Elf Clan Social Network

A social blog site for members of the virtual group, Elf Clan.

Latest Activity

Rose Sak added an event
"DragonBALL" at Dwagonville Castle
February 14, 2010 from 1pm to 3pm
High Ball...All are welcome. Elvenmyst would like to invite you and friends to "DragonBall". This is an Elven Ball... All creatures are welcome. If you can put a tux or dress on.. Please join us. WOotNogg and other yummy drinks will be served. If y…
13 minutes ago
Fabricci Ravinelli added 4 photos
5 hours ago
Fabricci Ravinelli added 7 photos to the album 'Fabricci's kitty kat'
11 hours ago
Eren Padar added 2 photos
12 hours ago
Koni Lanzius added 6 photos
13 hours ago
KayWerner XenoBuilder added a blog post
Hello fellows, I am new in the Elf Clan and will shortly introduce myself. I am child of the relationship of a Human and an Elf, so i am an halfelf for the thoroughbred. I am on a restless seek, but I don't know what I want to find. I hope I can fi…
17 hours ago
Zekeen Phoenix added a blog post
Hello all, I haven't talked to many of our members in who knows how long. So, while I suddenly forgot to post ways to build stuff in SL for all you build wannabe's, I keep getting addicted to games. And it dawned on me, what a great idea it would be…
yesterday
Wayfinder Wishbringer added a blog post
In a recent blog announcement, Linden Lab has announced they will begin charging for freebies on XstreetSL (XSL). The announcement is here:NEW CHARGES ON XSTREETSLTHE PROB
yesterday
A blog post by Wayfinder Wishbringer was featured
There is something we've been waiting for now, since Second Life went online. It is something we have especially been waiting on for the last two or so years: proper texture handling.Please visit this webpage:http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Snowglob
yesterday
A blog post by Oona Sharple was featured
Is Bry's boots waterproof ? When Oona got to da tavern today,Oona sees dis; Bry's boots were outside..And Oona knows it Bry's boots coz it says "Bry's boots" inside dem. Bry's Boots Oona knows Bry goes fishin lotses and is important to has good gear…
yesterday
A blog post by Bryster Shan was featured
I recently watched an account of a group of people who belong to an organisation known as the Girl Guides. Part of this account centered on the sub-group 'Brownies' who, on reaching a certain age become Girl Guides. It occured to me that the word 'B…
yesterday
Koni Lanzius added 2 photos
on Sunday
Eren Padar added a photo
on Sunday
A blog post by Wayfinder Wishbringer was featured
This is the second of a series of blogs dedicated to providing significant constructive feedback to Linden Lab, by pointing out alternative methods of marketing that could boost company profits and customer satisfaction. The first of the series is h…
on Saturday
Wayfinder Wishbringer added 3 blog posts
on Saturday
Hecatya Idimmu added a blog post
Vendui:) I tried lately to find a good English to Elvish dictionary. Seen the one Koni found , where you can also find your Elvish name. Need a bigger one. I would like to post something more detailed in Elvish and that do not have all the words. Fo…
on Saturday
Oona Sharple added a photo
on Friday
UniQue Serrao added a blog post
The week after our wedding, I spent building my lover a palace and theming out our new home. It's on the same parcel, but it has my unique (lol) touch to it. I spent another week learning to tweak by math, so now it is as close to done as ever. As p…
on Friday
Koni Lanzius added 2 photos
on Friday
A blog post by Wayfinder Wishbringer was featured
THE CURRENT REALITY There is one outstanding fact that customers of Second Life have to face: even the most educated, professional and computer-literate of us don't know everything that goes on behind the scenes. That doesn't mean we don't have a p…
on Friday

Forum

Shiloh Caeran

Racial Delegates,...? 13 Replies

Started by Shiloh Caeran in Uncategorized. Last reply by Shiloh Caeran Jan 27.

