Comments on: Lab Nerfs SL Combat – Players Demand Server Rollback – Lab Surrenders

By: Confused

Confused — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:09:04 +0000

Ok, seriously, this has devolved into an argument about rape?

Tell me, how does one rape someone in Second Life? Do they find where they live, duct tape them to their chairs and force them to watch as their attacker uses their computer to sit their avatar on a pose ball, waiting in horror for them to drive back home, log in, and hop on the corresponding pose ball?

Rape doesn’t exist in SL. You have to get on a pose ball, or you have to choose to use a different RLV enabled viewer, and in most of those you have to choose to enable the feature thus implying consent. Even in quaint little RP sims, someone might walk up and start saying they’re raping you, but you can always tell them to engage in the activity with themselves or leave.

No one can hold you down and force themselves upon you no more than they can force you to be a mermaid. The system just isn’t built that way.

By: Grendel

Grendel — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:59:05 +0000

you want RP without rape? try sims like New Babbage, stories get dark, there may be some murder, but generally, not much rape goes on

By: a furry

a furry — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:51:23 +0000

@SlShapeshifter

You’re right,because there are articles on the Pjira about vehicles failing at sim crossings,now only if there where protests about the glitch with vehicles then LL would stop sitting on their asses and fix the bug,so we can use vehicles again.

By: SlShapeshifter

SlShapeshifter — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:09:57 +0000

There was a jira, you dolts. But it takes forever for LL to do something with them. We were desprate.

I did the text combat thing years ago, in Furcadia. The number of twits playing near-gods slinging about hugeass attacks, plus all that OOC arguments that boiled down to:
‘Bang I shot you’
‘You missed’
‘Nuh uh’
‘Yuh huh’
*repeat ad nauseum*
It got so bad that the owner of one RP hangout had a nervous breakdown and shut the place down. I’m not going down that path ever again. At least with stats, there’s some semblance of fairness, and I can concentrate on such things as plot and character development.

By: had enough

had enough — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:03:51 +0000

Well the little dorky roleplayers like having things stuck up their ass. I agree that next time the little dimwits should follow the procedure for software bugs and fill out a Jira form.

By: Yep

Yep — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:19:04 +0000

Had enough
Don’t argue with a fool; onlookers won’t know the difference.
Text combat requires skill and a brain. Anyone can be a button masher. As for godmoding, The person who stood with their finger up their ass in the sim the longest gains XP making them stronger. A new person to the sim, regardless of their button mashing skills, is weaker through the use of XP. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Next time pull your heads out of your ass (or your finger) and file a jira.

By: had enough

had enough — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:58:27 +0000

So you god mode with xp or who ever has the better computer wins.
Text based combat is less laggy than metered combat and it works with any version of havok released. Also it does not require the grid to be rolled back helping a few morons while the rest of Second Life has to suffer from the mess the roll back made.

By: SlShapeshifter

SlShapeshifter — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:44:21 +0000

“why not RP out your little combats in text?”

What’s to prevent someone from godmoding via a paragraph that looks like it was written by a lawyer? Have you not played Cops and Robbers as a kid?

By: Miss J

Miss J — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:15:22 +0000

Blame M linden for getting rid of volunteers. The mentors were there helping for free and no others were allowed there. They want better first hour experience other than protests bring the mentor program back!

By: Yep

Yep — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:34:37 +0000

“The Lindens need to get their Priorities. straight.”
That will be the day.

I hope they are doing something. Just about every group I belong to in SL has people complaining about the way SL is running right now. Instead of giving in to some greifing lynch mob LL should have just ejected them from help island and sent them a link to the Knowlege base and provided them with information on how to fill out a jira and go through proper channels instead of leaving us with this mess we have had the past week and a half with no sight of a fix anywhere close. I mean these people who caused this belong to RP sims. why not RP out your little combats in text? Then the few you guys who are having trouble can still RP and the rest of us can still function in SL. I tell you, you buy them books and send them to school and they eat the teacher.