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Looking ahead: making Mature sims vanish

Aodhan McDunnough
Gearhead
Join date: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 1,518
08-07-2006 06:18
Adding onto the concepts presented in these two Answers posts

"Banning unverfied from Mature sims"
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"Unverifed or banned should not be able to gain access from outside parcel"
/139/04/126777/1.html

and this thread

"Jillian Callahan's pocketspace privacy proposal"
/108/b2/115554/1.html

I'm taking a look forward to the time when mature sims will be restricted to verified residents.

If simple banning is going to happen then unverifieds will have a pretty serious problem moving about especially if the mature sims interleave checkerboard fashion with PG sims. The unverified resident will not be able to cross diagonally from PG sim to PG sim. He will have to TP practically everywhere.

Furthermore, with just banning, nothing stops a resident (possibly a kid) from seeing the billboard images that are in the mature sim.

Hence it would be better to make the Mature sims vanish from the view of the age-unverfied.

Merging the mature sim restriction ideas with Jillian's pocketspace idea we can get a very interesting synergy with dramatic results.

The pocketspace approach at the per-parcel level affords perfect privacy. Take it to the sim level and you can make entire sims disappear to those who are not supposed to see it. That is, the unverified won't see anything of the Mature sim except the terrain, and the mature sim occupants will not see the unverified. This way unverifieds can still traverse mature sims to get from point to point, but without seeing or interacting with anything.

The less data that has to be transmitted, and the less objects that appear, the lower the lag gets.

So the combination of filters gives us:
1. Options for perfect privacy
(all visible, only buildings visible, all invisible)
2. True mature content restriction at the parcel/sim level
(must be verified to view or access mature content)
3. Unverified has unhampered movement.
(can fly through mature sims without seeing anything and is not seen by sim occupants)
4. Lessened lag and bandwidth requirements
(less items transmitted = less bandwidth needed)

What's your take on this?
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
08-08-2006 11:17
Hi Aodhan, I think there's some fascinating avenues here I don't have the words for yet. I will in months, perhaps, as things emerge--that is the way my crazy mindcircus (yes, a Way Out West reference) works.

Something directly relevant to what you mention is how a Mature region doesn't necessarily equate to Mature content. Someone could build a country cottage (not a BDSM one) in a Mature region.

We actually did look at the option of locking out "No Payment Info On File" from Mature regions, but for the aforementioned reasons, it'd be problematic and leave the grid looking like ugly Swiss cheese. So a finer, more granular method, giving control to Residents, was called upon.

"Pocketspace" is something I've written about in a similar capacity a number of times--long-term, it could possibly dovetail into some other projects like the road to "true mute", and the "non-Euclidean topography" that some really hope for.

I could make tons of references like Chris Wilde's #905:

http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=905

It's so exciting to talk about. But more than that--

Definitely a good thing to keep in mind which whets the imagination for the future to come.
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