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  1. I was just wondering why , when I log on Second Life lately, literally find many places that used to be busy completely deserted. I joined a Nice Gor Panther group in a connected region of 8 sims about a month ago. But in the last fortnight I find the camp deserted with no one coming to camp for hours. Some Aircraft airports in Blakes seas is also devoid of anyone in my UK time zone. Some of only a few uk residents I know now, say they can no longer afford to buy certain mid range items and at same time afford rent land, due to the current rate of inflation, Living costs, and insane bills, which leave if your lucky a few Pounds left at the weekend. I used to have a homestead, but couldn't afford to keep it on my state pension. Is Linden Labs actually aware we don't live in the sunshine states of california, where, they don't have energy costs like we do or gas at $9 a gallon. I find not many Europeans on either much either, unless its just alternative clubs at 10am in my morning. If your a UK citizen perhaps someone could say if they have found Second Life deserted in UK/EU mornings and afternoons? I really miss the old NORSIM sims which were busy even at 12 midday and had to wait to get in as full, and had a huge friends list. Is LL just mopping up cash and not really investing in the future to bring back the numbers we once had. Visitor islands should be bought back I think, as most newbies are flummoxed by the interface and regulations against new avatars not being able to access all parts of the world either cos they have no payment info yet or certain sims wont allow you to visit as your new. This red tape just puts off people staying, as know of three girls who joined leaving in a few weeks saying its just too complicated and too restrictive. They also wanted combat, but like me, the combat sims are empty Euro time, I have no idea if other time zones fare better?
  2. I came back to SL the other day, came into some money. Had my eye on a half a sim or full sim in blakes seas as an aviator and ATController (Certified). went there to day, and found even my inheritance from a family member wasnt enough to buy a blakes seas sim. very disappointed. 14 years been waiting to buy my own sim, and the price quoted was over a MILLION L$.............thats just not fair, because I struggle in the UK with already ridiculous energy and food. While those living in Linden Labs or put these prices in to sell half a sim have no idea whats it like to live on peanuts and enjoy life, especially if your retired like me. So I uninstalled Firestorm again. i shall probably pack up my 15 year account now, as done almost everything there is to do, but Insane land prices is just going to push me out of Second Life for good shortly. You need to be rich to buy land in Second life, but it wasnt all like this, I leased Two full sims in blakes seas in 2009 British Airways Airport and another full sim next door for other things. These were affordable but the lag and aircraft just kept crashing. But now, I really dont know what to make of it. half the world is starving or drowning in rain or boiling hot in summer yet these sims in Blakes seas get even further away from normal working class people. you would think you were buying real land.
  3. Hi quite a few interesting comments here.😁. Like Im finding, the only things that dont suffer offworld crashes seem to be slow craft, I remember buying a WWII diesel long U Boat from a once popular boat builder. I went through many sims at 1/4 power undersea with no problems. May be the technology that loads up the avi and boats could somehow be speeded up with a New Coding or upgrade. as for stepping out like a fashion model , apart from an Oyster (Omega_ looking watch from Bandit, that I take off even in clubs, those resize scripts are fading away from SL as fitted mesh and no mod clothes take over from Classic old style. That should really help crossings but in practice, even though at last being retired I recently bought the most expensive computer for me at £1000 with a geforce GTX, its actually for me not helped, in fact the opposite, when I used to Run only ATI graphic cards. Strange because I can log in my alt in my club and me, and there's not a whisker of lag. but take a Turbroprop out of Hollywood, I get just three sims out and thats it, offworld on bottom of sea bed. I notice a reduction in and around around Blakes. I would accept these problems when planes were still Prims, and like 290 prims. I think maybe its the hud , the extra sophistication of opening doors , flaps, lights, scripted landing gear etc. may be the cause. I used to have a gesture I made that calls out the minimums from 500 feet to 10 and land, this worked without problem, and it included sounds of the reverse thrust at the same time in order. but if i play that now on landing, I get failed landings near the edge of grid, so another realistic part i cant really use anymore. Just my two penny worth 👍
  4. mines the MLCC Oceanic...................https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/MLCC-Oceanic/3394559
