Reading Radar

I’m tired of the whining…I know how much I paid for 1/9 of a sim and paid it…if I couldn’t have afforded it, I would have continued to rent. And if LL raises the tier, well I’ll just have to pay it or sell it or something…but I’d still have my RL house and my RL high speed, and my RL super duper graphics card, and all the rest.

Like you, I had no idea what was OS and what was not…but if I visited a freaking MALL OF STORES, I assumed it was a full Sim, not someone’s cheap dream come true.

And as for leaving for OS and LS and the rest…I’ve checked them out and they are more unstable than SL and their owners do the same “we’re in beta” excuse-making. I’m sticking with SL where at least I’m not stuck with an unmodifiable avatar that looks like a guy playing a girl, 42HHHH chest and all….or a wisp….or stuck in the ground.

Hahahaha. Hmmm. And I really, really thought I wasn’t whining.

Just to set the record straight, I’ve barely posted on the open space issue. Admiring, however, the concept of bait and switch, I was hoping that people would spend more time questioning why Eve Online can reduce lag to almost zero, but whatever, it can feel a little insular at times I suppose - there ARE other worlds out there, other lessons.

So again, to correct the record. I didn’t whine. I called their policy change a disaster on Metanomics, but I attribute that to their communication skills. They really need to get their act together and come up with more provocative titles for their blog posts IMHO.

Thanks. Wonderful little recursive thing we had here: me whining about not actually whining, you spending time whining about how people whine too much, and then a few loops back to paper over the whole thing. Puts me in mind of Tom Boellstorff’s theory of SL being ‘techne within techne’, however I note that even Tom pointedly avoided covering blogs and ‘external media’ in his book, although he was too polite to say that the real reason was that maybe it’s even more of an echo chamber than whatever sim we live on? Your blog excepted of course.

I’m pleased Radar that you’ve uncovered such profound truths and will now wander back to my corner and think about Philip’s hair.

hehe, this was fun.

*carries on*

I agree re LL’s communication skills…they need to hire someone who’s had some experience dealing with a large, diverse, and engaged stakeholder group. IMO they need a combination of private and public sector communications because while LL is a private company, its users treat the product with much more engagement, like those of people with their government. At present, LL sucks in this department.

But that doesn’t change the fact that my jaw drops every time I read something posted without any self-awareness, “now I can’t have my dream mall/club/highly scripted airport”.

Finally someone saying something sensible about this entire issue. As an extensive sim owner in SL I have the same view: The open space sims were intended to allow for open space usage - like vehicles, parks, boating, etc. Never were they meant for city construction or clubs. As someone who purchased many sims so that miy development teams would have the places server power to build and host large groups, it irritates me to hear people who have attempted to defraud the system on which we all depend, bleat when they are caught and the system is corrected. The tragedy in all this is that the more useful open space sim prim limits are now denied to everyone, even those that used them properly, because too many tried to raught the system.

Since 2006 we have experienced lag problems on our sims, maybe 2 or 3 months in total, and because we do large builds and heavy scripting our sims are usually script and super-prim heavy, we rarely have more than 15% spare prim count, yet I can only say that my experience is almost always high speed, and over the last 12 months highly stable (at least with respect to the sims). (Mind you, the latest release seems to be a little less stable, but that might just be our crap new high speed WAN connection which seems to take timeout for smokos every hour). Our computers have always been latest model machines, and in my experience a lot of people experience problems because their machines are just not up to par. But now I also wonder how many of the locations I have visited where performance sucked were due to misuse of the open-space sims rather than any fault of the SL grid. Good-on LL I say, way past time due.

I got caught twice. Paid $L1695 for my sim and the price was lowered a week after delivery. Then took the reduced price OS to make up for the knock. I repeatedly phoned the concierge line and asked what I could do with my OS sim. I told them I wanted to build a college on it — and there would be classes in the college. That was okay by them. I told them I wanted to add objects galore and was it okay if I used every one of my prims. That was A-Okay by them. I never made any major addition or held any event without calling the concierge first and asking. It was all okay. Then one day, boom, I am not using the OS in the way it was intended. Pahleese! I have abandoned my OS — no point in trying to sell it now. And will be abandoning my region entirely by Dec. 15. I have lost huge amounts of money on this ‘game’ and really think the Lindens do mislead people. Not whining. Just stating facts here. When the concierge tells you — go ahead build your college in your OS, use up all your prims there, hold all the events you like — and then turns around within a year and complains you have misused the OS — that is not A-Okay.