All Things Phreeq

I decided to leave my worries alone for now and explore the vast reaches of SL and all its glory, outside the grid. As most may know, I spend a lot of time wrapped up in my own dealings and issues, but now that Pontiac is gone I have developed a little free time to appreciate other things like I used to. During my searches I discovered a lot of the same old petty bickering; “LL doesn’t care about fixing bugs”, “when will they give us *insert some obscure feature*”, blah blah blah…. little bastards can’t seem to appreciate what we have and how far we have come.

However, it wasn’t all negative findings, the negative just seems the easiest to find, wonder why that is.. hmm. Anyhow, I did stumble upon someone very insightful and enlightening. It started off at SLProfiles.com where I was wondering through a field of pictures and profile when I found some of the most amazing photos I have seen in a very long time, taken within SL. Upon looking further, I discovered a vast network of people related to her in some manner or another, even saw a few names I recognized. Her name is Vint Falken and shes a photographer/blogger extraodinaire. I definitely recommend checking her out, she is a perfect trifecta, beauty, brains and personality.

One thing on her blog that got my interest was an article she did about JIRA issue #MISC-208. Which deals with raising the group limit within SL above the current 25 limit. Now the author of Issue 208 proposes the limit be raised to 100 or 200 groups. While I think this might be way out of reach for now, I do think the limit should be raised and there are plenty of valid reasons why. Now I know Linden Lab just raised the group limit about 6 or 7 months ago from 15 to 25, but look at how much SL has grown. I admit, when the limit was first raised, I was excited about it, thought there was no way I could ever need 25 groups. Lately I have proved myself wrong on many occasions. Take your average business resident for example, you have your business group, you have your land group for your home and/or store, if you have a particular product thats extremely popular and produces updates or requires special attention, you have a group for that. While you can technically survive with one business location, everyone knows that the more traffic the better. So to achieve that traffic, you have to rent vendor space in high traffic areas, that requires another group for the land its on, that alone can generate a lot of groups depending on how many locations your involved with. Then theres various other product groups, family and friends, favorite clubs, Live Musician fan clubs… etc etc The list goes on and on and on.

During my time with Pontiac, I was a member of atleast 8 different groups, JUST for Pontiac. Thats not counting my store group and my car show group. They add up really fast and before you know it, your trolling your groups trying to figure out which ones you can leave just so you can join new ones. Part of me thinks that no matter how high they raise the limit, its never gonna be enough, unless they make it unlimited of course, but I do agree that the limit should be raised a little higher… 50 maybe.

In other news, I am opening a new location for *Phreeq* in Binneed, with a new look and a lot of new items, including skins, clothes and even a few gadgets. So stay tuned for more updates soon (Not 3 months from now, I promise!).

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