Linden Lab you have missed an important issue in this post no matter if you are an educational user or a premium user of this game your performance has decreased significantly over the last 4 years. On a linear scale beginning in 2004 when I joined I will assign the random value of 0 to 2004. 2005 brought a very good increase to 40 then in 2006 a nice increase to 80 until something happened after the release of ver 6.0 then a massive dip to 35. In the years 09,08,and 09 you rebuilt the performance back to 65 or 70.
During those years you introduced eye candy and physics engines that were supposed to be the cure all.
They failed to live up to the promised goals then the network upgrades again another transparent achievement
Recently you have again mastered the ability to reduce the game to an almost unplayable level I have never seen such poor resolution times for 256 x 256 textures let alone the massive amounts of 1024 x 1024 you allow to be splattered across the venue. You have in your infinite ability's now created editing errors where an adjustment of the x or y axis makes a nice jump in the z axis try and build with that little bug it is a pita
Oh did I mention the time outs waiting for teleporting and search you have reduced the effectiveness of a once useable game to something I visit to pick up and convert my Lindens to real life cash
The economy is affected in all of these areas I rarely shop in game but I did the other day, what a travesty no wonder people can not make money here not when you have to wait 5 minutes for vendors to rez needless to say I wont be shopping again soon
Now to the relevance of this comment How dare you state that prices will be frozen for another year with the current state of the game they should be reduced your arrogance is appalling. YES this is a great platform but through you inability to modulate the progression it has turned into a POS
I, at one time, maintained 6 premium accounts but because we maintain a store on the mainland ,have reduced to 3 but now I am close to removing all Premium accounts
The speel checker is a joke here also very laggy and confused most of the time
Oh one more item why do not you go back and fix a few of the basic items "you know" I introduced a bug report in 2005 about default hand and body poses over riding uploaded poses of any priority level.
I am really tired of seeing the sculpted nails that I spent many many hours creating hanging in space because you will not introduce a simple switch in the debug menu to turn them off I do not need you pathetic hand anis to make my avatar look good
Perhaps as I have said many times before It is time for someone to effectively manage how the code is modified it is a common joke that every time you fix something you break 2 or 3 other things
Obviously your programmers have never prepared anything for the FDC or they would be on the street
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