Since I don’t the the sim I work in (and I’m not gonna say so as to seem a shameless plug) isn’t owned by me, I didn’t get the specific Linden unfortunately.

Last night, I had a few people in my place dancing. Of course it was couple dancing so we were using the slow dance poseballs.

Sim I live in crashed… and guess what? The poseballs disappered. GONE! Poof and vaminosed away. I asked the sim owner to check for errant items… nada. In fact, I am now 4 prims UNDER my limit, when maxed before.

And where I work, supposedly a Linden came out to check the sim out and it’s horrific crashing… the Linden blamed it on couple dancing poseballs. And there’s only like 3 out. It never caused any problems before, so if it is those slow dances and salsas… WTH did LL do to make them crash sims?

Scott Adams must be playing SL.

At present my sim’s running a bit slow, I know why too. I have too many physical objects wandering about. But that’s how I choose to run the sim, it’s non-commercial, purely for my pleasure, so it doesn’t matter, as long as I get 30 or so personal fps I’m happy.

What’s driving me wild is day after day with no TP – it’s a nice island, but I like to get out now and then!
And then to discover, when I do escape, the rest of the grid suffering massive PL, severely limited TP’s, extreme border crossing problems – even walking! – ghosts, 1.7 speed object rezing and texture rezing, etc, etc

All this while LL blandly assure us it’s all ‘fixed’! Fixed how? Like a cat or a dog get’s ‘fixed’?

That and the complete lack of any attempt now to provide any form of useful support. And then they wash their hands of the client!

Sorry, I’m ranting again, but I’m angry and amazed that a company run by a supposedly intelligent man can come apart so comprehensively, so quickly. Yes, it’s been predicted – I’ve done my fair share of that – but you know? It’s kind of taken me by surprise…

Tonight’s a little better though. Only took one try to get within 4 sims of where I wanted to go on the mainland. AND I managed to fly the rest. However, 4 border crossings resulted in me arriving bald, with a katana up my ass (that smarts), my cloak around my waist, and my belt around my knees…. And that’s with everything ‘fixed’ remember.

What was it Zero said? Something like ‘you’ll hardly notice’? Well maybe he should drop by and bend over so I can stick that katana somewhere he’ll ‘hardly notice’!

Bah, I should shut up and stop whining – except… if we don’t make waves, are the Dilberts – sorry, Lindens – ever going to fix the grid? Most notably the asset server and DB? Somehow I doubt it. In fact I don’t think they can… Still, you have to try, don’t you?

There’s been discussion about making the sim server software open source too, so people could host their own sims.
I can’t see that – for two reasons. Firstly LL would loose a big chunk of their revenue stream pretty quickly. Secondly, there would still have to be a ‘grid’ to facilitate inter-sim transport and to keep track of ‘assets’. And those are two things the grid is failing miserably at. Hosting your own sim server you’d STILL find yourself paying LL for a service that simply can’t perform as it should! Open source server software would result in a loose cluster of sims, isolated from each other 90% of the time.

That’s a non-starter I’m afraid.

Hmmm, I’ll be quiet now. Message sent and understood I hope?

Inigo.. I am sorry to see you are STILL dealing with this stuff. You have been having nothing but problems with that Island since you got it. I remember your past posts and am amazed you still have this island. I would have gave up long ago on the thing.

It is nuts that LL hasn’t done something for you yet.

Your ISP is going to tell you it’s LL, LL is going to tell you it’s your ISP. guess what? Both of them are only half right.