Linden Lab delays script-limitations to Q3
Linden Lab has announced that script-limitations for the new Homesteads/Openspaces products will not be going ahead in Q1 2009 as originally expected, and will be delayed until Q3 2009. Script limitations were announced to be an integral part of the revised product specification for void simulators, and the details of those limitations were expected to be announced before they went on sale at Noon on Monday, 5 January.
Instead, Q1 will see the rollout of internal data-collection systems to monitor scripting loads in all simulators on the Second Life grid followed by determination of what limits should be put into place. Q2 will see the deployment of tools in the viewer for users to better assess script workloads. Q3 is scheduled for of those script limits, but Linden Lab is leaving a little wiggle-room, and Q3 may yet slip.
Judging based on past Linden Lab project timelines, we'd expect Q3 to slip to Q1 2010.
Reduction in the usage of void simulators as a result of the new pricing and specifications led to a net reduction in simulator usage of 1997 simulators in November 2008 and an additional 2007 simulators in December 2008. An additional 83 have been decommissioned so far this month.
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