My neck hurts

My best (as recorded by llGetAgentSize) is 2.318691m, or 91.2870472 inches = just over 7 ft 7 inches. Can anyone get a taller av with some crazy combination of the sliders?

This is actually a bit of a nonissue --

SL's scale is not accurate.
The room I am in right now (which is fairly big), is 5x4x3.5m in size. Make a cube that size, it doesnt look like anyone could fit in there, does it? So, with Avatar sizes, there's a bit of scaling required, to fit reality. All in all, I wouldnt trust the agent's height because the scale doesnt match up with the real world.

I'm a 6'1" female in real life, so I made my av tall as well. Nothing to do with "unrealistic dreams of grandeur" only a representation of my real self, and I think it looks better on the avs. But thanks for the snotty comment, and the implication that being tall is somehow grand. It's usually only short people that think that being tall is something grand. Tall people usually just think it's hard to find pants long enough.

In FL, there are enormous advantages to height, and some annoyances. Tall people can reach the top shelves (hell, at your shortness, you'd have a hard time reaching a middle shelf!) and change lightbulbs (see, light comes from electrically-stimulated wires in hollow bulbs WAAAAAY up there in the ceiling. You might not be able to see that far, but it's there) without a stepladder. Tall people can see over crowds of "normal" midgets. Tall people get more promotions and are treated with more respect than short people; it's almost comical when you look at groups of business executives, or watch a waiter leap to serve the tall person and ignore the nigh-invisible midgets. As long as the runts aren't better-armed, a tall person is in almost no danger walking around at night.

The down sides? Good clothes are slightly harder to find (until extreme height, they cost about the same). I recently annoyed/amused a short Macy's clerk by asking if they had "adult size socks, er, size 13+?". "No, sir, we only have childrens' sizes. Have you tried Rochester Big and Tall?"

You can try to hit or throw someone who weighs twice as much as you can lift, but they won't even notice you.

...What Susie and I are referring to are the ones who make themselves eight feet tall or so. Nothing wrong with 6'1" ...heck, nothing wrong with 6'5" or even 7 feet if that's what you are in real life.

You can try to hit or throw someone who weighs twice as much as you can lift, but they won't even notice you.

Hahaha this is so true! I have this friend who is short and skinny... he weighs about half as much as me. Heck, I weigh more than he and his gf put together.
The other day he was being a little annoying, so I gave him a little push and he ended up 10 feet away from me. Then he RUNS at me to push me and it was like hitting a brick wall! So very funny

This is actually a bit of a nonissue --

SL's scale is not accurate.
The room I am in right now (which is fairly big), is 5x4x3.5m in size. Make a cube that size, it doesnt look like anyone could fit in there, does it? So, with Avatar sizes, there's a bit of scaling required, to fit reality. All in all, I wouldnt trust the agent's height because the scale doesnt match up with the real world.

you've never heard of the Vulcan nerve pinch then, have you?

You've never heard of real life, have you?
Free hint - Star Trek isn't it.

The best approach is to simply leap at your attacker and pop both his eyeballs out with your thumbs, as quickly as you can. I mean really dig in and don't worry about getting blood everywhere. Works like a charm.

My neck is killing me.

You lose your wager. My FL avatar is 6'3". In SL, my avatar is not quite at the maximum settings, because it looked as close to my FL avatar's proportions as possible, but I never measured exactly.

In FL, runt males almost always have delusions of adequacy, Napoleon complexes, and claim to "know martial arts", but whenever these things are tested for real, they're weak little beta male yappy-dogs. You can try to hit or throw someone who weighs twice as much as you can lift, but they won't even notice you. Please be serious. If I thought you'd listen, I'd tell you to carry a gun for self-defense, not to rely on your fantasies.

In FL, there are enormous advantages to height, and some annoyances. Tall people can reach the top shelves (hell, at your shortness, you'd have a hard time reaching a middle shelf!) and change lightbulbs (see, light comes from electrically-stimulated wires in hollow bulbs WAAAAAY up there in the ceiling. You might not be able to see that far, but it's there) without a stepladder. Tall people can see over crowds of "normal" midgets. Tall people get more promotions and are treated with more respect than short people; it's almost comical when you look at groups of business executives, or watch a waiter leap to serve the tall person and ignore the nigh-invisible midgets. As long as the runts aren't better-armed, a tall person is in almost no danger walking around at night.

The down sides? Good clothes are slightly harder to find (until extreme height, they cost about the same). I recently annoyed/amused a short Macy's clerk by asking if they had "adult size socks, er, size 13+?". "No, sir, we only have childrens' sizes. Have you tried Rochester Big and Tall?"

Compact cars, of course, are almost impossible. My friends take pity on me and let me always ride shotgun if I must travel with them, and even then it's like Bob from The Incredibles in his little box car. Business-class air travel is uncomfortable at best; good thing there's first class, and I'm paid well enough to afford it. I'm not quite at the size where joints would be a major health problem, but for the very tallest, that's an issue. It's all pretty minor, though.

In SL, there's little or no difficulty, because every area has to be big enough for camera movement anyway, and clothes expand to fit. Because tall characters are scaled proportional to the world, they look better, but that's about it. There's no physical advantages. However, the psychological advantage is still there--you've just proven it with your mean-spirited little rant. You're so crippled by shortness of spirit that you can't even make yourself tall in a world where you can be an Olympian God if you wish. How tragic.