  5. I love my oceanic yacht but most oceans around islands in Blakes seas are not deep enough to take the lenght of the keel, so sadly have had to stop using it. even berths near Holloywood airport, cant take the Oceanic, as its roo long to fit, or colides with the bottom which is far to shallow
  6. Blakes seas, are almost impossible to navigate since i came back to it. I found under water mole hills near Honna lee, that are higher than my yachts keel can clear (Oceanic). so I dont bother using it although it cost me .....Flying is a waste of time, i have 35 aircraft and all crash. Isnt it about time LL put in technology to make ocean ways completely seamless like in pc games and consoles. I left Blakes seas a long time ago now although im still a certified Air trafffic controller. the last month i have had more failures of crossings than i had before 2013. If we had seamless oceans each grid wouldn't have to load the bloody plane and pax every few miles. Its really so almost distressing, that people just fall out of planes ....you cant run a proper Airline without it being a reliable flight. despite the techs of aircraft design, the grids just fail to accommodate and chuck you offworld. Surely in 2022 Linden directors can do better, world of warship i play never flinches ev ery day i play it. the grids are so outdated, unless work is done to change the grid structure i cant see mant staying. the only thing in second life where everbody goes now is adult sims. I actually open my new one in a few days. as alternative gender and sexual Identity has taken off a lot, and of course some people in rl dont want to a packed Real club being so close you are likely to pick up covid which hasn't gone away. Its daft really. for the first time in my second life since 2007 I have managed to afford a near top end computer 9 months costing £1000, but it seems its actually worse in performance and stability than my old windows 7 puter that hardly crashed in SL.
  7. oh many thanks. i have always used wear, or place a hud on a particular part of screen. I never even knew there was an add button, i just go to another attach point, but certain things dont look right on the part there not supposed to be. i will certainly look into it, thank you so much , may solve my problems!!!👍
  8. thanks guys, bit depressing really. I joined on the premise of the adverts ,Come to second life and make money full or part time. This seems to have been a lie. I only ever a few thousand lindens a week in 2009 - 10 when I was a pole dancer, and paid assistant manager of a shemale club. On top of that, at my age I now struggle every day trying to fit clothes, that cant be altered, this is leaving me with bare feet bare parts of my body showing, i never had this problem before mesh came along. so im really struggling with the technology which at my age is understandable having always had a "Normal" body since 2007. I love second life but the challenges i face now are quite hard to resolve, mainly everytime i wear an item it removes something i have already put on. This creates so much confusion, and I spend hours even trying to get dressed, because unlike the earlier days, nothing seems to fit me any more. Trying to find classic clothes is getting harder. I have a huge library of clothes and some were expensive and for certain sims. But I really dont know where to find a simple tutorial that seems to tell me what to do. I seen shapes on market street, but Im bewildered why they say, no head no feet or hands, which seems illogical to me. saying baked on , means absolutely nothing to me. except baking a tart or pie. I have tried these alpha layers, but again they may cover pants ,but it removes the one i have for my feet, so im back to square one. I have no idea how to make mesh, that's for todays digital artists who grew up with the technology, unlike me, who is an artist in rl but use acrylics and water colour, i would not know where to start on a computer screen. I honestly totally frustrated with clothes. this week bought some new ones, only half fitted. the rest i put in the garbage centre. I cant really spend this money i have without some profit as its from a credit card increase, it has to be paid back and some profit on top. I have to rethink if its time I gave up second life, because of the technical challenges i found so frustrating as a senior citizen. Obviously I just have my state pension and my disability allowance which is quite high, but uk feeling the huge rise in prices , on almost everything, gave my car up last year because petrol was not affordable. at usa prices we in uk are paying 12- 13$ per gallon. oh well, thanks for the help, but obviously my expectations have been dashed quite a lot. But i dont want to keep playing insane console games the rest of my life. i have 42,000 items in my inventory since 2007. a lot are buildings, weapons, vehicles , many jet liners and yachts, but most of my items are to do with clubs and adult furniture that does cost a lot, and wasted money if not used for the purpose it was intended for. back to the drawing board it would seem, or jack in second life now.
