In the last 15 minutes, I’ve gotten 30+ emails from my in-world vendors and various user’s swords that indicate that Second Life objects are failing to contact my web server, so I have temporarily disables sales once again.
This weekend, I will be removing all in-world Wave Katana vendors in preparation for switching over to networked vendors. I hope this doesn’t cause anyone any inconvenience, and I ask for your patience and understanding.
One last note : Because in-world objects seem to be unable at the moment to contact outside web servers, it is possible that the C:SI grid-wide scoring system is currently not storing all win/loss data that it should be. I am not able to get in-world long enough to verify this, and it could be that it is just inconsistent rather than failing every time. There’s nothing we can do about this : If Second Life is having network problems, it’s beyond our control 
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Due to Second Life being full of fail and the Lindens taking several hours to finally even notice the problem, I’ve disabled all sales of the Taketori Katana until further notice.
Once I’m convinced that Second Life has returned to some semblance of stability, and that people can no longer continue to take advantage of the fact that my network vendors are scripted to err on the side of customer friendliness - delivering a product to the customer in certain circumstances sometimes even after a refund has been given due to Second Life hiccups, then I will re-enable sales.
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Well guys, ever since Aimee and Kasumi provided me with some good evidence of a balance issue in the new weapon, I’ve been trying to get you an update, but Second Life has been down for 12 hours now, and shows no signs of ever getting fixed 
Even during the brief times it was up, and the hour or so before LL noticed the issue, I couldn’t save any scripts or upload any of my fancy-schmancy new textures.
I do have an update that should be ready for testing as soon as LL gets the issues resolved and I can distribute it to the beta testers.
Until then, I will console myself with images of how hectic it must be for LL trying to fix the problems, I’m sure things are frantic there :
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I’ve been thinking about some ideas and comments recently brought up by the conversation on C:SI and animation overrides, and I’ve decided two important things:
- I’m going to personally switch to the ZHAO-II AO. I’ve looked at the code, and it’s much cleaner than the previous ZHAO and uses less scripts (which was, of course, one of the goals that the developer had in mind).
- I am going to customize the ZHAO-II to be more "C:SI-friendly", because assuming that Colin is right, it would at least be a nice thing for me to offer to the C:SI community. I still don’t expect all that many people will use it, but maybe I will be surprised. In any case, I want one for my own use, so might as well continue my tradition of offering free goodies to people - I often give away items from my list of personal projects
Ziggy Puff recognized that it can be a pain to edit the notecards, so a free converter was provided by him that will read the data from an existing ZHAO-I notecard and convert it to the simpler ZHAO-II format. This is a pretty cool idea, and I’m actually making a web-based version that does the same thing, and may at some point actually provide a handy form for enhanced editing. Either converter could be used, though my thought was that a web-based UI for the notecard converter might allow "fast-and-easy" editing of animation sets like Aimee uses.
But there’s one big problem:
EVERY SINGLE FARKING ACCOUNT I HAVE HAS HAD THE ZHAO NOTECARD LOST.
I’m not shitting you. My main account and every alt I have that I cared enough about to purchase an AO for gets this message when attempting to open the notecard: "Notecard is missing from the database".
I’m simply flabbergasted. I’ve lost other inventory due to database hiccups or whatever LL is blaming it on this week, but I’ve never seen (or even heard of) such a consistent inventory loss before. I wonder how they would even attempt to explain that.
Un-freakin-believable!
Update: Apparently, Vint Falken is experiencing the exact same thing.
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