How to identify potential sims lag for land being considered? + more

Hi,

I'm considering going for my "first land" but wondering how to check/ensure:

a) LAG - whether there are potential sims lag issues (i.e. busy land)? How would I tell?

b) Popularity of the location? - do you have to login periodically and check map for this?

c) Distance from transporter? - I guess you can check this yourself, but is it possible to put your own transporter in on your own plot? i.e. so people can go directly there?

d) Height - are there any height restrictions on what you can build? i.e. I see land advertised in 2D (m2) not in 3D?


tks

a) all sims can lag. Stay away from popular clubs and shops (anything with over 10k in dwell, generally).

b) not sure what you mean by this.

c) That'll be moot in a few weeks, as p2p teleporting will be here for all. Double click, et voila, you're home.

d) The highest you can build is 768m, assuming you have the prims for it. To reach it, you'd need a minimum of 76 prims to go from sea level to that level.

LF

Thanks
Re a) - can I ask what you mean by dwell? 10k in dwell?

Re b) - I was just referring to how to guage whether the land is a parcel that will have people passing through it generally - perhaps this is not wise anyway as if a nearby plot is popular there could be lag?

Dwell is how popular places are measured. Click the "popular places" tab in the find menu. The place name, and the numbers to the right of it, show how popular certain places are. Generally, if you want a lag-free sim, stay away from them when buying a home.




There's always the possibility of lag. Find a quiet sim (usually on the edge of the world, for the moment), and you should be good to go.

Lordfly, when he says "dwell," means traffic. The geezers still call it dwell, because that is what they called it back in the day.

To be fair, though, even midbies like me prefer the term dwell in conversation, from what I have noticed.

thanks guys

STFU noob!
Why, back in my day, people didnt give out dwell points automatically after 5 minutes... they had to click on the voting stations! And we liked it!

And this, kiddaroos, has been another lesson from oldetimer Eggy.

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General Sim Stats with some added not readily available Sim Information:

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Wowza. There is no shame in plug, but how does it get that info? I didn't know it could be retrieved! I understand if it's top secret.

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Not a secret persay, just "Not readily available" Sim information.

And your correct, there is no LSL opcode or event that can call this information. Which is what makes my product very unique in addition to normal Statistics.

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Damn Torley!

8419 / 365 = 23 posts per day average! LoL

That's extremely ironic considering how quiet I could be as a child.

Could be?!? Meaning you still are a child? Or did you mean "used to be"?

I am crazy. I know that much. I am a child at heart still tho, however. I was potentially quiet as a child, hence the "could", which is fine for past tense. RUR RUR RUR!

Well you do have to account for the time/space recursive loop from the:

Yeah, I started staying up so I could talk to more European and Asian people on SL.

Regarding this topic, I'd like to phrase that patience wins a LOT out. If you can, find a well-established community with neighbors that've been in the area awhile and aren't going to transient out on ya. Too often, I've heard of situations where someone moves in, but then the adjacent land gets sold and some really bad neighbors just happen to arrive. Awful all 'round.

Let the contents of land settle like a box of cereal.

Yeah good advice.

Also, some good stats to look at under the normal built in SL stats HUD. hehe

Objects, Scripts, Script perfs, Total Frame Time.

First 2 are pretty self explanatory. Script perfs however, refers to the number of Opcodes being done per second by the Sim. ie: ll anything is an opcode.

Total Frame Time - This measures how much time it takes the simulator to run everything that the simulator is trying to do each frame.

I even look at "Child Agents" as a big factor in Sim performance.
Child Agents are people that are not in the sim but are still in "line of sight".

Go to the below address for a more fully detailed explaination:
http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=GuideDebugStats

I've been wondering about those voting machines for the longest time! LOL

Now, I know. It was before dwell...er...I mean traffic.