Moving to an Openspace
Moving Fate Gardens to an openspace sim affords me the luxury of estate tools so that I can declare a covenant, work with ground textures, manage the script load, and restart the sim when necessary. The Fairchangs are willing to trust me with these tools as they’ve known me for nearly five-years, met me in real life, and observed my interest in maintaining borders and views with my neighbors. Come to think of it, that applies to several Lindens as well, however, they can never afford to trust a resident to manage a Mainland sim.
Primarily they refuse to fork the corporation (Linden Research) into a software development company (Linden Lab) and a land management company (Linden Land Ltd). LLL being an estate management customer of LL would grant invaluable feedback to the software development and grid management firm. As it is, has always been, and always shall be, the programming side of the house wins all arguments and treats the Mainland as nothing more than a giant sandbox.
Five years later, I’ve given up and am in the process of selling Mainland parcels and rebuilding the gardens in the Fate Gardens openspace on the Fairchang continent. It’s nice to finally be working with people that aren’t having to work under the Tao of No.
The sims’ performance has been phenomenal compared to warnings and predictions. I’ve been careful to maintain a prim count below half the allowance. Keeping an eye on the top scripts has helped quite a bit as well, especially when placing an item. I can clearly see if a script is eating cycles for breakfast or if a prim is causing crippling collisions. It’s a whole new world for me. LL could program the space server to group openspace sims so that they were always assigned to processors in those sets; in fact, offering that service to regular estate sims per server would help continental managers guarantee better uptime. They won’t; but they could. It would be a wonderful improvement for a minimal amount of effort.
Still, the new arrangement is working wonderfully for me and the gardens. For the first time in a long time I’m logging in and looking forward to the future. Oh heavens now I sound like Sarah Connor, better move on to the next post.