How many ways to earn lindens?

[Taramafor]

For starters let's get one thing clear. IRL money too tight, real money not an option for me any time soon. Not after £400 being stolen and rent going up by another £60 a month. I actually got most of my stuff as gifts for being a nice enough person. I like that but I'd also like to "earn it" linden wise. This thread is about earning lindens, not using IRL money to get lindens. I approve of those that support LL with RL money but not everyone can do that. Likewise "earning the lindens" can be what helps keeps SL active. As well as fun for those doing that.

So I know there's making items and working at "time job" places (basically being obligated to be somewhere more often then not) but I'm thinking of other ways to earn lindens. Some of which I've already done myself.

Club contests tend to go pretty well for me when it's not the most crowded and known ones (yiff, GYC, etc. Those ones don't seem to hold daily contests either). I used to head to clubs with about 10-20 people and tended to come in the top three half the time because of being the life of a party. 200-500L (or even 1000L) per victory. Not too bad. Better still you can meet people doing this or bring someone along and have a blast doing it. I just wish I knew more clubs that do contests. Got a whole club to dance naked on stage once with a MLP DJ (yea... it got crazy. Fun though).

Tried flesh and fur but there's just too much standing around. Then I figured I'd escort myself in general. Wasn't a fan of that in the past but I've done "Free spending time with people" before. Which can involve talking as much as the lewd stuff. So I might head to ARK and see what happens there. Even flesh and fur is going ok once I talk to some people in group chat. Goes much easier once you're around more pixels and see profiles though. Can't really do that with the flesh and fur group because the members list doesn't even load up for me at all (Not sure why. Seems to be bug/lag related or something).

Tried linden fishing but got up to 0.4L and then the spot ran out already. Not even doing that if that's going to happen. Can't remember how the coin game works out (was it 1L per coin or 0.1L per coin? Can't remember how many coins tended to be near each other either). If it doesn't "run out" so quickly and I can get at least a 10L in an hour or something then maybe it'll be worth it.

There's those riddle games with ball exploders too. Not sure where you'd find those though. Seen them at clubs sometimes.

That's all that comes to mind right now. All these things have happened in anthro/furry locations too. Though I'm sure there's more "Human focused" places like that. I might branch out more into "human" territory. Can go well sometimes. Just wondering if people might get the wrong idea if I do that. I'm kind of a nudist (eh, I keep the dick not erect. Even furries can get the wrong idea with that I guess).

[Claireschen Hesten]

12 minutes ago, Taramafor said:

Can't remember how the coin game works out (was it 1L per coin or 0.1L per coin? Can't remember how many coins tended to be near each other either). If it doesn't "run out" so quickly and I can get at least a 10L in an hour or something then maybe it'll be worth it.

The coin one varies in value per coin i think the lowest value is L$0.05 one of the sims i visit from time to time has the coins if i see one i collect it to date i've collect a whole L$1 worth of these coins. the only place you can do quite well at earning money investing as much or as little time as you want is Linden Realms once you get good when i was able to go there making L$30-50 an hour was quite doable 

[Deann3]

Trivia hubs/cafe's.

[Fionalein]

Read those instructions, all the fishing games I know if have instruction webpages that tell you how to find a new buoy. Yes they run out, that's the way they are constucted. Someone pays let's say 400L to attract visitors and once those 400L are taken by fishers and the fishing game company's share you move on.

You can easily do an average of 10L to 20L in most fishing games an hour as well as in crytsal hunting at Linden Realms (more in LR if you know what you are doing and no one is around to obsruct you).

Edited April 5, 2018 by Fionalein

[Chic Aeon]

3 hours ago, Claireschen Hesten said:

Linden Realms once you get good when i was able to go there making L$30-50 an hour was quite doable 

While this used to be very true it is no longer. Blues and greens have been cute back by about 2/3rds it seems and  do not show up every 35 minutes as they did for years. Last time I was there a couple of weeks ago the other colors seemed to be in their normal range (not the bountiful way they were at the VERY first but the typical clusters in the same places that have been there for years).  You can still make money there just not as much as you used to especially if it is crowded and you are competing for those crystals.    

It is also REALLY depressing in color and theme at the moment. Hoping there is a plan there and that will change LOL.  

You can certainly enjoy yourself in SL with no money at all. There are tons of gifts and free things to do so you really don't NEED money. 

