Traffic, one hit one count

Hi all,

I'd really like to see LL change the way traffic is calculated. As it is now I think camping chairs are ruining SL, the most popular sims are the one with the deepest pockets rather than the best.

When I came to SL, if you wanted somthing you did a search for it and then went to a somthing shop. We had shops for clothes, shops for prefabs, shops for all sorta of things. Now it seems like we do all our shopping at over crowded laggy Casino/mall/escort/camping(free money)/club/sex places.

When people did RL stuff they closed SL down and came back later. Now the grid is filled with people who are still putting just as much load on the servers as everyone else but who are actualy out shopping or watching TV.

I still love SL, it's just not as much fun as it used to be.

Vale

The issue with a hit system is that some places may get relatively few visitors, but those visitors stick around spending a lot of time exploring and enjoying the environment. I would like a hit system as an extra stat, might be nice for finding certain places where traffic isn't as good.

However, my current ideal system from a mixture of suggestions is:

1. Accounts contribute as follows:
   1. Premium members count most toward traffic, say 100 points a day (as a rough number, I can't remember what current values are)
      
   2. Payment info on file members contribute a small amount, say 10 points a day
      
   3. Unverified accounts contribute nothing to traffic
      
   
   
2. Points are distributed between plots visited based on the time spent on each one. So to give the full 100 points a premium acount would have to spend on SL. No plot may receive more than 10% of a person's dwell score. So if I camp somewhere for more than 2 and a half hours, it would stop getting my traffic added to its score.
   
3. All accounts would contribute toward hits as you described it, an extra stat
   
4. Dwell is brought back using traffic again as a measure with the above system.
   
5. (Dwell possibly paid for with a small tax against profits made by an account per day, and a small tax on outgoing L$ -> US$ transactions on the lindex. Say 0.5% to 1% tax on profits only; so if you made L$1000 in a day, L$10 would be taken as tax for dwell and other bonuses)