Your ideal SL?

I actually wouldn't change too much. My very short list:

1) Higher prim allowances

2) Better and more comprehensive land tools

3) Bring back event support for things other than Tringo and club contests

4) And my one big change would be for LL to stop pussy-footing around with griefers and other asshats. If they can't figure it out from one warning that they need to learn how to play well with others, they need to go. There are thousands of games and other virtual worlds designed exactly for shooting, bombing, slashing, aggression, antagonizing and general hostility towards others....let them go find someplace else to foist their misery on other people.

My ideal SL. Hrmmm. Well there would be more dogpants.

in my ideal sl, aimee weber would be my little sister ...and we go shoe shopping a lot together!

I would be a benevolant god, and only demand worship and tribute on alternate fridays. I would avoid smiting people without reason, only crushing those under my boot who truly deserve it (in my infinite wisdom).

And this is why I will never be in charge...

Woot!

We already had my idea SL. Over a year ago. Then 1.2 came

oooohhh i get it now. i thought you said parts!!

Before 1.2 you wouldn't have been able to buy your own sim

Dogpants would be good. But higher prim allotment - YESSSSS!!!!

coco

Noon every day everyone would be forced to log in, else their accounts would be immediatly deleted. During that hour I would demand everyone rez and throw tiny pickles at me while i sit on my throne in sun god robes. After that hour is over.... meh they can do whatever they were before .

Y'all have a lot of throne fantasies.

Well my long-time friend Hile - now Belly in this game (which I can't get him to really play) and living with me in Andromeda, along with Sara, his girlfriend - I'm afraid he puts the entire rest of you to shame with this worship business.

I have been worshipping Hile on a regular basis for two years now, starting with his throne in TSO and winding up with his throne (a VERY lovely one, with built-in worship animations) donated by its creator, Shagz, for the cause.

I'm afraid none of you can ever hope to be the object of worship that Hile is to all those who agree to worship him. (Sara refuses, lol.)

coco <---- High Priestess of Platism

Not all of the outline is present in this thread. Creators would largely be the businessfolk of 'my SL', but there is definitely thought for community-minded, art, and beautification.

hehe COOL

I second this motion!

My ideal SL would at least have:

Point to Point teleporting with a back arrow of some sort too - and hubs abolished.

The ability to get a landmark from Places and off people's profile picks

More prim allowances per land parcel I mean danggg

Buncha people hired to just live and play and run businesses in second life (they would have no other visible role ie "official" alts) so that they could understand the dynamics of how everything works and is interrelated FIRST HAND

And thus be able to implement changes for the GOOD and ones that MAKE SENSE.

I got more but I aint sharin! Besides if I was an eccentric rich person I sure as heck wouldnt buy SL - I'd be off on an island somewhere trying to build cars that run on H20.

Like there's some big difference between people 18 and people 25? lol

coco

If we're going to engage in some agism, why not go full bore. Let's keep out the immature, the senile, and the mid-life crisis gang. Only persons aged 20 to 28 will be allowed in the new SL. Sounds good, no?

Nah, 25 to 40 is good.

And the mentally ill, and the homosexuals, and the blacks, and the hispanics, and the fetishists, and the handicaps... oh, look at that... there's nobody left to actually play the damn game

Doncha'll know life begins at forty?

coco

"Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me,
Get him up against the wall!"

-PinK Floyd

It would be like Geriatrics of the Freakin' Corn all up in here.


(n.b. I am 30-sumfin)

I would close the grid, make ratings reset monthly or quarterly and leave them at 25 lindens each.

Next I would impliment local user end chat. All chat outside a parcel or within a parcel could be excluded from or limited to just that parcel. Chat for the purposes of scripts would remain unchanged with the exception that ignored text isn't just ignored by the client, it's not even SENT to the client.

I would also make it possible to prevent influences of OUTSIDE scripts on your land. While you can prevent scripts you don't want from running on your land they can still do stuff on your land from the outside. I would impliment a feature to prevent people from running scripts on my land from outside. The script execution height would still be in effect (it wouldn't shut off passersby).

For my next move I would impliment the ability to ignore rendering prims avatars and public chat on a given user or group's land. No more complaining about "griefer builds". If you don't like a plot like you can just choose not to see it. If someone was BANNED from a parcel none of the prim or avatar data there would even be SENT to that avatar unless they owned the prims. Further, that avatar would not be allowed on the area(as per current ban system) and would only be rezzed to occupants as a little phantom sphere with a name hovering over it. You would be able to restrict as well on the basis of private land as exists currently. That way SL would have true privacy.

