i used to be able to stay in rlc for perhaps 10-12 hours (ya, i have no life).. but since all these 'fixes' i am very lucky to get one solid hour now...

and faster load times? i'm sorry, i do not own a super computer.. half the stuff does not load at all unless i jump back perhaps 3 times.. and if i do that, booted so must start again!

voice is not needed here at all! it is only making things much much worse for all concerned! anyone who wanted voice already has found that skype does the job very well in the background. why reinvent the wheel?

why can we not have a stable environment in which to induldge our own personal fantasies? why is each 'patch' more buggy than last?

getting so tired of this...

*kiss*
tayls

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I think it would be very hard for anyone to disagree with this thread.

I also think that all this mess is screwing with the ability of Utherverse to grow as a company. If this game was stable, which it seems to have never been, I think a lot more people would still be here and a lot more people who came here as basics would by VIPs now.

But what do I know.

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Very Very True Bandia. The only reason I've put up with it this long is because of all the friends I've made. If hadn't made so many good friends, I would have been gone after the the first VOIP disaster

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I have a new and pretty fast computer... which doesn't matter for Utherverse to any significant amount from my old one.

No it is not faster loading.
No the boots are not less frequent.
No the lag is not better inworld.
No the VWW clubs are not able to host a decent crowd without all of the above affecting the region in a big way.

Anyone from the windowless warehouse that tells you otherwise is expanding their own fantasy.

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Same here Meleyssa. My Laptop is BRAND NEW....I've only had it for a couple of weeks and even I'm having these problems

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It's a breath of forum fresh air to see so many people in this thread, being truthful and honest, stating the facts, and telling it like it is - we see reality creeping in. These members want to be here, they like the RLC concept, they want to enjoy the RLC (and its environs) experience - if only they could ! What they don't like nor want, is UV's lamentable and neverending technical incompetence, and gradual ruination and destruction of this, otherwise fine, vw; they just want to see technical change for the better ... SADLY,THAT ISN'T GONNA HAPPEN WHILE UV'S AT THE TECHNICAL HELM - NOT NOW, OR EVER ! The sooner many of the members here wake up and realise this fact, the better. We've had years of this excessive and unacceptable technical instability. How much more proof do some of you need?

Well the avi's, for me at least are loading faster, still not to pre VOIP speeds, but better than they were, but they must be loading faster than their textures, as the majority of them are grey, looking more like animated marshmellows than people, the pics, well thats another story altogether, I'm getting quite used to a grey world, reminds me of the old films about russia, the dull grey edifices rising above colorless streets, but I digress
I do agree with Bandia in that the instability and technical problems are holding the UV back, because face it, without the game this is nothing more than a poor imitation of myspace/facebook/adultfriend finder, and if Brian wants to eventually offer a 3d environment to businesses, they need to sort out the technical issues, as a business won't tolerate this kind of nonsense, and be gone faster than you can say boot monster
Numerous technical issues , patches that break nearly as much as they fix, a virtually (pardon the pun ) nonexistant QA process, a lack of communication, silence only broken when Brian happens to pop in and decides to comment, all seem to be halmarks of the current UV system, and need to be fixed ASAP if Brian is to proceed with achieving the goals he has for this company of his

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they are actually loading faster for me, Was taking about 2 to 3 minutes and had some that never loaded before the last patch, Since the last
patch i went out on the street several times with about 25 to 30 people and the whole street loaded for me in under 20 seconds

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CindyG
http://www.utherverse.com/Cindy_G

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm ALbright

I read with interest, your constructive post, Vinnie. I agree with most of what you say. You stated, "without the game this is nothing more than a poor imitation of myspace/facebook/adultfriend finder", I take it you were alluding to the Utherverse Social Centre - here, I would disagree. Praise should be heaped on their social centre, it is UV's great achivement. It is one of the best on the net - In fact, in my opinion, it is the best ! It beats any social centre in any other vw (those that have them). It easily beats the likes of Myspace, Facebook etc., and surprise surprise, technically, it works near-perfect, bugs are rare (though there is one on the go at present) - if only they could do a similar great job with RLC etc. RLC (and its environs) is the area where UV falls flat on its face, big styley. Of course, the social centre is a much less complicated operation than the 3D world, more suited to UV's level of technical knowledge and ability.

I agree with UV's aspirations for the company, they are highly admirable, and make good business sense, but unfortunately, UV don't have the technical skills or ability to make these goals come to fruition. As regards UV hoping to get businesses to come here - this is just a UV pie-in-the-sky fantasy that will never see the light of day. No business would touch this place with a 10-foot pole, other than to take it over, and technically turn it around. Apart from the continual technical mess, there is nowhere near enough members here to sustain a virtual economy. UV can easily delude most of the members, but not big business - they're far too shrewd. Even the mighty 2-letter vw is having problems trying to hold onto its business backers - and that vw has an infinitely greater number of members and severs than UV. To even muster a flicker of interest from the business world, UV would have to smarten up their technical act, big style. They'd have to invest in new tech. staff - experts who would be able to handle the complicated coding skills required for this size of vw operation, and/or, invest in new/more servers etc.

This vw could be a major player on the vw stage, up there with the best of 'em. Sadly, this is very unlikely to happen, It seems clear that UV are too tight-fisted to pay for the right tech. staff and/or equipment. IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY LOST.

Well I have a computer that could charitably be described as a POS and yet I'm booting and lagging less than ever and the loading times have sped up noticeably too.

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Depends on where you live too, it depends on how many packets are lost when sending or recieving data from the UV servers.

Where I live I have a terrible connection, when I am over in Canada with my other half it improves drastically!

Whilst I do get the odd boot, sometimes one after the other for a space of 30 mins at least & the screen freezes it is exactly the same as pre VOIP patch this time round.

The last few timea UV have tried to implement VOIP it has been disatrous, but this time it seems to be if not working great it at least works not too bad.

It takes time to refine things, yes I know that UV has surely taken it's time over a lot of things but perhaps one day they will suprise us when they move fully into Production & away from all the BETA work they are doing just now & we have a smooth perfect client to use.

For now I'll go in now & then, I tend to use anothe ronline world more often now & I use Skype anyways so VOIP in the online worlds has mostly no interest for me (here or the other place either).

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28th September 2010 @ 2pm I get married in RL!! <3