On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:36:06PM -0700, Ann Otoole wrote: > $300 a month for a 20 avatar region is pretty steep and the social networking > aspects of SL are dying off since it is getting harder to have social events > of > any serious size.
Hear, hear! 20 avatars is indeed not enough. It should be possible to have 100 avatars in a region without lag (simulatorwise). That being said, I'm VERY against adding all kinds of artificial limits. Last I cammed over the sim (while dancing) and when I returned to my avie, only 3 of the 300 prims that I was wearing as attachments we still visible! Same of the other avies. Sorry, but that is unacceptable: my machine can EASILY show all those attachments (it did BEFORE I started to cam around!). Even if those prims had to be temporarily be "dropped" while I scanned an area of 512m, when the cam returned to my avatar it should have been restored to normal; and not let me be stuck with horrible looking attachments on everyone. The idea of LL to increase speed is to limit all kinds of things then PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT! What we want is increase of speed without paying in terms of less prims/tris. I'm sure that is possible, since most of the code (of the viewer) is really badly written concerning performance; I'm sure the same holds for the server, so there will be a lot of room for performance without sacrificing visible content. -- Carlo Wood <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
