Replicating Objects: A Plausible Excuse?

no what happeend was i was playing around with making self replicating beach balls and someone was wearing a shield that launches items with physics enabled so when they came near my balls they all got launched i could only find them in a few sims but not all, i let the lindens know of them and thought i had em all but obviously i did not

I am trying to understand something that happened on my property yesterday, will someone please explain what you think really happened?

Last night I logged in to my home sim and immediately noticed a problem- I was virtually unable to move. Lag is quite uncommon in my sim so I checked the statistics bar and found that my sim was running at 3 FPS instead of the normal 45. I panned my camera over toward my store and noticed what appeared to be dozens of brightly-colored orbs inside. I don't sell brightly-colored orbs of any kind, so I immediately knew something was up.

After about 3 minutes of trodding through molasses, I got close enough that I could check the About Land menu for my property. Some player I'd never heard of, and whom I won't name here, had 1091 objects on my 1024sq/m plot! After inching still closer, I was able to check the properties of one of the objects. It was a physics-enabled beach ball, originally created by a Linden. I took a couple of screenshots showing the land and object properties, although I wasn't able to get close enough to really see the beach balls. (Alt-zoom wasn't working due to the lag.)

So, I return the objects, file an abuse report, and IM the player, asking why he left 1091 objects on my land. (Actually by that time it was up to 1098.) He was offline, but I got a response from him this morning via offline IMs, and this is what I don't understand:



The only beach balls I saw were on my land, not any of the surrounding property, some of which is Linden-owned. I haven't checked the neighboring plots' auto-return settings (and don't know if I can do that with other peoples' land). The great majority of the beach balls were well inside my store, although some were on the roof.

So my questions: Is there a precedent for this kind of thing (shield bounces objects across sims)? Should I believe this guy? What was he doing 'experimenting' with self-replicating balls in the first place?

P.S. I had auto-return disabled on my land because my first merchant had trouble getting her items to stay on the land. We now know you have to have the property group activated when rezzing in order to bypass auto-return. I have enabled auto-return on that land, and notified some (welcome) squatters on another of my parcels that they'll have to set their objects to group soon before I enable it there too.

I doubt if any of them wer emine but if they were I apologize. I had a stack of physics enabled beach balls sometime back and some asshat flying by shot me and them as I was readying a picture.

The only reason I can see for having self replicating objects in SL is to grief. I would have ARd the punk.

While beach balls are hardly the same thing, that is definately not true. I'm sure there are lots of legitimate uses for self replication I know the ALife project in Terminus I'm involved with is one of them.

The only reason I can see for having self replicating objects in SL is to grief. I would have ARd the punk.

If you want to script a new method by which my animals can breed, I'd love to outsource that work, believe me.

llRezStork

If you want to script a new method by which my animals can breed, I'd love to outsource that work, believe me.

For that manner ANY PERSON experimenting with replicating things need to have those replicating objects send their key to a central server anyways so that the server is capable of emailing back a self destruct command at any time.

I doubt if any of them wer emine but if they were I apologize. I had a stack of physics enabled beach balls sometime back and some asshat flying by shot me and them as I was readying a picture.

On a side note, I've been looking into self replication for a tribble follower - but I won't release it or test it in mass public until I have a script running that keeps them form replicating if more than 5 or so are already out under the same owner.

There is no good reason to have ANYTHING THAT SELF-REPLICATES in SL. NONE. Only a seriously stupid, unthinking jackass would even think such a thing was halfway cute, or useful, or even interesting.

Set your land to auto-return items after X mins (15 should be good if you have a store there).

Make sure anything you set is set to whatever group you use with your land. Land need not be group land for this to work.

I don't think any of that is accurate.

It won't matter what group you set the items too, auto return never returns the land owners objects regardless of what group they are set too. Anyone else would have to set them to the same group as the land is set too though.

Neither do I.

Of course, that may be because I am a seriously stupid, unthinking jackass, without even knowing it.

Yes, all of your children objects dont self duplicate. what the DO is contact a central server you hav set out that contains a copy of the creature inside.

That server when it recieves a channel message from one of your creatures will llGiveInventory the 'parent' cow its child. As long as you only hand out these children by specially formatted channel messages that means if a 'pet' wanders too far away it wont be able to activate the server.

AND IF YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE

And dont put any tricks into your server to get around sleep limitations it will only be able to perform SO fast so should not be capable of getting out of hand.

For that manner ANY PERSON experimenting with replicating things need to have those replicating objects send their key to a central server anyways so that the server is capable of emailing back a self destruct command at any time.

There is no good reason to have ANYTHING THAT SELF-REPLICATES in SL. NONE. Only a seriously stupid, unthinking jackass would even think such a thing was halfway cute, or useful, or even interesting.

I don't think any of that is accurate.

So my questions: Is there a precedent for this kind of thing (shield bounces objects across sims)? Should I believe this guy? What was he doing 'experimenting' with self-replicating balls in the first place?