Why does SL keep going backwards?

Coco?? Since you own alot more land than I do, why don't you host the get together..I will certainly help. Gosh we are getting some really comments in theis thread!!

Call me a cynic - but

Also, SL is not going backwards.

Dnate - that is Linden apologist nonsense and you know it.
There HAVE been times in the past when SL and the Client have worked far better than now - remember just before 1.7? Things were pretty good then. Sure, we didn't have a couple of shiny features we now have, sometimes, when they work.
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Lol you obviously don't remember how bad October - December was.

SL has been running smoother in the last few months than ever for me on the opposite side of the planet on a mid spec games machine, near 12months old. Perhaps you are too close. People can tell us Logins are totally bjorked and I can still login 3 AV's at once and teleport freely. SL did run bad for me when I first joined and it turned out to be my ADSL upgrade fixed the problem. I get all the login/TP problems if I run SL on diallup.

If it SL good continually for some and continually bad for others logical people would look at the differences. If the same people have had bad running of SL continually for 6 months it's got to mean somethings up with their system or ISP. You can ring your ISP and they will tell you all is fine of course, but change ISP's and all of the sudden everything runs better? The plan speed they sell you is a maximum speed, mine still running good is lucky to make half that speed.

Maybe they should make V1.0 available for the oldies on their own little 9 sim grid to enjoy while the rest of us progress forward into new interesting things.

They need to still work on bugs of course, in balance and they have not been devoting enough resources too that lately, but it no reason to sack everyone working on long term projects.
If they stop adding new features, I'll go to another grid that does. Along with everyone esle that thinks more prims per metre & working vehicles are cool.

Well your half right. lower spec computers have really been hit hard. Even the mid rangs ones too. I myself had to rebuild my system after a 80% meltdown a few weeks ago ( was not even 1 1/2 system i buildt it ( 6 month when i replaced the cpu again ). With all the crashing the UI has caused its nowaonder systems are breakingmore offen.

as my system stands now.

CPU: AMD (6000+ amd am) (3015 MHz)
Memory: 2047 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 7900 512MB

100m up ans down fiber optic internet connection ( and yes i really have this connection )

Hmm well I have a 2.2 MHz Dual core Intel chip & mother board, 2Gb RAM, GeForce 7900, XP SP2 and a 20M ADSL connection. I did have trouble with neding more than one go to TP earlier today, and have crashed twice and saw half a sim dissappear infront of me then reappear2 minutes later

This is hilarious and it has made my day. "Lindened" has just become part of my vocabulary!!

The question, why are the going backwards is complex. From a technological stand point, I can't answer. I'm an idiot when it comes to technology. I do have some ideas on thesocial/business aspects of it.

1. They have created a runaway train. LL has created something wonderful, truly wonderful. Even their biggest critics hope passionately for their success. I don't think they anticipated or prepared for this level of success. I don't know, but I think their plan is to either to sell SL for a great amount of money OR get major investment dollars into LL. Both of these goals are legitimate, worthy and realistic. However, they have focued on a monomaniacal lust for numbers to achieve this. The lust for numbers could very well strangle their dream. They don't know how to deal with it, although there are relatively simple solutions.

2. Even if they can but the brakes on the runaway train, they won't. These people are not stupid. They know competition will hit them sooner or later. We all know it to. Its a matter of time until someone, some how, some where comes up with something that works better, both technologically [e.g. stable platforms, no tp issues, inventory loss etc.] and socially [e.g. stricter TOS rules such as protection against land bot, sheep bot, financial scamming]. I THINK they believe if they can keep the thing band aided together and keep adding numbers until they find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they will be ok in the end. They may well be right on this.

3. Customer service or lack thereof. Dealing with irritated customers is not fun. I believe most of the Lindens are kind of "techie" oriented and they like coding and making things. The customers are beginning to irritate the Lindens and its easy, right now, to silence everyone, or more accurately, put ear muffs on so they don't hear the complaints. Realistically, as long as they are the only game in town, this will work. It won't work forever though.

4. Its more fun to make new features than to fix bugs. This is related to #3. The techies are creative people, in their own way, and coming up with bright, shiny "gee whiz" new features is simply more rewarding than fixing bugs in the system. Until they come up with a way to adequatly reward those who fix the bugs, this isn't going to change.

5. They never anticipated the level of scamming that could go on. Who could? This is entrirely new. The reasonable desire to not be "law enforcement" officers in SL combined with perhaps an over respect for clever coding has made them blind to the many abuses that have and can occur.

6. They didn't realize the amount of users who would use SL as purely a social experience. I believe they envisioned a world populated by technologically sophistocated people who would essentially solve their own problems and, at the same time, not be terribly bothered by problems that really irritate those of us who are not so techie in outlook. Its almost like two different cultures and they dont seem to be able to "get" the non techie culture. Its like this. A former boy friend used this example. When he wants to drill a hole in a piece of wood, we wants to get his drill, put a drill bit thingy in it, and drill a hole!! period. He doesnt want to re-wire the drill and try different sized drill motors and change the plug and all that stuff. He just wants a HOLE now!! The Techies LIKE rebuilding the drill. Re building the drill is MORE important than the hole.

Here's where they're going, some possible destinations:

1. Their plan may work. Keep it together until the big money comes in, either through sale or investment. Then who knows?

2. They drive it off the cliff, strangling on their own numbers.

3. Competition arrives, then we have sub choices:
a. They get REALLY scared and start actually fixing bugs, listening to customers and generally behaving like most succesful companies. Aol went through this.

b. They lose and become the Commodore64 of 3D virtual worlds. "Oh yeahhhhh, I remember SL..it was cool while it lasted but [fill intheblank] was soooo much better."


Sooner or later, LL and SL will come to the cross roads. Are we close? I have NO idea, but it will come..someday. If they make the smart decisions, they will survive and I hope they do. They deserve a huge amount of success!! If they don't make the smart decisions, they will not survive and we all be the poorer for it. I wish them luck, but tend to be pessimistic. Their own corporate culture seems ill suited for listening to voices other than their own.

i had a 4400 110 watt amd for 6 months until resent issues with this badly coded IU causes a muck for me. I gave up on it because it seems that LLABs is gearinf for higher end systems then mid range. I thought the 7900 GTX extreem 512 was going to last me until atleast sumer. That is when i was going to build my new computer. I had those issues you having now. finally my system came in and a meltdown occured.

i sure hope it does not happen to you

Usagi

Damn you Jinxed me , my graphic card died this afternoon, turns out it's a 7600, I near burnt my fingers on it getting it out, so I put my old dodgey 6600 back in and it's shut the computer down twice while on the grid, similar to what it did on the old machine, so new bigger better fan cooled graphic card tommorrow.
Although my TP problems seem to be related specifically to going in and out of my sim as I described in another post here.

My experience with the new patch....download....log in....five seconds pass....crash to desktop.....log in......about five minutes pass....disconnected......log in....about five minutes pass....crash to desktop.....log in....about three minutes pass.....crash to desktop.....give up

I cannot think of one way in which SL is superior to how it stood when I first joined almost a year ago, and numerous ways in which it is worse.

To me SL just seems to be going backwards in terms of features, stability and reliability. Surely a year's worth of work should see some improvement???

That is key. The viewer a year ago didn't work, hence the updates. Just because you can't see the bigger picture doesn't mean that SL is not being improved. There are still bugs out there, and sometime when they fix one thing, 2 more things come out. It is not that there are more bugs, just different bugs. I for one and glad I am still not stuck with what I had 3 years ago. SL works much better now then it has in the past.