[Klytyna]

8 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:

While this used to be very true it is no longer. Blues and greens have been cute back by about 2/3rds it seems and  do not show up every 35 minutes as they did for years.

The 40-50 L$ an hour isn't from mucking about as a Blue-Green Edge Hopper, it's from learning how to farm orange.

I did actually write a quick guide to this in a thread last year.

I'll summarize.

Typical LR orange-farming sim has 9 orange crystal spawn areas, each of which spawns 3 or 4 orange crystals, with a respawn time of 3 mins.

With some careful thought and some time spent learning the sim, you can plot a route through the 9 spawn areas that takes approximately... 3 mins

Some crystals will be inaccessible spawned inside trees and rocks, count on 25 orange per circuit, 20 circuits an hour = 500 orange crystals = 50 L$ an hour, with any reds or yellows you run over while moving between oranges as a bonus, plus the occasional blue or green.

Blue-Green Edge Hopping was always a clueless losers option once the "fs area search tp to crystal" exploit on LR realm 1 was closed a couple or 3 years back.
 

[Chic Aeon]

2 minutes ago, Klytyna said:

The 40-50 L$ an hour isn't from mucking about as a Blue-Green Edge Hopper, it's from learning how to farm orange.

I did actually write a quick guide to this in a thread last year.

I'll summarize.

Typical LR orange-farming sim has 9 orange crystal spawn areas, each of which spawns 3 or 4 orange crystals, with a respawn time of 3 mins.

With some careful thought and some time spent learning the sim, you can plot a route through the 9 spawn areas that takes approximately... 3 mins

Some crystals will be inaccessible spawned inside trees and rocks, count on 25 orange per circuit, 20 circuits an hour = 500 orange crystals = 50 L$ an hour, with any reds or yellows you run over while moving between oranges as a bonus, plus the occasional blue or green.

Blue-Green Edge Hopping was always a clueless losers option once the "fs area search tp to crystal" exploit on LR realm 1 was closed a couple or 3 years back.
 

I of course know all that as most of the folks that have visited the realms over the years. The problem is that there are normally three of four  people at the main Field of Orange and two at the other spots. Also the folks with graphics card killers hang out at the big field. Put that together and very few folks except those using the graphic's killers are making money there. 

If that's your thing then go forth and enjoy. It is certainly not MY thing. And it WAS perfectly easy to run all the blues and greens and pick up oranges along they way if you knew the timing and the pattern so $100 an hour was easy back in the day. 

Just responding. 

[SodaGnome]

I made money playing a female stripper when I first started SL but that was long time ago before "voice" became a thing. Then I made a lot of money, around 200,000 lindens, buying and selling the breedable meeroos. They were crazy popular for about 2 years then the market slowly crashed. I think they had about 20,000 members in their group back then. It was a lot of work though. I went to meeroo auctions 2 or 3 times a day everyday. The auctions could last 2 hours each. I would guess you can still make money in breedables if you can find a popular one and know what you are doing. I don't know if there are any myself. I am a broke homeless hobo now trying to break into the live music scene. Oh people who sing live get 4000 lindens for an hour show... if you can sing that is good way to make money!

[Elijah Pyrithea]

I earn L$ from donations and gifts only. It's my prefered way of making extra money in RL too and for me it is working wonderfully, but this only works when being surrounded by people understanding the new economy. 

Edited April 5, 2018 by Elijah Pyrithea

[Jerilynn Lemon]

I'll do the LR from time to time when I'm too cheap to put $ on my Paypal card, especially when I just need to upload some textures or some pics.

One of my first purchases required me to use LR since I was new to SL and did not have access to a payment ability. The object cost 400L$ and took me about 4 days of running around, grabbing crystals. I was unfamiliar with the pattern placement at the time, but since then I have figured a few orange areas I hit and grab the yellow/red the same way I pick up change in the street. It all adds up after a while. If I see a green/blue crystal, cool. If not, I just keep looking at certain areas and give myself 300 minimum each to collect (orange, yellow and red) before I call it a day.

Edited April 5, 2018 by Jerilynn Lemon

[Claireschen Hesten]

10 hours ago, Klytyna said:

The 40-50 L$ an hour isn't from mucking about as a Blue-Green Edge Hopper, it's from learning how to farm orange.

