And another world feature!

Just made this up! so cool!

ok, instead of a flat world that you have to travel along world boundries to get somewhere, have the entire world be a globe, that you can travel around. The open water can be a server or too that just tracks avatar movement, and nothing else. be a very neat feature. I would love to travel from cordova to krittania..


oh yea, and island owners can have the choice to make their sim *invisible in the water. So no one can fly there.

Excellent!


---oh yea, and island owners can have the choice to make their sim *invisible in the water. So no one can fly there.---

I thought that was possible - that you can buy an invisible island sim?

Merwan, they can be made invisible on the map, thereby rendering them unreachable by anyone not specifically allowed there.

What Alpha is suggesting is that they be able to be made invisible even when flying directly over them.. or to be able to go boating right through them.. as if they didn't exist at all.

not sure how this would be implemented.. hiding streaming server data from realt-time eyes?

it's like a website that has a page within it, but no way to get there unless you know the specific URL. you can't see it or get to it, but it's there. now, what Alpha is suggesting is that if you were to go 'flying' through the websites files, that said hidden page would still be hidden. you see?

so Alpha, cool idea, but it may be too complicated to be implemented.

of course, the idea of a round world is also somewhat difficult to implement. this would add extra physics for the servers to handle, as well as restricting the growth of SL. maybe. we can expand infinitely in our current state. a spherical world would eventually need to be expanded to accomodate the growing number of sims. thus reconfiguring the physics.
so, while it's a cool idea, and one that has been explored before, it's most likely too hindering to implement.

yay, people agree.

about the island thing, maybe if LL have some data server that shows what islands they are allowed to see. When the person gets near it, the server just refuses to give any information about that island. so hence, it is invisible.

physics, hmm... I dunno about that. Maybe lindens can have many boat and airplane rezzors and disallow building.

I was thinking about this just yesterday... thinking how cool it would be to boat from the mainland out to one of the islands.

Physics wouldn't enter into it at all. The edge of a sim can be thought of as a link on a website -- if I exit the east side of sim A, logic follows that I should enter the west side of sim B. It doesn't necessarily have to be that way, though. Given the requisite time, the Lindens could likely make the grid wrap around very easily. The question is, do you want that, or do you want bugfixes and features?

BUGFIXES!!!!
-- Do something about ghosting god dammit! It's been happening more often than ever before!
-- People are STILL getting stuck between sims and relogging... thankfully we have Offer Teleport so I dont need to cross borders very often these days...
-- Fix the 50 or so UI bugs Catherine reported... I havent, but I trust she must have them all covered

I would do bug fixes first, then extras next.. maybe a new 1.5 feature suggestion?

yea i agree with Alpha but after y not outerspace and other planets ppl can settle on explore and add a new sort of Role Playing as a bounty hunter in space or a cargo transport or a merc doesnt matter u can build space station which allow u to dock by ur self and walk to bars or places around other planets. i think my ideas good