No Entry for You!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Part II)

In my home sim, someone just put a whole bunch of land up for sale. There is nothing currently on the land. But they had the red ban lines on!!! It's for sale! How can you walk around and look at the plot if you can't get on it? Duh.

That drives me nuts, I have a 32m parcel that I surround on two sides. It's for sale for 3000L and has ban lines up, blocking access to everyone. Since my "L" shaped land surrounds it on two sides I often fly right through that path and smack into the lines. I've come close to buying it just to make it go away, 3000L isn't much but then the jerk who is selling it wins. I've AR'd it as well, hoping it would fall into the inflated prices/eyesores policy LL initiated. Nope...it's been there for months.

Shortly after the action was announced, a number of AdFarms switched from ugly to prims to ban lines in an effort to get around the letter of the law.
I know of plots where the ban lines disappeared after complaints.

I would definitely get a number of people to AR that 32m plot. It is not unreasonable to consider ban lines as "content" in these circumstances.

Yeah! But did it not annoy you just a bit that people could cam round it, or fly round the borders, or fly really high and look down on it?

Seriously now!
You know how people can shove a tiny camera on the end of fibre-optic cable right through the keyholes and up into your most private areas!!
Bastards!!!
I think you can get gadgets that block the keyholes.

You should also consider jamming stoppers in to all the sink, shower and bath outlets.
-- and lock the toilet seats down

Is there a compelling reason why ban line visibility cannot be toggled on and off as a viewer feature?

In my home sim, someone just put a whole bunch of land up for sale. There is nothing currently on the land. But they had the red ban lines on!!! It's for sale! How can you walk around and look at the plot if you can't get on it? Duh.

With Havok 4, can't we build above 768 meters now? Isn't it 1024 meters?
Can someone please clarify? Inquiring minds want to know.

Is there a compelling reason why ban line visibility cannot be toggled on and off as a viewer feature?

. I usually don't see ban lines until it's too late and I and/or my vehicle are already bouncing off of them. Every once in awhile I catch a glimpse of one before I hit it....but thats rare.

Sounds like they need to be made more visible.

I didn't mean it like that....but since you mention it, in some cases, yeah I would prefer it...like flying. In other cases when down on the ground not so much. Theres really no happy medium for it I guess so I'm just babbling now.

The happy medium for me would start with a ban line draw distance setting. Putzing around at home? Set to 0. Flying? Set to max.

--Hugsy

Someone posted in another thread about having a 10 metre wide barren strip inside the boundaries of their (large) parcel.
If the new RC range becomes official, she'll have to lose an additional 6 metre wide strip.

That would be me .

I still don't see them in the RC, they still don't bother me and I still couldn't care less whether they're there or not.

When I had a new neighbour at my other rental two weeks back, I *gasp* IM'ed him to let him know I'd added him to the access list and to just let me know if he had a partner/friends that needed adding and he added me in return.

I was having a terrible problem with flashing ban lines and being able to see them from the middle my 4096 plot. That was ridiculous. I happened to mention it while a very nice Mentor was helping me with another problem at my land, and he dropped me a notecard with instructions how to get rid of banlines.

If anyone wants them, (duh!) IM me inworld and I'll be happy to forward them to you. He has told me it's ok for me to pass it around.

Might take me a few days to get them to you, but don't dispair. I'm not going to be inworld until Thursday most likely but I won't forget once I'm there

Works like a charm. I see NOTHING anymore. Of course, your friends will still see them I'm sure (it is a rewrite in your computer of a line of code) but hey, you're the one who lives there and has to deal with it on a daily basis. Just tell them to use it on their computers and problem solved for all.

Great! Problem solved, people!
Does this mean we can have an end to these whiney threads please?

Oh yessss!
Don't ya just hate these threads where people whine about other people who draw attention to the brain-damaged implementation of access restrictions?

What Elora has is almost certainly a set of instructions to replace the standard ban line textures on the hard disk with transparent textures.
This will become a solution to the visual aspects if LL do that replacement as standard.

There are other issues with the current default access restriction regime. Until LL do some intelligent redesign, we'll just have to put up with people whining about people who draw attention to those issues.

It's a non-issue. If you're concerned about eyesores, start with the 30ft pink dildo castles. Ban lines are the least of the problems.

It's a non-issue. If you're concerned about eyesores, start with the 30ft pink dildo castles. Ban lines are the least of the problems.

Except the ratio of people complaining of dildo castles to ban lines is pretty low.

The ratio of people complaining about ban lines because they actually live next to them is pretty low too and when they do bring it up they usually just want a way to cope with the visual aspect rather than demand their removal.

It's the "explorers" and vehicle users that insist on being able to go where they're not wanted that make most of the noise and want them gone.

Anyone in my sim with ban lines up gets individually banned from my parcels. If I haveta look at them, so do they.

One of them messaged me to ask why they were banned (my parcel is between theirs and the road) and I explained it. Magically their banlines came down.

Sadly, a lot of these bantards have ban-everyone set....


....and a skybox 300m above where the banlines stop.

Okay, I have a question then, as I have been on both sides of this as I'm sure many have.

The other day a close friend of mine who lives across a narrow channel from me IM'd me and told me to check my property after I was out of state for two weeks and didn't log in because some dufus and his gf had built two skyboxes above our properties and left objects all over the freaking place. There are a total of three of us in that area and they had objects spanning all of our properties.

I didn't receive as much as one IM from either of these two dimwits even to say hello. Last night I flew up to their little shacks and looked around. There were weird azz objects all over the place. I came back down, did a property check, and found nearly 300 objects of theirs taking up prims on my land, and this despite my having building set to group only. I returned their crap, dismantled their huts, and pulled public access, changing it instead to my rather extensive friends list. I only have one person banned, and that's this weirdo that kept on threatening me when I wouldn't send him RL naked pics of myself.

Am I a "bantard"? We AR'd the two mentioned avies. They still have not graced me with a greeting even after I asked them directly why they did this.