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Estate Visibility question

Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
11-29-2006 12:23
From: someone
* Estate visibility
** The estate visibility concept is simplified to just access permissions
** All classifieds and events are now viewable regardless of estate location on the grid. The Teen Grid and Main Grid are still separate.
** All regions within a grid now viewable, regardless of estate
** Online status is no longer hidden based on visibility of an estate
Under the previous releases, if a sim owner or estate manager made a sim "invisible", you could not see it from adjacent sims. Will this still be the case? Or will the "invisible" sim just have sim-wide ban lines and you can still see everything?

The sims I manage don't usually use the "invisibility mode", but we have done so in the past, for some special occasions. I would hate to think that if I set a sim into "invisible mode" to ensure the privacy of the guests at a special event, that someone could now stand in the sim next door and play peeping tom, sending cameras into the sim and doing Gods only know what else to invade or annoy the guests and paying customers.

So, please clarify. If two private sims are side by side on the grid, and "Sim A" is set to invisible, will someone in "Sim B" still be able to look into "Sim A"?

If it is now impossible to prevent someone outside a 'secured' private sim from spying on what is going on inside, that would be most unfortunate. That has been the only TRUE privacy in SL. Please tell me we haven't lost that, just for the sake of making a map update faster.
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
12-01-2006 06:24
I haven't had the luxury of time to check on this myself, I'm asking for more info... :)
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