How Are They Getting In?

Yep, and if you lose the visitor counter you will never again be bothered by visitors to your land. At least when you are absent.

I never played with this before--it's pretty fun! So, find a parcel with access control, near somewhere you can rez stuff, and make a prim with a remote sit target, sit on it, and push yourself into the banned parcel in the Editor. While you're sliding the prim around, you can move all through the banned parcel but as soon as you release the mouse from sliding (and while you're still in the editor), the ban kicks in, you get booted from the parcel, and--the interesting part--the prim you were sitting on gets returned to your Lost & Found--even though it was never on the banned parcel, and even if the banned parcel has no auto-return, allows object entry, and even object creation.

If I really needed to get my avatar to appear inside a banned parcel, I'd try an animation with a built-in offset. (Not very far inside, though.)

None of which has anything to do with protecting the touch-triggered visitor counter--which won't be protected by ban lines nor security orbs, nor anything else, since the "intruders" are probably nowhere near the property anyway, and have just cammed in from a distance and clicked. (One does wonder what's so alluring about this touch-activated visitor counter; maybe it's the "Click for Free Weed" hovertext. )

Personally, I don't care about people walking through my land when I'm not there. It's one of those cases where I figure that what I don't know doesn't hurt me.

I keep object creation, object entry, and running scripts all turned off, and I disallow creating landmarks, so I figure there's not a lot of damage a stranger can do while I'm not there.

It does irk me though when I log in, and find that my doors are wide open and my television was left on.

I have a sign up that says please come and visit me, my home is your home, I'm desperate I need company someone to talk to for a couple of hours and if you can give me a tip so i can pay for my tier that would be appreciated too!

no one ever visits me

That's actually normal behaviour though. When you're dragging a prim around that's only client-side, for anyone else they only see the change *after* you let go.

So for anyone watching you'd just have been sitting outside of the parcel the entire time and the effect is nothing different than being able to cam around since you never really were on the parcel for anyone but yourself .

New sign for you to post:




[Resolved]

I once crashed my plane into some ban lines hard enough to end up inside the build, or actually in the basement. To this day I have no idea what happened. I found myself wandering around a dungeon filled with ... devices. Should have seen me hightail it out of there!

Do you know what would work? A prim that covers the entire square footage of your home. Just tall enough to make chairs and beds unusable and make rooms difficult to walk in. With all the megaprims available I'm sure one can be made for just about any size home. That's it. Just a simple non-physical non-phantom prim to make your house ugly and boring to be around. When the owner clicks on it.. poof.. it shrinks away until the owner leaves.

Except for the no one ever visiting...that's a brilliant idea!

Leave my home open and put very visible tip jars in every room!!! Would be an interesting experiment to see if anyone ever paid.

Yep. But I was still a little surprised that the prim on which I was sitting returned to my lost & found, when it was over my land the whole time. Because the banned parcel allowed object entry and didn't have auto-return, this must be inherent to how avatar access restrictions are enforced.

They may have fallen through the roof. Lately every other time I land from flying I fall right through the surface. Pretty much irrespective of which viewer is being used. This was a hell of a week to look for boats - I've been stuck under every other dock in SL...

Doesn't appear to be related to the server upgrades, but not sure when it started exactly. Seen other complaints about this.

I am like that, too. I don't know why some people are so rabidly protective of their things, especially at times they are not even online. Why not welcome everyone? Have a secure skybox love den, maybe, or just activate security when you are home. If you have created something nice I would think you'd let others see it.

QFT I'm very persnickity about closing my doors and windows, and to log on and find them all open just pisses me to pieces.

Yes, I replaced all the door scripts at my house in Bay City because every time I logged in they were wide open. Now they auto-close after 30 seconds so the bugs don't get in.

They can see it. Up to 512m away. They don't have to use it.

/me grins

An escalating chat begging tip jar is way better than a security orb for keeping people out of your house when you're not there.

/me grins

A typical script:

[start]
[queue begging sound effects and other noises]
Hi Benny, welcome to my home. Give me your lindens
Hey Benny, wheres them lindens
Benny! dont be a meanie, gimme ur lindens
BENNY!!! ...
BENNY !!! U CHEAPO GIMME LINDENS
[if nice]
ooo! thanks Benny for your 1000L
[else]
Only 1000L !!! Gee Benny can u afford it u cheapskate
[goto start]

Chat spam ??? Maybe not.

Only Benny needs to get the chat a.k.a. llInstantMessage(keyBenny, msgForBenny); and it stops when he leaves. Its his call to do so.