Nepotism used to really piss me off, and it still does. But I have come to realize that I am basically the one who is most at fault in that regards. I have always had the best friend syndrome, where I fall in love with someone and then trust them completely and totally… and I suspend all doubts despite statistics and glaring evidence to the contrary…

I am not one to prefer being ruled by statistics. But, I have often neglected facts, bestowing the benefit of the doubt by default. I am not sure whether it’s total trust in the person or just me unwilling to believe otherwise.

Nepotism is basically when one suspends facts for belief and favor one person over another when both should have been judged from equal criteria. The cases that truly disgust me are where it’s negative nepotism, where person A likes person B, who hates person C… and thus takes person B’s words completely about person C regardless of facts — well, or just taking the lightest of facts as strong proof for person B’s words.

But anyway, the point is… I am a nepotist…

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So, in traditional 3d programs, you have the ability to group entire objects no matter how big or how many “prims.” You don’t have that freedom on SL, due to limitation in link distances and also max prims per linked object.

But, it’s relatively easy to “select only my objects” and drag a bounding box around the building you want to move. But, in a citysim setting with buildings sardine-squeezed next to each other, precision selection might be a pain.

Enter one other use of my SLregapi. Use it to register an Ina alt per building/sector, so that if I ever have to move it, all I’d have to do is log into that alt and drag a bounding box to “select only my objects.”

The other day I contacted Concierge about whether the TOS max avatar count applied to RegAPI accounts. The reply I got stated that TOS doesn’t cover RegAPI yet.

So, here are the accounts used to rez the parts of my upcoming city sim build:

• Ina Gears (roads)
• Ina Looming (basement stuff)
• Ina Caudron (Blue District, except for SLface)
• Ina Hotshot (Red District, main entrance)
• Ina Westland (Red District Round Building)
• Ina Siemans (Red District hotels & resorts)
• Ina Hereter (Red District Skin City Art Museum)
• Ina Nestler (Red District WTC tall)
• Ina Clawtooth (Red District mass generica)
• Ina Major (the heavens)
• Ina Cliffhanger (The Sky Globe globe thingies and also empire state bottom foundations)
• Ina Ireland (Sky Globe Main)

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