Firstly, I hate advertising, that’s no secret, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that I don’t care for the splash-screen advertising for TV shows that I couldn’t care less about.

Secondly, I am extremely irritated that it does not respect my choice to login at my home location. For the first day or two that was forgivable, but after a while I grew to hate it more and more.

And finally, it’s really no more stable. It was apparently a fluke that the first day that I tried it went so well, but I knew that might be the case.

It was worth a shot, but in the end it simply didn’t work. Sorry sheep-devs, it’s just not for me

I hadn’t noticed the lack of lag on the CSI:NY sims, but upon reflection that’s not too surprising: I would have been more likely to have noticed heavy lag than the lack of lag, as heavy lag is more “in your face” and painful. To be honest, though, I had no interest in staying around those sims, and always teleport away immediately. I may have to go try it now that you mention it, though. I wonder how they’d feel about having sword-wielding combatants running around?

As for the C:SI update, yes, it is coming very soon. I think I’m finally learning a lesson that the other C:SI devs learned long ago: Don’t give expected timelines. We’ve been very nearly ready for a few weeks now, but there have been a few things that have interfered; Archanox had a very heavy school schedule last week, I was sick the week before, etc. On top of that, all of the other C:SI devs have been extremely busy doing some work related to this update that does not involve the swords directly, though I don’t think I should spill any details before it’s all unveiled.

And finally, I got an update from Archanox last night for the scripts that fixes a problem that I had not encountered in my testing, so I’m very glad that Archanox was still doing heavy testing, though I was a little disappointed in myself for not being more familiar with the latest codebase.

On a brighter note. Anyone visit the CSI-NY sims and notice the utter lack of lag? i wonder what kind of sims these are. I poked around the map and found some close-by non-CSI-NY sims and landed on an island that had the same lack of lag. I think i might bring some friends to spar in these as yet empty places when the main combat sims are lagged up to heck.

And Robby…C:SI update coming soon? Pretty please? With sugar? Seriously thanks for whatever time you can give to improving our SL experience in the C:SI community. We really appreciate it and understand that RL is RL.