Problems With Second Life

As we discussed in class earlier, transporting and searching are common problems most users are finding with Second Life. In my research on the subject, I have come across a letter written to Linden Labs by "Project Open Letter for a Better Second Life." I will briefly give you an overview of some of the main concerns that this letter addresses. But before I get to the letter, I also found how out how every Second Lifer can become a more stylish - Transporting with the script called, Teleport FX, lets you teleport in style because of the glow when you teleport and land. So, if you want, try to get that script so you too can teleport in style

Ok among many things here are the main concerns that fellow Second Lifers want changed before Linden Labs adds new things like voice and sculted prims:

"Problems with Find and Friends List - we continue to see search outages on a far too regular basis. It is bad enough trying to get anywhere without being able to use search, but many users are also paying money for classified ads. Our friends lists just do not work reliably any longer, after years without an issue with them. If America Online/MSN/Yahoo can provide presence information for hundreds of millions of users, surely there is a way to make our friends lists work again."

"Grid stability and performance - teleports fail quite regularly, especially under heavy load. Attachments end up in places they did not start out in, and sim performance varies wildly. None of this makes for a very pleasant experience for users. Long promised improvement to physics and scripting would help dramatically to reduce these problems, but there are a lot of other scalability issues as well. It often feels like the grid is coming apart at the seams. The promised use of limiting logins of non-verified accounts during peak load has been severely lacking. This would be an effective interim solution to load issues, but Linden Lab seems unwilling to use it."

Other problems include: Build Tool problems, Transaction problems, & Inventory Loss.

To read more about this letter to Linden Labs please visit http://www.projectopenletter.com/