A Look Back, A Look Ahead

Thank you

Absolutely something buggy in the 1.21 viewer. I experience very little in the way of what i would typically refer to as LAG, ie, difficulty moving my av, chat/IM lag, etc, however rez on login or tp is SLOOWWWWWW....way worse than previous release.

No worries Sindy. I'll send you a bear

There has been a lot of very good dialog between Zee, T, Jack Linden and the Resident community about the OpenSpace price adjustment. With that in mind, I feel I have a very good understanding of Residents' frustration. I -- we -- learned a lot from the experience.

No worries Sindy. I'll send you a bear

There has been a lot of very good dialog between Zee, T, Jack Linden and the Resident community about the OpenSpace price adjustment. With that in mind, I feel I have a very good understanding of Residents' frustration. I -- we -- learned a lot from the experience.

Related, I'd like to see LL lock Andrew, Babbage, Kelly and a few other big-brains in a room with a few crates of beer & hot pockets and tell them to stop working on bugs and do as many low-risk new features as they can crank out in in 2-4 weeks.

Compared to when I joined, 9/06, SL is 100 times better and more stable. Mono & H4 were great, wonderful!, things but I'd still like to see the platform grow more.

Daros and I had a wonderful time this year exploring art in Second Life, be it the installations at New Media Consortium Arts Lab, Eshi Otawara's One Hour Sim and her stunning collaboration with Dizzy Banjo: "Everything is a Tribute to Mozart". Also, AM Radio's builds, La Reve, Kowloon, Rivet Town...

(We've got 36 prims spare right now at home until we take down the Christmas decs. Is that enough to rez an M Linden bear? )

Lowering tier accross the board I think would help loads that way more will buy land ie make SL less expensive for the customer to use.

Popcorn time.

With the most recent login crisis, logins disabled, and the most recent Opensim mess with people closing their soon to be more expensive openspace regions, while making this blog announchment i am glad that i could save my most precious sls scripts to a txt file just a minutes ago.
And I seriously fear that sl dies right now.

You did great on the mainland so far, stricter advertising rules, general maintenance, megaprim developement, doubleprim parcels all really helpfull so there are more great places in sl.
There is great potential in sl, just none in advertising.

Since self-promotion is probably more palatable than complaints -- I will take this opportunity to promote the place I hardly ever leave, the place where I spend upwards of 12 hours a day, making almost everything you will see there, my TOP PICK (so even on topic for this thread): namely, my own estate, WUNDERBAR!!! People are always welcome to visit us. Come see us some time, M. We would love to have you!!!!!

It'll rez a couple!!

This was meant as a Forum thread for people to share all they love about Second Life. I will definitely be visiting WUNDERBAR. Cheers!

M,

Seeing you reply in the forums makes me pretty happy. What are the odds it could be a more common occurrence?

Secondlife to me is a game that I play in my pass time. But in all reality Secondlife is more then just that. It is a place that I log into. A place that I go to, to enjoy the everyday pleasures of what it has to offer. Might some ask what exactly those pleasures could possibly be in... a game of all places? Those pleasures span far out, in an almost never ending list. For in Secondlife I can do almost anything. I can do things, be things, and create things. That I would never beable to do, be, or see. In Secondlife I can wander around to my hearts content at the mere click of a few keys. I can build to my hearts content, creating things that never before could have been imagined but in my own mind. Best of all I can interact. I can meet other like minded people and share these experiences. Share them to the point that they become memories. This is not just a game, it is more then just a game.

The darkness then begins to creep upon these wonderful feelings, these thoughts that I only semm to love to build upon. It seeps down into the sick depths of my mind and only brings me to realize. Secondlife is only getting slower, bigger and even more complicated.

Slower, as in it lags more then it once had, as in it takes more juice to handle the game itself. Years back a slow pentium 4 was all it took to enjoy the game to its fullest it seemed. But now it takes a quad core just to try and run it to what would make it seem like a normal game.

Bigger as the sims are begining to expand and there is begining to become more people in world.

And Complicated, even in its own use. Things are not as simpe as they once were, not to a big scale, but big enough to where things are different then they were. Where it becomes harder and seemingly different for those of us who logged in for the first time to a simple little tutorial island. That has now expanded into a, time spending hell.

These things though can be dealt with in their own long strides; they can be handled in ways so that the mind can still be pleased, as long as the internet provides. There are still though, more thoughts that linger. They bring out to the light what can only be wished was not true. Through time though you can see that things do not always prevail as the users had always wanted it to. That is why, it is thought that one day, what if we, the people. Had to start paying for such a wonderful rarity called Secondlife? What hurts even more, is another thought that cannot seem to pass my mind is, that all things never last forever.

Secondlife is but a game... Does that mean that all of the creativity and time that has been spent in it, be it big or small, will just be wasted when the game comes to its long and drawn out end? Or will such known Secondlife be an ongoing world, something that in all reality, is yet, truly another reality in it self that will last. To where the users of our generation one day will beable to log back in to that then ancient account we made so many years back and take joy and rememberance into what we had once done...

Hey M any chance I can get a bear too since you seem to be giving them out to everyone?

Not talking about the usability you have posted on the blogs M...
I don't need relations rezzing for 1/2 hour since 1.21... that is my point !
Analyze 1.21... It performs bad on texture rendering !
Even on the most modern computers !
Get that ? Nope no further advice needed, tried everyting... hope you guys fix that

LOL sure Gordon! When I log-in later I will add you to the list. Happy Holidays!

