Doing What You Can ... With What You Have

Well, as luck would have it I'm on one of the only 3 "residential / light commercial" sims that actually do allow malls and clubs. ...and yet another club looks to be going in. Four clubs and a shopping mall on one sim. ...and still more spots to fill. Bummer. No, it's not the best place to build right now. I dropped a small script in a prim and it took nearly 40 seconds to load in and do it's thing. Fun fun.

But, land cost is low here ... and it's not as bad as it was when I made my last post. In fact, that day I visited a few other locations only to notice that they too were quite laggy. Perhaps a large portion of what I experienced was with the grid and not just the sim.

However ... the things I see sim resources being wasted on just makes me want my own sim that much more. ...and what I have is this tiny slice. I've been many places around the grid, and I've been in MANY empty clubs. Most of them just don't catch on. After a while the owners get tired of feeding their alligator (that means paying for something that isn't profitable) and they shut it down. But during those long days with no visitors ... the scripts keep runnin, lights keep flashing, the textures keep rotating ... and the sim keeps lagging.

I'm not sure how bad it's going to get, but ... should I decide to stick it out I think I might have to build my projects somewhere else ...then just set them out here. So the dock will be more like a shop and I won't be here so much. I dunno. I have a few ideas kickin so we'll see what happens. I have a place to build in mind. If that's where I end up ... I'll let you know.

Later.

Hairy Hansome