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A Buggy Second Life

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

I tried to login into Second Life just now but an error message greeted me.

The error message was “Login Failed. The inventory system is currently unavailable!” Before I was only freezing but now I can’t login and reading through Second Life’s official blog it seems that I’m not the only one who experienced this error. Many residents are experiencing this login error and according to the blog that this error “is likely to last until tomorrow”!!!

A few residents are saying that the problem is with the user or with the computer running the client and not Second Life. Now, this is untrue because if it was true then why would Linden Labs post updates regarding these errors. There is a problem within the internal system of Second Life and they should find long term solutions for it and not short term ones. Informing the public about these errors or problems is one thing but actually fixing it is another.

Every week we see the same problems and every week it get fixed only to happen again in another week.

Second Life is very lucky because there is no real competition for them and it could take a few more years before an actual competition emerges. Right now, you either love it or leave it but I don’t think that’s a very good way to attract new residents.

We all want Second Life to grow because as it grows, opportunities grows with it but with too many problems affecting logins, inventory, support, network failures, asset failures, etc. are not going to help it.

I guess there’s nothing much anyone can do except wait it out and while I’m waiting I think I’ll have another crack at Final Fantasy VII…

Tags: errors, ff7, ffvii, final fantasy, final fantasy 7, inventory, linden labs, login failures, long term solutions, problems, windlight
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Arrgghhh! What’s wrong with Second life?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

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:

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.