How in the world am I gonna use my car if...
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Marker Dinova
I eat yellow paperclips.
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 608
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11-21-2004 06:44
... the roads in SL are mostly all over no-rez zones? Who's brilliant idea was that? Or is it that I'm missing out on something?
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Ardith Mifflin
Mecha Fiend
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,416
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11-21-2004 07:48
The roads are no-rez so that people don't clutter them with crap. This is why the rezzing areas exist. Most sims have a spot adjacent to the roadside at which you can rez your vehicles.
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Latonia Lambert
Registered User
Join date: 24 Jul 2004
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11-21-2004 08:25
I agree with Marker. I can't even rez Arthur, my dog, to take him for a walk. Feel the same way about rivers and water generally in SL. What's the point of having all this when you can't rez a boat anywhere near it.
As for cluttering it all up, surely it can be set to return items after a reasonable period of time?
Latonia
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Princess Medici
sad panda
Join date: 1 Mar 2004
Posts: 416
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11-21-2004 08:55
I've always thought making the roadways and waterways no build was a bit silly. All it would take would be to have build on and auto-return set to about 5 or 10 minutes...plenty of time to rez a vehicle and be on your way. I'm guessing it's a lost cause now though....so much Linden land, it would take a long time to fix the land permissions on all of it. Probably more time than it's worth to LL.
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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11-21-2004 11:25
A problem here, is the ever-present threat of SIM CROSSINGS. If you get tossed out after a sim crossing and your vehicle vanishes -- you often will find that you can't rez a new vehicle at that spot. You'll either have to backtrack or skip ahead manually, which is very frustrating.
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Marker Dinova
I eat yellow paperclips.
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 608
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11-21-2004 13:21
All of which brings me to the original question! What are all those streets doing if you can't use them? They look so elaborate, yet I just can't run up to one and rez my vehicle.
I tried the rezzing at teleports. But then, usually after crossing a sim border, my vehicle goes useless. So I derezz and... er.. can't rez anymore... so I've gotta walk.. or rez outside of the streat and edit-move into the road again. Just to find myself having to do that again.. and again.. and again.
No sense found whatsoever.
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The difference between you and me = me - you. The difference between me and you = you - me. add them up and we have 2The 2difference 2between 2me 2and 2you = 0 2(The difference between me and you) = 0 The difference between me and you = 0/2 The difference between me and you = 0 I never thought we were so similar
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Latonia Lambert
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Join date: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 425
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11-21-2004 13:46
The only things I occasionally use them for is roller skating and cycling, neither requiring me to rez anything on the road. I don't understand why this can't be changed. If you can't rez anything, seems to me to be a complete waste of space.
Latonia
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Milo Bukowski
Lag-induced oversteer
Join date: 23 Dec 2003
Posts: 305
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11-21-2004 15:29
I'd love auto-return, but after 1 minute. Enough time to hop in your car, but not enough for someone to block the road.
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Scott Statosky
Registered User
Join date: 26 May 2004
Posts: 4
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11-21-2004 16:17
I find all second life vehicles so laggy as to be uncontrollable and unusable. Doesn't really matter where you res it. Maybee its just my high Australian ping.
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