Review: The Mars Ring of Compliance

The Mars Ring of Compliance is a basic control device created by Mars Tamale that will allow you to make use of a wide range of capabilities of the Restrained Life Viewer. The restrictions available range from relatively mild to an experience of extreme restraint for the wearer of the ring. Overall, it is a high quality, inexpensive, relatively easy to use device that is perfect for beginning or expert explorers of the restrained life experience.

How Does It Work?

The submissive simply wears the Mars Ring. It defaults to a right hand attachment, but it can easily be edited to wear on the other hand or even as an earring or somewhere else on the body. The dominant clicks on the active area cast by the ring to ask for submission. Once the agreement to submit has been made, full control of the ring goes to the dominant.

The Mars ring operates from a menu system that is activated when the dominant touches the ring or uses a text command on channel 77. Five basic sub-menus contain most of the functionality of the ring. These are labeled Detail, Wear, Timer, Own, and Move. Perhaps the biggest drawback is that these names are far from intuitive. A quick guide to what they do:

• Detail - This is the menu that contains restrictions you may place on your submissive. These include blocking IM's and chat, hiding maps and locations, restricting access to tp and inventory, etc.
• Wear - This menu gives access to stripping clothing items from the submissive and controlling all of the clothing and attachments contained in RLV folders. The submissive can be given a notice that appears in open chat allowing anyone to strip them. There is also an exhibit option that should be used with great care as it will strip all clothing and attachments, including hair, from the submissive and put them on a display stand frozen. You have the option of using an RLV folder to change the skin (marble or stone could be fun) or dress the sub anyway you want. (A post will be coming soon to explain more about the use of RLV folders)
  
• Timer - Menu control of the timer which can be used to expire restrictions after a set period of time.
• Own - This menu gives access to basic functions of ownership including the ability to add secondary owners. The dominant also may allow anyone to have access to the submissive while maintaining the capability to override when necessary.
  
• Move - This is the menu to directly control movement related functions of the submissive. You can freeze, force a follow, force sit, and force tp. This is the menu for forcing the submissive into mouselook. However, unlike an implemented Mars Zone, the forced mouselook here only spits out orders to go to mouselook instead of actually putting the submissive into mouselook.

Pros

• The Mars ring is inexpensive - 300L.
  
• It's relatively easy to use and a breeze to upgrade
  
• Click access to the menus.
  
• Mars Tamale provides top-notch support for her product.
• The allow all button will quickly get the submissive out of any combination of restrictions that have been placed.
• Announcing the ability of anyone to strip the submissive in open chat is a unique feature.
  

Cons

• It would be great for the menu system to be more intuitive.

Overall

(Ratings from 1 to 5 with 5 the most positive)

Ease of Installation - 5
Ease of Use - 3.5
Value for the Cost - 5
Overall Quality of Product - 4.5

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Additional Notes

Mars Tamale has additional plug-ins available that expand the capabilities of the Mars Ring even further. They will be reviewed soon in this blog.