Decision on Open Life

Well myself and a couple of friends have been to OL and found it to be hard to log in and when in after about 10mins most times freeze up. TP'ing can be difficult too. Not much in there I wonder if SL is about 5 years ahead, or OL 5 years behind, better put that way.
They use a viewer that is compatable with SL, infact using the OL Grid viewer with SL now as the fault SL viewer has with the 3Dconnexion Space Navigator not present on the OL viewer. ( Fly Cam indecator works on OL viewer.)

The reason my 2 friends went in was to get thier SL names set up in OL before some one gets them. So if in the future SL was to fold we got an immediate alternative.
Anyway we not leaving SL for now, so see you around maybe in SL.
We no longer in SL have log in problems and crashing problems Linden appear to be now on top of these. Only place we have problems is Wild Coast Nudist Resort with jerky avatar movements, rather strange just one place so we put that down to the way it is running there. They tell us its our computers but we got good ones and they OK in other SL places.
Love
June

Jerky avatars at the nudist resort ... hmmm ... are the avatars jerking off or jerking around? Is the presence of unclad female avatars influencing the jerkiness in any way?

Hey, I'm doing a serious thread here, not on about sexual things.
June

I have to agree not everything runs smoothly yet, they are still bulking up the infrastructure to handle the vast greater and unexpected load. Honestly this is vastly improved since the peek of the rush. I rarely have login issue any more and am getting stuck less frequently. There is not much there unless you are willing to make it yourself, this is true, but many have found this to be the charm of OL. Many who had not considered learning to build, script, make textures in SL because it was already there ready made for them find themselves doing so and enjoying it greatly. As for the viewer, that is about to depart the SL development in R16 due sometime the next week, due to differences in physics, R16 WILL NOT support Second Life. The viewer developer stated quite clearly that she want physics to work in OL and have to have the developers having to do a hack job like LL did to make it work.

Not saying it's a bad decision to stay with SL in part or full for now, it is ahead in my opinion just not big enough to smoothly cope with what has been asked of it in the past week, and will get there in time, maybe sooner rather than later.

For all its current problem, OL is still a beta, still a frontier, and a challenge. Frontier living was not for everyone in the western expansion of North America, and I can see the same being true for virtual living as well. So each to there own, but I would not just toss OL aside lightly.

I will stay in both places, I like the feel of OL, it brings back memories of SL in its old days.

"As for the viewer, that is about to depart the SL development in R16 due sometime the next week, due to differences in physics, R16 WILL NOT support Second Life."

What viewer? Who's the developer?

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I also dipped a toe in the water, I have an account and name, but have not managed to do much. I was confused when I hit search, as it pulled up SL locations, which of course are not accessible ...

The bit I found interesting was upon returning to SL, it seemed like luxury, reinforcing the frontier nature of OL.

Why leave one place to go for a clone?

I have been gaming for a long time and seen progression from MUDs to Ultima to Everquest to WoW. With each big name there are always knock-offs and hacks that are either similar or direct clones. Each will have a very devoted following of dissaffected players from the original but none ever come anywhere close to the numbers of the original.

In my opinion, just giving the user the same functionality as SL is only the first step for any serious competition. As long as they are trying to make a clone there will never be any big advancement of the genere. The designers are limiting themselves to the same pitfalls and obsticals as the original and will be left reinvinting the wheel for each problem but any truely innovative approach will break the ability to use an existing (and ever changing) client. Such is the development cycle of a scavanged product.

I created my account an reserved my avvie an all -- but no Mac viewer.

The OpenLife viewer and the developers name is KirstenLee. Another thing I love about OL is you get to talk to the people directly involved with the code on a level field and they are not afraid to talk techy, or to share there vision and direction, and be real honest about the hurtles and pitfalls they are dealing with. It's not all white washed publicity.

I made an account about 2 months ago under my name here for the reasons given above.I logged in picked up a freebie clothing pack and basically could not do any thing else, lagged out.I tried it again when these threads cropped up last week.I forgot my password ,simple to fix in SL.It has taken me 1 week to try to sort it and still no go .The web site is awful,nothing works,support is almost nonexistent.After trying to find support and filling in 4 separate password changes still no joy.
This does not fill me with confidence but I will keep on trying.

Made an account there last year maybe? if not that long ago at least many months-same reason- to preserve my name - nope- too frontier for me- but see the Undying Thread- made a new account in some other clone called Legend City- just 'cause.. but - no- not leaving my SL.

I do belong to OL, with the same name and appearance as SL but I'm just a visitor there. I have made myself an unofficial sky hangout above neglected land, that's all.

If SL ever folded, it would be a cyber-tragedy, and OL is a sort of insurance, although I'd guess it's probably a bit more likely to fold than SL.