Raul Crimson’s experiences in Second Life®
Openspace sims, another Linden mistake
After all that time, after all the mistakes, i think we never will get used to the “weird” commercial policy and crappy customer service of Linden Lab.
Yesterday Jack Linden posted some “small” changes on Openspace sims pricing and policies, you should go and read it, basically it says some stuff about how Openspaces are technically set, then he says people are using them in ways Linden Lab didn’t expected (or “overusing” them), then says the prices will be increased on a 65% from next January.
Well, i think Jack is right and some people is using Openspaces in the way not planned by Linden Lab. I remember a conversation in Torley’s office hours when he said (Torley i mean) that one of the most fascinating things in Second Life is that the Lindens can’t plan what will be the use of features because they are always unexpected… maybe that is the problem.
Maybe Jack (and Linden Lab) is right but what means overuse? If they sell a sim with 3500 prims (is just an example) and i’m using 3000. am i overusing? No, that is not overuse. Of course some people is overusing Openspaces with “temp-rezzers”, that is a real overuse and a quite silly thing due the incredible lag it produces.
Under my point of view what happened here is that Linden Lab just was wrong with the technical configuration of Openspaces and now that mistake is causing performance issues, so the solution for the Lab is just to increase prices… sorry but this is just stupid and wrong. The Lab is making the residents pay a Lab mistake.
I think banning “temp-rezzers” would be a solution, i would support Linden Lab if that was the solution proposed, but no, just treating bad their customers seems to be the way Linden Lab works. “CUSTOOMER SERVIZE… UR DOIN IT WRONG”.
Some residents are trying to find ways to protest about this, there is a JIRA issue, a Flickr group, Vint Falken has an interesting post and seems she is trying to list all the actions.
Image in the post: edition of an image originally made by Vint Falken, protected under a Creative Commons license.
3rd Party Viewers… wants the Lab to take the control back?
about 4 months ago - 1 comment
Before i start writing i should say i’m an Emerald Viewer user and i’m a user for many reasons, some of them are:
Client built AO
Radar
Temporary texture uploads (possible the best feature)
Clothing-layer protection
Animations window (with individual control over them)
Lots of precharged Windlight presets
Easy access to some graphic settings: Windlight preset, Drawing distance, number of particles…
Lot of [...]
Ramblings about SL6B and the vision on Linden Lab team
about 8 months ago - 2 comments
Today was the opening of SL6B (Second Life 6th Birthday) celebration with a speech of Philip Linden, the founder and creator of what Second Life is (well, actually himself and his team). The picture above was taken during that speech. Just after the speech i started to think about how residents see Linden Lab and [...]
Upcoming changes for Adult Content (the Linden press conference)
about 10 months ago - 4 comments
Last May 1st Linden Lab organized an Inworld Press Conference about the upcoming changes on Adult Content in Second Life. Sadly was impossible for me to attend for some reasons, but Pete Linden was so kind to send a link with a transcription of the conference.
The speakers were Cyn, Ken and Jack Linden. I think [...]
The situation of Adult content in the future Second Life®
about 12 months ago - 9 comments
Some days ago Cyn Linden published in a post in the new Second Life Blogs some information about the projects of Linden Lab® regarding “adult content” in Second Life.
Is better you take a look at it, but is a bit confusing… anyway it seems is more a declaration than a project. For what i understood [...]
“Is not a Monopoly!” Ok… but smells like it.
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Last January 22nd Linden Lab organized a press conference about the “integration” of XStreet SL and OnRez in Linden Lab. I was there and i think it was interesting, even what they said can be read in their press release. I wrote a post about this issue some days ago to.
Basically they said is a [...]
Linden Lab is playing Monopoly?: XStreetSL and OnRez now owned by Linden Lab
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
Well, it seems some Lindens have been playing Monopoly a lot lately…
As you can see in this post on the Official Linden Blog, Linden Lab has bought XStreetSL and OnRez, the two online marketplaces for SL stuff (clothing, avatars, houses, almost anything…), having this way the practical monopoly over multibrand online web-based distribution of SLgoods [...]
