Sooo, to paraphrase from our little plan, here’s what’s going to happen next:

Make our avmans (This was to make more than the one we started out with). Done.

Message the GPs with the plan (See, they kept some secrets 🙂 )

Clear the cluster (This happens tomorrow morning)

Rebuild the legacy tables (This is scripted, but deploying resources might take a while)

Increase max pending invitations to 50 or 100

Reinvite all the GPs – Later this week for sure

Message them to re-register

Look for any new troubles

If that all goes great, then:

Add a link for “invite me!” to the http://www.there.com MOTD section (just under ‘registrations are currently by invitation only’)

Let people self-invite up to the max pending invitations limit

Periodically clear the whitelist to let in the next batch of self-invites

Watch the avman distribution for any issues

(Right now I have high hopes we’ll be doing this by next week.)

If that all works…(much more likely thanks to the GPs)

Turn off the white list and let people register as they see fit, as long as they are 18 or over

Get 3D world on line for them

Get nice installer downloads set up for them

Start charging money (might happen sooner)

One more thing. There is special logic in the Invite system that detects if you’re abusing it by inviting yourself over and over that will send your avatar directly to the AvieDisposal (we wanted to call it the InAvatarEraser, but we would have gotten in trouble with the garbage disposal people).