  9. thanks Katherine, I cant make clothes, but did make jewelry for a while long ago. but these now you can get for a few Lindens, the times i charged 100L and sold plenty have long gone. Freebies really clobbered hard working creators , probably like you as well. i love Art. I wish you well with your works. I think i have always expected SL to be more than its become. thanks for your input. much appreciated!
  10. Hi Secondlifers. I recently returned to SL for a little longer each week than I used to around 2015 -16. before that I was heavily involved in managing alternative gender clubs for owners, (and getting paid) but clubs seemed to die on their feet after 2010. Most of my friends left, and never seen again. So I left SL for a number of years, returning again recently, but with the same problems of trying to get a boat or a Plane to cross any grids in Blakes Seas. Im very retired now, being 70, but still have imagination and creativity. Although clothes and shapes elude me, they are far to complicated for me to work out what a bento is, how ii differs from my classic avatar. Im finding clothes for classics are getting ever scarce, my shape or skin came from Esode 5 years ago, but what actually is Esode ? Is it a classic ,mesh or one of these names I never heard of like Slink maitreya,etc. Since I joined in 2007, I have never made a linden, hardly, which was a let down , as when I joined, the slogan for joining was "make money in Second life", full or part time income. But this never materialised. Because I was an engineer bought up in analogue days, not born into these days of software and things on screens. However. With my new found freedom, I have about £800 ( 1083$) disposable income. But I have no idea what to do for a real profit in sl. (real life I ran my own garage premises). I have noted a bit of a revival of clubs being popular again, with one last night full up. These tend to be Futa, Alternative, Shemale premises, that I know how to run. Im not sure if the shift in rl gender issues is a possible real time social shift, or a temporary shift due to pandemic real life issues, where maybe folk are not so keen mixing in rl close quarters outside, with the Covid still very much around, although Our UK government would have you think otherwise. But because a club is run for the people, the actual process from making money from such a venture is limited. More like a labour of love, not a labour of income to boost my state pension. So thats one route, and probably the cheapest, but not going to be actually profitable.:( I notice some adult places are charging 100L to join before you can partake, But that's a swamped market, and very questionable content in some, that Im banned from looking at in the uk, as it comes under the new internet indecency laws, where watching even cartoon characters( having sex with animals) can get you a knock on the door from the police who flag up this stuff from (centres of computer vigilant spys that watch for suspicious activity or sites known or unknown). They log your IP and pass it on to authority's. My prefered route is to start buying up land, to rent out. Im tempted to keep to Blakes Seas, because its such in demand recently for mooring and House boats. However, the jargon around buying land seems over complicated. It says i need a premium account to own land?? why is that?? I can go the normal way and buy a sim from SL but mainland or Island, they both seem to have many conditions, which in the end, Im not sure I will recoup my investment and make myself an income. Any other people started something that became profitable i would be glad to here from you. One idea i had was to rent a homestead sim, and make it a 50 Lindens a shot tinto space on a Blue Origin spaceship, New Shepard space launcher. Sending 4 people in space, to the limit of the sl night. passing through a phantom sim wide motion captured earth below, while the passengers experience weightlessness, (which I have no idea if there is in space on a Sim?) Before returning not long after. But will such a thing, although spectacular, actually want to make people part with say 50 Lindens a shot. Even then. who would design the Blue origin under a different name to take four astronauts to the limit, and then auto eject the lower rocket part, so the pod comes down by itself, and extends parachutes when nearer the ground. I really dont know which avenue to take? help would be great.
