I had the time of my life /
and I owe it all to you….
Linden Lab and Phoenix 1.6.1 team, you nailed it!
Here’s what I mean. Tonight I took The Sea Girl out for a cruise. At first, I took the sim crossings slow coming out of SL New England but I noticed they were almost seamless. So when I got out on the Blake Sea I gave The Girl her head and we zoomed across a couple sims at high speed. I didn’t want to press my luck though so I backed off and took most of the crossings at slow speed.
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That’s my warming up The Sea Girl for our epic journey on the seas. |
I made it all the way to The Harbor @ Yamm on Nautilus, at least 20 30 sim crossings since I started. And I thought, heck, let me see what this little boat will do. So on my way back home along the Bingo Straight I pushed the throttle down and this boat took off and we zoomed past sims crossings like they were speed bumps. I was amazed but again I slowed down, I was going for a record of successful sim crossings while taking the boat home the last few sims — over 40 60 crossings at that point.
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Here I am at The Harbor on Nautilus. |
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The 20 30 or so sims we crossed getting here were causing me to think, Is this really happening? Did what just happened really happen? |
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That’s me and The Girl zooming over sim crossings like they were nothin but speed bumps! |
When I got home I gave LeLe a call and asked if she’d like to try these seas out tonight (she’s running an older version of Phoenix 1.5) and we did a little speeding around and no problem for me or her. Then I gave Marley a call and she joined us and again no problem but I only did a couple crossings. Then I said, let’s see what this thing will do with three girls!
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That’s Marley in yellow, LeLe stretched out and me in the cockpit of The Girl. I didn’t have enough presence of mind to ask anyone to shoot pics. |
So, we took that little boat out and burned up a full tank of gas making high speed crossings of at least another dozen sim. We didn’t crash once, none of us. We did have a couple of gnarly crossings but out there on the open sea we just zoomed through them. It was a mind blowing experience! I don’t remember anything comparable my entire time in SL. And I think we could have easily carried one or two more peeps aboard, although the boat’s a little harder to handle with more peeps. Btw, all of us had Draw Distance at 512. In all last night I made over 50 80 sim crossings, at least 15 30 at max speed. And no crashes or flying or sinking or getting tossed out of the boat — that’s a whoa!
WELL DONE to all the developer dudes at the Lab and Phoenix. So, stop whatever you’re doing, you fixed it!
wonderful! I dont use Phoenix (I use V3)but I have no problem either nowadays. Very seldom anyhow =)
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3 gals, 3 diff viewers, I use Exodus, no probs racing cross sim boundaries. If Yordie invites you to go boating, go!!
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I know Marley! Wasn't that amazing, but I went out again this morning and raced across every sim till they closed for maintenance. The sim crossings on the sea are working. I wonder if they've fixed them on the land. This was a big wow!
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Now I want to get out one of my boats and hit the water! Thanks for this post.
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That'd be great, Chesnut… be sure to write up a post about what you discover. I'm very curious.
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oops.. Chestnut… sowwy.
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