Hell-oh, hell-oh.Think of that as an expression of great relieve and triumph, because after five days, and making the Lindens bang their heads against every wall, I finally identified what’s causing the problem I tried to described yesterday (read the story here).
The most illogical of things (until tonight) was happening in my recently acquired plot: SL was returning any boat I tried to sail to the west of Lost Grounds and into Hamlen with a land impact higher than 54 prims back to my inventory because a parcel in the opposite side of the sim was full. The Linden Support team tried everything they could think of to identify what was going on, and even some extra maintenance performed this morning failed miserably. So after a couple of Nacra races in the North Sea, I returned to the sim tonight with one goal in mind: to find a culprit, and find it I did.
This is it! Do you see that building and the water area to the lower right? That’s the mysterious parcel CASEnetwork Grunge City with Live Stage at coordinates Lost Grounds 254, 167. And do you see that sliver of land in front of it? Well, I discovered it’s actually part of my property. It’s 3/4 of a sim away from the rest of my parcel, but it belongs to me. Initially I thought the viewer was playing tricks on me, showing the wrong owner information, so I relogged twice to clear any software glitch. When it kept showing me as owner, I turn on the Show Land Owners in the World menu, and the green color confirmed my eyes weren’t deceiving me. As is evident, the original owner of this sim subdivided it a hundred times, leaving behind a few bizarre plots like the one that came into my possession a few weeks ago.
But how the hell does that affect my parcel’s performance? On an even closer inspection, I found this (see the next picture).
Red color is the other guy’s property, green is mine. White line indicates the limit between both parcels, hence, where the gray object should have stopped and not encroach on my property. That seemingly insignificant intrusion is somehow transferring that parcel’s properties –such as its prim limit– to mine. Is that possible?
To confirm that conjecture, I subdivided my parcel, leaving out the portion where my accidental neighbor invades my land. I even gave the segregated slice a different name just to double-check. After that, I went back to the troubling spot, and set sail again on one of the renegade boats. Et voilà: I finally succeeded in heading west and swiftly crossing into Hamlen! Now it will be a matter of explaining all this situation to my neighbors and convincing them of moving that object completely into their land, and this case can be close once and for all.
Moral of the story? Firstly, the slightest of things could have a great impact on everything in this virtual world. Secondly, placing anything too close to your parcel’s limits could alter your neighbor’s land in unexpected (and in this case unwanted) ways. And thirdly, don’t leave everything in the hands of the Lindens; after 10+ years, they still don’t understand their own world that well.