Linden Lab – Page 201

October 17, 2011October 17, 2011

Scripted Tools For Estate Owners And Managers Coming To A Sim near You Soon

As we ponder what the hell is going on with Olivia Dunham Torley it’s time to take a peek at what those sneaky Lindens are doing at the beta server office hours. Cerise Sorbet was quick to spot a new LSL scripting command being announced, and posted to the official forum about it. Coming soon, well if you’re on BlueSteel it’s already here, is llManageEstateAccess:

integer llManageEstateAccess(integer action, key id)
Use to add or remove agents from the estate’s agent access or ban lists or groups from the estate’s group access list.
Only works for objects owned by the Estate Owner or an Estate Manager.
Calls are throttled at a rate of 30 calls per 30 seconds.
Returns TRUE is action is sent to the database.
Returns FALSE if throttled, invalid action, invalid or null id or object owner is not allowed to manage the estate.

Actions for llManageEstateAccess:

ESTATE_ACCESS_ALLOWED_AGENT_ADD: Add the agent to this estate’s Allowed Residents list.
ESTATE_ACCESS_ALLOWED_AGENT_REMOVE: Remove the agent from this estate’s Allowed Residents list.
ESTATE_ACCESS_ALLOWED_GROUP_ADD: Add the group to this estate’s Allowed groups list.
ESTATE_ACCESS_ALLOWED_GROUP_REMOVE: Remove the group from this estate’s Allowed groups list.
ESTATE_ACCESS_BANNED_AGENT_ADD: Add the agent to this estate’s Banned residents list.
ESTATE_ACCESS_BANNED_AGENT_REMOVE: Remove the agent from this estate’s Banned residents list.

This has potential!

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October 14, 2011October 14, 2011

The Tier Conundrum

The recent Linden Endwonment For The Arts deal for the arts community to be granted the use of twenty sims for a year has once more brought the tier issue to the fore, tier is expensive in Second Life, however there are some cold harsh realities that even a British (Ok Half Irish) lefty like me understands. Linden Lab cannot give away land to all and sundry, they have salaries to pay, bills to pay, development needs, they can’t run the place on free air.

However, it is about time that Linden Lab looked at some alternative means of income, tier is still too large a factor in their business model, which gives them very little wiggle room when it comes to reducing it. Linden Lab’s other means of income appear on the face of it to be transaction fees on Linden Dollar sales, selling Linden Dollars directly and Premium Memberships, Premium Memberships are actually relatively cheap, especially when you take into account the three hundred Linden Dollar stipend a week, older accounts have higher stipends, such as four hundred and five hundred Linden Dollars a week, which basically pay for themselves.

There was a time when Linden Lab could also generate income from auctioning mainland sims, it was not uncommon for a sim to sell for USD$4,000 at auction, those days are long gone.

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October 10, 2011October 10, 2011

20 Sim Arts Grant For LEA Makes Me Uncomfortable

Via Inara Pey comes news that the Linden Endownment of the Arts have secured a twenty sim deal to promote the arts in Second Life. The actual announcement from the Linden Endownment for the Arts can be read here, it explains the process for artists and curators to be able to apply to get their hands on a sim:

“The Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) has negotiated with Linden Labs to make available twenty new regions for the arts in Second Life. Four regions will be reserved for exhibitions curated from LEA sandbox art, and two will be allocated through a land rush. Details will follow on those six regions. Fourteen will be allocated by application. These regions will be awarded to selected artists for a period of five months. After the completion of five months those regions will be transferred to a new set of awardees. Recipients can be considered for a second endowment of five months.”

I’ve already passed the link on to some artists I know, however I haven’t really changed my mind on things like this, I find it uncomfortable.

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October 10, 2011October 10, 2011

No News Is Good News?

I made my way to the Adult Content User Group Meeting tonight, fully expecting to hear who had won the proposal to run the adult gateway on Zindra, I was late to the meeting but missed the announcement, however the winner is …. drum roll please:

Viale Linden: First and foremost … No update on the Welcome proposal. still working on that.

So the announcement will be sometime soon, the whole proposal is odd to me, four residents will be responsible for tier on four individual sims and will get exclusive rights to the Zindra name for their parcels, from what I can workout, this isn’t an ideal solution as those who have a parcel on Zindra, really should be able to mention that in your parcel name.However Linden Lab want the new adult gateway to be found easily, so finding a happy solution was never going to be easy. I can’t think of a better way of giving the welcome hub top billing in search and those who are opposed to this idea really need to come up with a solution about that rather than just saying no.

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October 8, 2011October 10, 2011

AnnMarie OToole Suspended Again

AnnMarie OToole, of controversial automated vehicles fame, has been suspended again, this time for five days, for abuse of sandbox resources. AnnMarie was previously suspended when a bug meant the brakes stopped working on her vehicles and fatal accidents ensued.

AnnMarie has reported on the official forum that she has now had a five day suspension, the thread has been pulled, which is no great susrprise I’m pretty sure there has long been a rule that you can’t post about suspensions on the forum, however this may not be related to the previous suspension, as AnnMarie replied to my query about whether her vehicles had gone awol again:

“I don’t think so, the vehicles are all owned by an alt and she was not suspended. In the past when they ran off the road we both got suspended.”

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