Linden Lab – Page 203

September 25, 2011September 25, 2011

Tyche Shepherd’s Awesome Private Estate Survey For September

Hot off the presses is Tyche Shepherd’s awesome private estate survey, September 2011 edition. The survey is based on a sample of 5,000 randomly selected private estate regions, which is a high enough number to get some pretty decent figures from.

The survey tells us that Anshe Chung is losing sims, but not that many as quite a few are ending up in the hands of The Chung Sisters and when you add ACS Dreamland, Azure Islands and The Chung Sisters holdings into the pot together, Anshe’s organisation is top of the pile with 7.9% but this is 0.7% down on last month.

The big climber appears to be LaLa estates, who are now in second place as an independent group, with a 0.6% increase this month, top of the charts however is RGF Estates, with 5.7%. Confused? Anshe’s holdings are in different groups, so RGF is top as an independent entity but Anshe’s group is overall top when you add together all the different groupings, however as individual entities they are behind RGF and Lala estates.

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September 23, 2011September 23, 2011

Faulty brakes allegedly behind suspension

This one is rather bizarre. A bug has recently been introduced to Second Life that has caused a failure for scripts that use llSetPrimitiveParams and llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast when those commands are used in conjunction with PRIM_PHYSICS.

This has led to a lot of angry content creators and users complaining, such as here on SL Universe where I first saw reports of this bug by Innula Zenovka and here on the Jira, where something extremely odd seems to have happened to Annmarie OToole.

Annmarie OToole has these automated vehicles running around mainland, particularly the Linden highways, these vehicles sometimes go off course and annoy people, they are controversial, some people think they shouldn’t be allowed, some people think they’re a nice addition. However the introduction of this bug has led to them losing a lot of control, Annmarie OToole says this has made the brakes fail and that this is causing fatal accidents!

“My vehicles rely on llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_PHYSICS,FALSE]); to stop suddenly to avoid collisions. This is not working in Blue Steel resulting in hundreds of fatal accidents.”

So Annmarie should get inworld and fix the bloody problem right, I mean it’s not her fault a bug has been introduced but there are workarounds, however the problem with that is that Annmarie has received a three day suspension, allegedly due to the vehicles misbehaving due to this bug!

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September 3, 2011September 3, 2011

More Options Could Help Premium Membership

New Premium Features have been introduced for Premium Members, as announced on the official Second Life blog, which you can read here. The features include sandboxes for premium members only and some gifts exclusive to premium members.

I am a premium member but always have a bugbear when it comes to premium membership that people who are estate owners but not premium members should be taken into consideration. They don’t get the stipend and they don’t get a Linden Home, but they can buy an island, now considering how much they pay for their island, I think they should be included in perks such as these new ones and I asked that in the comments …. and got answered indirectly by Tateru Nino! Tateru’s blog post on the new premium features includes this comment:

“While it says premium only, Linden Lab spokesperson, Peter Gray, assures me that these two benefits are also extended to non-premium, ‘concierge’ customers.”

Good to see that response. However I think it’s a sign of getting old that I’m not up in arms about the free advertising for The Loft. Colleen Desmoulins has a highly regarded store there but these freebies do compete with other furniture makers and this is wonderful advertising for Colleen, usually I’d be all disgusted of Tunbridge Wells over this, but I’m not, maybe I’m used to it now, or maybe it’s because Rodvik is a Villa fan, whatever the reason I’m not too bothered about it.

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August 30, 2011August 30, 2011

Grendel’s Children – Birthday Parties, Mesh And Downsizing

Grendel’s Children are in the news for their decision to downsize, now you may never heard of Grendel’s Children, or visited, but trust me this is a big Second Life brand and was one of the first places to appear on the revamped showcase. Prim Perfect, Tateru Nino, Daniel Voyager and New World Notes have all covered this story, there’s good commentary there, I decided to ask about a couple of other things whilst I had the ear of Toady Nakamura.

Now I’m sure there will be speculation about the reasons for their decision to downsize, but Toady Nakamura of Grendel’s children contacted me to assure me that this is due to frustration with support and that it is nothing to do with the inworld economy:

“Our sales are solid. We downsized due to frustration with Lab non response to fixing sim problems. We sold and got rid of the problem as it was taking too much time from staff making avatars.”

Well having the ear of Toady I decided to get some more information, namely birthday parties and Mesh!

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