a bad thing, but the pressure on a currency can build up until the rate has to change. And that sort of devaluation gets remembered. With the current situation, that of people being cut off from the buying of L$ while others have a substantial balance they want to get out, an artificial market isn't so bad. People can hope to get out their L$ surplus, For the land rentalm businesses they might be able to downsize. But all this is going to cost Linden Labs. Their income falls, and to keep their reputation they will need to have to pay out money. Most of the time the money that comes in to buy L$ covers the money needed to pay those who cash out (If it's L$ exchanged for USD to pay tier, that isn't a problem). If the cash flow stabilises soon enough, Linden Labs can keep the price stable. If it doesn't, we're all in a mess. [Example to Google for: Harold Wilson and "the pound in your pocket"]

"G-George to Base. William Tare Fox, Over" Lancaster bombers at low level are not supposed to piroutte, chaps.

This can easily get into legal hairsplitting, but remember that the TPEs need a Resident Account with Linden Labs to transfer L$ to and from your account, What I have found interesting is that Amazon, who act as advertising agent, collect payment, and deliver goods for third parties. are already registered as an MSB. Now the question for the lawyers is whether Linden Labs, who sound to be doing exactly the same with the Marketplace, can avoid having to register. It looks like it will be very difficult to avoid having to comply with the FinCEN regulations.

Putting it as simply as I can, other countries have their own laws to regulate banks and prevent money-laundering. There are suspicions that some foreign countries do it better than others, and there is the whole issue of tax havens, but it is unlikely that a Linden Exchange operating within such a system would have to comply with US laws. There are internatioanl treaties on banking which set standards in this area. I would not be surprised if the only way for Linden Labs to avoid the US system of regulation would be toi close down the ability to get "real" money out of the system. This would do huge damage to Second Life. A partial remedy would be to accept L$ as tier payment or only to allow the USD to pay bills from Linden Labs, but that might not be enough to escape regulation. If there were TPEs already regulated as banks it would call into question the TOS clauses that try to make the L$ something other than money. The US Government might not regard the loss of the TPEs as significant, which would make the TOS a hollow claim. Worst case, I think, is if the IRS in the USA takes a hand. If they want everyone to have an SSN, or the TIN they issue to foreign nationals, I wouldn't stay in SL. And that could be a result of being able to get cash out, rather than of the status of the L$. Cashing out is what makes SL different.

The reports are that they told the third party businesses to shut down by Monday a lot less than thirty days.

My dear young thing, May I refer you to something I wrote, which you quote, and seem to be ignoring. "If I have misunderstood that, Linden Labs need to explain things with more clarity." It seems we have to puzzle out the procedures from a maze of web pages. We are told to use the LindeX, and when we follow that route we are told about a $25 minimum payment We don't get told that, if we set up the payment method for buying through the Viewer, that limit does not apply. If we click on the Viewer button, and the payment method is not linked to buying through the Viewer, we are dumped back in those Lindex pages. When I did get all that sorted, all I got was that payment declined message, I know how quickly and easily my first payment to a TPE was set up. And, even with the knowledge I have gained here, I still dread the prospect of explaining how to set up the payment method to a new resident.

It strikes me as odd that some exchanges claim Linden Labs set a deadline of Monday to shut down. others have shut down instantly, and others wanted clarification. Is there anyone we can trust in this business?

The "Buy L$" button on my viewer just opens the Lindex web page so that you can buy L$ No surprise that it's the LindeX system, but it seems to expect that you have a positive USD balance, whether it's a Market Buy or a Limit Buy. And the only way I see mentioned of increasing that balance has that 25 USD minimum. I was digging on the knowledge base, and buried deep in one page is a mention of something that may have changed just at the right time to catch me a year later. I'm b#getting some idea of what might have messed me up. But Linden labs are doing a piss-poor job of letting costimers pay them.

This is the only place I can see for getting money into the LindeX system It's the third line: "Currently, you must add at least USD 25.00 at a time." If I have misunderstood that, Linden Labs need to explain things with more clarity. Once the money is there, it seems to be usable for anything. You don't have to convert it to L$ in one lump. But, as they tell you, you can't get it back out.

