How know sim age, server, continent?

I saw someone refer to the "age" of their sim, and give a date. How do I find out this information about the sim I am in? And how do I determine if if it is a class 5 server? Are there any servers still in use except 4 & 5? And how do I know what continent I am on? I have triied looking at the inworld map function, but I just cannot see it. I have to pull back so far, that I can't tell. And if I am trying to locate the continents on the map, how do I know which ones are the Linden continents, and which groupings are actually private estates?

It's probably really obvious.

Thanks,

Princess Ivory

The only way I've found to know the age and class of any of my land is from the Estate manager (http://www.freewebs.com/magickalestates/islandborndates.htm)

I'd also be interested in knowing if it is possible for anyone besides estate manger.

Some information on mainland and others can be culled from:

http://www.slhistory.org/index.php/Sim_Histories

And to find out what other sims share your server:

http://neighbours.maxcase.info/

Region 'age' is kind of a gooey topic, because regions are nothing more than instances running on whatever hardware is available, as I understand it. Every time you restart, there's a chance you'll be on different hardware, depending what is available at that moment.

It's not like there is a physical computer specifically tied to your region, and the region itself in a software sense may have 'existed' as a differently named region prior to the current owner having control of it.

So it's kind of squishy like that. You can't really know when someone bought a region unless they tell you, though it's possible that if they deeded some land when they got it, it will have the date on the parcel.

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To determine if it is a class 4 or 5 server... to be honest, the best way is from observing its performance when it's loaded down. Totally empty class 4 and class 5 sims seem to be nearly identical, it's only under loaded conditions (or sim benchmarking) that you can really tell. Don't trust the ip address methods.

Check out Mystical Cookie's sim tools - the best way to get it is by example. You can test Caledon (class 4) -vs- Caledon SteamSkyCity (class5) to get an idea, if you like.

Also, many but not all sims at the Dallas facility are class 5 - you can tell the co-lo facility by running a traceroute on the sim ip found in the 'help' tab when you are in the sim. Google 'traceroute' for more info on that.

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To know what is an official Company controlled continent, zoom aaaaaall the way out. They are the region clusters you can still see, with their shapes kind of pasted there in the map. Sadly they aren't named in any of the views.

As for continent names, there's an ancient map made over a year ago in Caledon Highlands.

It's in the Caledon Academy for Virtual Wizardry, right at the hub, now an NCi school.

Look on the second floor, and you'll see a giant map with most of the 'official' names of the old lands, back in the Late PreMillion Age of the grid.

Nautilus and Corsica aren't yet represented, but we'll have another map at some point representing the current Age we live in.

Hi Desmond, have you guys given a name to the unnamed eastern continent on your map?

I'm just wondering as I haven't even seen a good suggestion for it yet.

We haven't, and in fact Dyne Talamasca made sure to get as many 'established' names as possible for our first one.

I'm pretty sure Dyne's map is the most complete, accurate map made in those days.

Have a peek, Torley made a snap of it back in the day!

http://torley.com/a-map-of-what-is-possible

Or search your sim at http://neighbours.maxcase.info/

A "TX" after the name means it is in Dallas, a "CALI" means California. Will also tell you how many sims are sharing your server. You cal also get that ones sharing it inworld using their free tool, as well as the last time your sim switched servers.

Darn, I was hoping someone would have named it by now. I've been calling it The Continent That Must Not Be Named, but that's only because I'm reading the Harry Potter book at the moment.

They talked about its age, then dated it?

That might be broadly offensive, if the age was less than 18.

Mari
(I'm sorry, my lunch is late an I'm kinda punchy)