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Re: SydSim - is that progress?

Pants — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:56:30 -0000

/me likes to go base jumping off the tall buildings in Sydsim :)

Don't fret Lowell; it'll come good ;)

Re: Openlife: the momentum builds

Pants — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:50:53 -0000

i spy a something made by Gumby...
hehehe

Re: The world’s most successful virtual world: Nintendo Wii

Pants — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:57:43 -0000

hey Lowell, you'll be interested to hear that MIcrosoft is releasing an update next month to the Xbox 360 dashboard that totally redesigns it to be a much more avatar centric experience.

Not the worst bandwagon to jump onto. Should be interesting.

Re: Linden Lab instigate price rises: backlash plus

Pants — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:22:44 -0000

hey Diag, The other complexity for LLs server pricing is Supply & Demand & Scalability.

I have a very limited grasp on networking and all that stuff, but if they dropped server prices down to say... $150/month (which would be profitable based on your pricing for a "high-tier" or class 5 or 6) per region, takeup on these regions would be incredibly massive and the whole thing would presumably collapse under its own weight.

Begs the need for solid inter-grid teleportation to enable and man & his dog to simply host their own region/grid privately and link it to a central grid, (kinda like what they do with ummmm, the internet, hehe)

Would be a pretty cool model to allow any ISP to rent out a server of varying configurations and pricing and simply connect them to the LL grid for some kind of fee in a similar fashion to the way the Internet works in general.

Might enable variations like 1024x1024 regions with 50,000 prims running smoothly with 200ish avatars hosted on a single quad core machine. Actually i'd be surprised if someone hasn't already done that.

It'll be funny looking back in 5-10 years at our measly 256x256 regions. Reminds me of 1.44mb floppy drives.