Orange is the way to do it for sure a few hours in the realms could net me L$150-200 just in orange if i got a blue or green crystal noting where and when they were going to rezz next could net me L$20+ in greens and L$24 blues on a good day between reds and yellows i could probably gather enough to get another L$30-40 i managed to build up a decent L$ worth of crystals. that i'll never be able to cash out because of a stupid mistake

[Caroline Takeda]

Hmmm

The only advise I can give is (because it works for me):

Have an exciting Second Life and write about it on your own blog. Then sell advertising space or make an affiliate deal. Doesn't  work for everybody, but I make a quite serious amount every month with that (between 200 and 2.000 USD* depending how lazy I am). But in my case: If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

50 L$ an hour? Seriously?

Flipping burgers at Mc Donalds makes you a lot more (Which you can exchange for Lindens)! Come on don't waste your time and go have fun instead!

 

*yes that is united states dollar not Linden dollar

Edited April 5, 2018 by carolinestravels
Orthography

[Caroline Takeda]

11 hours ago, Elijah Pyrithea said:

I earn L$ from donations and gifts only. It's my prefered way of making extra money in RL too and for me it is working wonderfully, but this only works when being surrounded by people understanding the new economy. 

The concept of begging isn't that new after all. I see that every day in the subways of Berlin.
And yes , it seems to work.

Not my thing though, I rather prefer to get paid for performance.

Edited April 5, 2018 by carolinestravels

[Fionalein]

19 hours ago, Claireschen Hesten said:

... making L$30-50 an hour was quite doable 

just confirmed this, still possible  =^.^=

but if you upload the money you save the on health care you most likely have to spend on treating an RSI syndrome caught while doing this longer than an hour a day will yield you more Lindens =^.^=

Edited April 5, 2018 by Fionalein

[Lewis Luminos]

Here's a few other ideas that haven't been mentioned yet.

1) If you have a good computer and can make use of the "ultra" end of the graphics scale, and you have some basic skills in Photoshop or something similar, you can do SL-photography. Many people will pay upwards of L$500 for a good profile pic.

2) If you understand computer programming and can learn the LSL scripting language, you can make and sell scripts, or hire yourself out as a scripter to builders and other content creators (many of whom have no scripting skills whatsoever).

3) Buy random things from gachas and sell them on the Marketplace. You'll usually be able to sell these for more than you paid for them.

4) Pick up some free demos of the most popular mesh heads and bodies, make and sell good-looking shapes for them. 

 

[Fionalein]

5 minutes ago, Lewis Luminos said:

3) Buy random things from gachas and sell them on the Marketplace. You'll usually be able to sell these for more than you paid for them.

Sorry, but no, the gacha market is like stock trading, you have to be pretty good at guessing what people will be willing to pay for on the secondary market.

[bigmoe Whitfield]

23 hours ago, Taramafor said:

(eh, I keep the dick not erect. Even furries can get the wrong idea with that I guess).

You get the wrong idea about all furries then and just lumped us all together in one spot,  sorry to burst your little bubble you seem to be in, but not every furry is going to get the wrong idea and also certain places in SL are General rated and that means certain real life age groups can visit those and they do not allow you to "rock out with your wang out" so that would just result in you not being allowed in that area if you refused to remove your "dick" per LL's tos/cs.  

 

You should learn not every furry wants to have sex with you.   what you made it sound like.

[Elijah Pyrithea]

15 hours ago, carolinestravels said:

The concept of begging isn't that new after all. I see that every day in the subways of Berlin.
And yes , it seems to work.

Not my thing though, I rather prefer to get paid for performance.

Narrowmindedness and making clueless assumptions are not my thing either. Begging is asking for money without doing anything in return except the begging itself. Also getting paid for something doesn't always have to be in the form of money. Recently I received 13 meditation pillows as a gift and thank you for my work. Also just receiving gratitude because one helps people is a form of payment. To live happily and in abundance doesn't mean everything has to have a $ or L$ on it. Some people are so poor all they have is money. 

[Caroline Takeda]

6 hours ago, Elijah Pyrithea said:

Narrowmindedness and making clueless assumptions are not my thing either. Begging is asking for money without doing anything in return except the begging itself. Also getting paid for something doesn't always have to be in the form of money. Recently I received 13 meditation pillows as a gift and thank you for my work. Also just receiving gratitude because one helps people is a form of payment. To live happily and in abundance doesn't mean everything has to have a $ or L$ on it. Some people are so poor all they have is money. 

