Improving SL Economy By Killing It?

[Jaylinbridges]

9 hours ago, Sid Nagy said:

You can even have a Catwa head for 1L$.

For your female alts?  When you can get into the sites, still not accessible.

LL has been listening to the threads here about devaluing their payout games. They finally put up some highly visible signs detailing what is not allowed at the portal entrance, in the village square, and near the payout machines, for both PaleoQuest and Linden Realms.  Twelve huge signs in all, from Abnor Mole. 

This should scare the cheaters for awhile.  But no sign they are going to un-punish the innocent by restoring the old payouts, which were in affect for many years, and had no effect on the $L value (despite some opinions here.)

Edited March 25, 2021 by Jaylinbridges

[Sid Nagy]

I would not hold my breath about that changing the payouts back to the old amount.
Some ancient avatars are still crossing their fingers hopefully over the changed amount of the stipends as well.
No success what so ever.

[Mollymews]

39 minutes ago, Jaylinbridges said:

i hope that one day when the LDPW have time available they will build a speed monitor/governor into the game HUD

[Jaylinbridges]

1 hour ago, Mollymews said:

i hope that one day when the LDPW have time available they will build a speed monitor/governor into the game HUD

There are really only two illegal items they need to detect:  Followers, and Enhanced jumping.  Speed enhancers gain you almost nothing - there is no competition for crystal collecting anymore.  You might save a minute traveling between regions, vs normal run speed.  Jump enhancers change your gravity/mass allowing you to jump higher, and float forward. Only useful in the swamps and lava pools.  It takes 20 secs to legally jump the rock pads.  A jump enhancer can do it in 10 secs.  I never figured out why saving 10 seconds once a week was that important.

There is a speed monitor in FS, or you can wear a HUD that lists your speed.  The problem is, running or jumping down hill you go faster, and climbing uphill you go slower.  Only on flat ground is your speed constant.  The games are full of hills and valleys.  Any speed monitor gives you false speed alerts when you run or jump downhill.  You must run in the Realms, or be killed - they even tell you that in the rules.  Normal jumping also is no faster than running, though some dumb bunnies don't realize that.

Bots can do nothing.  I've never seen a bot in the games collect a crystal or complete a quest.  An avatar must be controlled directly by a RL person to collect anything, and be within 5 m of the object before touching it.

Edited March 25, 2021 by Jaylinbridges

[XemmaN]

10 hours ago, Jaylinbridges said:

Но нет никаких признаков того, что они собираются отменить наказание невиновных, восстановив старые выплаты, которые действовали в течение многих лет и не повлияли на стоимость $ L (несмотря на некоторые мнения здесь).

It's a pity that people without information about the payment, who honestly completed just the quest and could accumulate their linden dollars for use in services and goods, lost it. ... Linden Lab is a very offensive move that deprives not only scammers, but also honest people, taking away their long-term earnings on quests. Of course, the old paid offended players on quests who want to receive only half of the profit have become less. but maybe new players will still want to get their lindens $ 25 a week.

Although it is doubtful if wealthy residents want to bother and run after crystals, if they are already able to pay for services with real money. But there are lovers of such adventures and gathering. who would like to continue. but they are offended now.