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Dwell payments

Jonathan Morris
Registered User
Join date: 5 Jan 2006
Posts: 66
05-25-2006 22:19
Dwell payments where ment to encourage provision of interesting places to visit. Camping chairs where a clear abuse, only encouraging the cluttering up of the sims capacity with inactive avatars.

I would like to see dwell payments reintroduced...with the dwell based on avatar activity not time. this could lead to " camping trails " but at least the campers would have to walk...and presumably would pick spots with interesing things to do.

Regards Jonathan.
Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
05-26-2006 13:07
So, "dwell based on avatar activity not time"? Hypothetically... what exactly might the mechanisms for detecting this activity be? Because you may be familiar with how anti-idle scripts are used so someone can camp in a chair for hours and hours and give the appearance of being active--when infact it's quite artificial.

I've heard some suggestions before like "measure by lines of chat" or "how far someone travels" (which implies someone is going to many parcels), but alas, they were more complex and ungainly than would be worth it for the community at large. A fun idea, but not so realistically feasible.
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