News and Updates

Last Friday, several dozen Bloodlines players joined us for our first weekly office hours at Liquid Frontier. We really enjoyed talking to everyone, and we’re sorry if we weren’t able to get to your question. We’ll be doing it again this week, at the same time and place:

• Where: the Bloodlines store on Liquid Frontier (click to teleport)
  
• When: Friday, July 1, from 12-1PM SL time (Pacific)

Last week, not everyone who wanted to come was able to get on the sim, so if you want to attend, be sure to get there early. For future meetings, we will try to put in place a system so that more people can attend, and that the question / answer cycle can be more organized. These sessions are a work in progress, thanks for bearing with us while we find the best way to approach it, and as always, your suggestions are welcome.

Here is a brief run-down on some of the top questions and requests that were brought up at last week’s meeting:

1. Problems with vendors: some people had been having trouble with deliveries from vendors. We have made some updates to resolve the issues, and we’ve seen a great reduction in missed deliveries, and the affiliate vendors should deliver a lot faster as well.
2. War item updates: Second Life Viewer 2 makes it possible to attach more than one item to the same attach point. This has allowed War players to attach multiple weapon and HUD instances simultaneously in order to gain an advantage. We have a fix for this problem, and we will be updating the War HUD and the Psionic Blast as soon as testing is complete, which should be in a matter of days.
3. Apple trees / bulk apples / cider shots: at this time, we don’t have a plan to release shots of apple cider, because the apples basically have the same functionality. We currently don’t have a way to sell more than one apple at a time, because they need to be individually rezzed prior to purchase so they can register with our system. We released the cider barrels as a way to buy a large source of Humanity at one time. Apple trees can only be on our sims because of the way that the apples pre-register with our system.
4. Lumen shots: this is an often-requested item, and it is on our list of planned items to release.
5. Age issues: we have no official policy on real life or Second Life age, please refer to Linden Labs policies on this.
6. Harassment issues: in general, there is a limited amount we can do about it. The actions you can take are to mute them, ban them from your land, or file an abuse report on them using Help > Report Abuse, and avoid them. If someone is harassing you in one of our chat groups or on our land, you can report it to us and we will take a look at it.
7. Other races: we think it would be cool to add some other races or HUDs to Bloodlines eventually, but we don’t have any other races planned at this time.
8. Hybrid HUD: at this time, we don’t have plans to release a separate Hybrid HUD.
9. War bases and public accessibility: All war bases that are listed in the public stats must be “publicly accessible”. Because of the freedom that you have in Second Life on your own land, many creative means have been taken to prevent people from taking a base while still calling the base “publicly accessible”. We realize the need to have a standard set of rules that all bases must abide by in order to make the public rankings meaningful. We are working on the technology we would need to enforce standardized rules. We will update you as soon as we know more on this.
10. Forums: online forums are currently under development.
11. There were many other good questions that I hope we answered to a satisfactory level.

If you have a question, join us this Friday!