But with the old version, when we tried to report “sim neighbours” to Lee Linden based on Max’s device, Lee would dismiss it and urge us to go to the so-called neighbours, and see that in fact they were now showing other sim numbers, indicating they weren’t all stacked up on one server — it’s a temporary and constantly moving phenomenon. I would check this over and over again inworld and find that in fact Lee was right, and then I couldn’t make my case for a laggy sim with Lee.

When I kept asking Max about this, he kept denying it and treating me like an idiot, even though we were all happy to have independent sources of information about server performance outside Kremlindenlab. He just never came up with a good answer for Lee.

Now, by indicating “stale” and “fresh” he appears to have accommodated the concern he denied were a problem before.

@vanessa – If you click [more info], you can see when the host # last changed, which gives you an idea of when the sim last rebooted.

This has come up a few times during town halls: all the servers are identical, and no sim is tied to any given server, so if a sim crashes, it will come back up on any spare in the pool which would be why it changes frequently.