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Philip Linden: Wow, stopped by my own microphones.
Philip Linden: OK
Philip Linden: Can everyone hear me OK?
Philip Linden: Is this thing on?
Philip Linden: OK!
Philip Linden: Well I'm coming to you like on vacation... from San Diego.
Philip Linden: So I get to talk and watch the waves.
Philip Linden: Pretty cool!
Philip Linden: So lots going on lately.
Philip Linden: I'll say a bit, and then I'll take questions.
Philip Linden: Thanks everyone for coming.
Philip Linden: And IM any questions to Jeska.
Philip Linden: There will probably be more than I can get through by 8,
Philip Linden: but as always,
Philip Linden: you are also welcome to follow up with me by mail...
Philip Linden: [email]philip@lindenlab.com[/email]
Philip Linden: So...
Philip Linden: We've gotta to the third patch of 1.6,
Philip Linden: 1.6.3,
Philip Linden: which went live this morning.
Philip Linden: Hopefully this will address some bug server crashes.
Jeska Linden: Travis Lambert: The recent events changes are flawed, and are benefiting large landowners while doing damage to smaller ones thru rampant gaming. Why not back off these changes immediately until a permanant solution can be reached?
Philip Linden: And also fix the probs with searching in big inventories and having FPS go away.
Philip Linden: We'll take a look at the crash rates and decide about more patches.
Philip Linden: I think probably we need to do more...
Philip Linden: as of last night the crash rates were still higher than baseline 1.5
Philip Linden: But we're making progress.
Philip Linden: So...
Philip Linden: Another piece of news of late is the voting system.
Philip Linden: I got myself in hot water suggesting that folks add bugs...
Philip Linden: sorry about that.
Philip Linden: I just wanted to get priorities from all on what order to fix open bugs in.
Philip Linden: We'll look at how to do something differently for bugs.
Philip Linden: But the stuff we've learned from the voting process is really cool so far.
Philip Linden: Some of the higher items were surprising to us,
Philip Linden: which is really cool,
Philip Linden: since it means we are learning.
Philip Linden: We are looking at the couple of really highly rated things that we aren't sure exactly how quickly we can do...
Philip Linden: things like multi-select inventory drag,
Philip Linden: and try-to-buy
Philip Linden: sorry I meant try-before-buy
Philip Linden: We didn't think those were as high on folks lists as they were.
Philip Linden: Also, clearly,
Philip Linden: we will simply do less in 1.7 in the way of features,
Philip Linden: and move faster down the bug list.
Philip Linden: Anyway...
Philip Linden: if you haven't used the voting system,
Philip Linden: please do.
Philip Linden: It is turning out to be very powerful. We had a board meeting today,
Philip Linden: and talked lots about it.
Philip Linden: Yes the linux version was high as well.
Philip Linden: We are looking at bringing someone on to speed that up right now.
Philip Linden: So anyway... let's go to the questions and see how far we can get.
Philip Linden: Jeska?
Jeska Linden: Travis Lambert: The recent events changes are flawed, and are benefiting large landowners while doing damage to smaller ones thru rampant gaming. Why not back off these changes immediately until a permanant solution can be reached?
Philip Linden: I know that we made changes to the events, but I haven't heard as to fallout.
Philip Linden: I'll just take that question as it... and go back to Robin and others to find out more.
Philip Linden: I don't know what we've concluded about those changes.
Jeska Linden: Morse Dillon: QUESTION FOR PHILIP: What is the current thought on when we'll see a native Linux client? And when it comes, will Quicktime be fully supported???
Philip Linden: I think we will get a linux client done soon. I don't want to set a date yet
Philip Linden: because I don't think we know enough about problems we might run into.
Philip Linden: But we are working on it now.
Philip Linden: As to QT, I don't think it is supported under Linux.
Philip Linden: Unless I'm wrong.
Philip Linden: So that means we'd need to wire in an alternative.
Philip Linden: I believe we can do a native linux client pretty easily. All our code is low level.
Philip Linden: I beleive SL runs under wine today.
Jeska Linden: Traxx Hathor: My question is will Linden Labs ever re-introduce sims with double prim allotment like Miramare?
Philip Linden: We've already increased prim limits once, from 10K to 15K.
Philip Linden: We will keep doing that as we raise performance.
Jeska Linden: Catherine Cotton: How exactly is LL planning on looking at every single texture uploaded to the tean grid, to verify its PG? More so what standards of PG is LL using?
Philip Linden: As to the double allotment in the city sims,
Philip Linden: we did that buy having there be much more linden land.
Philip Linden: So there weren't more in the whole sims,
Philip Linden: just more on resident owned parcels.
Philip Linden: So we can think about doing that again if folks want it, yes.
Philip Linden: Create a thread on it, and send me email.
Philip Linden: With the teen grid,
Philip Linden: we did build tools to look at all uploads.
Philip Linden: I suspect, however,
Philip Linden: that this will not be needed once there is a large number of users,
Philip Linden: since self-policing will probably be quite strict,
Philip Linden: and our penalties for doing it very severe (banned).
Jeska Linden: Tito Gomez: Jeska, we have beautiful faces, beautiful bodies. Can we look forward to beautiful feet in the future? It's such a turn off! Gracias
Philip Linden: Tito... send me a doc with details on what beautiful feet mean to you.
Philip Linden: There are some changes in the feature voting list, I think also.
Philip Linden: Put one in.
Philip Linden: Agree they can get better.
Philip Linden: Ultimately we'll get to perfect cinematic everything!
Philip Linden: Hah!
Philip Linden: BTW.....
Philip Linden: do you know how fast the in-world economy is growing?
