Two Questions

After much searching in and out of Second Life, I'm breaking down and asking.

1) Is there a compiled list of items that cause heavy lag on sims?
2) Is there a compiled list of weapons?

Thank you for your time,
Threshin

Heya Threshin.

1) Not a complete one, because of how Second Life, being a world of Resident-run creation, really leaves a lot in control to *you*. For example, you can turn any regular primitive (basic building block) into a physical object. If you have a bunch of those and drop them into each other, the resulting collisions will cause lag on the server. Especially if they're more complex geometries like tori. There are, good pointers, however, from the following and more:

Lee Linden writes about Lag
Nexus Nash also started up a great infothread

so it's not so much a "list of items" as a "list of probable causes" in a way.

2) I've actually been looking for Resis with encyclopedic knowledge of weapons. Maybe someone could start a Second Life weapons blog, kinda like the great fashion blogs I've been seeing out there lately. I don't have a list but you could go to shopping sites such as http://www.slexchange.com and http://www.slboutique.com and then do a search by category to see what they have. Let me know what else you find out in your travels.