REALLLY Easy Bug fix for auto-fly.

Dear Lindin Ppl,
Hello! I want to share a little nuisance that I found in Second life. When selecting a land mark and using the auto-fly button in going to that landmark, the avitar sinks lower and lower to the ground, as determined by the proprty's beacon. This is a problem, because obviously people build their houses...near the ground, and auto-fly, while sitting back and relaxing, is not possible. I would always have to fly around or above the obsticle. This is very time consuming, and definately needs reworking.

I propose an easy-to-impliment solution!!

When a user clicks the fly button, their avitar automatically flys to a decently high altitud, like 600 feet or so. Then the avitar uses the auto-fly to fly normally to the destnation. This would allow the avitars to fly over obsticles and have an eiasier time going to their destanations.

not a bad idea.... i run into this frequently too...

just have the av level off at 200m or so, fly a beeline to the landmark, and then if the landmark was set on the ground or on a primitive or whatever, the avatar just lowers to where the landmark was set, once it's reached the X,Y coords of the landmark.

I usually work around this problem by going into fly mode and elevating myself before starting to auto-fly. It seems to work well enough, except for those times I don't elevate myself high enough to clear every one of those massive towers in the way.

Ok, so the pattern is clear...you can fly as high as you want initially when you start out. The moment you cross a Sim border, your AV starts descending to a low flight path. Period. So you are either constantly re-elevating your av (taking him in and out of auto-flight mode) or constantly ramming into things like a bird on those red berries...sad. You'd think your Av could see the buildings coming at him. If I bump into that death tower spinner thingy outside of Hawthorne again, I'm gonna be really unhappy.

I think that if LL just turned off the "cross-sim-border-drop-flight-path" thingy, that would be a heck of a start. Even if the auto-flight doesn't raise or lower you automatically (semi-automatic flight?), the prevention of dropping could reduce stress on the flyer a lot. Additionally, if you are up high enough, you also gain the benefit of not having to rez everything in your flight path, which means people with minimal graphics cards get to keep a decent clip going while up there.

The big, ugly, series of semi-transparent, twisted cubes and other shapes, spinning incredibly fast, shooting out flames all over the place?

Yeah I'd love to see that stuff disappear somehow too.

That's the one! I spend all my time (in that area) just avoiding that thing that I never even bothered to see who owns it. Doesn't matter though. It's Outlands, and we all know, in Outlands, anything goes--annoying and dangerous or not.

Just as a tangential note. As a developer, I just love when testers tell me that they have a bug that should be easy to fix. It means that I will be busy for at least a week.

It's already known that the autopilot needs work, but there might be some easy tweaks that will make it work noticably better. So I filed a new bug and will look into it.