Philip Linden: I know I'm a broken record on this...
Philip Linden: but it IS really cool.
Philip Linden: The current growth rate, in GDP PER CAPITA, is 1100% per year.
Jeska Linden: Benny Night: Are there plans to take Linden public?
Philip Linden: The average amount of money spent in buying stuff from each other (none to LL) is $80/month!
Jeska Linden: might've been lost -- Jeri Zuma: Any progress in ways to support very large attendance at events?
Philip Linden: Yeah.... that is about 100X china.
Philip Linden: Also our overall GDP per capita is just passing china as well.
Philip Linden: OK back to the Q's.
Philip Linden: Large attendance at events...
Philip Linden: we are also working on that.
Philip Linden: Main problem is that the sims slow down with lots of people on them...
Philip Linden: hence the 40 limit.
Philip Linden: We are going to try and improve the 'interest list' in 1.7 to improve that number.
Philip Linden: I can't say how much, cause we haven't tested.
Philip Linden: But, yes, that is a huge priority, and also a 'bug' for many.
Jeska Linden: Olmy Seraph: Does LL do any live usability testing of SL, and if not why not? Would you consider instituting it so we can get data to help improve the SL user experience?
Philip Linden: We do user tests, yes.
Philip Linden: But I'm not sure what sort of tests are meant specifically by that question.
Philip Linden: the preview grid is, we think, the most powerful form of user testing.
Jeska Linden: John Wallaby: What will be the policy on communication between the regular and teen grids via communication services such as Nexcom?
Philip Linden: Communication between teen and main grids through SL services will not be allowed.
Philip Linden: That is a good question... I suppose one could use a third party tool.
Philip Linden: I'll take that question to robin.
Philip Linden: It doesn't seem safe in general, and I suspect we should not allow it.
Philip Linden: we don't want anyone able to talk into teen SL.
Jeska Linden: Lex Neva: The feature voting system is an interesting idea, but it's kinda flawed. Everyone rushe din to spend their votes at the start, and now any new propositions, good or bad, languish on the second or third page. Votes aren't being returned very
Jeska Linden: . esult, the only features voted highly are the ones that were in the system when everyone got there. Can this be addressed?
Philip Linden: votes will be returned as we move features into development.
Philip Linden: Like for example the paypal votes returned to folks yesterday... we are going to have that done in the next couple weeks.
Philip Linden: I think that is the right process.
Philip Linden: also folks can change votes to reflect changing priorities,
Philip Linden: which we want to see captured as well,.
Jeska Linden: Eboni Khan: My Question: The price for Lindens on GOM is over $4.24. Does LL have any plans to get the price of Lindens back to the $4 level?
Philip Linden: I'd like to see the prices stable, yes.
Philip Linden: They have been trending up.
Philip Linden: We will watch and make changes if it seems needed. Right now they've not been going up for long,
Philip Linden: so I think it is possible this is temporary.
Philip Linden: We will try and be very careful about steering things too much.
Philip Linden: Voter turnout is high...
Jeska Linden: Ontay Drago: will there be a GOM or IGE in the teen SL, and how will we get them there since we dont want adults in the teen grid?
Philip Linden: we have about 2000 voters,
Philip Linden: and about 26,000 users.
Philip Linden: but in a typical month,
Philip Linden: there are something under 20K folks using SL.
Philip Linden: So I'd say that is a very good turnout. I'd like to see even more.
Jeska Linden: Ontay Drago: will there be a GOM or IGE in the teen SL, and how will we get them there since we dont want adults in the teen grid?
Philip Linden: Our thinking is that money will work the same in teen grid and main grid,
Philip Linden: and teens can use GOM same as anyone.
Philip Linden: we can secure that transaction path easily.l
Philip Linden: We'll approve an account of some kind for the banks in the teen grid.
Philip Linden: We haven't done that yet.
Philip Linden: But it seems like the right way to do it.
Jeska Linden: Cubey Terra: When can we expect enforcement of community standards with regards to abusive ejection scripts over land
Philip Linden: No... only people or services we are able to background check.
Philip Linden: And certainly on an as needed basis.
Philip Linden: So nexcom wouldn't be OK if it allowed open communication, etc.
Jeska Linden: Brody Macdonald: My question is: Are we still on track to have a million subscribers by 2007?
Philip Linden: Ejection scripts... sign.
Philip Linden: sigh.
Philip Linden: I agree we need better systems there.
Philip Linden: There is a mishmash of stuff people are using,
Philip Linden: and I agree some are too agressive.
Philip Linden: I don't know what the right answer is.... but I will think about it and see if we can come up with something.
Philip Linden: Probably there is some feature work we will need as well.
Jeska Linden: Dione Jacques: hi yes i have a question, why does inventory take so long to load? is this gonna be fixed in the future?
Philip Linden: We are on track in terms of subscribers, yes.
Philip Linden: Still growing very fast.
Jeska Linden: Tena Keegan: Are they going to at least allow mentor's to go help newbie kids..or is that going to be a whole new group?
Philip Linden: Inventory loading...
Philip Linden: OK
Philip Linden: So we load inventory now at a fixed speed.
Philip Linden: I believe several entries per second.
Philip Linden: The really huge inventories are more than 10K objects,
Philip Linden: and those take like 5 minutes to fully load,
Philip Linden: and are several megabytes of data.
Philip Linden: I suspect that we need to limit the size of inventories in some way,
Philip Linden: or provide some sort of other mechanisms for storing things.
Philip Linden: The amount of data is just too huge. There isn't a way to really load them,
