Tegg Bode

Bigger.Halfpint says in response to Gavin.Hird: I dont understand why this viewer is still under development isnt it clear to Linden Lab that the paying customers dont whant this viewer?, Can we please move on and forget this piece of crap. How about start today on the re-development of Snowglobe! nothing wrong with that viewer it is userfriendly easy and functional pleasure playing our Second Life's with. Because many paying and non paying customers do want a new viewer, although the UI in 1.23 was pretty good, the 2003 backend coding was a ratnest of patches on patches because the people who wrote & understood most of it left LL around 3 years ago, it was getting more gabonky and buggy everytime they added a feature and they wanted to add several large features like meshes and things still to come that just weren't going to work without screwing it bigtime. Sure the UI has issues in V2.X but it's less crashy for many people, UI is normally an easy fix compared to the backend stuff., but this is LL I guess. And from what I understand although the coders are still working for LL a lot of the UI people were dropped after release.

LL really need to covert any of the remaining Mainland PG sims to Moderate rating, they should hav panned this ages a go and started buying any Mainland PG land as soon as it was set for sale really to do this. PG sims need to be on seperate continents or Non-PG sims need to be invisible to underage players.

I hope they delete any never logged in or unused accounts after 12 months or so to keep decent names in circulation.

Hate to inform you but TPV have known this was coming since V2.0 was released. And if you had bothered to check using a TPV you would have noticed that despite your theory they login just fine still using the old method.

Over the top is the only way some people understand anything around here So I can't be Jack Linden, I probablty can't be Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley or George Bush either, how about you prove to us that you can hide your real name from people who haven't turned off usernames or better yet haven't turned on displaynames?

Oct 28, 2010 9:18 AM Ando Joubert says in response to ColdFrixion.Writer: 2 things: one has the ability to turn off username. Anybody with that setting would see me only as ColdFrixion Writer. Yeah but you can only turn off what you see not what others see, I'll still see you as Ando joubert unless I turn off usernames and if I did I am smart enough to turn them back on if I need to, then again there are people who are fooled by hovertext out there so we better ban it too.

If you go Premium and your credit card payment is somehow messed up--you didn't update the expiration date--email went astray--bank closed your account ( which happened to MANY good credit risks in the last few years) you can lose your SL avatar account--inventory POOF. Premium is a risk I will not take . The only way you will lose everything is if you miss a heap of payments, I've missed payments plenty of times over the last 4 years and the worst I got after being 3 weeks overdue was being suspended from logging in till I paid. If you miss paying for 6 months haven't read your E-Mail from LL or supplied them with a valid Email address and haven't logged in to notice you've been suspended, you're probably not watching your business that well. Believe it or not a lot of businesses in SL don't see it as a risk worth limiting their SL options for. The guy you are renting from could miss a credit card payment too. So why do you have no concern if he misses a payment and your store is supposedly permanently deleted, and then you have to relocate losing customers due to the new LandMark? The fix for this problem could be simple, start deleting basic accounts inventories too, why should the servers be packed full of probably around 1 million accounts hogging a heap of available names that probably will never login again. Maybe make the rule too just delete any non-paying account that hasn't logged in for 2-3 years. What I would like is that my 4 ligitimate basic alts receive all the same support as my Premium account. LL know well & truely that they are all me, and at times I could need to use an alt to deal with an issue of the main account, though maybe it's a privacy thing so the support people can't know who someone's alts are. It's pretty simple, I pay EBay for a store sellers account I receive instant support, other people who are just buyers or small sellers have to use the basic stuff, which to me I've been able to use that to solve my problems 90% of the time anyway, only issues I've had are stuff dealing with the higher level stuff relating to running a store. When I had over half a sim I received concierge support which was great but I tiered down to half sim and just have live chat which doesn't seem that bad for value really. One problem I guess is people may have to declare their incomes for tax if they have a Premium account.........................

So in otherwords, nothing really new happening in Land side of things next year, no larger sims or creaion of a teen/PG continent, or rreal reasons to bother staying in the rental business....................

Myself and a lot of my friends are "old guard" (2004 accounts) and we're excited to see Mesh Import. Of course a lot of us were already experienced with 3D content creation BEFORE we found Second Life. <Pulls roo foot from mouth> I got a bit zealous there and have edited it to "some of the old guard", most are actually in permanent hibernation or have left

Sep 20, 2010 11:08 AM Melita.Magic says in response to Qie Niangao: I think Qie hit the nail on the head. The current creators/vendors might well be replaced in SL with new ones, as the skill set changes. But will the new set rent land? Will they need to? Well assuming they think their stuff is actually good enough to show inworld, I suppose they will still need land, many people still like to see a product inworld before forking over wads of cash. I suspect they would be more likely to need land than many existing prim builders who have withdrawn to just being 2D XStreet merchants.

Yep, they did give us another tool, previously we could only make objects in SL using a saw, woodchisel, glue & hammer, with sculpties they gave us a woodlathe and now we are going to get to use a CNC mill Sure some of the old guard are pissed off, some of them thought they could keep selling their 2005 model prim based stuff for another 20 years, sure it's some of the best stuff made with limitations they had, but they don't want SL to advance, they want to keep the limitations so they can stay on top with no additional work, if some had their way we'd be overtaken by Active Worlds and would be lucky to have better than 8 bit color...........

Just another BlueMars Fanboi following Avatar Reality into oblivion, no wonder Active Worlds is still going....................

Sep 16, 2010 12:17 AM Maelstrom Janus says in response to Tegg.Bode: So what's wrong with innovating based on what we have inworld ??? W've been about as innotave as we can with C64 graphics, we need to standardise so we can use other better content

Whoa the economy is falling!, If we keep with our 90's look avatars and stuff for fear of breaking content and losing some low qualiy creators or those too lazy to upgrade their products, we're not going o have an economy at all in a couple of years.

Sep 13, 2010 2:58 AM Elvis Faust says: Wow so nearly a BILLION people are logging in repeatedly on a monthly basis? Is that what the "repeat logins" metric shows? 805 MILLION people can't be wrong! That would make Second Life the equivalent of the third most populous nation on EARTH! So... where is everybody? The other alternative is to just have the 60,000 odd residents & bots online keep dropping out and reconnecting a regular intervals, the good thing is bots don't get pissed off many of them can login every 30 seconds if you keep kicking them

Maybe most residents don't launder money but other organisations do.................................

User to User could pretty easily be spoofed, just set up a dozen bots selling each other $1000 items 24/7. Besides a lot of money is probably just bouncing around through free unverified alts for money laundering anyway.

Welcome to the nuthouse, personally, I think whether SL is a game or not, it certainly needs to look more like a game, at the moment it has the graphics appeal of a spreadsheet program............... Our Avatars look like they were done with crayon in the 90's