Ciaran Laval

October 25, 2011October 25, 2011

Crowdsourcing Gauntlet Thrown Down

The Mesh clothing parametric deformation project has met its funding goal with some forty days to go, now it will be interesting to see what happens here. I blogged about this project earlier this month, basically this is a project designed to enhance the mesh clothing experience but comes at a time when Linden Lab were seen to be stalling on the issue, Jira SH-2734 is where this was discussed.

I’m still unsure about this whole idea of paying someone else to do work when Linden Lab may come up with an alternative solution, but the gauntlet has been well and truly thrown down now. I hoped at the time that some communication would be forthcoming between the team behind this project and Linden Lab themselvesI have no idea if that has happened.

Linden Lab are put in an awkward position by projects like this, they may well have something else in the works to address this issue but have other priorities, supporters of the project however, clearly didn’t feel Linden Lab were showing enough will to make those changes, hence why the project in its fundraising part has been so successful.

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October 24, 2011October 24, 2011

Estate Sales Offer Looks To Have Been A Success

Despite some complaints, especially from those in the second hand sim market and despite questions about the advertising, the Second Life sim sale seems to have been a success, according that is to ace stat gatherer Tyche “Statto” Shepherd who reports to us from SLuniverse:

“Overall 322 new private regions were added to the grid between Friday and this morning, along with another 50 which returned to the grid, the net effect was to increase the grid to 31248 regions from 30924 with private estates gaining 311 to 24262 . This is about 300 private regions more than would have been expected over the same period if no offer had been active.

Of the 322 new regions, 152 were Full Regions and 43 were Homesteads, the remaining 127 were still closed to public access. The 195 open to public access were owned by 177 different owners, with no single person purchasing more than 3 regions. On investigation some purchases were by the larger estates ,again no more than 3 regions, but 111 of the new owners have no other active holdings. ”

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October 24, 2011October 24, 2011

Metaverse Shakespeare Company Brings The Curtain Down

Ina Centaur has announced both inworld via notecards and on Ina’s blog, that The Shakespeare, Primtings, sLiterary and Skin City sims will be axed on or around October 29th. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has been part of these groups inworld, Ina has appeared to be disgruntled for some time.

If we rewind to May, Ina blogged a farewell here. I think it’s fair to say that Ina had became increasingly disillusioned with the financial aspects in running Second Life sims and that the loss of not for profit tier discounts has bitten hard. The story is a tale of woe, Ina was involved with an art aspect with regards to Primtings and the Metaverse Shakespeare Company, I’m more familiar with the latter.

The thing is, it’s not as if Ina didn’t try to raise revenue, the Metaverse Shakespeare Company offered a whole load of ways for people to sponsor their efforts or donate to keeping stage productions alive in Second Life, there were also tickets for opening night and season ticket deals. However, as many have mentioned before getting people to pay in Second Life for an attraction is problematic, because so few do pay for entry, although plenty of folk do tip.

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October 22, 2011

Hallow Dee’N Festival Closing Dance

Today we will see the end of our week long Hallow Dee’N festival with Demon DJ Jo Heartsdale, hopefully leading us in a two hour dance extravaganza of celtic and bawdy tunes!

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October 22, 2011October 22, 2011

Reverend Upshaw No Longer Around?

This is an odd one that has slipped under my radar. I received an instant message today from a tenant who rents land from me and then sublets some skyboxes. I sometimes get group invite requests from her tenants, as it’s my land but usually what happens is that a bot invites them, we set this up via Reverend Upshaw’s excellent serive and his plugin for Hippo-Technologies rental boxes.

The im informed me that she couldn’t find the store to renew her rental agreement for the bot service, so I went to have a look and the store is gone, the odd thing here being that according to Reverend Upshaw’s profile, he was shutting down his services back in July due in part to being bored with Second Life.

Now this means that either plenty of people don’t complain when they don’t get a group invite and just let their rental expire without complaining, which would be odd, or my tenant has been getting the service for longer than she should have, which may have happened.

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