Philip Linden: even on broadband,m
Philip Linden: for the really huge ones.
Philip Linden: OK, I will publish some data on how much space in in inventories.
Jeska Linden: Kage Seraph: What's the plan with respect to zoning?
Philip Linden: We think zoning is best done by you,
Philip Linden: through group ownership, rentals, etc.
Philip Linden: We will add more features to support that.
Philip Linden: We don't feel like WE should be doing much zoning.
Philip Linden: SL is too big... we wouldn't really be able to.
Jeska Linden: Scooter Ludd: Whats the possiblity of getting windows media supported in movie control?
Philip Linden: Windows media isn't very cross platform, so I don't think we'd be too inclined to support it.
Philip Linden: I agree that more formats would be great though.
Jeska Linden: cua Curie: Its been stated that Havok2 will be implemented for version 1.7. What changes will this make to Second life? Where have you decided to allocate the extra server resources it will provide?
Philip Linden: Havok2 is not a panacea for everything.
Philip Linden: It will stop many of the server crashes we are having,
Philip Linden: by fixing probs with physical objects,
Philip Linden: and it will open the door to some cool new capabilities in vehicles, etc.
Philip Linden: But it won't, by itself, free up tons of server resources...
Philip Linden: to do that,
Philip Linden: we need to speed up the interest list,
Philip Linden: and speed up script execution speed.
Philip Linden: Both are things we are working on,
Philip Linden: and some interest list improvements will probably be in 1.7
Philip Linden: The interst list is what collects those things you need to see and sends them to you.
Philip Linden: that is what the servers spend most of their time doing.
Philip Linden: Like at a scene like this.
Philip Linden: Overall we agree that giving you guys source code to work with is the right long term plan, BTW.
Philip Linden: I've said that in the forums and I'll say it again here.
Philip Linden: I agree that stuff like new languages and other streaming formats, etc,
Philip Linden: are best done by you, in code.
Philip Linden: we're working on that.
Jeska Linden: Dione Jacques: Why not have a seperate game for teens instead of putting them in SL, with the growing amount of people using SL, this would save on the system as well as protect everyones rights?
Philip Linden: The teens are in a separate system. That is what we have done.
Jeska Linden: Tena Keegan: Are they going to at least allow mentor's to go help newbie kids..or is that going to be a whole new group?
Philip Linden: only folks we can adequately check would be allowed access.
Philip Linden: That applies with mentors, liasons, anyone.
Jeska Linden: George Stonebender: how will you convince teens to go on the teen grid instead of the adult one?Won't it be underdeveloped and kind of boring to begin with?
Philip Linden: If the teens are caught here they are age-verified and banned if not 18.
Philip Linden: I think that is enough motivation.
Jeska Linden: Reitsuki Kojima: Question for Phil: With each patch, border crossing issues - handoff lag, particularly in vehicles, along with random avatar-ghosting - get worse. When is this going to be addressed in a patch?
Philip Linden: 1.7 will definitely have code to reduce border crossing lag,
Philip Linden: we almost got that into 1.6.
Philip Linden: Also Havok2 will make things much faster on the handoff.
Jeska Linden: CaveCub Milk: Hi, my question is why this grid isn't being fixed before opening the teen grid at all?
Philip Linden: There isn't much additional cost in opening the teen grid, because it is exactly the same code.
Philip Linden: So devs are not building teen features, beyond some admin stuff.
Philip Linden: I think that is OK.
Philip Linden: Only a couple more questions...
Philip Linden: I've gotta run for dinner in a bit.
Jeska Linden: Sensual Casanova: Question - The Concierge service basically is uselless ... is there going to be any improvements on it in the near future, and preferabbly a Linden that will LISTEN to our problems and try to fix them?
Philip Linden: I think we need better tools for surveying what is causing load on a sim,
Philip Linden: as that is the #1 problem for concierge on large land.
Philip Linden: So I suspect more people wouldn't help,
Philip Linden: but new diagnostic tools will. We're looking at that.
Jeska Linden: Shadey Koala: I've read on the forums about people wanting to start some form of SL-wide, player-run government. This concerns me, and I'm curious. Will you allow such a thing?
Philip Linden: Please email me directly with any complaints about the concierge service.
Philip Linden: I want it to work well.
Philip Linden: OK one more question.
Philip Linden: Ah... there it was soory.
Philip Linden: Player government...
Philip Linden: We do not want to impose many global restrictions on behavior beyond those needed to
Philip Linden: preserve people's basic freedoms to create and live here.
Philip Linden: So,
Philip Linden: we don't think that forms of government in which folks vote to impose more restrictive global properties
Philip Linden: are the way to go.
Philip Linden: We don't want that.
Philip Linden: However, I suspect that local government,
Philip Linden: again in the form of extended land rights, etc,
Philip Linden: is a better direction.
Philip Linden: Again I'd point to the idea of the 'federal' government...
Philip Linden: which is basically what LL is.
Philip Linden: It doesn't seem that we should be involved in issues which are inherently local.
Philip Linden: So I'd really like to push more in the direction of adding features that allow
Philip Linden: landowners to govern as they like.
Philip Linden: But not do much more at our level.
Philip Linden: I agree ejection stuff is a problem, as I said before.
Philip Linden: Sorry for having to run...
Philip Linden: I normally have time to hang around after these things.
Philip Linden: But in this case I need to meet folks for dinner.
Philip Linden: thanks everyone for coming and for listening and questioning.

