Re: [mmox] User Accounts / "Object" Transfer.

Morgaine <morgaine.dinova@googlemail.com> Thu, 19 February 2009 07:39 UTC

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Jon Watte <jwatte@gmail.com> wrote:

> What end-user value does "teleport between grids" solve?
>
> In my opinion, that feature is very un-interesting, as it requires lots of
> engineering, and gives very little value, compared to lower-hanging fruit
> like physical spaces shared across interoperating servers.
>
> After perception of the world around you, travel is the next most important
form of interaction with the world.  Teleport is simply instantaneous
travel, and teleport between grids is simply instantaneous travel between
worlds in different organizational domains.  How can it possibly be
uninteresting and give little value to travel to distant places in virtual
space?  ;-)

I expect that you meant something *completely* different to the above.  :-)
  Are we hitting an ambiguity in terminology of some kind here?

Morgaine.