Show what the Li is on items for sale ?

[Faithless Babii]

Its not very often I will buy anything for my home or land before I know the Li of it. But on this occasion I stupidly presumed that a small tower with ivy wouldnt be overly high. Upon unpacking it is very prim heavy - with instructions inside the box on how to deconstruct the item to make it lower.

I was pretty bummed to find this out after purchasing it, so I dropped a note card to the designer asking if she thought it might be a good idea to show the Li on the item so people can SEE it before making a decision to buy.

I had a response detailing how I can deconstruct it to make it lower - entirely missing the point of my remarks. If I had wanted a tower in isolation I would've bought one (and one with a considerably lower Li than theirs to boot)?!
Is it annoying to show what your items Li is? Or is this a case of "if they dont know how high the Li is they will buy it"???

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'd say the latter. Presuming you got it on MP, there is a space for LI. And if you got it in world, it is not hard to add a line like 'Land Impact: 15' to the ad image.

 

[Faithless Babii]

I'd say the latter. Presuming you got it on MP, there is a space for LI. And if you got it in world, it is not hard to add a line like 'Land Impact: 15' to the ad image.

I bought it at an event - I’d never usually buy unless I knew the Land impact but it wasn’t overly expensive So i guess it taught me a lesson

 

[Sid]

To me, when LI is not shown, that is an alarm bell.
Especially now we live in a mesh world, things can be pretty detailed and still low in LI.
Who doesn't mention it on the vendor has something to hide.

 

[Free]

LI OR DIE

 

[Pamela]

A good rule: Never buy without seeing / trying a demo.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A good rule: Never buy without seeing / trying a demo.

This, frankly. Often a really low LI item lacks any lower LOD meshes, and at worst fragments into triangles as the camera dollies out. Sometimes a higher LI item just puts the same higher LOD in all the levels creating an LI monster. Seeing an in world demo really helps picking what suits your needs.

Shorting the LI by skipping lower levels is fine for stuff in short range or indoors, but not so much for outdoors items meant to be seen at a distance.

(Indeed, list the LI on the ad copy and/or have a model available to see.)

 

[Free]

fragments into triangles

I did this all the time when I was a kid.