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Massively Speaking Episode 185: Bree-to-play
Latest episode: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
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Posted: Sep 26th 2008 9:31AM (Unverified) said
And even as population approaches these levels, the simulator performance takes a dive.
In that case, population density needs to be kept at a low level.
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 3:49PM (Unverified) said
Everybody wants to go where there is some conversation. So sims with some people attract more people and soon reach the 40 avatars limit.
This a paradoxical: a user struggles hard to attract some people in her empty sim and as soon she somehow succeed the system starts to repel newcomers.
I wrote more about that in this post:
http://joaquinkeller.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-we-are-alone-in-internet-and.html