Jack can't pull a rabbit out of his hat

After a tip off by someone I'll refer to as "Dark Baron Voice" (thanks for the chat log too) I made my way to Ruth's Retreat for an office hour that had no howling mob, largely because we couldn't move due to the major lag caused by so many residents trying to get into at least two sims. I'm not sure how many people were there as I was afraid to open the map in case I crashed. Indeed I couldn't even fully replace my wizard's outfit as I didn't want to be ejected for indecent exposure as it was taking so long to change clothing.

Jack cleared a couple of points up about my previous blog post regarding Mos Ainsley. Apparently they weren't Openspaces, no they were full sims but the moles initially created them on voids and when they moved them they still had the 3750 prim limit. So they were always full sims. This was one of the most convincing answers by the way.

I like Jack and it's not just because he comes from the same country as me. I mean he has an awful taste in football teams but he's generally a straight forward guy, despite constant eyebrow raising over his average mainland price statistics he trots out. However today Jack was the King of spin, more evasive than an evasive thing from evasiveland.

One of the most curious points was that Jack said that grandfathering doesn't deal with the load issue, but not selling them means that people who want them can't get them. Odd logic there Jack and you really should have stopped selling them in August when problems were being identified but I think the reasons why Linden Lab kept selling them have been highlighted enough and no amount of spin can get around that fact.

Jack again weakly pointed to the knowledgebase article that says they are for open waterways or forests ......yes Jack a forest in the middle of nowhere is a great addition to an estate, we're really buying this point. Oh yes we are ....ooh hold on it's not panto season yet.

I'm not sure how many questions were missed, maybe Jack should have spoken to the people who organised the LL traffic future meetings where you had to book a slot to go to a meeting. Although to be fair that would have probably gone down like a lead balloon with so many people wanting to attend. Jack may well be holding more meetings over the coming days and hopefully the spin will be less evident.

One thing that I find amusing about these sort of meetings is that people are told to im someone for questions and not to shout out. People of course do shout out, then others shout out that those who are shouting out are cluttering up the chat log, totally oblivious to the fact that they're as guilty of that as the person their shouting at.

There are of course lots of different cases and we're all affected in different ways. I have one openspace, as I've said before I was never a big fan of them and expected an openspace crash. One resident at the meeting said she has 98, I think she said 98. 98*50 is a lot of money, as is the 98* whatever she initially paid. Now that's someone who has invested heavily, does she really deserve to be in such a situation? I'd love to hear her opinion not only on this decision but on how she perceives Linden Lab as a company that has the best interests of their customers at heart.

The bottom line was that this meeting achieved very little other than to demonstrate that Jack will face an angry crowd and I'm grateful to him for that. Now he needs to actually perform some magic to soothe the community because right now there are a lot of angry people, angry not just over the price rise but over Linden Lab's lack of taking responsibility for the openspace boom that Linden Lab created. Trying to deny that Linden Lab knew how openspaces were being used and what factors created the boom really does not do Jack or Linden Lab any favours.