Aren't camping chairs highly inefficient?

with regards of increasing traffic, wouldn't it be easier and more controllable to make a bunch of alts and log them in to the land for like... 10 minutes each, and then log them out for the day, etc., instead of paying the same people to sit there for hours on end?

of course there're even better ways, like content that's actually popular, but as far as artificially trying to increase traffic... i don't quite get camping chairs

why??

Traffic is based on actual time spent not percentage of online time spent.

Are you sure?
I think I remember reading that each person has, say, X amount of 'traffic points' per day, and each parcel they spend over 5 minitues on gets
( mins_they_spent_on_that_parcel / total_mins_they_spent_online_that_day) * total_points_they_have_per day
points.

Meaning : if you leave an alt on a parcel for 5 mins, then log off, that means that the parcel qualifies to recieve points, and thus gets 100% of that account's daily points, which is the same amount of traffic as some other residents spending *hours* on your parcel.

Correct.

Dwell payments worked that way. Traffic if your hardly on you hardly give any points if your on alot you give lots of points. Test it with an alt.

Traffic appears to be pretty much 1 point per 5 minutes an av (other than the land owner if a single owner) spends on the plot.

It was that way whilst dwell was in operation as well, but the L$ each av "had" as dwell were split proportionately based on where they'd given their traffic points.

Ooohh, my bad. I didn't know this, thanks all. The Lindens posted a sticky thread that was 'What is dwell?' I wonder if they meant the traffic money, or the dwell points.

I've read the sticky and it's horribly confusing.

If they tell you traffic should work some other way they might be right about *should* but they're wrong with how it works in practise according to quite a few tests I've done.

Any volenteers to nag the lindens into updating their thread?

Traffic and dwell are the same thing, they just changed the name.

Yep. My tests did not coincide with the Linden's explaination of dwell either.

Traffic as it appears as a number on your parcel and dwell as it used to pay for time spent there are NOT the same thing. These days it's only the latter calculation that matters and it does NOT work the same as the old dwell calculations.