Mao Lemieux

About the "AVATAR" avatars 18 Replies

Started by Mao Lemieux in Sample Title. Last reply by Mao Lemieux Jan 25.

Cinnamon Raymaker

More on Reaction Grid 1 Reply

Started by Cinnamon Raymaker in Uncategorized. Last reply by Wayfinder Wishbringer Jan 6.

 

Welcome to the Elf Clan Social Network!

NEW MEMBERS: Please read this section FIRST:
VALUABLE ELF CLAN INFORMATION

HINTS, TIPS AND TRICKS for SL


Please be sure to use your existing VR name (first AND last) when requesting membership to this site. All visitors may read blogs. To receive membership here and comment, you must use your full VR name. Thank you.
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ELF CLAN FEATURED BLOGS:

Blog Posts

Wayfinder Wishbringer

LINDEN LAB GETS IT RIGHT!

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on February 7, 2010 at 11:00pm — 9 Comments

Oona Sharple

Is Bry's boots waterproof?

Posted by Oona Sharple on February 7, 2010 at 6:30pm — 9 Comments

Bryster Shan

Wot? No Brownies?

Posted by Bryster Shan on February 7, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Wayfinder Wishbringer

POSITIVE CHANGES

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on February 2, 2010 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

Wayfinder Wishbringer

H.O.PE - HELP OTHER PEOPLE

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on August 20, 2009 at 11:30am — 13 Comments

Oona Sharple

Elf Clan Pixies and sidekicks ^^

Posted by Oona Sharple on January 24, 2010 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

Eren Padar

VIDEO CARDS AND COMPUTER CONFIGURATION

Posted by Eren Padar on January 21, 2010 at 8:30am — 26 Comments

Wayfinder Wishbringer

Gotta Love Pixies

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on January 18, 2010 at 4:30pm — 7 Comments

Wayfinder Wishbringer

Crashity Crash, Laggity Lag

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on January 16, 2010 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

Oona Sharple

Tiny Orksies invades da tavern

Posted by Oona Sharple on January 13, 2010 at 11:30pm — 12 Comments

Wayfinder Wishbringer

Credit Where Credit Due pt 2

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on January 13, 2010 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Mao Lemieux

To a Tavern-Keeper (For Bryster Shan)

Posted by Mao Lemieux on January 12, 2010 at 6:14pm — 16 Comments

Eren Padar

The Monty Python 16-Disc Set

Posted by Eren Padar on January 10, 2010 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Wayfinder Wishbringer

LINDEN LAB ANNOUNCES SWEEPING CHANGES

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on January 8, 2010 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Eren Padar

HINTS, TRICKS, TIPS and NEWBIE GUIDES

Posted by Eren Padar on December 13, 2009 at 11:30pm — 11 Comments

Wayfinder Wishbringer

CONTINUING SL BUGS

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on January 6, 2010 at 11:30am

Wayfinder Wishbringer

XSTREETSL BOYCOTT BEGINS

Posted by Wayfinder Wishbringer on January 4, 2010 at 10:00pm — 5 Comments

VIDEOS and MORE

We hope you have a lot of fun here. You can post your thoughts, music, photos, and more. You can make friends, get to know other members better, keep track of events... and hopefully have a lot of fun doing so.


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Please see BLOGSITE GUIDELINES AND RULES for info on posting videos. Videos are user-submitted and may be from a wide variety of genres and themes.

VIDEOS BY KONI LANZIUS
Fyrefly: Eternity
Warhammer 40k vs Droids
The Crash
BattleMace!
Dragon Fights!
Ork Drum Circle

OTHER VIDEOS
FuzzNutz! from our friends at Raglan Shire


CURRENT NEWS AND IMPORTANT NOTES

2-7-2010
The release of Snowglobe Viewer 1.3.1 has finally brought about the switch from UDP to HTTP texture protocol, greatly speeding up the loading of textures on SL. It's still not perfect, but a move in the right direction. This is a major issue that after more than 6 years of texture loading problems, we are glad to finally see corrected.

