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 This just isn't going to work on hardware as outdated as SL has been able to run on in the past.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.

Windows 7 is well past it's original end of life. I get it, upgrading to Windows 10 or 11, basically means a total reinstall of all software and maybe some messing about with settings in the bios. It's worth it. This is far less of a jump than the fact that SL will be moving from Open GL to Vulcan for it's graphics environment this year. This is either great news or horrible news depending on whether your GPU supports Vulcan. I hate to say it, but it's high time LL raises the bar to something approaching modern hardware and then takes full advantage of that.

Infinity Motors, Lisle Larson, Lusch, Prostreet, SZYM all make good vehicles. If you edit a display vehicle at a maker and check the contents and see 'ACS' in the script list, you'll know it's using the same generic crap script the one you don't like was. You'll find those in vehicles costing from 10L to 10,000L. In a lot of cases the so called creator didn't make the model themselves either. the just downloaded it, tossed in the script, and dumped it on the marketplace. I'm sure somebody will come in saying that if it's properly set up and adjusted for the vehicle and the root prim is in the right place, ACS can be ok. That may be true, but few bother doing that.

There once was a system called 'Redzone' that tracked IP addresses and linked alt accounts together so they could all be banned. Obviously once linked, it didn't matter if you changed IP's or used a VPN. They got in trouble for making the info about who was who's alt public and were eventually removed from the grid. I have no doubt there are similar systems that don't make that info public but effectively do the same thing. I've seen what you describe a number of times. I seriously doubt anyone using such a system would admit it or give any info about it as they wouldn't want it shut down. Best thing to do is just avoid the place entirely. The grid is huge and there is no single place that cool that it's worth stressing over not being able to go to.

In short, all bots should be required to be registered as such. Failure to do so or attempts to evade doing so should result in both the bot(s) and all associated accounts of those controlling said bot(s) losing access to SL permanently. Secondly, parcel owners/renters should be able to easily block others' bots from accessing their land. They should of course be able to have their own bots on their land if they so choose. It seems pretty simple to me really.

There are a few major vehicle makers who've taken a stance on this and size their vehicles for avatars no taller than 6"3". It allows them to be smaller (or RL scale), be lower Li, and allow for better detail in the Li they do use. My home has doorways scaled to normal range human. My AV is 6'1" just like RL with my ears down (I use a rabbit AV).

The closest you can get is to set a parcel you control to not show anyone on it outside the parcel. You'll still show as a green dot on the main map, but would be effectively invisible outside your parcel. If you blocked access to the person you don't want contact with, they wouldn't be able to see or hear you as long as you stayed on your parcel. That's as much control as you're entitled to.

If see item inworld takes me to a no longer valid location, the chances I'll buy that item goes down to near zero.

Teegle horses have the best scripting and most third party support at this point.

You can stream the audio real time fairly easily. Any stream software supporting live mic can do it. Most live singers in SL I've talked to use SAM Broadcaster because the on the fly encoding is better on that than the other choices. It's also possible to stream live video into SL but the times I've seen it, it was video only, no audio. I suppose you could combine it, but it would be kind of clunky

Sellers can set whatever permissions they wish on their items. That's what all of us who hate Gatcha (now Meipon, Nextup, etc) are told when we complain about the no-mod, no-copy perms with no way to convert to that. There are items where you get a voucher for the item and that is transfer, but once you wear it and click you get the item it's for copy, mod, no trans (that's a system I definitely approve of as it serves everyone).