Its new, exciting, and allows for all kinds slinky outfits that bend with your avatar, no more weird glitching, spending ages fiddling with prim components and body parts poking through clothing! Yay mesh mesh mesh wooo …

Mesh clothing is fixed. There is no way to resize or reshape it.

… oooOh what now? Yes, you read that right; you can not resize a boned mesh.  Which simply means mesh clothing will ONLY perfectly fit the body it was designed for. Literally, unless the shape of your Second Life avatar is imperceptibly different from the creators. It will not fit.

Yes you can alpha yourself out or hope the creator has uploaded the outfit with half a dozen different boob sizes, but really, unless you change your shape to match the creators development body the alphas will be to big or to small.

Clothing from different vendors will of course be totally incompatible because there is no ‘standard body’ that we all share.

… which is a good thing and self expression being half the point to a virtual world where you can be and look like anything …

There has been talk of making clothing layer sliders, but really, I wouldn’t hold your breath on them being anything close to what you imagine or half as useful.

Mesh creators are of course not concerned and glossing over these minor problems, in the words of Damien Fate on releasing a range of single size mesh clothing templates.

Trinity, I’m sorry you feel that way about mesh clothing, but I think a lot of your concerns are a little extreme. The fact is that other than your face, there isn’t that much difference between your avatar and the next user’s. You’d be surprised how versatile mesh is with body shapes if created correctly and complimented with an appropriate alpha layer …….  Remember, people said sculpted shoes would never take off, and look at what that market is like now!

I guess he is referring to us having a similar number of appendages. (Worth pointing out that shoes in SL tend to simply cut the ends of your legs off and everyone has been forced to have tiny size 0 feet since the first prim shoes.)

But hey,  don’t worry, there are going to be lots of real solutions, like replacing your avatar body, buying all your clothing from a single vendor, glitch layers that attempt to hide the minor detail of you being on the outside of your clothing and many more undiscovered tricks to mask the fact you’re forced to look just like everyone else.

(Expanded from a response to Forceme Silverspar; Mesh IV)

Dear Malevay,

2 Months till ‘expansion’ and the version 1 MeeRoos are yesterdays game. Is there any point in continuing to pay ..play .. the current game at all at this point.

I will get one generation out in the time between now and version 2 and now the mechanics have been tweaked my breeding and enjoyment has gone to the wall. (Those of us who bothered to match lines and aim for pure all noticed when the rules changed overnight). I have my next generation of ~20 nests ready to coax and was going to look to the secondary market to plug the gaps before I did.

Now I’m stuck. I am not going to spend thousands of L$ on MeeRoo that in 2 months will as worthless as yester-years sion chicken, there is no point, it makes more sense just to wait for the market crash.

The ‘expansion’ as you put it, is not an ‘expansion’. It’s a new game that uses a few pieces from the old game. It’s like upgrading your car, you get to keep the fuzzy dice.

I really am not sharing in the excitement. I feel like a beta tester who paid to play.

I really really enjoyed the game. Instead of loading the die and breaking things when it turned out to be difficult, maybe you should have published a guidebook.

Trinity Dejavu

PS. The new HUD needs fixing – HUD’s should be full bright and not transparent.

PPS. Every time your servers go down, MeeRoo eat more then they should.

#Apple fucking #iTunes how I LOATHE thee,
syncing my #iPod reminds of my #Pentium 3,
must you kill my computer just to copy #mp3

–by Trinity Dejavu