[sldev] Havok4: Offer LOD degrade priority to landowners and groups first

[Andre Roche]

I like this idea, but I'd like to further it that, Your objects, on
your own land, should never degrade.  The reason being, if the
griefer's intent is to break your machine, they'll just keep rezzing
more and more until eventually, it DOES break, regardless of priority
on LOD degradation.

On 9/29/07, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com> wrote:
> The new Havok-4 engine has the ability to degrade physics calculations down
> to a cube per prim when the simulator is lagging.
>
> This has potential griefing effects against machine builders since some
> random idiot could come by and rez up griefer objects which lag the sim and
> blow my machine apart.
>
> I would like to request that LOD be controllable via a new "priority"
> attribute assigned to each prim, and that landowners be assigned a
> relatively high priority for degrading, then followed by group members for
> that land.
>
>
> This way when Random Idiot tries to lag the sim, the sim will first
> LOD-degrade all of the visitor's objects before it begins to degrade any of
> the landowner's objects. The landowner's objects may survive the lag
> completely unscathed while the griefers objects lay there in a continuously
> LOD-cubed degrade state.
>
> -Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko
>
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