Crim Mip

I don't know about that although it does act as a partial filter for age. What it mainly does is insure LL has the identity of said individual. Griefers and trolls almost never have payment info on file. So if you have an issue with that on your parcel/sim, you can turn that on and filter them out pretty effectively.

Always. In fact at some point, LL will remove the ability to turn it off. That may come with PBR. If turning that on slows your frame rate significantly, you may be due for an upgrade.

The problem is there just aren't many hosts/hostesses who are good at the job. I DJ and given the option, prefer to work without one. They are supposed to greet newcomers and keep a conversation flowing. Most of them just say high, and occasionally spam a reminder to tip the DJ. That's not worth a tip in my book. I'll tip the venue long before I tip a host. The same goes for dance pole campers. I'm sorry, you sitting on a pose ball is not a reason anyone should tip you. If you put some effort into being interactive and pose doing a strip show or something, then yes, I'll tip, but that doesn't happen often.

I installed this. Yes it is very much Alpha. Expect glitches. Then I went over to Rumpus 3. I walked up to this shiny looking rectangle and my jaw hit the floor when my reflection walked up from the opposite direction. Not only flat surfaces, there were spherical mirrors and lenses that worked. this is going to allow some incredibly cool things to be done. There is a downside. My system is relatively modern with a fast, high core count CPU and an Nvidia 3070. It was getting a bit of a workout. I wasn't getting bad frame rates, but definitely lower and the temps were higher in my system. This just isn't going to work on hardware as outdated as SL has been able to run on in the past. I know this will upset some. At the same time, it also means SL will finally be taking advantage of newer hardware to improve the experience just as most video games do. I welcome that.

It's about time. The bar is going to be raised even higher when they switch from OpenGL to Vulcan in the next year. Also about time. No offense to those with potatoes for computers, but those with hardware made in the last five years would like to see the benefits of that in SL.

I would need to set up an account just for that. I'd also want premium account status for that account provided at no cost. This would be so that messages from those I mentored wouldn't be capped when I wasn't online. It would also grant a linden home which would seem like a plus as well to show newcomers what those look like. I wouldn't mind using the official viewer while using that account. I always keep it installed on my system just in case a bug turns up I can see if it's in that viewer as well. Since they obviously won't be handing out premium status, I have other things to do with my time. I help newbies in any case when I can. Don't need a special tag.

One of the older multi-estate regions on the grid does it exactly the way you describe. I bought my parcel for a token amount (100L) and pay a rent box that goes to the owner of the regions to cover tier and such. I have full control over my parcel within the bounds of the rules for the realm. It works well. The very smallest parcels have prefab cottages on them, otherwise it's up to the parcel owner to make sure any structures follow the theme (they can be pre-approved).

There's the rub. Since they appear to be a regular AV, if they aren't registered as a bot, there's no easy way to tell. One way to police it would be to pop up something like a Capcha at random times when one was logged in as proof one wasn't a bot. I don't really like that solution, but it would probably catch a lot of on regisstered bots.

They kind of have. Get a Premium Plus account and you can buy a homestead sim without owning a full estate. That is a huge deal and a major savings if that's all you wanted. They have have to be careful not to completely upend the SL economy by changing stuff too fast.

Because there the content available is so much less and there aren't enough people in any one place to make it seem that attractive. SL has enough issues with large swathes of abandoned land in the centers of the continents, but at least there are places where reasonable numbers congregate. Every alternative grid I've tried has seemed empty, and bland by comparison.

Which is unlikely to happen. They keep selling out new areas added to Bellisseria. A lot more than I thought are now paying for Premium Plus accounts. They indicated years ago they wanted to get out from under the thumbs of the major land barons and lowering the cost of ownership in sims and offering quality alternative places to live at lower cost than most rentals has been rather effective. The increase is tiny in actual money. The idiots going by percentages probably buy into the idea that if you go from 10 cents to 20 cents you've doubled your money and it matters. They still offer free basic accounts. In theory you could never pay a a cent and still enjoy the entire grid. The provided AV's at this point aren't even that bad and will be getting even better. I, for one am happy to see them pay attention to the bottom line as there really aren't any other virtual worlds that come close.

Why does it matter if I have any or not. My statement stands. Those screaming over the small increase are mostly acting like entitled Karens only there's no manager who will come listen to to them.

It would really help if there were some more stringent enforcement of proper tagging of MP items. Quite a number of shady creators add tags having nothing to do with their product or tags that they know would be somewhat misleading just to get more views. Personally, I'd like to see MP tag abuse result in suspension of all listings for that account for some amount of time. A few get hit with that and the rest would likely clean up their act.

As usual, people will ignore the nice lowering of sim prices and complain about a small increase in transaction fees as if it were the end of the grid. It would be less than a $5 difference for all of last year for me had the new rates been in effect. In the end it won't matter because it's a done deal.

An item being mod has absolutely nothing to do with it being copybotted. Repeat louder for those in back. All making something no-mod does is make it less appealing to potential customers.