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On 12/29/2022 at 3:39 PM, Scylla Rhiadra said:
The usual justification for kicking short avatars out of parcels and regions is that the landowner is afraid of being shut down and/or banned by LL for permitting age pl*y.
Does anyone know of even a single instance where this has happened, based not on the activities or RP of those in the place, but merely upon the size of their avatar?
Shut down? No but there was rumors. I was an admin on a sim that did get a warning from LL about it. The sim owner was definitely scared about it.
I also had reported someone for child porn stuff in their profile and that person got banned along with their partner who was very child like. They were banned the next day after the abuse report.
LL takes this very seriously since US has some extremely strict laws on child porn. Even lolitas doing explicit things will have you breaking the law.
QuoteUnder the PROTECT Act of 2003, any obscene image that depicts a minor qualifies as child pornography in the United States. The scope of the act isn’t limited to photos of children; it also covers illustrations and renderings of fictional children.
https://www.robertmhelfend.com/criminal-defense/sex-crimes/lolicon-illegal/
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/PROTECT-act
Also people shouldn't assume cause their ava is a "teen" they are safe to engage in adult stuff either:
QuoteA "child" under this definition generally means a person who is younger than age 18 or who is not an emancipated minor.
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/can/defining/
So when people kick/ban others for being too short or child-like, they are protecting themselves and their regular visitors.
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12 minutes ago, HarrisonMcKenzie said:
Only.
No. I want all of SL to conform to human proportions so that everyone can enjoy being in-world. This idea that everyone who is under 6 feet is a child and has no place in SL is fairly problematic and just turns into another form of discrimination. Given that a large population in SL is disabled, ethnically diverse, has significant mental health or identity concerns, or is otherwise a minority, it's odd that we keep doing things that make people feel unwelcome.
SL is not built to mimic RL human proportions. The scales are all off, the sliders are off. To make it worse the default camera height is bad and encourages people to size up so they don't feel like they are watching a short person.
This goal of realism is unobtainable and should be kicked to the curb. SL itself has a different height measurement but everyone goes with Firestorm or some random 3rd party scripted nonsenses that makes the person calc'ed to be 6inches taller or more.
Somehow Firestorm is more accurate than Linden Labs, the actual creators of SL. That's how absurd this height nonsense is. People think it is the height measurement in Edit shape that is off. What if it is the measurement on the prim blocks? Is that legitimately 0.5m tall? This is a company and game made by americans you know...
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Adult sims have a good reason for excluding people based off of height. US child porn laws are pretty extreme and even fictional characters is illegal.
Beyond that, I don't know why any other place would care about height. Unless it is breaking their immersion that hard.
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scratch that.
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On 7/21/2022 at 9:13 PM, Gwin LeShelle said:
Maybe take your own advice and let it go XD
Let them be whoever they want to be, even if it is a 5ft shortie!
I personally chose my RL height back then because I was a noob and was like errr what height is ok? Well just start with my own and I kept it at that most of the time. Nothing to do with realism, and I don't care for others and their cams and furniture around me, I have my own parcel and furniture and don't pixel hump so I really don't care for height differences at all. My SL needs to look nice for me ...nothing else matters tbh. It needs to spark joy in me not others x3
Well sure, if they wanna be 5ft shortie that's fine. The problem I have is said shorties keep calling me tall while I am size appropriate anyway at 5'6". It is just I wear 6inch heels all the time making me 6ft. 😛
The other issue is the child ava on adult sims and this is where I tend to run into a lot of the tiny ones that run that questionable line TOS or not.
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5'1" is exceptionally small in SL. It is near child-like, and no I am not calling short people, children. Due to camera positions and the height of objects in the area, you would just appear more child than adult. You can't assume everyone will adjust their cameras away from SL defaults, that's just silly. Nor can you assume folks will bother measuring the height of their furniture and homes to make sure it is realistic.
Some people are overly obsessed with realism, but then are perfectly ok with fantasy stuff, magic, furries, breedables and other unrealistic things. Let it go! Let them be whoever they want to be, even if it is an 8ft giant!