If you do something of value, put a price tag on it. If you can not put a price tag on it, it is either:

1. Begging

Or

2. An invitation to abuse you,

Or

3. Not worth much,

Or

4. All of the above,

 

[Rhonda Huntress]

On 4/4/2018 at 7:15 PM, Taramafor said:

How many ways to earn lindens?

Only one.  Get them from someone else.

[Elijah Pyrithea]

 

2 hours ago, carolinestravels said:

If you do something of value, put a price tag on it. If you can not put a price tag on it, it is either:

1. Begging

Or

2. An invitation to abuse you,

Or

3. Not worth much,

Or

4. All of the above,

 

That's just simply not true at least outside of Berlin.

I've made more money by not putting a price tag on my services than with putting a price tag on it. I know this from own experience as I tried both. How? It's a common business rule that giving away stuff for free and offering ways to donate is a way to attract customers and continue doing this while you also offer services for payment attracts both more customers and gives you extra money in the form of donations. Good examples of this are independent film companies that make documentaries, put them for free on the net for a limited time, every year once a year, ask for donations and offer the documentary afterwards for money and offer side-products for a reduced price. It's the customer who decides, never you, what you are worth and if you deliver good services and good products they will pay you more than you had expected. 

But if you want to keep living in your version of reality, feel free to do so. But don't start begging for money, when people only see you as greedy without service,  and not worth their money and energy. The world is changing and more and more consumers want to spend their money on services and products from people and companies that have heart and show moral values, responsibility for the environment, work sustainable and ecological and support their local community. 

If you choose to buy milk from producer A for 2$ and you can buy milk from producer B for 2$ and producer B writes on the package that part of the money earned goes to child-cancer research (yes this is a RL  example). I would buy from producer B. And you? from producer A? 

[Fionalein]

17 hours ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

Only one.  Get them from someone else.

*admires Rhonda's abstraction skills and files her under "most likely one of those dreaded mathematicians - keep away unless needed for work"*

Edited April 7, 2018 by Fionalein

[Fionalein]

21 minutes ago, Elijah Pyrithea said:

If you choose to buy milk from producer A for 2$ and you can buy milk from producer B for 2$ and producer B writes on the package that part of the money earned goes to child-cancer research (yes this is a RL  example). I would buy from producer B. And you? from producer A? 

I would buy the milk that tastes better =^.^=

[Syo Emerald]

15 hours ago, Elijah Pyrithea said:

But if you want to keep living in your version of reality, feel free to do so. But don't start begging for money, when people only see you as greedy without service,  and not worth their money and energy. The world is changing and more and more consumers want to spend their money on services and products from people and companies that have heart and show moral values, responsibility for the environment, work sustainable and ecological and support their local community. 

If you choose to buy milk from producer A for 2$ and you can buy milk from producer B for 2$ and producer B writes on the package that part of the money earned goes to child-cancer research (yes this is a RL  example). I would buy from producer B. And you? from producer A? 

I observed the conversation between you and Caroline for a while in this thread, and honestly right now you are the one with the narrow view. You claim that its greedy and that she (or any business) isn't providing worthwhile good service, if they put a price tag on a product. None of the things you mentioned is in any way tied to having a price tag on a good or service. Those "soft" values come from your business practice. Giving your cows good food,  enough time outside and providing a stable with enough space for each animal is business practice and has nothing to do whether or not the milk company choses to put a price tag on their milk. A milk producer would not become superior to his competitors just by changing their monetization model to a non-price-tag one. (On a side note: I wouldn't blindly believe that a company advertising their support for cancer research is automatically the moral superior one. And I wouldn't change my buying habits for any supermarket product only based on that, as its just one form of marketing and reality may not hold up to the created image...)

There is nothing wrong with having a price for a product. Money has been shown to be a suitable exchange medium, so people can get things from others, even if they may not own any good or service that they could trade. And more often than not it wouldn't even be possible to go away from putting a price tag on services and goods.

People have to feed and clothe themself and pay bills. None of that can be paid with random gifts or a thank you. And in regard to this thread its pointless to go on about non-monetary compensation, because thats not what the OP was about and would not apply to what they want to archieve.

[Love Zhaoying]

The barter system rocks!