Prokofy Neva

It's not for old people, I'll tell you that much.

There is a certain popular creator known and admired for their creations that run on the "whimsical" if not "twee" side of the aisle. I literally pumped hundreds of real dollars into this vaunted creator's gatcha machines, and was glad to do it because gatchas can be re-sold, often at a good price for a rare AND they are a landlord's dream, because you can put together a furnished rental with 50L items. Or rather you could. Nowadays, you have to spend a lot more time sifting through the many weekend sales to find the gold. But in the heyday of the gatchas, this creator, who often worked in tandem with a partner, even ran a whole event (since retired). So I win the fancy rare retro motel, and I'm excited to put it down and actually use it. Some people don't use buildings and just live outside them, and they are a kind of sculpture on their lawn. Sometimes buildings don't even have any insides or doors to open! (I'm looking at you, weekend sellers). But in principle, this person's rare houses were liveable and I'd used them before. So I tried to again. And couldn't. Because I couldn't walk into the building. Because the creator had not properly wrangle the mesh and the issue of empty volume and doorways to ensure habitable spaces. Sometimes this is fixed by unlinking parts, putting in actual prims, removing stuff, etc. But it wasn't on mod, or it was constructed in such a way that the pieces were bonded and you couldn't just easily fix it. So I returned it to the creator and asked them to fix it so I could walk into it. That was obviously not my problem alone? And they wouldn't. They simply refused. They ignored me. I wrote many times. So they went on my boycott list after that for years, and now I only buy from them if a tenant wants something or I think it's really very good, and only for 75L. It's so easy to keep customers. Fix your un-enterable mesh, the end.

Knowing that Violet is pretty empty, I sometimes log in there to make my inventory load if on a lousy computer. And I am joined by a few AFKers and bots, but the AFK actual avatars (I think) usually have escort signs on them. So it's all kind of sad, but really, no different than Eighth Avenue is nowadays in New York.

I'm glad you've confirmed what I've long expected - THAT THIS IS DELIBERATE. Sure, we can await the verdict from the code cave, but it's clear what is going on. When turfed off a sim, the bots keep trying to log back on. Because they do this in a hurry and don't wait for the 15-20 minutes that might be needed for a region to come back up, they are then re-routed to the infohubs WHERE SOME OF US LIVE AND WORK NEARBY or to Welcome Areas where they bewilder newbies and daytrippers. This is happening because there is no enforced wait time when presumably they could log back into their sim. BECAUSE HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, QUARTZ MOLE!!! They re-route to the infohub/welcome area, BUT THERE THEY STAY. There is no mechanism for them to "just know" that "hey, I'm not at home at my adult club venue where my nakedness would be in concert with the purpose of the venue instead of a shocker or an annoyance." You see the problem? THERE THEY STAY. Because they have no mechanism to go back until their no-show, dilatory, irresponsible owners show up and wrangle them back in place, presumably because the customers at the AFK hotels start complaining. But here's where LL could indeed TAKE ACTION and NOT LET THEM DO THAT. Just because an owner is no-show and can't be bothered to wrangle his bots, why do I as a show-landlord have to deal with them on infohubs near my land??? Why do I have to dial up Boxy or try to push them off the sim physically??? They should be programmed to log back on and only accept a log-on that goes to their own home sim. Possibly "teleport" could be used but as they are bots, they may not be able to click "teleeport". But surely programmers, in their wisdom, can make them not go any place but home. Surely there is a way for it to detect "not home", it can tell where it is and capture the grid coordinates and name of region and see it is "Iris" and not "Zindra". SURELY???

Do not buy new stuff. Chances are, you already have perfectly good stuff in inventory. Take it out, dust it off, and hopefully, if on mod, repurpose it a bit. Maybe retexture or mix it up. Do's: o If you must buy new stuff, don't spend more than $50 or $100 or hit the sales right now. o Try to find pumpkins that have been done really creatively instead of the usual boring jack o' lantern. For example I saw just in the last weekend sales Broken Arrows finally had a nice pumpkin soup dish that actually delivers, and Finca had some nice carved purple pumpkins. Also khargo has a whole Halloween suite at their store with all kinds of innovative Halloween tschochkes. Dont's: o No signs that say "Hello Fall" unless you have good insurance and lawyers o No pumpkin spice lattes o No blanket benches that you can't actually sit on.

Neva say Neva.