Plus it is not like you can't make your avatar taller and make different shape sizes for different communities.
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It really depends where you show up as an animal. It is quite easy to be disruptive in RP sims with the wrong ava. Say.. a giant dragon flying around in a realistic urban setting. Or a panther standing in the middle of people in an adult sim. These are things I've seen happen. lol
Though in any other place, I don't see why it would be an issue.
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On 1/20/2022 at 5:05 PM, Oct Oyen said:
This is a bad thing? Pornhub is a billion dollar company.
In the wake of Twitter shooting itself in the foot by removing adult content and OnlyFans having to back peddle their decisions to remove adult content as well, this doesn't sound like a bad thing at all.
The fact SL can stay profitable while having "weird sex fetishes and perverts" should be a testimony to the potential SL has hidden.
Just imagine what SL could do with a real engine! Real game mechanics! lol
I just think to Roblox and what they've manage to create and the plethra of games and things you can do there vs SL lacking the tools for people to replicate that here.
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On 1/14/2022 at 6:49 PM, Paul Hexem said:
If you need more of these, you're the reason SL is so laggy. You're basically asking to buy a GPU crasher.
The ideas for Tier, Stipend, and limited use homesteads are much better.
False.
If your GPU will crash over someone having too high of complexity, then it is time for an upgrade. Nothing within the past 5 years will crash from that.
Avatar complexity is over hyped and dramatized as the ultimate factor in lag. It is not. The mere presence of avas with no scripts, no attachments, is enough to induce lag. The SL engine and architect is the issue.
Not me wearing an extra piece of jewelry.
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What I'd love to see is:
- FREE OUTFIT GALLERY UPLOADS (Seriously, introduce outfit gallery but nickle and dime us per upload for it just asinine)
- Free uploads (or like free 100 uploads a month or something)
- Ability to share inventory with an alt. (at least one!)
- Larger tier/land allowance
- Being 1st to be able to buy land from LL cause buying it from expensive 3rd parties is terrible.
- Ability to own homestead without a full sim (thanks Anna Salyx for the idea)
- Increased attachment limits
- Increase animesh attachments.
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Yup, having the same problem as well
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Ok so amazon AWS thingy mentions the issue here: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
But also includes a fix:
QuoteFor immediate mitigation for NLB, customers are able to: 1) disable the subnet for usw2-az2 in Network Load Balancer 2) create a new Network Load Balancer that does not use usw2-az2. For NAT Gateway/PrivateLink, you may modify your route tables to direct traffic to NAT Gateways in other Availability Zones or disabling PrivateLink endpoints in usw2-az2.
Where's LL's network hamster nerd? Please decipher and fix it! 🥺
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Thank god these forums are not on amazon's web services. lol
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I've had a few odd chats. With some guys making remarks if my white skin and beauty. I kindly tons them I'm not white but Hispanic save not interested.
I've also have seen a number of white and black supremacy groups in SL all focused on it being a kink and not you know, neonazis and the such.
Definitely not a kink for me. I do however find it odd that people have this kink cause like you could still have all the usual bdsm stuff without the racist undertones. Guess there's something there in not seeing but each to their own.
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On 8/25/2021 at 7:32 PM, Pixie Kobichenko said:
But also obviously- transferable. I don’t know how many times I gave for the sake of helping complete strangers who would ask in various group chats for different things. Maybe they were new & wanted “cheap” hair- well I’ve got 5 copies of this hair, in such & such colors- let me send you one. Or someone who was hoping to win a particular item & never could & didn’t find it in a yard sale. Just bought a new body & needed help building wardrobe? Guess what- I’ve got plenty. More often than not I was met with mistrust- or instant responses of “no wait I can’t pay you”. But I never asked for money. Just the pleasure of being helpful. Let’s not forget housewarming & pixel partnership presents. Not sure how many toasters & cocoa makers I gave away over the years.
I understand why they’re being banned (the machines) but they weren’t nearly dripping with the evil attributed to them as a whole.
Nothing is stopping these gacha sellers from trying to recreate this. They could sell no copy/trans items if they wish. Make it cheaper than the usual copy/no-trans version.