11-17-2009
Linden Lab profiteering in the case of Open Space sims (trying to raise their prices by 67%) forced the shutdown of 6 of our 8 sims.

This month Eldar Peter Lioncourt added ElvenDream, his own personal building sim that allows public access. It is a beautiful sim with a garden setting, surrounded by sailing waters.

Elf Clan just celebrated its fifth anniversary with two days of head-to-toe events. Members report having a wonderful time. Thanks to our Greeters for their efforts.

4-29-2009
Elf Clan has decided to expand to an external grid, Reaction Grid. We will host additional, low-cost rental lands there. Time to stop putting all our eggs in the Second Life basket. We had tried Open Life grid but the company proved to be abusive and untrustworthy. Reaction Grid is an all-PG grid that seems almost tailor-made for our group needs. We are starting with 4 sims there, with hopes for significant expansion in the near future.

4-26-2009
Current State of SL
Haven't posted here in a while because well, things were just too much in a jumble and forgot this section was here. LOL. I'll try to keep this better updated

Linden Lab decided to raise the price of Open Space sims by 67%. Their claims for doing so proved to be bogus. As a result, as of mid-Feburary 2009 more than 5,500 OS sims shut down operation. The company seems to have no compassion or concern for the thousands of people they are hurting. LL responded by removing publicly available tracking stats on sim ownership and user participation. These are apparently the desperate acts of a company that doesn't wish the consequences of its decisions to be known to the general public.

User Balpien Hammerer discovered an internal, self-created Denial of Service attack on LL's own computers, caused by user cache failing and requesting reloading of the same textures over and over again. This has caused serious impact on system asset servers and heavily degrading sim performance.

New releases are performing worse than those before them. Some have claimed that it's almost as if Linden Lab is intentionally sabotaging the grid, trying to force people to abandon their sims. IMO, they're just plain incompetent. I have never seen such a poorly performing platform-- or poorly performing software with years-long bugs. Not trying to stomp LL; just being factual. Performance is degrading on a montly basis.

The discovery of "ghosted scripts" has caused great impact on sim performance-- scripts that continue to exist and operate even when their host prims have been deleted. Sim script performance times are increasing greatly (on ElvenMyst it has jumped from around 15 to 19.9). Similar reports from all over the grid.

Future prognosis for SL at this time is not good. Management seems to be continuing to tred the same "failure path" and ignoring (even denying) continued system degradation. Worse, they continue to blame users for what are clearly management/coder issues. At this time, based on current evidence, I predict the demise of LL and SL (at least in its current form) within a year... likely much sooner.

10-25-2008
* CLIENT VIEWER 1.21 is busted. The texture edit box is taking a minute or more to open, with numerous people reporting crashes at that point. It is slowing down building horribly. Users are also reporting excessive lag and choppy movement across the board. THE FIX: Revert to version 1.20.17. Performance is much more stable.

* TYPING SOUNDS and animations are being turned off by many people. This is a personal choice. However, please be aware that the typing sound and animation are designed to let other people know you are currently communicating. In RL we can hear your voice and see your lips move. Not so on SL. Nullifying the typing function may result in people walking away while you're in the middle of "talking"-- because there is nothing to indicate you're typing. Solution: turn the defaults back on, or use a scripted type replacer to indicate you are communicating.

* LOGIN PROBLEMS. Many are experiencing difficulty logging in due to the changes in SL. Possible solution: Go to the EDIT drop down menu at the top left of your login screen and choose PREFERENCES/GRAPHICS. Move the graphics slider all the way to the left (LOW). This will set graphics requirements to minimum. Upon entering the game, you may then click the CUSTOM box to set graphics to your personal preferences, according to the abilities of your graphics card and computer system.

* REDUCE LAG Everyone suffers from lag from time to time. If you're experiencing regular lag, you can disable clouds. Clouds take a great deal of graphic rendering time. To disable clouds during any session, press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-(minus).



 
 

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