I’m the first person to start derendering things when my client is showing signs of stress! Before “Derender” was in my pie menu, I muted When my point of focus is the sim or event that I’m porting into and a room full of avatars is slowing me down, I’ll flip on the ARC meter and start making cuts.

In my own outfit folders, I have an estimated ARC in the title. This helps me pick out an appropriate outfit for each occasion. I realize this is freak behavior, but it’s reassuring to know that any stunning outfit I make won’t go to waste. It’s vanity over anything.

I do roam the grid with many outfits “in the red,” ones with ARCs 2000 and up, but I know that if I’m going to a place with a lot of avatars, there’s a higher risk of them only seeing me gray and bubbly.

Another advantage of this is having outfits with a low ARC base so I can pile weapons systems on them. I RP combat occasionally, and wearing weapons, especially while sheathed or holstered, can get my ARC into the tens of thousands in addition to the amount of scripts I’d be throwing into the mix. That’s a whole other beast, though.

I look forward to more of your comments in future posts

My 2 cents on this remains:

Not untill we’ve actually purchased an item can we know the ARC of that item.

Imagine if a stunning item we really liked has a mentioned cost (on the vendor picture) of almost 1500 ARC (and trust me, I know of 1 pair of boots in my inventory that have just that), do you think anybody would buy it, no matter how pretty it is?

In the case of my boots, having about 1500 ARC > is that a reason to regret me spending a good deal of L$ on this purchase and allow them to collect dust in my inventory?
Hardly.

So, at the end of the day, I allow high ARCs to roam the grid and choose not to know my ARC to prevent falling into a pit of despair and guilt, where imaginative designs aren’t allowed to go “into the red”, and will continue buying and using items despite whatever ARC rates they might prove to have.

If for that reason I might contribute to cause you lag, feel free to use the “derender” function the Emerald viewer offers whenever you might run into me in-world, I won’t love you any less over it.

That being said: keep up the good work!
It’s never a bad thing to actively try to keep your ARC low, but you shouldn’t feel bad over it either if you scrambled a stunning outfit together that appears to have a fluorescent burgundy Avatar Rendering Cost.

Here’s the point system broken down:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Avatar_Rendering_Cost

And while I’m very fond of the analu article, I wish she’d also point out that alpha/flexi/glowy hair in conjunction with resize scripts present in every prim of that alpha/flexi/glowy hair will be the culprit when it comes to “lag.”

There’s lots to say on this topic and I’ll be exploring more of these concepts in posts to come. Keep reading!

http://analutetia.com/2009/06/22/anatomy-of-lag/

While I applaud your attempts to make a more efficient outfit, most that stuff about ARC is silly nonsense.

I know someone who’s excited to see more