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~Ulrika~

Philip Linden: Wow, stopped by my own microphones.
Philip Linden: OK
Philip Linden: Can everyone hear me OK?
Philip Linden: Is this thing on?
Philip Linden: OK!
Philip Linden: Well I'm coming to you like on vacation... from San Diego.
Philip Linden: So I get to talk and watch the waves.
Philip Linden: Pretty cool!
Philip Linden: So lots going on lately.
Philip Linden: I'll say a bit, and then I'll take questions.
Philip Linden: Thanks everyone for coming.
Philip Linden: And IM any questions to Jeska.
Philip Linden: There will probably be more than I can get through by 8,
Philip Linden: but as always,
Philip Linden: you are also welcome to follow up with me by mail...
Philip Linden: [email]philip@lindenlab.com[/email]
Philip Linden: So...
Philip Linden: We've gotta to the third patch of 1.6,
Philip Linden: 1.6.3,
Philip Linden: which went live this morning.
Philip Linden: Hopefully this will address some bug server crashes.
Travis Lambert: (via Jeska Linden) The recent events changes are flawed, and are benefiting large landowners while doing damage to smaller ones thru rampant gaming. Why not back off these changes immediately until a permanant solution can be reached?
Philip Linden: And also fix the probs with searching in big inventories and having FPS go away.
Philip Linden: We'll take a look at the crash rates and decide about more patches.
Philip Linden: I think probably we need to do more...
Philip Linden: as of last night the crash rates were still higher than baseline 1.5
Philip Linden: But we're making progress.
Philip Linden: So...
Philip Linden: Another piece of news of late is the voting system.
Philip Linden: I got myself in hot water suggesting that folks add bugs...
Philip Linden: sorry about that.
Philip Linden: I just wanted to get priorities from all on what order to fix open bugs in.
Philip Linden: We'll look at how to do something differently for bugs.
Philip Linden: But the stuff we've learned from the voting process is really cool so far.
Philip Linden: Some of the higher items were surprising to us,
Philip Linden: which is really cool,
Philip Linden: since it means we are learning.
Philip Linden: We are looking at the couple of really highly rated things that we aren't sure exactly how quickly we can do...
Philip Linden: things like multi-select inventory drag,
Philip Linden: and try-to-buy
Philip Linden: sorry I meant try-before-buy
Philip Linden: We didn't think those were as high on folks lists as they were.
Philip Linden: Also, clearly,
Philip Linden: we will simply do less in 1.7 in the way of features,
Philip Linden: and move faster down the bug list.
Philip Linden: Anyway...
Philip Linden: if you haven't used the voting system,
Philip Linden: please do.
Philip Linden: It is turning out to be very powerful. We had a board meeting today,
Philip Linden: and talked lots about it.
Philip Linden: Yes the linux version was high as well.
Philip Linden: We are looking at bringing someone on to speed that up right now.
Philip Linden: So anyway... let's go to the questions and see how far we can get.
Philip Linden: Jeska?
Travis Lambert: (via Jeska Linden) The recent events changes are flawed, and are benefiting large landowners while doing damage to smaller ones thru rampant gaming. Why not back off these changes immediately until a permanant solution can be reached?
Philip Linden: I know that we made changes to the events, but I haven't heard as to fallout.
Philip Linden: I'll just take that question as it... and go back to Robin and others to find out more.
Philip Linden: I don't know what we've concluded about those changes.
Morse Dillon: (via Jeska Linden) QUESTION FOR PHILIP: What is the current thought on when we'll see a native Linux client? And when it comes, will Quicktime be fully supported???
Philip Linden: I think we will get a linux client done soon. I don't want to set a date yet
Philip Linden: because I don't think we know enough about problems we might run into.
Philip Linden: But we are working on it now.
Philip Linden: As to QT, I don't think it is supported under Linux.
Philip Linden: Unless I'm wrong.
Philip Linden: So that means we'd need to wire in an alternative.
Philip Linden: I believe we can do a native linux client pretty easily. All our code is low level.
Philip Linden: I beleive SL runs under wine today.
Traxx Hathor: (via Jeska Linden) My question is will Linden Labs ever re-introduce sims with double prim allotment like Miramare?
