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Re: [ogpx] Teleports and protocol resilience

Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> Sun, 25 October 2009 10:48 UTC

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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:48:26 +0100
From: Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
To: "Infinity Linden (Meadhbh Hamrick)" <infinity@lindenlab.com>
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Subject: Re: [ogpx] Teleports and protocol resilience
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:20:15AM -0700, Infinity Linden (Meadhbh Hamrick) wrote:
> the reason the teleport process removes a user from one region before
> placing it in another is to ensure that the user's avatar exists in at
> most one place. i understand that this is a non-issue with hypergrid
> or tourist models, as there's no assumption of coherence between
> regions. but, many of us want to provide a virtual world experience
> that includes this concept.
> 
> thx
> m/∞

That is hardly a good argument.

What is the *reason* you want this?

The reason users want to TP away from a region is usually to start
over somewhere else as soon as possible. I'm pretty sure that most
users don't like having to wait very long.

Surely there is a good technical solution to this problem, so
lets just solve it.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>

PS "many of us" is a bit vague... personally I have the feeling that
   most users will agree with Morgaine that tp-ing away from a region
   should never be impossible because that region is non-responsive.

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