On Second Thought

… about Second Life®.

1. It used to be that when you had a failed teleport, you got a little error message that told you “Could not teleport” and asked that you wait a few minutes and try again. Sometimes it’d “break” stuff, but more often than not if you waited a few minutes and tried again, you got to your destination just fine. Now, you just get logged out after waiting a few minutes for it to up and decide that your teleport isn’t going to work. Nevermind that you’ve already realized that it’s not going to work and started cussing at teleports again, because you know you’re going to get logged out.

2. Windlight just crashes constantly on login if you have a G15 and you’re actually running its Profiler & LCD software. I know, I know, Windlight is in First Look. I’m okay with turning off my G15’s software, I just can’t help but resent it a tiny bit that I have to. :)

3. New residents who hang out at large shops and quietly (IM) everyone in the vacinity for L$. I mean, I’ve been known to give random people a few L$ to get something nice now and then, but I prefer it to be because I opt to do so, not because I’ve been asked begged. It’s not that I don’t get that it can be difficult to get started in SL™, because I do. There are a lot of very fine retailers who have new resident kits that are free - either for up to 30 days or up to 14 days, or what have you. You just need to know where to look, and I recommend checking out Fabulously Free in SL™ and SL™ Free*Style. Or you can check Fashion Planet feed for updates from both of those places and many others.

4. The new “improved” login screen that looks like complete ICK in my honest opinion. I liked the thick blue bar at the bottom of the login screen that seperated the actual login form from the rest of it. I’m not really that big a fan of the rest of the login page in either version, although announcements are good to have. It’s slow-loading most of the time, though, and all I really want is to see what announcements may be there and then go straight to login.

Update: The login screen is … back to ‘normal’ for the time being. And last night, when I had my first failed teleport of the evening, I did not get logged out, I got the failed teleport, try again message. \o/

Update 2: Apparently, that teleport thing was a fluke.

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