Frames and ping
Some advice for sim owners and builders.
SL possibilities to present digital world improuved with sculpts and class 5 sims. Plants looks nicely but animals are still like broken toys.
For creating ambiance we using sculpted plants with few prims count and some scripted creatures.
Tropical isles, palaces and temple's ruins. Can call this style "post imperial" with oriental and some roman attributes.
On the air, if its possible, hi-tech with ships, spatial stations etc. Resume: pure eclectic.
On full sim better to safe 60% of prims free, while lagging. Homestead need be free from prims complitely, but no ambiance - no RP. Compromise than will be a good decision.
Anyway you need thinking first what you will to do on the sim. If fighting only, few prims will be nice. If bla-bla RP (joking) - can made realy freindly laggy ambiance. Whatever you will, but when troopers come with blasters, you can see snapshot only on your screen.
About frames (fps) and ping (ms) you know all well. After building completed check it with Ctrl-Schift-1 and will see what is going on.
Our Lehon was on Homesteads and Full sims as well. For some reasons we keep idea for full sim, but using homestead - draconic Linden's prices dont allow dreaming, but we are still online, sometimes…
Usualy fps was in range from 12 to 100, depending of avatars and comps. I have once 0.1 fps, was funny with 2500 ms of ping, but c'est la vie.
Shortly, if you have good connection (check it on www.speedtest.net for exemple) and good machine you can see all in high resolution. Dont forget to use tools for impouvement your PC speed (register defragmentation, disk health etc), will be realy helpfull.