'The Gadgetman@ Review

Product: LandProtector
Price: $L449 , discount for multiple and also available as no trans/copy
Maker: Nela Lykin
Security of personal land and property in SL is one of those things with both good points and bad points.
Personally I hate the red banlines of death, getting thrown off my Ducati 999 (thanks Les!) because of them really wreaks my immersion you know !
On the other hand I like to control who has access to my property, and erm poseballs. Many products are available in SL to make this job easier without banlines and a constantly growing banlist.
This review will look at just one of them, as it is a system I actually use on a day to day basis on my home plot.
The xxxx comes in a 2 prim traditional rotating radar form or a single prim ball shaped version. Both offer identical funtionality.
All settings are configurable in a notecard inside the device, or there is a clever little step by step wizard to get you up and running quickly.
On group owned land you need to deed the scanner or employ its bounding box system - more on this later. You can also purchase a copyable no transfer version if you own your own land and dont need to get your scanner deeded.
Its main functions are:
3 forms of access list - general allowed, general banned, and an 'intimate' list, plus totally off. You can switch easily between modes by clicking the unit and using its menus. Lists are maintained in the internal notecard. You can also set extra admins who can control the scanner via its drop down menu
Variable scan range up to 96m, with the ability to only check its owners land regardless of scan distance set as long as the land isnt group owned.
On rented land you can set up a bounding box of SL coordinates to precisely cover only your land. A special HUD gadget is included to assist in obtaining the required numbers. This is a very clever and useful system and would be great for landlords with multiple rental plots.
Warnings can have their time before action set, and also what action to take from a simple warning to tping the intruder home. The default option is to gently eject the offender from the scanners land.
A visitor list maker is included and will record everyone who comes in scan range not just those people ejected, the last five are shown in floaty text (tm) over the scanner. A drop down dialog enables you to quickly get feedback on the contents of the various lists, the status of the device and to check for updates. A full range of chat commands are also available, including a few functions only obtainable this way.
For extra security the scanner can now be 'cloaked' so it and all status text go invisible. Also new is an insta-push function that allows you to quickly perform a small orbit push on a trouble maker with a chat command.
A couple of things i would love to see fixed in an update:
You cannot remove people from a list without a full reset of the unit as far as I can see. Deleting their names from the notecard doesn't remove them from the scanners internal list.
If the scanner is set visible you cannot turn off the floaty text, this means anyone can read it and it has an impact on script performance. A toggle to turn it off would be great :)
Finally when someone is ejected it offers them a landmark (defaults to the makers store). While a nice feature this could be made more flexible, or at the very least it should be optional.
Summary
An excellent product, especially in its copyable form if you do not require deeding. Script impact seems minimal for this kind of gadget and decreases further when the scanner is cloaked.
Just about every setting the owner of a small to medium plot of land could want seems to be covered.
Highly recommended if you value your privacy !
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Tangletwigs "Gadgetman" Fairymeadow

CORRECTION:
Hi..I just read the review...
Some points u should correct:
- People can be deleted from any list by chat command /7delete 1stname 2ndname-
It would not be smart to delete them if it reads the notecard, think that most of the time people read the notecard for others reasons too and would then delete all the entrys they might have done with hard work per chat (so, no way to delete it per notecard read) :-)
- The floating display cant be made invisible, right
- You can stop adding people to the visitor list by /7vlist off (/7vlist on)
- You can reset only the visitor list /7vlist reset
- The landmark is not given automatically
- The warning menu window to the people has an option to click for the landmark. So people can choose to get it or not.
The landmark can be replaced by any landmark you put into the device. So you can just delete the default landmark and drop your own in.
So, some of the information you gave in the review should be changed accordingly.
Thx very much,
Nela Lykin


My apologies Tangletwigs "Gadgetman" Fairymeadow