Dots?

The purpose of green dots on the map is to indicate where a lot of people are. So those are the sims to avoid right? If I map someone and they're in a sim with twenty or thirty other avs, it doesn't take an engineering degree for me to understand that they're likely busy with all those people and struggling to maintain a reasonable framerate.

It would seem, at best, rude of me to pop in on them then and there. And it would be totally masoclagistic to throw myself into an already crowded sim. Yet I'm told that the purpose of green dots on the map is just that. Find the dots and teleport to them because that's where all the people are.

Why do we continually, intentionally, foolishly ignore the simple fact that Second Life operates on computer hardware. Why can we not, after all these years, wrap our brains around the fact that we must live differently in this world than we do the real one? Are we just that stubborn; or are we afraid of it for some reason?

I think some people don't see too much point in going to a virtual world, designed to allow people to interact with each other using avatars to represent themselves, and then trying to maximize the distance between their avatar and all the rest.

A system that had no 3D avatars or objects, just still pictures, would be much less strain on the computers involved. Perhaps this should be made into a feature proposal.

Apparently they do Suez. The plethora of security scripts and access restricted parcels has made traveling across the grid, any way other than teleporting, almost impossible. Now people are clamoring for even more privacy by having their dots removed from the map and their profiles shown offline. I'm even told that we have as many hidden private regions on The Grid All Hail The Central Grid as we do visible ones.

Maybe a few people don't see the point of logging into a shared virtual space then segregating themselves into a private area with, maybe, a few friends. But that doesn't seem to be the common wisdom. Maybe the socialization is what we fear so LL and Prokofy are serious when they say "Go to the dots...move toward the dots" social engineering at its finest!

Apparently we are suppose to interact but we cannot do so without bogging down our systems....

The system is flawed at the most basic level. Apparently so.

I get what you're saying too. There are times tho when I wont bother a person- such as the other night. A friend of mine was online. There were about 10-15 green dots on the map with them. So I turn on "Classifieds" & "Popular" to see if there's anything going on there. It came up as an escort service so I thought it best not to disturb them.

Ya'll can try to follow me on the map but I also TP around alot to see whats new and have the attention span of a goldfish... so good luck

To maintain their immersion?

I'm puzzled by this thread.

"after all these years"???? ROFLMAO!

I use the map so as to simply find where I'm going. The green dots are ony numbers to see how many is in a sim (though if LL removes them for privacy, I hope they still allow the mouse rolover on the map tell us how many are in that sim)

But I do believe in privacy. My house, while not using the redbars of love, or having a completely offensive security system, does have a security system. The reason being is that my home is my home. It is for personal enjoyment and fo rthat of my friends. There are many places over SL that are open to the public. LL land and private residents creating such both.

I do highly agree with Khamon, however. A majority of those scripts are plain stupid for security (Mainly the Linden:: Access Denied, red bars). Security can not go accross simlines so poping over one can get you slammed across sims ot TPed home with no warning. Others have those land plots sizing up to 1/4 the sim and give you 10 seconds to clear. Hardly fair. I give 30 over a 1024m plot. I feel that's fair for those who may lag and yet boot those who ish to stare. The power is also reduced to a light push, so they simply get "steered" around my property instead of hurled into outerspace.

But to un-highjack the OP's thread *grins*

People just don't know, or don't care, about how much stress groups put on the servers. If they lag from a full sim of 40 avies, they curse the lag and expect LL to fix it. (Been in that once with a skin-sale going on. Nothing called lag after that ever seemed so bad lol)

Newbies don't understand (face it, newbie information is VERY lacking), and long-time residents either know it and deal with it, or don't care in the slightest.

Education of the masses in this case, is a losing battle, imo. They already know.

The majority of us use it as it was intended. Trying to prevent sim bog-downs. The sheer number of persons in SL makes that minority stand out though. About the only thing I can think that will fix it is tech advances from LL. Not to put the burden on them, but trying to get people to voluntarily do what is best has never worked that I've seen.

May your day be lag-free,
~Jessy

Or the sim to go to since apparently something popular is going on.



If they're not at home and on publicly accessible land, they may be at a club (or just an improptu party) and would love to see you there too.



Not necessarily.



Sure. Lots of dots means something popular. And if it's open to the public, no reason not to go.



Given the amount of lag in SL (even in empty sims), I'm sure people are well aware that all this runs on computer hardware.

HP

Maybe there can be a "This person can track me" checkmark for each contact we have. If you don't want to be tracked by someone, then voila... they can't.

It seems that the tracking ability second life gives us is becomming more and more annoying these days. I mean, it's either:

"WTF? If you track me and see I'm in a sim alone... then ... HELLO!! I guess you should assume I want to be alone!"

or it's

"WTF? If I'm in a sim with 1 - 5 people, then I'm obviously with a closed elite groupe of friends and don't want to be molested."

or now it's

"WTF??? If I'm in a sim with more than 5 people, then you *should* understand that I'm suffering horridly low framerates and abstain yourself from TPing to my location."