Heads up on land joining with dwell
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eltee Statosky
Luskie
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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03-30-2004 09:21
I'm still not 100% sure how its decided which 'wins' on land joining.. but im thinking its always the 'bigger' parcel.
The problem is that dwell isn't summed between them when this happens... the smaller parcels' is just over-written by the larger ones...
which causes abit of a problem when your group's land suddenly goes from being in the top 10 with over 1000 listed dwell... to NOWHERESVILLE with 143 when the 4200sqm plot with the massive dwell is 'eaten' by its more scenic and less populated neighboring 4300sqm plot
I don't think the lindens can/will do much about that... but i just wanted to give everyone a heads up... if you're going to be doing merging for dwell purposes... split up plots first to ensure the biggest plot is the one with your current dwell on it otherwise you'll drop off the land lists faster'n you can click join
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Jellin Pico
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Join date: 3 Aug 2003
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03-30-2004 10:04
Joining land is just like linking prims. The last plot selected is the parent.
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eltee Statosky
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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03-30-2004 10:13
From: someone Originally posted by Jellin Pico
Joining land is just like linking prims. The last plot selected is the parent. hmm thats not really what i was seeing... especially since you can drag-select swaths of land that are effectively 'selected' simultaneously
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Michi Lumin
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03-30-2004 12:52
From: someone Originally posted by Jellin Pico
Joining land is just like linking prims. The last plot selected is the parent. That doesn't make it proper... There's absolutely no reason why the '143 dwell' is somehow more accurate than the 1000+ dwell that we had on that land. The 1000+ is actually more accurate. From what I hear, other folks are probably going to lose their developer incentives just because they clicked the stupid 'join' button. And that's losing RL $. |
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Cubey Terra
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Join date: 6 Sep 2003
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03-30-2004 13:01
I'm not sure I get what you're saying here, eltee. If you join two plots into one larger plot, somehow SL "remembers" the original two plots and only reports dwell for one of them?
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eltee Statosky
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03-30-2004 13:03
From: someone Originally posted by Cubey Terra
I'm not sure I get what you're saying here, Kex. If you join two plots into one larger plot, somehow SL "remembers" the original two plots and only reports dwell for one of them? which ever plot becomes the parent plot... *thats* the dwell for the whole new parcel... the 'child' plots dwell is totally thrown away by the system
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Cubey Terra
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03-30-2004 13:10
That's a really nasty bug, especially when there's no way to tell which portions of land were, at one point, a plot of land and which was selected second. I really hope LL fixes this. (Oh, and sorry about calling you "Kex", eltee. Should've read the names before posting  )
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eltee Statosky
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03-30-2004 13:13
From: someone Originally posted by Cubey Terra That's a really nasty bug, especially when there's no way to tell which portions of land were, at one point, a plot of land and which was selected second. I really hope LL fixes this.
(Oh, and sorry about calling you "Kex", eltee. Should've read the names before posting ) hee yeah its okay cubey... i think they well.. just wanted to give it some attention so they can realize whats goin on before it gets *TOO* messy... we're not in a race to be #1... so i mean its not like our next RL meal is at stake here... but its kinda upsettin to see one mouseclick like that with no warning totally drop ya down to 10% of yer former dwell :/
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sazzysaphire Bijoux
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Join date: 22 Dec 2004
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linking or joining land
01-23-2005 23:18
so . . . if i am following all the thread correctly, i shouldn't join my two pieces of land that sit side by side? i'm getting messages that i can't put out any more objects but if i move a couple of steps to the side, i'm on the other land and can. i've about decided to just shove everything on one plot and sell the other!
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Strife Onizuka
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Join date: 3 Mar 2004
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01-23-2005 23:36
considering this thread is 10 months old you may want to experiment.
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eltee Statosky
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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Well since it was dredged back up...
01-25-2005 10:25
Jus wanna heads up on the way it works... when joining parcels.. the 'start' of yer land selection drag across the property lines is what dictates which parcel 'wins' and gets the master information transfered to the new larger parcel.
aka drag the selection from the main property over across the sub property to be joined in, and then join, and you'll be fine
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