Riches to Rags?

One of the points arising from the Roadmap yesterday was the (long awaited by some) announcement that the intention is for landowners to get more control over avatars and scripts running on their property to reduce lag.

The problem is that some resizing scripts, and the heavy avatar rendering cost of some outfits causes lag when more than a few avis are collected together on a sim.

Now, no-one is going to object to poor scripts (whatever that means) being overhauled or disabled for the General Good in the ongoing Lag Wars. Avatar rendering costs is a touchier subject...

I had probably been in SL for two years before I had any idea of what ARC (lazy typist) are/is... and, luckily I have always liked simple clothes with the exception of a few outrageous hairstyles and a couple of belts. So, I don't imagine I will be getting thrown off too many sims in the future for overdressing...however...

Some people don't build, don't own land, and their principle creative outlet is their avatar. These people are a real boon for SL, making the most mundane build into a theatrical event, stepping centre-stage and, like glorious peacocks, strutting their stuff, AO's working full out to impress. I love em.

Now, dressing down is not something that will be welcomed by these people, nor will it be easily understood by newbies. It will be difficult enough steering a path through PG, Adult, Mature sims, without then subdividing these again into Low, Medium and High ARC sims. Presumably each landowner having his or her own idea of what is 'reasonable use' of prims.

One persons Prim Hog is another's Fashionista.

I foresee chaos... and baldness.

In almost every walk of digital and RL life I am being encouraged to consume more. More RAM in my computer, more storage on Flickr, more calls on my mobile...etc... but LL will be going against this trend, advocating less prims per person in some cases....

Can't I get MORE server space for my buck over time??

LL will, of course, survive this future flurry of furious fashionistas as it will the justifiable anger of heart-broken teens who will be separated from their friends through an arbitrary age divide when they close the Teen Grid.... but...

...the list of Pissed Off Minorities grows.

It is in the nature of mass provision that the fringe groups get neglected as the Mass becomes a sort of dictator. The fringes are sacrificed so the Mass can grow. That doesn't however make it all right. The end never justifies the means, because it is morally indefensible to treat one person badly, let alone a whole batch of under 16's (for example).

It's a well known saying "be careful who you tread on, on the way up..."

I don't have an immediate solution to a number of these issues that I throw back at the Boys, and it may be that I should stop moaning, but, as there is a lack of any real platform to discuss these Edicts, this is the only way I can try and get these things discussed... to voice a counter thought, to question the accepted 'view'.

It just seems to me that a more 'inclusive' philosophy would be more beneficial in the long run, rather than a growing list of "Thou shalt not..."

"Your World, Your Imagination" is becoming "Our World, Our Rules"...and that is not an encouraging path to walk down....

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Snake oil, anyone?

Well, just caught some of Philip's casual coffee in hand chat at SLCC....

For those of you that missed it... Philip is gonna get.. (well...I probably missed some stuff)...

Group chat fixed,
region crossings better,
fast startup, low crash rate,
automatic viewer updates,
'more' avatars per region,
more names floating over your head (yeh, that's a vital help...lol...)
meshes are gonna come (esp. for hair, it seems),
teens are gonna join us as they close the teen grid (saves using Mom's credit card said SecondLie)
..and Search is a complete mystery to all concerned (so...no promises there).

No mention of scalable prims or builder's tools...

"We do a very good job" of PR, he claims...and, he does...when he's there. It all sounds great.

I am still unsure tho...would I buy a used car from this man?

Has Yosemite Sam turned Snake Oil salesman...??

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Why not us.....??

Well, it's a rhetorical question, "why not us?"....as this is NOT a video taken from SL where anything from BL (ex) to music events would benefit greatly from being able to have 1000 avatars on a sim. No, SL once again is being left behind, this from ScienceSim...full report and links here.

Then the development of the Hypergrid is gonna be the next big thing, with the possibility to tp from grid to grid being possible already, having a bank account that works in 14 grids already (OMC its called) will turn tourism on it's head. LL could have used the L$ to gain this sort of market reach if they hadn't lost their minds chasing the fictional millions of Microsoft-baseball-capped geeks who think SL is crap...

....and not even a mesh in sight....but hey....big announcements coming up at SLCC where, I predict, LL will throw projects they haven't managed to develop themselves to the Free Workers of Open Source to do the work for them, and meshes might be one...we will see.....certainly Search seems too difficult for Sea Linden and her tiny team..(does she have one, or is she It?)....maybe The Free Workers could tackle that too while they are at it.???

Viewer 2.whatever will be thrown hooklineandsinker to the Freeworkers, but that's not new news. The aim is obviously to remove the stench of rotten code by calling it Kirstens S20...as an example...but rubbish is rubbish however it is named (to paraphrase Shakespere)..and Kirstens S20 is crap.... e.g. you can't have camera controls and movement controls in use at the same time....either look or walk??

Anyway the continued push to make a viewer that supports their future plans for selling advertising space and that we don't totally reject will certainly continue apace... I wonder if anything of any importance will be announced...??

Oh, yes, am I the only person who remembers talk of flexible sculpties...or is that meshes...I mentioned them 13 months ago on these pages ..........

"So...thats the Trouble With Linden Labs.... :))) Scientific Survey Statisics steeped in stupidity are called "listening to the community"... DUH! read a few blogs and comments instead!!
Give us scalable mega prims, give us shadows, give us flexible sculpties ....advertise SL in RL ... lower tier.... stop fannying around.... any one of those would be cool......with the amount of (my) money they have ...all of them are possible."


I am not holding my breath.

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Rumours or reality.....

I heard, and have not been able to confirm or deny ....Philip will NOT be at the SLCC in person.

I have been told, by a very reliable source, that on the back of this news "a man" quit 100 sims and walked out of SL... maybe the twitters know things I don't...will be interesting to hear...

As if the stupid meeting wasn't bad enough....lottery tickets for the right to Twitter the boss...lol... and wallace and Gromit Linden will moderate...heheheh...sounds like a laugh...not.....then to add insult to injury, it seems Philip is too busy to talk to his customers in person, at SLCC, and will do so by phone, sorry...telesomething device....

This news, if true, is just catastrophic, and sadly likely......

How can so many people (the Boys) know so little about PR???

Waiting to hear......

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