  11. Well I have not really been on very much over last year, but been exploring Valkeyrie for Gorrean role play.. Found some land nearby for a small villa base along with all my veg and fountains. Amazing rent price due to my GBP doing well to the US Dollar. As far as I can see, its disappointing to see so much almost extreme sexual content taking over, along with these afk so called dolls that makes SL a giant red light world. Being in the UK I have to be very careful of avoiding certain places that has animal sex. It's illegal to engage with ***** either in any way, even if simulated. Force and capture unless for a Gorrean story line should really be pulled. Many countries are tightening was is legal or illegal lately online, as there's so many problems already like pornhub (I was a paid member) until visa and mastercard pulled credit card payments, on suspected abuse videos. I feel Second life is behind the curve to ban this sort of content, as with protests against violence toward woman on International woman's day. Second Life should really be leading the way to cleaning up its platform that seems to thrive on disgusting content. As a horticulturist and member of many society's helping to stop global temps from rising above 1.5% and bee and local wildlife dissappearing I would like to see SL adding a proactive green attitude to supporting real life institutions like Green peace, WWF the Royal society protection of birds, and increase awareness of the Dutch.nl universitat study on ocean plastics supported by Clean seas and NATO. This would interest younger users to the platform, as they are the ones inheriting my 70 years of being oblivious of the damage we are still doing to our planet, despite the obvious changes to our environment that is at a tipping point. Dumping very explicit adult rubbish. SL could be a virtual world leader on increasing a much more informed and family orientated platform, without adult stuff the age you can join SL could be lowered. Experienced cultivators like me could build sustainable classes on green house growers, farms on lower tier rates rather like farm simulator 19 could be a game changer if Lindens were bolder and look toward a different culture away from smut and questionble content.
  12. I have been out of SL for a time. I have many TVs and cinema screens like VEA and the rest. I cant see how they can work, pretty sure all the menu buttons need flash to operate them. I do stream my customers films and adult content from streamhoster but they are in a known format. But to be able to use the screen, flash needs to be enabled for the menu still as far as Im aware.?
  13. As Luna has said, I dont expect LL to not make a profit. Its like saying one of google play store games is free, but micro transactions is what it makes in revenue to develop and run the game , pay wages etc. I just dont see LL since they hiked tiers up a long time ago, dont seem to realize the world and costs of living has risen dramatically, but unemployment driven by cheap chinese labour has unsettled the status quo, for many OTHER countries. USA has a unique position, it can almost produce everything it needs without huge imports. The UK is an island, we dont have our own gas, own oil wells, or have a climate like florida or the great plains, to grow huge amounts of grain. My work in SL has always been around building, or and making themed sims for others to enjoy. on the matter of petrol prices. todays pump price in uk is around £6.50 per gallon, according to XE currency converter, that's still just under $9 per gallon. Other things USA and canada don't pay hardly any for is internet access, and phone line charges , that are charged even if you dont have a phone. My monthly bill from Virgin media on a basic tv package, no phone but fibre optic is around £70 incl VAT, add to that The TV licence fee, millions of us struggle to keep up with each month, shows how our disposable income for use in Second life had dwindled away since 2006. yep 12.50$ I mentioned is wrong, so its more like 9$ a gallon to you over the pond. Tomorrow the financial markets open, and thats where will we see what the opening rates is against the US$ ....after we finally left the Bloc...
  14. I had to laugh at one poster saying 5$ for a gallon of petrol is robbery. I remind none UK residents, that fuel and energy prices take a huge amount of income from even those who are working. We currently pay on conversion 12.50$ per gallon. The days we used to be able to just go anywhere you want for £20 of petrol has long gone. The same applies to car insurance, which is very high. I been driving since 1970. But even then , the cheapest insurance I could find for 2006 Zara picasso auto costs me £66 a month on direct debit. That also has to come out of my fixed pension. I can't imagine any USA resident paying without grumbling 2 gallons of petrol for 23$ .this also effects light vans and delivery vehicles, which is why some delivery charge s are quite high. Sorry for duplicate post. This new tablet is not like a Windows PC with mouse and keyboard. I never spam my whole life. This is just a problem I haven't solved yet that's all
  15. Pussycat my wife and myself get 22k GBP PER ANNUM. we still have to top up our rent each week of £40. Plus we still have to pay £450 to the council for some council tax, because just over the limit of rules. Wife has two work pensions paid £160 Twice a year only. But DWP, CAPS mean that even pensioners have to pay part of the rent and part council tax. In the years before, no pensioners paid towards rent or council tax. But Tories changed all the benefit system years ago. So when we retired in 2015, we not really getting our full pens ion, it's been pinched by Tory austerity measures. Thanks 😐😐
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