Flood Day

Since the water level is different in different sims, I wonder if it is possible to change it without destroying the sim?


It would be super neat to have a special Flood Day where the water level in all sims is raised by 40-100 meters! We could explore SL in submarines, and all the boats would float up to the top.

Sounds cool to me.

Time to build an ark... does anyone know the dimensions of the ark from the bible?

The Bible lists it as being 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 high. Or at least, those were the original specs.

So Assuming they were adhered to, the ancient ("Royal" Egyptian cubit is the most likely cubit they would have used. (There have since been about a dozen different ones.) In modern terms, one "Royal" Egyptian cubit is 0.5235m or 20.61 inches.

So that's 157.05m long, 26.175m wide and 15.705m high. It's a big ship to be building out of wood, that's for sure.

the water is different heights in different sims? really?

For the technology of the day, nearly impossible, or so that's what I saw on Discovery Channel.

Yep! Not everybody notices but that is the case. If you want an example, go to Abbots and see how the water level there merges seamlessly with the outer space water. Then go over into Cardova and go to the far southwestern corner, and you'll be able to go underwtaer there, without actually going under water.


I think it's possible in the Gibson sim too but I'm not sure.


Also there's a difference in Tan on thier north border that is visible.

According to my dad, according to the bible, Noah took about three hundred years to build the Ark. People lived longer back then.

Go to NE Gibson and look over at Luna. Fine example of different water levels.

On the opposite side. Go down to the southern sims and use debug to remove the water and marvel at the vast canyons and boats suspended in midair.

either that or some monk in medieval times messed up carrying a 1 hehe

This would be neat. I remember way back in the day on TinyTIM for one April Fool's they "flooded" the MUSH. The water would move from room to room pushing people and random objects along with it until everyone was croweded into the "highest" point on the MUSH.

That sort of thing happened a lot. For example there was about twelve years lost over history. The current year is actually closer to 2016 right now.

Damn, I'm OLDer..

I think flood day is a waste of time for a very busy LL that needs to focus on things we need fixed as opposed to things we want. Maybe flood day someday, but I hope LL does not waste its time on this anytime soon.

That would be a total blast, Relee. I wonder if it's possible.

well i would agree flooding probably isn't worth the linden time to invest right now with so much other pending stuff thats been building since the last semi-update 3 weeks ago.
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but it would be a *GREAT* way to someday introduce an actual *WEATHER* engine for the game.


i mean okay partly cloudy and 72 is fine, NINE days out of 10.... but somedays it really does need to really cloud up and rain, or snow, or fog up, or be really really windy... or jus in general be cruddy... otherwise how can you appreciate just how nice the other days are


i mean honestly i know people love the sun, but when ya get 300 straight days of it i think *ANYONE* would be looking to the little clouds, hoping for *SOMETHIN* to start comin down

and it wouldn't have to be like the whole world at once... it'd be cool to have 'weather' occasionally that would move west to east, like one sim per virtual day (hour and a half)

plus it would be a great way to get SL more 'seasonal' aka snowing in the winter, more common april showers... the occasional summer rumbler, or the in game trees leaves changing in fall and non-evergreens thinning abit for winter

i think to the best of peoples' guesstimations its somethin on the order of 5 years off (assumin yer usin heavenly birthdates as yer general marker) given that there was a recorded supernova star like near the end of september in 5BC that would have made one hell of a star of david

(im not 100% sure on the date but know there was a specific date pegged that that star in exactly the right part of the sky.. went supernova and it seems just like too much of a coincidence (and the fact that its not like someone went 'ooh yeah and in 5bc there was another really bright star suddenly over there too but we didn't think much of it at the time)

LOL! Yes, I remember that too. It actually filled up the "lowest" point of the MUSH first. Man, I can only imagine the things we'd see if we could get R'nice coding over here.

Do you suppose that Linden has anything planned for April 1st?

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Yup. My friends in Phoenix looked forward to the Monsoon season for very similar reasons. Likewise, my family in the Pacific northwest really look forward to the sunnier drier summer months after having nearly non-stop rain for six months!

Anyway, Sims with weather would be fun. Even better if it produced ground drainage effects and flash flooding and the like. (Haha, yeah, me and what supercomputer on that one, but... it WOULD be cool! ).

So. Who will be the first to build a sim-sweeping multiple-coordinated-40m-build tsunami that pushes avs and physics-enabled objects ahead of it from one corner of the world to the other?

...and get away with it?

...without being banned?