Prok is right. SL is a dog's breakfast. Why do people argue with this?

Well, Buster, I hope this isn't the usual effort to demean me by diminishing the reality of my experience, describing me as a crank who only gets nasty responses because I *am* nasty, I'm sure you wouldn't want to be doing anything personal like that, not with Pathfinder and his black hat and galoshes stomping all over this forum!

So let me try to explain why I have my point of view, which is legitimate, normal, and my experience, and you have your point of view, which is legitimate, normal, and based on yuor experience.

The reason is that when I buy land, most of the time, I don't sell it. It's easy to buy land, put a price on it, sell it. Most people just buy it and never talk to you. A few might IM you to try to get the price down, so they are nice to you (unless they're from that school of thought that says rag on a piece of land and its seller and insult them into lowering the price.)

You sell land, and you get money, and that's nice, and the transaction is brief and pleasant. You never have to think again about Gentlemen's Club, do you Buster? Hmmm....can I make you just a *teensy bit* guilty about GC Perfect 10 hmmm Buster lol? Because you sold to him, and got his money, and remained on good terms with him, but....I'm still next door to him. I've never talked to him, following my policy of waiting at least 30 days before you deal with a club problem because they usually just go away.

But...I will have to talk to him at some point if he doesn't move his odd laggy club situated amidst all these residences and stores (not malls) which want a nice residential experience. Of course we *all know* that it is his right to do WTF he wants on his land, but...

I just don't know how many neighbour-type situations you are really in where you really have to hunker down and think -- now how is this sim gonna go? I think I'm your neighbour or was in one other sim, and probably it is still in such chaos that there's no point in trying to decide all those things yet. But...explain to me your per-sim neighbour ratio experience and I can understand better what you are talking about.

Hard as it is to believe most of my game interactions with people are pleasant and productive. They give me money, I find them land and a houes or sell them land, I teach them game stuff, they give me insights into what they want, and help me understand the market better, they talk about stuff in general, I talk about stuff in general. Really, that's what it is most of the time. But there is that hard core of weird-ass troublesome too-tightly-wrapped bunch of people in the game that make at least once incident per day, or one ugly griefing build surprise a day, I find.

Har har har. I guess Pathfinder is laughing too hard over that one himself to call "offsides, Zigzag, offsides!"

Now, why am I not surprised that a socialist is thinking up a way to censor me automatically with some device?

Certainly not! I have not, nor will I ever describe anyone as a "crank".

Far from it, I have met you in-world on several occasions. Your'e actually included in the "everybody I've met".

I think it is true in life that one sees what one looks for.

Buster

Get out! I didn't know you were so fascinating.

Are you a musician, a coder, or both by trade? I'm going to guess both.

~Ulrika~

Yes, that's right, that's currently what we have now, and the game is ruled by those who place architectural accomplishment uber alles. They think that is the game, they think THEY are the game, and they think that others who can't build at that level should either just buy their buildings and shut up, or come and shop or live in their buildings and ooh and awe.

But the game is so much more than that.

And anything I ever say about buildings creating a problem is never about putting a chill on the kind of creativity you mention. Let a thousand 512s blooms with whatever people imagine. Let people then move out of that chaos to larger areas where it sorts out. Let them have some options.

You moved away from a phish tank. Well, multiple that by a zillion, and you find the game's engine -- people moving away from what they find ugly.

I see this all the time with rentals. Someone tells me passionately that they "had to move from ugly" but then they put up something that doesn't seem so different, and what they moved from doesn't seem to ugly but little things, tiny things, can get to you when you want this game to be a place to escape from real life.

Try to make it so that your escape from RL doesn't create a nightmare for others doing the same thing as you.

Wheres that bangs head against wall animation!!!! Not this again. "They, they, They, They they, they, they, they. . . . . . . . they are all wrong and I am all right!