Quartz, the suggestion as I noted is to make bots that are on sims that either crash on their own or are re-started during a rolling re-start GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP. What's happening is that they are somehow programmed TO GO ELSEWHERE. That ELSEWHERE is an infohub or welcome area region. I don't know whether the owners or Linden Lab does this programming of wayward bots. But it is within your power to either stop them from doing that themselves -- like any other avatar. If I remain on a sim past the sim restart notice I AM LOGGED OFF. Why aren't they??? If it is the owners who program them to keep online and answer those notices somehow and go elsewhere, then it is within your power to insist that they do otherwise. Naked RP bots especially from adult sims or mature sims should not be showing up uninvited at mature or general sim infohubs and welcome areas.

Well, then you're not going to the hubs where they are bucked to. Go and see them in Iris.

This has always been a problem but has gotten worse. I recently landed at the Moth Temple in Iris and had to evict two buck naked sexbots from adult sims that weren't even on the hub proper, but over on my land, possibly from having been bumped due to the plethora of bots at the hub proper. Every day I find a bunch stacked up which have been sent to this infohub sim when their owners' sims went down or during a rolling re-start. What I *do not get* is why, when their owners' sims crashes, or their sim restarts, they don't GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP. Why are they sent to other hubs? This is some automatic process that surely could be changed. These aren't bonniebots that roam all over and just happen to be on this sim. These are greeters, NPCs, AFK Hotel Clerks or what-have-you that go with an RP sim or a commerial sim selling furniture or whatever. I don't know whether it's the Lab that sends them elsewhere during these restarts or their owners can't be bothered to program them to go home properly, I have no idea what the mechanics are. So what I end up doing practically every other day is asking Boxy to restart the sim to shake them loose. Why? Because my visitors and tenants sometimes try to talk to them, not realizing they are bots, and that's a bummer. Because they take up scarce avatar space on a sim that ultimately only holds 42. Because they blight the view because half the time they are ugly, stupid, or naked.

It's true the interesting sandbox life of SL seems to be over. It used to be that you would go to the sandbox and there would be people trying all sorts of things and you'd get ideas -- and give ideas -- and talk to people. I remember a friend who even worked on his outfit to appear "casual cool" when building in the sandbox to impress people LOL. Other friends would don outfits that were very minimal to avoid distraction while flying around a build. Today, only if I go to a sandbox with someone I already know to work on a build will it be interesting. I see most of the other people in them are, like me, struggling with houses and skyboxes trying to optimize them, deprim them or fix the mesh bounce by adding prims or something of that nature. Very rarely will I see somebody doing something arty and experimental. I don't think the PR people for the Lab would go with "life simulation" because "simulation" just sounds second-best, not the real thing, inferior. That's the association. There are flight simulations, but life simulation seems to loser-ish. They never had a better slogan than "Your World/Your Imagination". But in time we realized it was only our imagination that it was our world -- it's their world.

I think a lot of people use SL in tandem with other platforms but their center of gravity for showing their creations or activities may be in SL. For example, MidJourney, Blender, etc. I think these don't compete but enhance each other.

1. LL does a poor job of representing the diversity of their own platform because of their own persistent ideologies, upheld by their rabid fan base on the forums. 2. It's fine to criticize LL in this regard and suggest alternatives, and so I do. 3. You don't have a list of 12 places to recommend?

The child avatars were there IN PERSON in the exhibits, derp. Just because you didn't see them doesn't mean they weren't there. Your persistence on this topic reveals your agenda. You don't have a list of 12 places to recommend?

You're being incrediby obdurate and clearly missed the original discussion about this and/or have some kind of agenda and axe to grind. MULTIPLE - REPEAT MULTIPLE AND NOT JUST ONE - of the exhibits featured child avatars representing them. That indeed "signals" very loudly, whether you wish to admit this or not. Especially if there is an adult, X-rated or M-rated LGBT sim where appearing underage is an entire sport with its own terms etc. So stop it with the persistent annoyances here. If you put child avatars out to represent something, don't them start crying like indeed a baby tht you aren't child-centric and have nothing to do with kids, the end. The entire recent scandal was around this theme and honestly, the Lindens even know better now, and you should, too. People who use deliberately blank inworld profiles for posting here do not deserve to be taken seriously on any point. I stand by my remarks with an inworld avatar that PS is connected to a RL name on social media.