prim count / sim capacity question

After reading another post, I have a question about prim use. I was under the impression that everyone can use the maximum number of prims their land will allow and everything will be fine in the sim. But sounds like I'm wrong about this. If everyone maxes out on their prims, the sim can't support the load?

The other post you're referring to actually dates pre 1.2, to a time when land ownership didn't = prim allowance.

This isn't true. I could easily create a single prim that brings a sim to its knees. Similarly, I could max out the prims on an entire sim, and create a lag-free environment. There are simply too many variables.

The prim-count being tied to land size is the best LL can do right now to allocate resources based on your willingness to pay for SL.

The most we, as landowners, can do is stay within our prim-limits, and build/script with minimizing sim-lag in mind.

- Ace

Ace - the demi-god

*curtsies*

- Ace

Hmm.. so then what the issue about "prim hogging" all about? Sounds to me like people are hoarding prims for some reason?

Don't think I've ever seen you in a dress...

Holy bologna...

Is lilone giving out pics once again?

- Ace

I'll give L$100 for pics of Ace in a dress!
(first responder only)




I've only seen you in pants Ace, at least so far!

That was from before 1.2...

Land wasn't tied to prims. It was first come, first serve. So some people would make huge prim-intensive things just to hold a bunch of prims, thus denying everyone else a chance to build.

It was a mess.

LF

ahh... got it. thanks.

I do recall one situation where I was buying lilone a hot lil' outfit that I wanted to see her wearing, and accidently ended up wearing the garb when I neglected to NOT check the "wear now" check-box.

If you have a pic, then more power to you...

- Ace

P.S. Ace in a dress... think about it folk... its a thought that is almost as scary as Saddam keeping his weapons of mass distruction.

I was only teasing you Ace because you said 'curtsie'.
I've never seen any pics of you in a dress.

This is why people shouldn't be bumping ancient threads.

Ace,

That said - can you tell me if there are certain types of prims that one would create that would do this? How can one best build to minimize sim lag? In other words, is it number of cuts, twisting, size?

(sorry if this has been answered somewhere else, I probably missed it).

Thanks,

Rose

The geometry of a prim won't affect lag... At least as far as I know. Its the same ~1400 bytes of object info that has to be sent from sim to client no matter what. But higher resolution textures on prims do consume more bandwidth.

When I said I could bring a sim to its knees with a single prim, it would be scripts, and not geometry that does the trick.

If you're concerned about lag, then there are a number of things you should consider when scripting. The wiki has a good discussion of these issues.

- Ace

Well, there's still a few "illegal" shapes floating around that could probably cause the physics simulator to go into conniptions...

As per the different prims causing different lag question... if you're talking server-side, then no. Client-side, though, using cubes instead of cylinders, tubes, etc. will decrease the amount of polygons in a given area, hence making a higher fps.

LF