Arrgghhh! What’s wrong with Second life?

These past few days I found my Second Life plagued with slow movements, high packet loss, rezzing failure, disconnection, crashes, missing assets, inability to login, getting trapped in a logout loop and others but the worst of them all is the extreme lag. The grid is so laggy and choppy that it took me 6 or 8 hours to accomplish easy tasks like building and moving really simple objects.

At first I thought that it could be my connection but visiting Second Life’s blog I found out that Second Life is experiencing a lot of stability and server issues like the following:

• SF Hosted Regions Temporarily Offline
• Network issues currently affecting logins
• Momentary Login Failure for Some Residents
• Voice Chat Unavailable For New Conversations

Wow! Four issues within a few days. Good thing I still have a First Life to worry about because if not I would be sitting on my chair pulling my hairs out right now (LOL). What really annoys me is that I don’t spend that much time anymore in-world and then all these happen during my in-world time. I wasn’t able to explore new places. I wasn’t able to search for new camping spots and it took me too much time to renovate 3 Stars and a Sun.

Eventhough those above listed issues were already marked as resolved in Second Life’s official blog, I feel that the grid is still not that stable. I’m still experiencing some lag spikes from time to time but it is stable enough to allow me to build and rearrange some objects at 3 Stars and a Sun.

Everyone is welcome to drop by at 3 Stars and a Sun. I’ve re-textured the inside of the place. It now features an ocean infinity look and I’ve also added some Christmas decorations to spice up the place.

Anyway, I hope that tomorrow’s rolling restart makes everyone’s Second Life worth living again.