This illustrates why the creators of the Emerald viewer for Second Life need to make some changes regarding their included radar feature. Specifically with the teleport to..... feature.
This thing has a scanner range of 4096 meters. Since a sim is 256x256 meters, you can scan for anybody many sims away. 16 sims away in fact. 16 squared, is 256. You can scan for all avatars in a grid of 256 sims.
What's more, any avatar the radar actually finds, can show up in a window with an option to teleport to their location. You don't have to get their permission to do so. You don't even have to know who they are. Just ask to go there and poof, you are there.
Even if somebody has a property protected by a security orb with an immediate eject or kill function, the person still arrives there. Fabulous tool for harassment and griefing.
And people posting in the Second Life forums think preemptively banning "all" avatars is a bad thing.
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This illustrates why the creators of the Emerald viewer for Second Life need to make some changes regarding their included radar feature. Specifically with the teleport to..... feature. This thing has a scanner range of 4096 meters. Since a sim is 256x256 meters, you can scan for anybody many sims away. 16 sims away in fact. 16 squared, is 256. You can scan for all avatars in a grid of 256 sims. What's more, any avatar the radar actually finds, can show up in a window with an option to teleport to their location. You don't have to get their permission to do so. You don't even have to know who they are. Just ask to go there and poof, you are there. Even if somebody has a property protected by a security orb with an immediate eject or kill function, the person still arrives there. Fabulous tool for harassment and griefing. And people posting in the Second Life forums think preemptively banning "all" avatars is a bad thing.