Too many disconnects and unsits from vehicles on sim boarders
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TgBianca Resident
We did 11 races in January with all together 96 racers and have about 7-12 racers per race. A race takes normally max 40min. But there was not a single race in January all sailors finished without disconnects or thrown off the sail boat on crossing sim boarders
The region "Depace" is the worst sim in the last weeks. We crash there most of the times either on the crossing into Depace or out of Depace. It happens as well when someone sails alone there. There is not much underwater stuff that needs to be rezzed long. So there is no actual reason for these crashes there.
Check the sim Depace first and seriously and don't just look at some general parameters or values. Do a serious check including server address changes and all those things. The other sims start getting the same issues more and more. So the whole area is worth to be seriously checked.
and i talk about all these sims: Stodierski, Mautte, Paltiete, Mon Bayete, Degrand, Sarante, Petaccio, Rexach, Betacourt, Feraco, Repaci, Castrum, Palmerston, Rafeiraga, Valdivian, Couse, Gerache, Collhaytah, Port Pawtee, Maris, Conwy, Port Gonnornertnert, Quimadra, Depace, Lavaca, Val Encia, Benach, Coull, Oprince, Getachew, Wyrldmaker, Corpening, Geffers, Costagliola, Cottier
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Wol Euler
At least one crash every round.
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Wilhelm Haefnir
The others have covered many legitimate concerns. As someone who sails a bit but spends more time flying I want to join with them in bringing this to Linden's attention. I generally keep my avatar to a limit of 25 scripts and a complexity under 20K when flying. Even at that low level it is difficult.
As Leonardis mentions below, the work on this is greatly appreciated, but we encourage LL to move this to the front burner. It directly impacts the enjoyment of many people who have been here for a good number of years, paying membership fees and supporting vendors.
Leonardis Ducatillon
I completely agree with the comments so far. Although not a racer, I am a keen sailor who regularly participates in trans- or inter-continental cruising and have noticed more issues with poor Region transfers, unsits and disconnects recently.
Additionally, in the last few months there have been a lot more script errors occurring on Region crossings, and more broken animations and resetting of sit positions (the latter affects "hiking" on those boats where this is a part of maintaining balance).
I know some work is being done by Monty Linden's team to improve Region connectivity ( see forum thread: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/519841-restoring-eventqueueget/ ) with some Phase 1 fixes on Aditi in certain Regions of the Blake Sea area.
I would be grateful if these issues are investigated with high priority.
Growler Wrigglesworth
These problems are certainly highly prevalent. Both in races and just doing practice runs where I am the only boat present. It is unusual to get through a run without experiencing a problem. While it is certainly worst on sim boundary crossings … there are also problems for no apparent reason, within a sim. Freezing during a turn so that 360˚ circling results is not uncommon.
I think most racers have gone to considerable lengths to lighten the load they place on the servers … using system bodies with minimum attachments for example. Similarly, most boat creators have also gone to considerable lengths to lighten the load of their boats. We have also learned not to do manoeuvres while crossing sim boundaries … "hands off until over" has become the norm. So we have been doing our part. Please please please get to the bottom of these problems and get them fixed. Perhaps upgrading all navigable water sims to a standard (minimal problem) simulator version might help.
Marion Foxpaws
I want to add my voice to this concern as someone who enjoys sailing and flying on the SL grid. I fly in multiple areas of the grid with the cargo hauling games GTFO! and GridHaul. I also participate in some combat activities in the Jeogeot Gulf. While I agree that the Depace sim area is perhaps the worst right now, the problems with disconnection on simulator border crossings is getting worse across the grid.
As Linden Labs works to make Second Life more attractive to new users by emphasizing improved graphics and a mobile platform I hope they also keep an eye on problems such as this that affect existing, long term members of the SL community.
Lisa Hyandi
Since January 2024 more and more we had races where result was not decided by skill or tactique or race lucky or unluky situatiosn but... by some issue caused by bad crossing or boat turning in an infinite 360 loop or sailors being unsit or disconnected
Some specific sims are statistically worse than other as hilighted by Bianca
PBR added a degree of issues with many of us having the textures of the boat disappearing after a very normal sim crossing and many of us had to stick to the old viewer in order to race..
2025 increased this negative trend... and the % of races decided by random issue is increasing
We all know that SL was not born as a sail race simulator neither as a plane flyhing simulator but sail , cruising and sail racing and flying became a very important part of SL
When SL moved to AWS the hope and the promises were for better crossing experience, we all believed it and we all could see great improvements upt to a certain moment.. then thing became worse and worse and now many of us know that any race is probably decided by a server or client issue.
Plese help and investigate
Thank you