Philip Linden: We've already increased prim limits once, from 10K to 15K.
Philip Linden: We will keep doing that as we raise performance.
Catherine Cotton: (via Jeska Linden) How exactly is LL planning on looking at every single texture uploaded to the tean grid, to verify its PG? More so what standards of PG is LL using?
Philip Linden: As to the double allotment in the city sims,
Philip Linden: we did that buy having there be much more linden land.
Philip Linden: So there weren't more in the whole sims,
Philip Linden: just more on resident owned parcels.
Philip Linden: So we can think about doing that again if folks want it, yes.
Philip Linden: Create a thread on it, and send me email.
Philip Linden: With the teen grid,
Philip Linden: we did build tools to look at all uploads.
Philip Linden: I suspect, however,
Philip Linden: that this will not be needed once there is a large number of users,
Philip Linden: since self-policing will probably be quite strict,
Philip Linden: and our penalties for doing it very severe (banned).
Tito Gomez: (via Jeska Linden) Jeska, we have beautiful faces, beautiful bodies. Can we look forward to beautiful feet in the future? It's such a turn off! Gracias
Philip Linden: Tito... send me a doc with details on what beautiful feet mean to you.
Philip Linden: There are some changes in the feature voting list, I think also.
Philip Linden: Put one in.
Philip Linden: Agree they can get better.
Philip Linden: Ultimately we'll get to perfect cinematic everything!
Philip Linden: Hah!
Philip Linden: BTW.....
Philip Linden: do you know how fast the in-world economy is growing?
Philip Linden: I know I'm a broken record on this...
Philip Linden: but it IS really cool.
Philip Linden: The current growth rate, in GDP PER CAPITA, is 1100% per year.
Benny Night: (via Jeska Linden) Are there plans to take Linden public?
Philip Linden: The average amount of money spent in buying stuff from each other (none to LL) is $80/month!
Jeska Linden: might've been lost -- Jeri Zuma: Any progress in ways to support very large attendance at events?
Philip Linden: Yeah.... that is about 100X china.
Philip Linden: Also our overall GDP per capita is just passing china as well.
Philip Linden: OK back to the Q's.
Philip Linden: Large attendance at events...
Philip Linden: we are also working on that.
Philip Linden: Main problem is that the sims slow down with lots of people on them...
Philip Linden: hence the 40 limit.
Philip Linden: We are going to try and improve the 'interest list' in 1.7 to improve that number.
Philip Linden: I can't say how much, cause we haven't tested.
Philip Linden: But, yes, that is a huge priority, and also a 'bug' for many.
Olmy Seraph: (via Jeska Linden) Does LL do any live usability testing of SL, and if not why not? Would you consider instituting it so we can get data to help improve the SL user experience?
Philip Linden: We do user tests, yes.
Philip Linden: But I'm not sure what sort of tests are meant specifically by that question.
Philip Linden: the preview grid is, we think, the most powerful form of user testing.
John Wallaby: (via Jeska Linden) What will be the policy on communication between the regular and teen grids via communication services such as Nexcom?
Philip Linden: Communication between teen and main grids through SL services will not be allowed.
Philip Linden: That is a good question... I suppose one could use a third party tool.
Philip Linden: I'll take that question to robin.
Philip Linden: It doesn't seem safe in general, and I suspect we should not allow it.
Philip Linden: we don't want anyone able to talk into teen SL.
Lex Neva: (via Jeska Linden) The feature voting system is an interesting idea, but it's kinda flawed. Everyone rushe din to spend their votes at the start, and now any new propositions, good or bad, languish on the second or third page. Votes aren't being returned very
Jeska Linden: . esult, the only features voted highly are the ones that were in the system when everyone got there. Can this be addressed?
Philip Linden: votes will be returned as we move features into development.
Philip Linden: Like for example the paypal votes returned to folks yesterday... we are going to have that done in the next couple weeks.
Philip Linden: I think that is the right process.
Philip Linden: also folks can change votes to reflect changing priorities,
Philip Linden: which we want to see captured as well,.
Eboni Khan: (via Jeska Linden) My Question: The price for Lindens on GOM is over $4.24. Does LL have any plans to get the price of Lindens back to the $4 level?
