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ShelteredHeart · 08-25-2008, 09:52 PM

I have been silent since the big flub bub went on yesterday about my booth at the hair fair, but the drama and poop flinging is getting out of hand and this is supposed to be a fun charity event. First thing to clarify, the reason this “blogger” was accused of singling us out was because in fact, that is what it looks like. We have had issues in the past with this blogger and as everyone says, once your on the hit list, watch out. So, it’s not even just the fact it was our shop out of ALL the shops that was photographed and critiqued or even the fact that the second shop shown in the post was from one of the designers who rents with us, but were just “on the list”. That’s ok though, negativity when its unwarranted comes back to haunt you. Now to the facts, we were allowed 400 prims and I used 374 I think, we have no scripts except the donation script, nothing is set to glow and I even have flexi turned off on the grass. No particles, nothing moving and only a few low rezz sculpties.(contrary to posts and comments the cats are NOT sculpty and have no blinking eye scripts…in fact I contacted the creator specifically asking to remove the scripts and sounds so I wouldn’t be laggy) There were many awesome booths with scripts and particles and things like that. Sure I could have lowered my prims and made my booth look like some of the others but then it wouldn’t be fun. Some people come for the charity, some come for the hair, some come for the freebies and some come to see the stalls/decorations just like lots of other events you see like the skins fair, shoe expo and even in RL with stuff like cook offs and carnivals for hospital charity’s. People always try to decorate their areas to catch your eye, suit the theme or just to have fun. The thing that bothers me the most about the whole situation is that instead of doing a post on how to lower lag, showcasing the charity hair or even showcasing the designers on the sim and being positive. The post had to find the one thing negative and make some of us out like were the cause. With the amount of people (even people with just an ARC of 1) , the amount of charity scripts, the fact the sims are mostly surrounded/touching other sims (with textures you will have to rezz if you are within view and child agents) , the amount of textures (ads, hair pack boxes, objects) and of course the prims itself lag is going to be an issue. Even if we reduced the prims by 1k per sim down to about 4-5k, the lag would not improve, least I don’t think. I think having the various booths showing what the designers are about or just designing for the fun are worth the 1% drop in the sim fps. If I had of been contacted in IM or even through a member of the committee I would have taken some prims away but it never occurred to me, without the negative post, that there was an issue. In fact I was told by one of the head organizers after the post on SCD was done, that they hoped I took the higher road and left the booth exactly how it was, I have and I intend too. I hope the people who are thriving on the negativity from all this get over it quickly and focus on the good things the committee members and participants are trying to do.

08-25-2008, 09:52 PM	#163 (permalink)
ShelteredHeart Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3 My Mood:	I have been silent since the big flub bub went on yesterday about my booth at the hair fair, but the drama and poop flinging is getting out of hand and this is supposed to be a fun charity event. First thing to clarify, the reason this “blogger” was accused of singling us out was because in fact, that is what it looks like. We have had issues in the past with this blogger and as everyone says, once your on the hit list, watch out. So, it’s not even just the fact it was our shop out of ALL the shops that was photographed and critiqued or even the fact that the second shop shown in the post was from one of the designers who rents with us, but were just “on the list”. That’s ok though, negativity when its unwarranted comes back to haunt you. Now to the facts, we were allowed 400 prims and I used 374 I think, we have no scripts except the donation script, nothing is set to glow and I even have flexi turned off on the grass. No particles, nothing moving and only a few low rezz sculpties.(contrary to posts and comments the cats are NOT sculpty and have no blinking eye scripts…in fact I contacted the creator specifically asking to remove the scripts and sounds so I wouldn’t be laggy) There were many awesome booths with scripts and particles and things like that. Sure I could have lowered my prims and made my booth look like some of the others but then it wouldn’t be fun. Some people come for the charity, some come for the hair, some come for the freebies and some come to see the stalls/decorations just like lots of other events you see like the skins fair, shoe expo and even in RL with stuff like cook offs and carnivals for hospital charity’s. People always try to decorate their areas to catch your eye, suit the theme or just to have fun. The thing that bothers me the most about the whole situation is that instead of doing a post on how to lower lag, showcasing the charity hair or even showcasing the designers on the sim and being positive. The post had to find the one thing negative and make some of us out like were the cause. With the amount of people (even people with just an ARC of 1) , the amount of charity scripts, the fact the sims are mostly surrounded/touching other sims (with textures you will have to rezz if you are within view and child agents) , the amount of textures (ads, hair pack boxes, objects) and of course the prims itself lag is going to be an issue. Even if we reduced the prims by 1k per sim down to about 4-5k, the lag would not improve, least I don’t think. I think having the various booths showing what the designers are about or just designing for the fun are worth the 1% drop in the sim fps. If I had of been contacted in IM or even through a member of the committee I would have taken some prims away but it never occurred to me, without the negative post, that there was an issue. In fact I was told by one of the head organizers after the post on SCD was done, that they hoped I took the higher road and left the booth exactly how it was, I have and I intend too. I hope the people who are thriving on the negativity from all this get over it quickly and focus on the good things the committee members and participants are trying to do.