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Anyone can go register. http://www.metaplace.com

Looks neat.  Can't wait to see what SA and 4chan do with it.

Whee, I'm in. I would've liked more warning that my avatar name and account name would be the same, though.

It's late here, but I'll have to tinker with it tomorrow.

Metaspace does not take to kindly to my right-clickin'.

ALT-Tab or click in your Start bar if that happens and it should unfreeze... we don't quite know why it happens, it is very very erratic for us. :(

So does that mean the NDA is down?

Yes, the NDA is down.

I'm assuming it can't be made to work under linux/firefox. It certainly doesn't seem to work out of the box.

It's not an issue for me if games don't support linux. I'm not that fanatical and I'll reboot into vista if I need some gaming. However a social networking site is presumably meant to sit open in the background a lot of the time?

It works out of the box for many folks on Linux and FF, and not for others. A lot depends on whether you are running 64 bit or not.

There are forum threads on Linux support here:

http://www.metaplace.com/forums/posts/listing/2007#715514
http://www.metaplace.com/forums/posts/listing/385/1#39888

Well Zwol certainly seems on the ball. If it can be made to work around adobe's apathy I'm sure he'll be the one to find it.

Doh, this *is* unfortunate.  I understand that having a different account and avatar name can be confusing to people, but it has some significant security advantages...

Some of the stuff I've been working on
http://www.avian-gamers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19113&start=0

I have been working with a friend to use metaplace as another way to promote his artwork. The intent is to embed it on his site and other outlets.

You can see it here. (http://www.metaplace.com/AmuletsByMerlin/play)

Oops, asked questions in the main mmo forum.

Seems to work ok in OSX 10.5/Firefox 3.0.10

Also, Sky was taken. So Raph clearly needs to ban someone  :drill:

The linking to another account feature is cool (I used google). Especially since I forgot what I signed up with originally.

So I was messing about with the tutorial on how to build your own world, and the very second step, right after 'create your own tile', doesn't seem to be active. The Shape Your World > Terrain Tools is greyed out.

You create tiles with 'paint the ground'. Terrain tools will be greyed out unless the map type is sloped or stepped from 'advanced -> camera and map'.

Well, they may wanna give the option to either skip that part of the tutorial (can't skip ahead atm) or create the default terrain sloped so that part of the tutorial is relevant.

The default terrain IS sloped. Did you come in during one of the earlier invite waves by any chance?

Yes, quite possibly. I hadn't gotten around to playing it till today, however.

Go to Advanced-> Camera and Map in the tools, and pick either sloped or stepped. Stepped is better for interiors.

Thanks Raph!

The stupid Meep won't say hello back.

Anyway ......................... to .............................. g ..................... et..................... the 'tv' .................... to ............................................buffer ........................before............ pl...................a................y...............ing..................?

Nope. I would also love it if they removed the normal you tube listing after the videos are over. But, i do not think the widget uses anything other than a window, and the standard you tube player FROM you tube.

Yeah, it is just the stock YouTube player.

I didn't see the VCR controls.  Normally under a crappy connection I just pause it until the bar fills, then play it.  I could not see how to do that in this case.

I now see later 'TV' give the standard YouTube interface, I was talking about the one in the tutorial above, that I could not see any way to let it finish loading

There is a bug in the survey - if you leave the single text box on the 2nd page blank (there is no * IIRC), then answer all the final page, it will go back to that box - AND WIPE OUT EVERYTHING YOU ENTERED ON THE FINAL PAGE.   So when it did that, I just closed IE.

Oh yeah, my favorite world was the ship shooting one HighSeas I think.  Still can't figure out how to pick up survivors though.  Tried rowing to them, anchoring, not anchoring.  Most times my boat is sitting right on them when the fish get them.

Modify, sucka. Modify.

Heh.

In other news, the Meep finally speaks.

It's....interesting.

Sail over them SLOWLY.

I asked QA to look at this, and they tried it in IE, Firefox, and Chrome, and could not reproduce it...

The survey is also not going to be helpful to you - Raph and the Meatspace guys - as it relates to people who spent a very short introductory visit. I wanted to answer "do not know/no opinion" a lot but was forced to choose 1-5 for things I hadn't even tried yet.