Indeed you'll see me in the Forums more. It helps to post at night after work because then I don't have work interruptions and can actually post replies which is great. Thanks for the encouragement!

Lol, direct contact with M, WOW... okay... very impressive LOL. Me? Linda? hahah.
No really... you're ass must be cute... would love to dance with you some day LOL LOL.
First repair 1.21... texture rendering... I would just... just will rethink SL... maybe...
Then you would have a cute date.. *chuckels*

Signing off now. I will check back in tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for your posts folks. G'nite.

Hi M!

Some of the great places I've seen this year in SL are (to name only a few):

The Inspire Space Park
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shinda/34/216/1560

The Tunnel of Light
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tunnel%20of%20Light/80/163/25

And Miriel Enfield's beautiful new sim. Her Golden Cage game/hunt is well done, clever, and fantastically difficult.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Miriel/140/64/34

I also very much enjoyed watching the emergence of the new Nautilus City, and took up SL scuba diving and horseback riding to better enjoy the work of the LDPW and residents taking part in the project.

I've been amazed at the work of talented artists, builders, scripters, and sculpt creators who make SL a more inspiring place to be everyday. Also, by all the the great people I've met, who I never would have with without SL.

SL even crossed over into my RL this year when I received as a RL Christmas gift a print by an artist I found on the Axis Mundi sim.

In addition to all that, I find it incredibly rewarding that I get to contribute to the SL world both through a small amount of content creation, and the use of half of my island as a public space (which people actually visit!).

Thanks to everyone that made all of that possible this year, and best wishes, to all of you, for the next!

Ahem. Do we just need to agree that it's the rule that everyone posting in this thread gets a bear from M?

Back on topic: What have you most enjoyed, been inspired by and admired in and around Second Life since you became a Resident?

Me? I'm amazed every day. I see Residents doing such cool and inspiring and silly things....I've been enjoying the evolution of the Snow Globe and various Antlers as holiday gifts

I think that would dilute the market too much, Katt. Maybe just one for the first person who asked would preserve the value more.

Shucks, I knew there'd be a good reason why that wouldn't work out ! LOL.

So what have you most enjoyed, been inspired by and admired in and around Second Life??

Having put a lot of time and effort into SL, I find myself thinking a few thoughts about Linden Labs and what directions Second Life is heading in at this point.

My first concern is this: In the world of technology, the standard pattern for price and performance is that over time you pay less and less for more and more performance. A computer purchased today is going to cost less than one purchased three years ago, while being much more powerful, having a faster processor, more memory, a faster and better video card, more hard drive capacity etc.

Yet, in the world of Second Life the tier fees for private regions (islands) purchased today are still more expensive than they were two years ago. Two years ago the tier for an island was $195 a month, then at the end of 2006 that got increased to $295 a month. Two years later the monthly tier for a private island is still $295 a month. That seems to be rather contrary to the prevailing trend seen in the world of technology.

My second concern: Is the current model of charging people for virtual land really the best way to go, or would another model based upon how much resource usage is actually consumed per customer be a better model to use? The concept of "Cloud Computing" is catching on, services such as the "Amazon Elastic Block Store" for data storage and "Amazon Machine Images" make it possible for companies and individuals to purchase computer time and storage as needed. Perhaps it is time for Linden Labs to take a second look at their current income stream, and consider whether or not it is the best way to go for future development and growth.

Which brings me to my third concern: The complaints that I constantly hear regarding the lack of customer support in Second Life. As someone who owns several private islands in Second Life, and who has provided residential and commercial rental space to hundreds of people for nearly three years now, one of my primary functions and greatest joys is to be a sort of "first line of support" for my tenants. I not only help people with issues directly related to my properties, I also give a lot of advice and support for many people regarding Second Life as a whole. I'm often the first and best line of customer support that my tenants have, more than just a landlord but also a mentor and trainer. I do this gladly, because it helps to build good relationships with my tenants, and as a result I have very low turnover on my islands due to the high level of service and support I provide.

That having been said, in my opinion Linden Labs should move away from the centrally controlled model currently being pursued where you try to collect as much as possible from every paying resident, and instead move towards something more like a franchise based model of business. This system would be based upon qualified individuals and companies being able to transact business at a lower rate (i.e. land fees, uploads, etc) who would then provide services and support to individuals. This would allow Linden Labs to focus on doing what they do best, and allow others to develop businesses based upon providing services and support.

Regards,
Elliott Eldrich.

P.S. May I please also get a M. Linden bear?

Hello M,

In my 2 years I have found many truly stunning and amazing places to visit. I'll name just a few that come from a notecard I keep to pass on to others of places I recommend they make time to visit:

Buddhist Shrine of Varosha - A tranquil, beautiful environment created by SL sculptor, Levey Palou. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Crazy%20Devil/137/37/24

Numbakulla - A mysterious quest game taking place amongst fascinating and imaginative builds. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Numbakulla/215/18/22

The Crescent Moon Museum - SL's oldest museum. Exhibits change regularly and feature some of SL's finest artists in various mediums. http://slurl.com/secondlife/FairChang%20Village/191/138/22

The Almalexia - An incredibly well crafted pirate ship (Galleon) that is quite impressive to look at (and explore!). Many an SLer has been seen there dressed in garb and re-enacting jousts and plank-walks. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lux%20Prometheus/235/213/40

Most if not all of the Rezzable sims.


~ Desi