Extremely high autoreturn times
Posted on: October 18, 2006Most of us in Second Life have encountered its autoreturn functionality at one time or another — you know, autoreturn's in About Land > Objects tab and sends an object back to its rightful owner after it's been placed out on the parcel for that duration. Unexpected autoreturn can be the bane of someone who, say, was busy building and didn't set their objects to the group's land, thus triggering a flood cascade of "INCOMING!"
A lot has been written about that.
But not a lot has been written about extremely high autoreturn times. Sure, we're familiar with 5, 10, 15 minutes in public Linden areas, maybe stretching up to several hundreds of minutes (as autoreturn is calculated in) on private sandboxes. But did you know autoreturn time can go up to 999,999 minutes? Thanx to this Time Converter, you'll find that's almost two years (!).
Apart from myself doing it on a few occasions for amusement, I haven't come across anyone yet who's set their autoreturn time that high. You'd either have to have an incredible amount of foresight to keep it on that long and not switch it off, or… just be crazy like me.
It'd be useful if objects could autoreturn themselves independently of the parcel time — perhaps there is a way, I just don't know it yet. You fly a no-copy vehicle out there, you lose it, and a few days later it comes back to the safety of your inventory.
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October 28th, 2006 at 2:06 AM PDT
When I was very young, and just getting my feet wet in programming for the first time, I demonstrated my complete lack of time-perspective by telling a programme to sleep for a billion seconds.
In about 4 years time (if it's still switched on) some old terminal screen somewhere in Belfast is going to pop up with the words "Hello World!"
October 29th, 2006 at 1:53 PM PST
I've have had some odd return times… a few days ago, I had a plane of mine returned to me, it being a model that I haven't flown in a good few months.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:30 PM PST
@Kisa: That sounds like solid grounds for a suspenseful episode of TV drama, maybe the computer has grown increasingly vengeful in its induced hibernation and is gonna wreak havoc like one of those Dr. Who megavillains! Yeah! That'd be it!
@Talon: Goodness, was it physical at all? And was it on your land? I've known critters like prim frogs and such to be pushed offworld weeks or even months after being set out, but if this was on someone else's land, perhaps they saw it and finally decided to send it back. The return message should've had details too.