Leader Board Bug

There seems to be a big bug in the leader boards and I'm fairly sure I know what causes it.

Today with the benefit of 1.1 and being the anal person that I am I decided to edit lots of my land to 'join' smaller pieces together into bigger ones to be nice, neat, and easier to modify that way. To do this it meant release/claim/release/claim/release/claim of medium sized pieces over and over. But I noticed that at 1:10AM (when the leader board reset) my stats went (insanely) through the roof!

It now shows me as owning about 2-3x the amount of land I really do own, and having gone up almost $400,000 in networth (in my dreams!).

What I suspect is the culprit is that 'claiming' land adds to your owned land/networth in the leader boards, but 'releasing' land doesn't subtract from it. So release/claiming the same plots over and over to do the joins I was doing had a dramatic impact on my stats.

Please fix this Lindens!

I hope this is not the case!! Last night I did the same thing--even went up to my playground in Rose and shifted the thing around so that I could use the optimum amount of land necessary to keep the playground intact (which, because of my pickiness as well, involved a LOT of claiming/unclaiming/reclaiming, etc.) I have not logged in yet... but now I dread it!

Another reason may be the linking. If we assume there is just some number somewhere that represents land Rathe owns then this is how it should work.

Claim land add to the number
Release land subtract from the number
Claim land and merge it - add the amount for just the new part to the number.

What if merging the land is adding the sum of all the linked land to the number? Every time you merge land your 'total' will increase by the existing land the new piece will link to.

woo hoo I'm RICH! I'm a RICH MISER!!!! (where is that line from?)

My net worth went up as so did everyone else's on the board, it seems, and I did not do any land releasing. I only rezzed a few objects.

Could this possibly be manifestation of the highly anticipated DWELL rewards?
Holy Cow Batman!

Naw, hope not, talk about your inflation. I want to believe it's a bug...


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Do you mean Heat Miser?
Is that one of those clay animated holiday specials where they have to save xmas?

I don't think inflation is a concern simply because while it SAYS my networth went up, it didn't actually go up, i.e. I didn't gain $400,000 in cash or land. Though I wouldn't mind having another $400,000 But basically it's just a bug with the leader boards and doesn't actually seem to affect any real world (second life) economics, I hope..

We figured out what this is and should have a fix soon. Alot of the stuff you own is being counted multiple times by the leaderboard code. It won't affect any of the actual economics though.

Fen-

The quote, as I remember it is "I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm independantly wealthy, I'm socially secure. I'm a happy miser!" Daffy Duck's character speaking in "Ali Baba Bunny!"

OMG COLIN

You're good!



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