Cross Sim Teleporter

He hit it on the nose, this is nothing new *yawns*
Just since most you newer people came into the picture you all just think it is. Kinda like getting something old from your invintory that not many have seen cause most who have left or quit, and everyone around is like whoh thats cool. BLIND

Holy Guacamole! That would be fantastic! If anyone is working on such an application of this technology, please let me know.

Yes, and cryogenic suspension is a slow form of Time Travel into the future.

ROAM sounds very very cool.

Hi Garth, it was originally a 1 free day trial, but we've extended it to 3. If you feel you would like an additional 2 more days to try it, please feel free to IM me in world.

Roam does not use the sit-move teleport. It's a personal transporter that moves you from point to point at high velocity. There are many transporters out there but what sets Roam apart is its complete and intelligent package.

With Roam you get automatically updated mapping, dynamic point to point navigation, public bookmarks (think landmarks), private bookmarks, intelliparsing that accepts sim names, bookmarks, secondlife:// urls, local coordinates, global coordinates, 2d coordinates, 3d coordinates in dozens of formats to determine where you want to go, flight acceleration, local tracker teleporting, hover, and more.

Try it before you mock it, it costs you nothing to try for 3 days and nothing after those three days if you choose not to subscribe.

It's transportation for the community with intelligence and convenience.

Thanks Rathe, I think I need to subscribe really. lol

As for the rest? any support or help you can give would be appreciated

I can see tours being made easier with this, you could have a notecard with a list of locations and let Roam do the routing. Instead of having to hardcode it.

Rathe, i already know what it is, fast mover, shoots you in the air to kill prim draw, then uses a pathfinder method to get you to your distination fast. Seen it befour, actually i use that method manually.

Don't let Mr Blase I've-seen-it-all get you down. Some people just can't give credit where credit is due.

What they refuse to consider is that even though the idea isn't new, the implimentation of the idea and the work that went into this particular product, sets it far above and beyond any fumbling previous attempt.

It's a little like designing and building a revolutionary and damn cool car, and your Grampa says "Eh, so what's the big deal, it's just another car? I helped build the Ford Model A! I still have one in the garage. Once you've seen one car, you seen 'em all"

Looking for adventure?

Try /roam random and discover places you never would have discovered otherwise!

Don't like where you ended up? /roam back and you'll be right back where you came from safe and sound!

Look for more /roam goodies soon!

The only really fast short-range transporter is a direct teleport.

I have solved the range problems, and have a 500m teleporter which can teleport reliably into the next sim, or of course straight up or slant range. It is almost ready for the market. Watch the "New Products" forum, probably under the name "TP500". As always the delay is the last boring bit of fine-tuning the end-user presentation. I and a few friends have been using it for months.

Don't believe the people who tell you its imposssible or dangerous. It isn't if the scripter has done his research and knows exactly what he's doing. It probably needs a graduate mathematician, and for my sins I am one.

The first ten people to IM me in world will get one free to beta test . Probably in about a fortnight. Living at 500m up is really cool and well away from the crowd and the normal griefers. It comes with a free guide to the do's and don'ts of high living.

I almost don't want to sell it..........

I have crashed on my first two attempts to use ROAM to teleport. In both cases I waited for several minutes (not seconds) - watched my progress (or lack-of) on the mini-map, then stalled-out. Message says "Aborted due to bad SIM crossing", and by the way- turned my male av into female. That's kinda disturbing.

No thanks.

I'm aware that my computer is junk, my graphics card is junk, and I am stupid
, so I take all the blame for ROAM not working for me. But... there may be others out there in SL like me... EEEKK!

Newbies like me get a 50L$ stipend, so I don't think we'll be major users of ROAM.

My two cents on ROAM. I love this unit! And thank you for the /Roam Random heads up! I just recieved my copy yesterday from Palomma, (Thanks P!), and subscribed for a month. It's not only fast and precise, it's fun too! Easy as 1 2 3, when you log five minutes of your time with the easy to follow instructions! I love watching my avatar dot traverse the most logical route on the mini-map, also its great to go into mouselook during flight! Thank you for this service! btw, cool design!

Thanks Goyan! We have been working very hard on improving Roam since the release of the public beta due to everyones feedback. We have managed to move Roam over to a new server and reduce the response time to an average of 2 seconds.

There are still occasional instances (particularly strangely around 1:00AM PST) that a response can take a bit longer on, due to some delays on Second Life's side which I am doing further analysis on. I hope to provide a report to Linden Labs with my findings to see what can be done to improve upon this.

Our goal is to provide a consistantly fast response time to all queries and help people reach their destinations faster, and more reliably than ever before. Thank you to everyone who has provided the valuable feedback needed to make this happen. Please keep it coming!

Just curious: how reliable is it right now? Out of 10 roams how many hit their target?

Great question blaze!

Before we moved servers we were having some networking latency and loss issues. Now that we have relocated to a new server and link our queries return on average within 2 seconds.

A recent test I did resulted in 3964 of 3964 queries returned. That is 100%. The quickest result being 1 second, the average being 2 seconds, and the maximum being 162 seconds (due to a SL side issue around 1:00AM as explained above that I am doing further research on).

A transport may abort though if it is unable to cross a sim border within a few seconds. This is our default setting built into Roam to prevent unexpected chaos. However we have noticed during the beta test that some users with more latency issues may take longer than normal to cross sims, so we are working on a new build that will make this setting more adjustable to the user based on their network settings.

Another reason a transport may fail is if a sim you attempt to transport to or through is full. This is a hardcoded limit on the Second Life grid that we can not control and results depend upon traffic and utilization of sims at the time of a query. We are working on a new feature that will auto-reroute a request around busy sims that should be implemented soon.

That kind of newbie tech has been around for over a year, free to everyone to give newbie tours! Just ask me for a copy. It just needs people to makeup the tours to give newbies (i.e. decide what locations to goto, etc).

Especially with the latest round of native teleport issues, ROAM has been a lifesaver, thank you again Francis and Rathe. I did notice it's now been incorporated into the MetaAdverse system after a fashion. Now, if I can just get a version that steers me AROUND casinos, even when I ask to go there, I might do alright

Click on an advertisement, wear the item if gives you and voila, you ROAM to the merchant location, brilliant

what is the fastest you can move in game
better question can you make a hovering jet that flies mach 6
when and if a get a cable modem ive got about 30+ tranportation ideas im going to try

It appears that physical objecs (including avatars) are limited to 250 meters per second. I've heard of people managing faster, but I've never seen it.

Vehicles misbehave increasingly after 40 meters per second during sim crossings.

also just out of idle couriosty cant people just TP to any point on the map anyway