I keep an eye on vehicle crossings. Lest week was better than this week. There were some big problems that coincided with Pathfinding, which needed a new Physics engine. Threaded code, introduced this year, did improve things. The Second Life server is very complicated, and I infer from some of the things said by Monty Linden about shifting communications to HTTP froim UDP, that there is a bad case of spaghetti code. Even without region crossing, vehicle function get worse with the arrival of Pathfinding. I cannot recall seeing any significant use of Pathfinding, beyond the demo regions which the Lindens set up, with that jungle and river. If people aren't using it, was it worth doing? But complicated mesh objects, and heavy scripting, also make a difference. Some vehicle builders seem to know what they're doing. Some seem to have a complicated model and drop in a large set of third-party scripts, and send up with something sensitve to problems. There is not one big problem with vehicles, but it isn't hard, using the same vehicle week after week, to see differences which coincide with server changes.

If Hotmail/Outlook doesn't let you adjust spam filtering, it's seriously broken. Gmail has a spam filter, and if something gets in the spam folder by mistake, you can mark it not-spam. I have noticed that only the first AR of the day gets an auto-response. That seems to be a deliberate change, but completely un-announced. I sometimes wonder what else we don't hear about: we're lucky to have the Lindens that we do, here in the server community.

The diagonal sim problem seems worse this week, even giving sim-down indication on the mini-map. I'm also seeing normally-adjacent sims, N, E, W, and S, not rezzing before I reach the boundary, which can lead to some sort of crash if I try to cross. Walking is slow enough to be able to react in time. Vehicles always seem to be moving faster than is safe, it makes me wonder sometimes about the testing standard for QA.

That's sort of half-right. They're an incomplete mesh object. All are supposed to have several levels of detail, which can be set during the creation process, so that a very simple version with the roughly the right shape can appear first. The yellow might be the default plywood texture. I don't know if these triangles are a default ultra-low LOD object or a default produced by the upload process, which could have been replaced with something better (even just a box of roughly the right size). I tried Mesh, when it came out. Things might have changed a bit. I think we're seeing problems at both ends of the LOD scale. Really complicated meshes take a long time to load, and some may be way too complicated. It's those big, complicated, mesh datasets which could mean that increasing MeshMaxConcurrentRequest could make things worse.

My own experiences of getting money to Linden Labs from Europe are varied, but the TPE I used was reliable and quick. In the last year, Linden Labs have become unreliable and a card which I have used, without problems, with other US-based companies, has started to fail for payments to Linden Labs. There has been no new card issued and it has not expired. My Paypal account, which was set up a decade ago, works well. If there has been something funny happening with a TPE, it might justify a sudden change, but Linden Labs haven't said said anything to justify why they seem to have broken their own rules on changing the TOS. Linden Labs need to get their act together, and fast. (I am glad the original poster is getting things sorted out. But, everyone, stay calm. The TPEs have been hit with a huge problem because of this change, and Linden Labs actions. This isn't the sort of automated transaction they usually do: every customer is suddenly a special case. They may even be winding up their business. Not every TPE might come under banking regulations, but I suppose every one which trades in more than one real-world currency will have to follow some special procedures.They're as much victims as we are.)

The last L$ purchase I made through a third-party exchange was was for a sum of about 1800 L$, equivalent to about 7.50 USD (The exact figure doesn't matter, as will become apparent.) Now that we have to use LindeX, the minimum deposit with Linden Labs is 25.00 USD, which cannot be directly returned. And that is roughly 6250 L$. That is a big jump. A common question from new players is "How do I get money?" While there are still one or two in-world options available to the newcomer, most ways of earning money in-world depend on developing skills and experience. I used to advise people that is was worth investing a few dollars to buy L$, and compared it to a cinema ticket. (Yes, I have paid to see bad movies.) The minimum payment to Linden Labs would pay for a couple of cinema tickets to watch the 3D version of the first installment of The Hobbit Will this affect the retention rate, by discouraging new residents from giving the world a fair trial? (New residents in the USA could use one of those Amazon deals, but that's not an option for the rest of us.)