Coppurr Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Hello Second Life residents! I have a couple of friends from SmallWorlds & IMVU that are residents of Second Life so I thought I would try it for a month and see what it's like. I love meeting new people and making new friends. I'm struggling with the navigation a bit so if you see me running into walls and stuff don't worry, I tend to do that in real life a lot too! Any advice, pointers, tips, tricks or cool info you may have would be greatly appreciated! Y'all have a fabulous day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Muni Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Welcome to Second Life! Have you seen this videos? -> http://secondlife.com/whatis/?lang=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinkerer Melville Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Here is my collection of pointers http://thinkerer.org/SLintChan/SLiHoboKitonWeb.htm Answers for new people at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Danube Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Hello Coppurr... Welcome to Second Life ...!! First off... Please feel free to ask anyone at the rezzing area depending on where you've been thrown into after your initial orientation. Most will be happy to help you to play around with your Viewer and getting started. Second... Freebies!!! Plenty of them in Second Life and you've got some in your Viewer too. Third.. You will meet plenty of residents that comes in multiple shapes of avatar, age and mental condition. Like Wasted above me.. he, I will put him in to the Butt Hurt category and he is prolific spammer of the forums. You will encounter people like him and more as you go along. Fourth... people are strange by default, don't get intimidated by those appears to be agressive.. they CANT HURT you.. ) Fifth.. ENJOY.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippie Bowman Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Welcome to Secondlife Coppurr! Woot! Peace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knowl Paine Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Some advice would be to keep the total number of Items in your Inventory Low. I would point at the top of this page to the link for the World Map, spend a little time reviewing the Map to gain perspective and orientation. A tip would be to let you know there is a 0.0005 meter movement when positioning prims. Copy in place means roughly in place:smileyindifferent: I know a trick but I can't tell anyone because everyone would be doing it and it wouldn't be a trick anymore. :smileywink: Some cool info, land is currently a buyer's market, most items can be found for free. Irene has done more to help Second Life Residents than I have. Emulate good people to find goodness.:smileyhappy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitsy Buccaneer Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 While you're still young, use Search to find Amacci's and teleport there. Then go to the Poses & AOs building and look on the right wall for a sign that says something like Free AO for Under 14 Days. Click on the female one, the male one or both, as appropriate. Then find a place like a sandbox to open the box and wear the AO. You'll still be walking into walls, but you'll look far less clumsy as you do. :-) (AO is an 'animation over-rider'. It's how people get their different walks and standing around animations/poses. If you stay in SL for long, you'll probably want to upgrade but the free Amacci one (for avatars less than two weeks old) is an excellent starter.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Clarence Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Welcomes Coppurr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kattatonia Wickentower Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Helloo and welcome. I passed you a note card in world with the collected wisdom from a forum thread about helping newcomers from a couple of months ago. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Welcome to SL! Your experiences in other similar 'lands' will do you good here. Have fun exploring! I will drop you a helpful notecard inworld, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilbert Dilweg Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Welcome to Swecond Life Coppurr. Hope you enjoy it very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grigory Bowler Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Hello Coppurr, I'm sure you'll like SL. The first place I visited inwolrd was Africa. I think you should go ... there aren't any walls overthere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppurr Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 Thank you all for the warm welcome and information. It's all still very confusing, I'm trying to weed through all of the information in order to figure out things like how to change my clothes! lol .... Whew! very time consuming so it might take me the whole month I've paid for just to figure that out. This is quite a complicated affair! Thanks again for all of your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Krovac Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Welcome on Second Life and many hours to pleasure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akasha Sharpshire Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 *Waves* Hi I'm also a transplant from IMVU...been here forever now it seems heh. If you have any questions feel free to IM me and I'll see if I can help. :smileyhappy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippie Bowman Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Hello and welcome to SL Coppurr! I hope you meet a lot of nice people. As for the navigation, I still run into walls too. LOL! I am the oldest noob around! Take a look at the destination guild on the Dashboard. Click on World Map. Then on the left bottom you will see the link for the destination guide. Send me a note card or IM if you wish! Have loads of fun! Peace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianesmith28 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hello there Coppurr hope we can be friends too and chat sometime have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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