Philip gives us some news on Login problems

Ideally I guess long-term storage would be my hard drive but I really get the sense that's not going to happen. There have been a number of problems in SL related to unlimited resource usage. Maybe the combination of a reasonable quota and the ability to pay for extra inventory storage would be a long-term solution.

EDIT - Oh duh, I just saw Pathfinder's thread and it looks like I just repeated what he said but I swear I hadn't read it, I'm just either psychic or his alt

Heh! Before I read your post, I started a thread about that very idea:

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Thanks for the constructive idea.

I think it's a classic case of convergent evolution.

LOL. Thanks PF

I for one have spent over 10 hours trying to log into SL this past weekend. I, like many others pay more than the basic $9.95 base rate and am very frustrated I'm paying for services that are not being delivered.

In the 1st life when this happens we are often compensated with either a discount or a perk. It would be commendable of Linden Labs would consider doing the same. In either form of a L$ consolation or a discount on our billing to compensate the amount of time wasted trying to log in.

On another note, I have referred this game to many new people this past week, only to have them complain that they don’t see the point in signing up for a game they cannot access. Linden is loosing many new customers do to this problem they should have seen this situation coming a long time ago.

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Couldnt this be fixed by hardcoding in a limit to the timeframe a script can query the email server?

Its kind of ironic that SL's lack of proper outworld and inworld communication has come back to bite them in the butt.

Hey, the warehouse concept from my story might become a reality. Who knew!

Considering that LL just put a bunch of new ads on Boing Boing, I don't think they'll be stopping new accounts anytime soon.

Please note what Philip said. He said JUST ASKING EVERYONE TO DELETE...ISN'T A SUFFICIENT SOLUTION.

That means he's not asking you to delete, and he's trying to redesign to adapt.

I happened to finally delete my trash a few weeks ago because I finally couldn't take it anymore and I've just been in general spring-cleaning mode for some time. I think others are too.

Everyone would like to do their part and be helpful. But we need to determine if it really is being asked, and whether it really helps.

For example, what effect on the server will it have for 20,000 now suddenly to fill up all their trashes, and then empty all their trashes?

Is that going to be like that proverbial high school joke where you flush all the toilets at once and the school blows up? I just have to ask.

I'd also like to understand what, besides GOM, is a typical product that talks outside the server that we could reasonably reduce our usage of.

hehe that was great, but we shouldnt be awarded to clean up trash... UO was a little different, I am sure we all have notecards, textures, no named objects in our inventories that is nothing but trash and dont even need...

Funny all this was discussed about 6 months after beta ..OMG Imagine beta users having the right Idea.

Sorry Im little peeved here but, the fact remains nothing was done to curtail this when trying to predict the scalability of SL.

Not fussing at you Pathfinder its just this has all been discussed before multitudes of times. Each time a solution was offered it was either ignored or not expressly discussed enough to curtail the current environment that we currently face of not being able to log in.

In 2 + years I have never had this problem and to be honest of 800+ days of logging into SL I can honestly say that I have only been abscent about 25 of them total.

For me this is a major aggrivation, as not only I but the friends I have always have worked ardently towards making scripts that work within the parameters of LSL to curtail excessive Lag and over use of system resources.

I find it very amusing as well to find that what has been said by "Oldbies""FIC" or "Beta Testers" has been ignored yet others tout that those that fall into those names have Linden Labs Ears. This is yet another point that what things may "appear" to be is not always true.

I hope it gets fixed soon and yes I am quite peeved at the moment but I can still maintain my civility even through clinched teeth of sarcasm.

Shadow

Last time a similar thing happened (maybe around fall??) Linden Labs compensated each (dunno if basic or just premium) player's account with L$ 1000, if I'm correct. It would be the least they could do after they fixed the current issues (though I don't care for the exacty amount of money, but just show something as a symbol).

Just as a clarification Kelly are you saying..

A if you send email out ..its not so much of a burden...

B. if you send email out an back in at a rate of every 10 seconds to an exterior server...very bad burden...

If this is true then why not suspend incomming email functions such as IM Communications offline. Server to server data transfers of sales from a web based sales system.

Currently people are using these systems to "promote" exterior sites as a base to shop at which in turn stops acutual traffic within SL because people don't have to go anywhere to do anything.

Oh well Im must ranting I guess but like I mentioned previously a lot of this has been discussed before and as the saying goes..proof is in the pudding.

Ciest La Vie.

Shadow

The reasoning behind the reward was that the dev's did not forsee a db problem and therefore did not put limits on housing item limits. They rewarded us as an incentive for taking the time and cleaning up ourselves and as a "We are sorry, Thank you" for doing so also.

It was extremely nice of them to do so... this was before EA bought them if I remember correctly.

Gee, testing email on preview .. Now there's an idea!

I saw mention of inventories being a problem somewhere a couple weeks ago so I started cleaning out my inventory as did a couple friends of mine, It was fun actually. Found stuff we had bought and never unpacked cause it had been lost in the shuffle. Then I sent stuff I wanted to keep and don't use to my alt who I had started near the first to be a third for the company I was creating. She just sits there having cost me 9.99 but now she has a use. I also sent backups of all the clothing for the stores I just started and copies of the important textures.

Closest I could come to a backup as we can't back up some of that stuff to our own systems. I will do more IF I can get back in.

Oh also bought portfolio system and organized household items, ritual items etc into one spot, and in clothing, I sorted alphebetically by designer..I was always double buying cause I couldn't remember if I had already bought it. Now Torrid, Shadowweaver, Vindi, Asri etc etc all each have their own folder which is stored in folders "Designer a-e" etc. Works for me. All those who I only have 1 or 2 of are in one called "The Rest" (not very imaginative, I know).

Probably just bored everyone to death but trying to work off excess energy before I try and get in game... don't wanna burst a vein if I can't.