Philip Linden: I'd like to see the prices stable, yes.
Philip Linden: They have been trending up.
Philip Linden: We will watch and make changes if it seems needed. Right now they've not been going up for long,
Philip Linden: so I think it is possible this is temporary.
Philip Linden: We will try and be very careful about steering things too much.
Philip Linden: Voter turnout is high...
Ontay Drago: (via Jeska Linden) will there be a GOM or IGE in the teen SL, and how will we get them there since we dont want adults in the teen grid?
Philip Linden: we have about 2000 voters,
Philip Linden: and about 26,000 users.
Philip Linden: but in a typical month,
Philip Linden: there are something under 20K folks using SL.
Philip Linden: So I'd say that is a very good turnout. I'd like to see even more.
Ontay Drago: (via Jeska Linden) will there be a GOM or IGE in the teen SL, and how will we get them there since we dont want adults in the teen grid?
Philip Linden: Our thinking is that money will work the same in teen grid and main grid,
Philip Linden: and teens can use GOM same as anyone.
Philip Linden: we can secure that transaction path easily.l
Philip Linden: We'll approve an account of some kind for the banks in the teen grid.
Philip Linden: We haven't done that yet.
Philip Linden: But it seems like the right way to do it.
Cubey Terra: (via Jeska Linden) When can we expect enforcement of community standards with regards to abusive ejection scripts over land
Philip Linden: No... only people or services we are able to background check.
Philip Linden: And certainly on an as needed basis.
Philip Linden: So nexcom wouldn't be OK if it allowed open communication, etc.
Brody Macdonald: (via Jeska Linden) My question is: Are we still on track to have a million subscribers by 2007?
Philip Linden: Ejection scripts... sign.
Philip Linden: sigh.
Philip Linden: I agree we need better systems there.
Philip Linden: There is a mishmash of stuff people are using,
Philip Linden: and I agree some are too agressive.
Philip Linden: I don't know what the right answer is.... but I will think about it and see if we can come up with something.
Philip Linden: Probably there is some feature work we will need as well.
Dione Jacques: (via Jeska Linden) hi yes i have a question, why does inventory take so long to load? is this gonna be fixed in the future?
Philip Linden: We are on track in terms of subscribers, yes.
Philip Linden: Still growing very fast.
Tena Keegan: (via Jeska Linden) Are they going to at least allow mentor's to go help newbie kids..or is that going to be a whole new group?
Philip Linden: Inventory loading...
Philip Linden: OK
Philip Linden: So we load inventory now at a fixed speed.
Philip Linden: I believe several entries per second.
Philip Linden: The really huge inventories are more than 10K objects,
Philip Linden: and those take like 5 minutes to fully load,
Philip Linden: and are several megabytes of data.
Philip Linden: I suspect that we need to limit the size of inventories in some way,
Philip Linden: or provide some sort of other mechanisms for storing things.
Philip Linden: The amount of data is just too huge. There isn't a way to really load them,
Philip Linden: even on broadband,m
Philip Linden: for the really huge ones.
Philip Linden: OK, I will publish some data on how much space in in inventories.
Kage Seraph: (via Jeska Linden) What's the plan with respect to zoning?
Philip Linden: We think zoning is best done by you,
Philip Linden: through group ownership, rentals, etc.
Philip Linden: We will add more features to support that.
Philip Linden: We don't feel like WE should be doing much zoning.
Philip Linden: SL is too big... we wouldn't really be able to.
Scooter Ludd: (via Jeska Linden) Whats the possiblity of getting windows media supported in movie control?
Philip Linden: Windows media isn't very cross platform, so I don't think we'd be too inclined to support it.
Philip Linden: I agree that more formats would be great though.
cua Curie: (via Jeska Linden) Its been stated that Havok2 will be implemented for version 1.7. What changes will this make to Second life? Where have you decided to allocate the extra server resources it will provide?
Philip Linden: Havok2 is not a panacea for everything.
Philip Linden: It will stop many of the server crashes we are having,
Philip Linden: by fixing probs with physical objects,
Philip Linden: and it will open the door to some cool new capabilities in vehicles, etc.
Philip Linden: But it won't, by itself, free up tons of server resources...

