Has Teleporting killed the SL community?

Ageism. (equivalent to sexism, racism, etc .. prejudice)


Narrow-mindedness is sure as hell not restricted to one age group, and here on SL you are absolutely surrounded by ppl you would apparently tag as "old" if you met us FL.

I think you're missing the point. If I can't see it I'm not likely to be curious about it. I can easily open my map and teleport somewhere, but I don't explore that way because there's little to make me curious enough to do so.

With a connected mainland I can see "over there", and if it looks interesting I'll go there. And once there, "over there" is something else.

What islands do is take the best of "over there" and put it out of sight. And even if I do manage to find it, there's not another "over there" once I arrive. An island is a dead end.

What llTeleportAgent would do is to put places that are currently "out of sight" into sight, using various kinds of portals. By narratizing the process of teleportation as the normal progression through a door, arch, or other portal, builders could bring disparate locations together in a non-euclidean mindspace.

This may already be in existence somewhere....but would be cool to see a rolling display of screenshots, similar to the ones on log in screen....about 100 lined up....then click on the one that captures your attention for instant tp....maybe in a HUD that you could pull up any time. Have been using blogs for that....but it would be easier to have it in front of you, inworld. Yes, some of us like instant and convenient.

How is that any different than links on a page, or an image to click on for a landmark or map request? Being one fewer mouse clicks away doesn't make the destination any more "into sight". This isn't a scripting problem. I think you're still missing the point.

Having to click on a map or press a teleport button isn't a hardship. In fact, it's still easier than flying there. The method of transport is not at issue.

What's missing from your island, whether you provide an easy way to get off it or not, is the opportunity for random discovery of things you *didn't* plan.

I'm talking about being *zero* mouse clicks away. Walk through the door, you're there. The difference in the narrative flow of the environment between zero and one is much greater than the difference between one and any number greater than one.

There's nothing in SL that someone doesn't plan and didn't deliberately put there.

Doesn't change a thing. I still can't see the destination. There's nothing in your portals to make me curious about what's on the other side, short of what you put there for me to see. I don't care how they operate.



But the majority of things in SL were put there by someone other than *you*. It's those other things I'm talking about. When I visit *your* island all those other things are missing.

The majority of things on the island I'm an estate manager for were put there by someone other than me, too. And if llTeleportAgent() existed then the same would be true of the portals and the representation of what's on the other side.

This is not to say I don't prefer mainland myself, but I do believe that non-euclidean construction using "lightweight" portals (as opposed to the clumsy mess of llMapDestination()) would significantly improve the situation. People *do* explore stargate ring systems even as clumsy as they are.

Yeah teleport thorough portals would be great, even better if they could take out the delay they put in to slow all the bots hammering the crap out of the TP system jumping from sim to sim as fast as possible 24/7.