CSI Influx into SL Tomorrow Night - Did you get these notecards?

So, are you saying that there are just four sims that are repeated in such a manner as to end up with 440 sims (110 clumps of 4 sims)?

Maybe, I can't really comment on the lag part since my puter isn't all that great

I still usually get 10-15 fps in most places though and this was visibly worse, mostly because of the heavy texture use in some areas.

I've just flown in and had a look. When the island eventually loaded ... the build is decidedly under-impressive. I had to turn my draw distance right down to 100 just to be able to move. It certainly didn't encourage me to want to search out what else was on the island. Maybe die-hard CSI fans will be excited, but this casual one wasn't.

Sim was set with build and scripts allowed... I give it 5 minutes before the first "Jell-owned" or Mario Mosh Pit appears.

Broccoli

Requested? As opposed to paid for?

It wouldn't shock me to learn that ESC received a lot of free service in this. From LL's perspective they could justify it by the expectation of lots of new paying customers. But this approach is foolish.

LL should work on making the SL experience more fulfilling before they gift their sheep buddies with all this Linden aid in numbers-generating schemes. I'm not talking about bug-fixing, either. I'm not going to bust their chops over bugs. I trust they're working on that.

Sl is *ugly*. Spinning, glowing, for-sale ugly. What are these 150,000 new visitors going to do? Just how many sheep-steered properties are there for them to entertain themselves with? They will soon experience the truth of SL. It's for sale. It spins. It glows. It's full of empty malls and clubs.

Perhaps LL's resources and sheep's talents would be better spent making pretty places that aren't commercially encumbered. Or if there's going to be steering of the newbies, maybe it should be to existing beautiful places that people created without LL help. You know, the kinds of places that the newbies could hope to create themselves some day.

Nah. As long as they sign up and shop at onrez all is well, right?

The SL equivalent of "Copy Paste" it seems.

Broccoli

Because I'm not interested in bringing in outside corporations to SL. Because I'm always coming at this from the point of view of the indigenous player/resident/shopowner. And because I don't want to work for someone else.

Anyway, they would not want to hire me, for reasons having nothing to do with skill-sets.

coco

I can never see coco's lips going where ESC would require them to go to work for them.

Don't blame me!! I think I am being joshed about with a tad here, don't you?

LOL

You have integrity.

You have skill.

You care more about the quality of the product than the money.

Three good reasons why you wouldn't fit in with them.

Broccoli

ESC has the talent and design down pact--I wouldn't just judge a build unless I put myself in their shoes and asked why they made specific choices.

It may be--like previously mentioned--that they are trying to keep sim-assets manageable so the lag is low...wait, scratch that, reverse it.

CSI? What is that? Is it Counter-Strike Initiative? I love playing Counter Strike!!

Definitely not the case... 16 people on this region and I am getting inventory timeout errors trying to rez stuff, 1.6% packet loss, script perf >94,000 and 5.8ms on script time.

I don't necessarily blame ESC on that ... seems more down to the SL infrastructure just not being up to the job.

Broccoli

Not overwhelmed here either. I did see a large dead bunny though

Yeah that one was easy ... Professor Plum, in the library, with the candlestick... oh hang on, am I confusing murder mysteries here?

Broccoli

Were we supposed to be evidence gathering to solve bunny's murder? I didn't listen to any of the audio streams, maybe I should have, but the place didn't grab me enough to stay.

Except the lag isn't particularly low and the entire build is full of texture flickering, seams, overlap, mismatched texture offsets and some things that don't even make sense.

Those aren't design considerations but sloppy mistakes and carelessness. If it was part of an RP resident-build I probably would be impressed that someone spent all that time and effort on it, but ESC are supposed to be a highly skilled, well-paid 3D modellers and it just doesn't show.

I wandered over to the SL page of the CSI:NY website and giggled a little.

"On October 24, Detective Mac Taylor chased a murderer, Venus, into Second Life. She's on the loose, and her virtual body count is rising. Track her down before she kills again!"


Sure what's her last name? I'll just use search!

It's not Mrigesh, is it?

LOL!

Venus was her name? Yay go 80's classic!

Broccoli

lol...my goodness.

ESC is filled with some of the most skilled citizens in Second Life. Also, they do have integrity...that's an out-and-out slanderish thing to say. I bet you know very little about the company and who works for them...if you did, you certainly wouldn't make such ludicrously ignorant claims.

Go to their website..and truly read for once in your life. Visit their builds and then tell me they don't have talent.

Integrity? "Sheep Bot"? You are kidding, right?

They might have 'some' of the most skilled citizens of SL - but there are many thousands of as - and more - talented people out there quietly getting on and doing their thing.

I know enough about them to know I wouldn't work for them if they begged me.

Broccoli

I just came from CSINY North 2. I cruised around the 4 sims a bit. I'm not going to critisize the builds or anything but I do questoin the chances of anyone having a low-lag experience on them.

There were maybe a dozen avatars on one of the sims and it was anything but low-lag. Seems a shame to me that what could potentially be good for SL (influx of new players, maybe boost the economy, etc) will probably alienate most simply because of poor performance.

No matter what, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

This sounds like tube envy, the TV tube is jealous of the computer tube

the tv is trying to get people who dont watch tv to kinda care- i dont watch csi since i saw one show where the camera followed the bullet into the person and <<gross gross horror eew>>

plus it feels like the society is being exposed to an excessive amount of military/cop shows/court shows. Im tired of tv where somebody needed to call 911. somebody is dead or somebody is being sued or shot

the people who think up tv are running out of ideas- they are cursing now and still nobody is watching

Just because Stephen King used to kick out mammoth sized novel every year doesn't make him any less respected or talented. Same goes for ESC. It's really easy to sit and point your finger and chastise...just like it's easy for critics to bash a movie--but in the end the best response is, "Oh, Ok...well, let's watch YOUR movie...and we'll...you've never made a movie...how convenient."

It's not their fault they were driven by a larger engine than the majority of us. They shouldn't be judged negatively for being run by genuine overachieving visionaries. What they have is a solid goal...and they are achieving that goal...god bless them. And they are employing a lot of cool, talented SL citizens to work with them.

What have you got against them anyhow? What negative symptoms are you personally displaying because of ESC?

And no...I don't work for them. But I certainly support content creators with as much gusto as them.