Next, I would move all that stuff that is done on the client to the server side. From EVERYTHING I have seen historically the client contains things that it has NO RIGHT to. I would use a seperate client for those special features or better yet use a code injector to build those features back into the binary on runtime so that no end-user client would even contain said code let alone allow a user to find ways to execute it.

Now that SL is private under my control, I would pull administrative action out of all private plot disputes in all cases where a user is not circumventing the tools in place and any willful circumventing of in-place controls has a halt placed on the account and for other issues would involve linden discression on holding the account when the dispute(s) against the player are reviewed, with details as to why provided to both parties and within the next 24 hours a liason would begin a review the claim and make a ruling, citing the reasons behind their decision to both parties (or in cases of LL discovered abuse just the person to infract). Some special cases would be an instant ruling (liason is present at time of infraction, etc) and disputed rulings would then become the domain of the old abuse team. Of course this process COULD be circumvented but the linden to circumvent it gets a mark against them that would last for a certain period or until they provided sufficient evidence as to their decison (which could then be appealed)

Repeat infractions (2) from a user under the same reason (one would HAVE to be a full investigation/hearing) would result in a permanent ban of that user REGUARDLESS of community standing, and they would be allowed to reactivate their account by paying the account activation fee again. To make things even better for the community if someone RETALIATED based on a decision or use of the report system at any level it would be added to the hearing on the issue and the decision would be ESCALATED. There would be a 3 strikes your out kind of mentality, where after three investigated infractions your account is expunged (when I speak here I mean after you have already reached the banning level of offense). If you really want to come back you could on a REQUESTED 2 month probation and if you couldn't tow the line you would be hardware + credit card banned ala Plastic Duck. If you tried to circumvent any level of it, it would be instantly moved to hardware and CC ban.

Of course as the CEO I would reserve the right to personally circumvent that process but only I could have it done. I would also be responsible to view evaluations of all the staff (circumvented decisions, number of appeals of decisions, number of REVERSED decisions, etc) and make employment decisions based on this information at my discression.

I would move the money market to my own control, and take the comissions from a combination of the lindens and the USD, therefore adding a much needed sink for linden dollars while still making a real dollar profit.

To resolve more of the linden issues I would make land sales based primarily on linden dollars. For auctions players could bid real dollars at a disadvantage to linden dollar bidders and you would be unable to purchase lindens at market if your current balance is above a certain cap and only be able to have a certain ammount of linden dollars up for auction at any particular point in time (for a large linden purchase you would HAVE to pay a premium and they would be directly purchased from LL, so as to prevent "big players" from operating in the land economy). Outside markets would be prohibited and players circumventing the caps on buying/selling would be placed on a 7 day ban and I would do what was in my power to undo the fraudulant sale without refund to the policy breaker. Policy to be revised as situations and oversights are found.

Tier would not change. What WOULD change is that an avatar would be capped in the ammount of land that they could own among their alts (maybe 5 sims worth?) on the mainland. Of course, they could own as many private sims as they wanted. Circumventing the cap, as circumventing anything would result in the most recently purchased land going back to auction without refund and the player would get a 7 day ban.

All in all policy would change to have MUCH stiffer penelty to people who break the rules but adding fairness in the decisions against them to provide them with understanding and a logical appeals process. Further, it would aleviate the AR team load because it would free them from investigating crap user disputes and they could focus almost completely on system abuse.

Overall I think such would GREATLY increase user freedom and creativity as well as power over their own experience. It would nearly obliterate abuse, and would mediate the economy to a reasonable level.

I would force everyone to say, Blaze Spinnaker, you're my hero every five minutes in order to stay logged in.

Oh, yeah, and I'd move the asset server to the client.

Actually, I don't think it's agism. It's lamentation of lost youth. Hopefully I won't feel that way when I'm old.

I already do this.

There have already been problems with asset stuff on the client, namely people STEALING CONTENT.

In the interest of a more secure game and content rights (can you say DMCA) as well as a FASTER game overall (central asset serving is more effective than decentralized node assets because essentially every client would need a full asset database or asset information wouldn't be accessable when users wern't jacked in) asset server stuff MUST be done server-side. They just need to devote more of their farm to allow threading the asset structure more effectively.