Thanks for posting that. That really was a very superficial town hall, wasn't it. Kind of pointless.

Hmmm . . . he doesn't seem aware of the problems posed by the new events system. And I think the question about feet may have had to do with high heels. I think I voted for that proposition.

You know, this whole voting and features thing is a wonderful idea, even if it isn't quite up to par yet. Developers seem to really live in a different world from the people who play the games, and the features voting is a good way to bridge that abyss, and give them a better idea of what we really care about. More games should do that!

coco

hanks Toy and Ulrika. I have to agree that was a very shalklow town hall...not much to get out of it and everything was basically...I'll have to check with Robin on that. Seems like it would have been better if Robin did the town hall.

Talen funny you should say that Robin was on FairChang Island for most of the event. She seemed to have more answers than Philip did. I must also say that I was pleased to hear that any adults on the kiddie grid would be subjected to a background check before they were allowed on the kiddie grid. Yup I feel a hell of a lot better about it now.

Rumor was that Philip was on vacation during the event and had drank his dinner so there ya go LOL.

Cat

I don't think phillip should give town hall meetings anymore. Robin seems to be more versed in the day to day of the business and inworld problems. If he was on vacation he should have waited till he came back or left it to robin. A lot of people have questions and they should be better addressed than saying I'll check on it all the time.

I'm still clueless as to why there was even a town hall.....what was the message? what were we supposed to get out of it?

I wasn't able to get on at all. *sniffle*

No questions about bringing back free drag (optional or not). Rawr. Grr.

*eats New Jersey in a huff*

Anyone have a local transcript? Some questions that were asked out in the open are missing from repeater ones.