Grid Shut Down?

Oh wow....it's already 2 hours that "something unexpected has gone wrong" and I can't log in.

And I don't have much hope that I can log in, when I read that Novis has been trying over 4 hours already *sighs*.

This is no fun, guess I should just get some sleep. No L balance can't upload and make things

lol I would like to confirm that the post made by Yuriko Nishi is indeed 100% accurate and quite possibly the best post ever made.

Try 2am SLT yesterday.

I've just logged in, to see I have only three friends, two called "Waiting" and one called "Hippos"; and a nice healthy bank balance of L$Loading...

Broccoli

My Rez-Faux box is dead. the anchor script is OK but the rezzer script seems to be killed. If that's a permanent situation i might as well kiss bye-bye to my treehouse & prefab business as well as any personal building projects.

The Dns Problem started saturday afternoon, I posted a thread "This will solve Login Problem" and this worked for a lot if not most people.

If it does not work then you can also try these DNS numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

These 2 numbers are free through OpenDNS.com and should work for everyone, I think.

But, and a big but, I have been in all day and most of yesterday building, I could (upto 3.00am PDT) upload but thats not working now, I have a Balance so that helps, but cant spend it, search, map, IM and tp dont work, dont know about chat cause no one is online to talk to, but I can fly and build............

So, thanks LL, I managed to catch up on a lot of unfinished stuff today while I could work totally uninterrupted. But, nothing else works.

tey logging into different sims and see if that works ..i have taslked to people in game and they are geting in trying different sims..

Sims or AVs err.........

I though a sim was a region of land!

Strongly suggest you avoid rezzing no-copy items, as I have had a number of 'failure to rezz' messages, after which the items in question have disappeared - pouf! - gone! - instant inventory loss! Fortunately, nothing hugely valuable - which doesn't stop it being hugely annoying - but that might not be the case for everyone.

Yes I lost one yesterday evening like that as well -- also luckily nothing valuable.

You may get lucky with the no copy items. This happened to me a few days ago, items didn't rezz, weren't in my inventory, then there were rolling restatrts and such like and the no copy items were back in my inventory so fingers crossed.

So far, five and a half hours of no chance in hell. Glad to see though it's only us lowly Germans who have the problem. *cackles*

I think that is one of my bigger problems - the attitude of "oh, yeah, that happened a lot in Germany, but over here, everything's fine, ta-daah!". A lot of Germans blow a lot of money and publicity into SL, so I find it odd (to put it mildly) that they dismiss such a big user base. But hey, I guess it doesn't matter if they piss Anshe Chung off (who happens to be German...)

Takes 10 attempts to log in, no money, no tps, no balls working. When will LL ever listen to residents when they say can we please have a stable platform before adding new things to SL?

Search is still down, map doesn't work, friends list is inop, money is loading....., SLex has stopped allowing purchases, profile is blank, but guess what does work?

Voice!

Outta stupidity (or curiosity, you decide) I decided to log in. Got in just fine, but the money isn't showing and screw the map. Teleporting? *falls over laughing*

So much for setting up the rest of my Onrez vendors while the grid is 'quiet'.

*wipes away tears of hysterical laughter*

From what i seen, anything that uses a listener is borked right now. So blue dialog menues (llDialog) is completely out of the question. If you use teleporters or any other gadget or device that requires you to speak and it responds, or uses blue dialogs, your best bet is to not use it.

The grid is a freaking mess. That's what it is.

I don't understand why LL doesn't just shut the entire grid down when nothing is working. What is the point of going into SL at the moment when you can't even TP anywhere. Only thing to do is chat, IF there happens to be anyone around your area.

Then people will complain about that.

Sometimes, we just need to sit back, get things in perspective, and remember that we're lucky that Second Life exists in the first place.

Broccoli

Broc that is Okay-atttude to have BUT when you pay what some of us pay it is really annoying to NOT be able to move around and to be constantly hampered by changing policies and collapsing grid.
It is a bit like saying "Yo! You're NOT good at your job but at least you're not on welfare."

shut the grid down, give it a rest! it hasn't had to run for this long without downtime in...how long now?
take it down for a couple hours, defrag those bad boys, and fire it up again!
seriously, i'll take a 2.5 hour downtime over one more minute of having the most system-intensive IM system known to man

My other account pays $50 a month for land and premium... I'd really not get into a 'I pay more than you do' pissing match.

Broccoli

I think I'd rather open SL and see "Grid Offline" than to log in, vainly hoping that for the first time today I'll finally be able to get ANYWHERE other than the shop I had to logout from last night, because I couldn't TP when I left around 11pm EST.

I can't TP. My money won't load. My friends list won't load. I tried to fly out of the area, only to end up in odd, empty places that I probably don't belong, but am stuck in because for whatever reason I can't fly any further. If I log and come back, I will be at the same bloody store I left from last night. And what sucks about that is it's not even a decent store. I've tried the SLUrl method, to no avail. I am utterly stuck.

I know how everyone reacts to grid outtages is different. For those of you who've been SLing for years, this probably feels like a minor, normal hiccup...no big deal. But for those of us who are newer, who have had inventory eaten by SL for no apparent reason, and can't talk to any of our friends and can't move around the world, it's really, really frustrating. Especially when we're not getting any new information on what's happening, or when it'll be better.

And I don't know where I'm even going except to say I'm pissed that I can't see my friends, I can't collect my week's pay, and I'm in a place I've never been before and probably shouldn't be. Alone. Able to do absolutely nothing. And I'm even more pissed that I've spent IRL money on items that went *poof*! That really sucks.

So, anyone else near Ocean Dove Island 2, in Bouraq??

I wasnt refrring to you Broccoli - I suspect YOU are a paying member. I refer to fact that we are overloaded with NON-paying members.I still think the population explosion has much to do with issues we experience here.
YOU obviously have an interest in sl since you often on Answers. We may never agree with each other BUT You are not who I was referring to in the sense You inferred.
My apologies.