[sldev] Re: [svc] Back end features (was: New viewer released) (Callum Lerwick)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 13:02 -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> > The whole "grid" thing is a rather un-necessary forcing of real world
> > limitations onto a virtual world. Simulators should be able to "shape"
> > themselves any way they like, and link to each other through a web of
> > portals, negotiated between the simulators themselves with no
> > centralized control required or desired.
> 
> First, the decision to make the grid geographical was a deliberate  
> and cultural choice. It's unusual... most virtual worlds have been  
> linked the way you describe... but it's unlikely to be changed.  
> Creating non-euclidean connectivity within the grid is hard, and  
> tools to make it easier (like llTeleportAgent) have been repeatedly  
> deferred.

For the record this is how I expect the future non-LL non-grid to
function, I have no expectation or desire of LL implementing things this
way, ever. :)
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