offline mode

Im sick of getting griefed in sandboxes.... Wouldnt it be cool if you could do your building in an offline inviroment or even over lan or private rooms so u can share the workload, then upload your work into the main game? Im not tecnically up to scratch with the SL client to even know if this is nearly possible, but I thought I'd put it out there.

Not currently possible with SL's present architecture.

LF

I have thought that kind of thing would be neat too.

The concern I have is that creative types (like myself) that spend a lot of their time building, scripting, etc. would spend ever increasing amounts of thier time off-world in their private space. I think this would hurt the community over time and tend to change the entire concept of Second Life as a living dynamic world populated by people creating things in real-time.

Instead, I would prefer to see Linden Labs address the reasons people have asked for this kind of thing (the need for privacy, reduced lag/greifing) with new in-world features instead of giving us a Third Life, off-grid.

But that is just my $0.02. I do share your frustration with grifers.

Persephone Milk

Ya I would like to know why it seems that community standards are left at the door of the sandboxes.. it clearly says NO SHOOTING on the sign in the island sandbox, yet its like WW3 in there.. I get bounced regulary enough for it to be an irritant... why SHOULD I have to resort to building 100m in the air so they dont bother griefing? I appreciate that advise but it sux having to resort to it.

If you sit on a prim, you can't be moved. Ever. Same for the ground.

The sandbox is a pit of griefing hell. I always build at least 300m up.

LF

Use MY sandbox dammit Richina!

Good advise allround

i'm creating something that could help you with your problem.
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Not for sale yet.

I plan to test this theory, now that the Game Dev Comp is finally done with. I want to build a system that allows building in Blender and importing to SL via XMLRPC.

Seems doable in my opinion; just haven't had time to put toward that. Until now. Anyone else working on similar projects?

Obligatory 2000th post. Carry on.

Hey, that looks really cool! Bravo! I really want one.

They could release "private islands" in smaller sizes than the normal sim sized island, run multiple islands (the smaller islands) on the same server on their end, and charge an higher tier fee for the private island than the normal tier fee for the same amount of square meters. Ie.. I could buy a 4096 square meter private island and have the same terraforming and land options as those on private sims. My island wouldn't run on it's own dedicated machine at LL though. It would be shared with several others.

Make sense? I'd love to see this. How feasible would it be?

*edited to add* I think buying such an island should be through order.... just like sim islands. Otherwise they'd just be taken over by land barons, split into parcels, and become nothing other than smaller versions of the mainland.

Probably not at all. I'm pretty sure much of SL's architecture is built upon the assumption that sims are always 256x256 meters. Changing it would probably be way more trouble than it would be worth for LL.

This looks fantastic. Please let us know when it is ready!

I have my own little lot with enough breathing room for light sandboxing... for MYSELF.
All you broke suckers need to tier up, put something back into the 'economy'. Then you can implement your own security measures(selective tp-kill, etc).

As for sandboxes, build in Newcomb, script HIGH in goguen, and never visit Island unless you're working on something potentially dangerous.

In fact, (private) sims should come in all sizes and shapes.
And I still think there should be ocean plain sims around the mainland (kinda like the current lakes / inner seas that LL has started creating to fill in the "holes" in the continent), these would be running on the same few servers.

But I digress... Follow Burke's advices. You can also find many islands where build is enabled and autoreturn is off. As long as you're not going to build a 200m space cruiser or 5k prims castle there and not going to drop the sim's fps down to 0.2, it should be OK (but asking the landowner first might be a good idea). There also are such sims or large parcels, owned by Gov Linden, in the mainland

I think some might be missing the point of having this. I have a fairly large parcel of land, over 4k. I want to build some items that do not match the "theme" of my land. Therefore, being able to boost up into the air and build, over my land, would allow me to stay on my land, but not bother those around me with incomplete builds. I'm sure others probably have the same goals as well.