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Lefty Belvedere

Join date: 11 Oct 2004

Posts: 276

05-13-2005 13:47

I wanted to get a feel for oppinions of landowners and builders. I have been tossing around feelings of what i've heard called "ghost-town syndrome" here in-world. I seem to walk around SL lately feeling like i should be running into many more people that I actually do in sims. It almost feels like there are more builds than necessary for the population at any given time.

If you feel this way from time to time, does it effect your outlook on your builds? Does it ever get in the way of you and your ideal projects? I'm thinking it would especially effect architects of public structures such as meeting places, malls and parks. Does the scarcety of a crowd get you down sometimes?

I certainly build for the fun of it

and I enjoy spending hours in a sandbox just simply producing ideas and working with forms. I could probably build myself a metropolis and fly around in it alone and feel fine. But there is an extra kick from knowing what I build might actually be put to use.

Now i'm not talking about Times Square at lunch hour... I certainly tend towards reclusiveness but i still have an expectation when visiting a mall

And I'm often the only avi in the sim. I do think that the limitations of sims and sparse population is effecting my eagerness to build the world I'd like (even more than issues like scripts, prims, physics and other limits of the world)

I've certainly let it effect my grand plans. Despite actually securing funding, I've just put one of my sim projects on hold because i don't feel there is the necessary biomass to make my effort worth while.

any thoughts?

~Lefty

Eddie Escher

Builder of things...

Join date: 11 Jul 2003

Posts: 461

05-14-2005 05:15

Build it and they will come

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Eddie Escher
...apparently 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population here...

Eddie Escher Gadgets & Skins: Hotei and Seacliff

Cocoa Bean

The Mad Hatter of SL

Join date: 7 May 2005

Posts: 12

05-14-2005 05:30

Exactly

Zindorf Yossarian

Master of Disaster

Join date: 9 Mar 2004

Posts: 160

05-14-2005 18:57

Empty places that were intended to be popular always make me sad. But sometimes solitude is a good thing.

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Badass Ninja Penguin: Killing stuff it doesn't like since sometime in May 2004.

Lefty Belvedere

Join date: 11 Oct 2004

Posts: 276

05-16-2005 11:34

I think the feeling of solitude flying is an example of the destruction of "build it and they will come." People are building at astonishing rates and qualities. But people aren't coming...

What do you consider a sucessful build? 5 avis an hour? 100 avis a day?

shouldn't it be more like 30 avis present every hour at leaste 18 hours a day?
i dunno....

Biomass vs. Primitivemass
Lefty Belvedere Lefty Belvedere Join date: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 276	05-13-2005 13:47 I wanted to get a feel for oppinions of landowners and builders. I have been tossing around feelings of what i've heard called "ghost-town syndrome" here in-world. I seem to walk around SL lately feeling like i should be running into many more people that I actually do in sims. It almost feels like there are more builds than necessary for the population at any given time. If you feel this way from time to time, does it effect your outlook on your builds? Does it ever get in the way of you and your ideal projects? I'm thinking it would especially effect architects of public structures such as meeting places, malls and parks. Does the scarcety of a crowd get you down sometimes? I certainly build for the fun of it and I enjoy spending hours in a sandbox just simply producing ideas and working with forms. I could probably build myself a metropolis and fly around in it alone and feel fine. But there is an extra kick from knowing what I build might actually be put to use. Now i'm not talking about Times Square at lunch hour... I certainly tend towards reclusiveness but i still have an expectation when visiting a mall And I'm often the only avi in the sim. I do think that the limitations of sims and sparse population is effecting my eagerness to build the world I'd like (even more than issues like scripts, prims, physics and other limits of the world) I've certainly let it effect my grand plans. Despite actually securing funding, I've just put one of my sim projects on hold because i don't feel there is the necessary biomass to make my effort worth while. any thoughts? ~Lefty
Eddie Escher Builder of things... Join date: 11 Jul 2003 Posts: 461	05-14-2005 05:15 Build it and they will come _____________________ Eddie Escher ...apparently 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population here... Eddie Escher Gadgets & Skins: Hotei and Seacliff
Cocoa Bean The Mad Hatter of SL Join date: 7 May 2005 Posts: 12	05-14-2005 05:30 Exactly
Zindorf Yossarian Master of Disaster Join date: 9 Mar 2004 Posts: 160	05-14-2005 18:57 Empty places that were intended to be popular always make me sad. But sometimes solitude is a good thing. _____________________ Badass Ninja Penguin: Killing stuff it doesn't like since sometime in May 2004.
Lefty Belvedere Lefty Belvedere Join date: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 276	05-16-2005 11:34 I think the feeling of solitude flying is an example of the destruction of "build it and they will come." People are building at astonishing rates and qualities. But people aren't coming... What do you consider a sucessful build? 5 avis an hour? 100 avis a day? shouldn't it be more like 30 avis present every hour at leaste 18 hours a day? i dunno....

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