The Incredible Shrinking Land
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
Second Life Map, originally uploaded by Nexeus Fatale.
Today was taking a look at the Economic Statistics in the Second Life Web and saw the negative tendency in Resident Owned Islands (or Private Islands) keep going.
Islands Added
Month
Islands Owned
(End of Month)
Islands Added
(During Month)
December 2008 – MTD
23104
-1458
November 2008
24562
-1977
This means around 12% of the private islands disappeared in the [...]
Customers or citizens of a benevolent dictatorship?
about 1 year ago - 16 comments
Sometimes, in the past, i protested for some comments of Philip Linden, the founder of Second Life. Most of the times i though he was having a wrong idea about the community of residents. Anyway, although all that M Linden is making me miss Philip badly. And we are having M for the last six [...]
Places to visit in Second Life #11: Nautilus
about 1 year ago - No comments
I’ve been visiting Nautilus lately, is one of the “themed” areas built by the LDPW (Linden Department of Public Works), like Bay City, and as Bay City is not only one sim (region) is a bit group of them, as you can see in this map:
The theme this time is some like “Atlantis”, partially a [...]
Letter from Santa Claus
about 1 year ago - No comments
Today just recieved this letter from Santa!!! I’m so excited!!!
Wanted to be sure about the gift from Santa this next Christmas… but well, it seems there will be some problems with it.
Anyway, i’m sure Santa will find the perfect gift even if the one i asked for is not “available” anymore.
Disclaimer: [...]
about 1 year ago
… trying to is good wording of it… try to do a search on google’s blogsearch on ‘openspace sim’ for the last 12 hours…
about 1 year ago
It is a shame indeed that those who run shopping malls and clubs on Openspace servers are going to destroy the enjoyment many thousands have had from their own home in Second Life.
A well worded article – I think though that the folks at Linden Labs are not listening to their customers (again).
about 1 year ago
In this last days i was talking with people having different points of view about this issue, some that think this is not important, some that agree with Linden Lab decision… i just think respectful disagree is the best.
about 1 year ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but a temprezzer does not circumvent a sim’s maximum prim limit. With a temprezzer you can’t get more than 3750 reps. 15000 prims on a sim. What a temprezzer does is “loan” (some say “steal”) free prims from the sim as a whole. So if your parcel only supports 500 prims, but the sim as a whole has 200 free, your temprezzer can use those 200 even though your individual parcel might be maxed out. But it can not use 201 as the sim would be maxed out then. And while this may be annoying to other users who share parcels on the same sim, it should not be much of an issue for the sim itself.
On top of that, the temprezzers I have seen have all sensor inside so they only temprez an item when actually an avatar is close by to actually SEE the temprezzed items.
about 1 year ago
I correct you, Peter
. Prims on temporary state doesn’t count for sim prim limits (the same with prims in Avatar Attachments).
Personally never saw one of that temprezzers with approach sensor, the ones i saw rez the object on the same place again and again so it seem to be there permanently.
Personally i know a “famous” art gallery (i won’t say the name) what is placed in an OS sim, i can assure you the building (i mean main building, trees, decoration, etc…) is more than, at least, 5000 prims all together. The owner is overusing the sim for sure, not only for the prims overuse, the temprezzers scripts are laggy (becuase uses resources and create physical lag due the permanent rezzing of complex objects).
In the Knowledge base i found the following information:
It seems for me this confirms my information but Peter, if you find more complete information about this issue, please, be so kind to share it.
I totally agree that some residents are overusing OS sims, but i think the solution of rising prices is just wrong. Under my point of view a restriction in use (hard limits on agents and scripts) would be fair in this case.
about 1 year ago
Nods Temp rezzers are very lag induceing typically they are constantly re rezzing an item. when Lindens are asked to deal with lag issues in a sim the first thing they ceck for are temp rezzers
about 1 year ago
Peter Stindberg made an interesting experiment about the “overuse” of temp prims or temprezzers, take a look at his post.