They could even release the items as limited edition until next year to drive demand and that impulse spending.
But will they? I doubt it. They probably go with this silly conveyor belt idea cause the gacha RNG is too profitable.Customer satisfaction comes second.
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41 minutes ago, Frankie Antonioni said:
How do you feel about slave auctions? They still have those in SL. Would you be in favor of banning slave auctions?
They aren't real slaves. It is basically bidding for your future gf. All the slaves there are consenting and the moment they aren't, the fantasy and dating is over.
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I don't mind no-mod items but there are times I see something that needs tweaking. Like the reds are too light or the materials needs adjusting. In those instances having it mod would make the sale where otherwise I'd not bother cause of those issues.
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This seems especially prominent with clothing. I am wondering if it is just me or is this a trend?
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14 hours ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:
As a proof-of-concept I slapped together a few scripts - all based around a 10-item FIFO fed by a list of 22, items, with odds 18x5%, 1x4% 1x3%, 1x2%, 1x1%
I made one that randomly fed it with the odds alone, then I added "modifiers"
One that restricted the 4 "rarer" items to only having one in the FIFO at any time.
One that wouldn't add a "rarer" item to the list unless the last "player" had made more than 4 pulls out of the last 10.
One that had both of the above.
Then a "player" script and a "controller" script. The player script had a 50% chance of being "interested" in the next item, increased by 10% if the announced display contained a "rarer" item, increased by 10% if the display contained at least one item they hadn't already "got" from the set or by 20% if the display contained more than 4 items they hadn't "already got," If the display included the ONLY item they hadn't already got, "interest" was hard-jumped to 90%. If a player already had the full set, their interest was hard-jumped down to 20. The controller script registered all the "interest" from player scripts, and if the last player was "interested" gave them an 80% chance of the next pull, if the last player wasn't interested or failed the 80% check it picked one of the "interested" players and randomly assigned them the next pull to them.
I then dumped a controller, a test script and 20 "players" into a prim and let it run.
The FIFO sequence still "looked" random unless you analysed it more deeply but the modified scripts drew more pulls in a row from players with identical "interest parameters.
Now, this was simplistic and NOT a good model of the complexities of human gambling behaviour, but it illustrates the concept of a "rigged conveyor" that would be almost impossible to detect very well.
Thank you for this!
Those that support Gacha need to be made aware of how easy it is for the game to be rigged against the customers. It is impossible for LL to regulate this no matter what they try, SL is not build for kind of regulation. Otherwise they would've tried to keep gambling long ago. Given all the laws that are out and will be coming out in the future is just best to nix this method of selling items and try something new.
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10k gacha fatpacks? lol. Ok, it best be the best looking thing around with 100 colors/patterns and various style options for me to change it into. Otherwise, Blueberry has that beat at a better price.
To Gacha sellers,
Here's an actual idea you should considered: Limited Edition sales?
It doesn't have to be a box with 5,000 copies or anything. It could be a limited time sale between a few days to a week. All being no-copy/transfer items just like the usual gachas. Resellers can sell as usual.
You could try to mimicking the cash shops of Fortnite where they put stuff out for a limited time and then it could be gone forever or maybe be back next year cause it is seasonal or maybe it won't! Up to you.
This way you encourage the rush, your product is limited as per usual, no more junk items in the marketplace, and those that get one will know they will appreciate in value over time.
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Personally I hate this idea and won't buy Limited Edition items, but I think it is a viable alternative to the gacha system at least. You will probably retain the same resellers and buyers per usual but your audience won't grow to the rest of SL. For that you need to take on a more traditional selling method but hey, you do you and sell how you wish.
Better than a conveyor belt system at least.
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On 8/6/2021 at 6:01 PM, Kyau Brodie said:
Happy to see some creators already working on the new conveyor vendors!
Now I don't have to buy a fatpack for 3000L of 20 dogs just to get 1 dog for 50L.
If the one you want isn't coming up, just get it from a reseller.
Let's imagine for a moment this replaces gacha and becomes the new trend. Here's what is going to happen:
- Shoppers will look at the array of 11 items and see no rares or colors they like and move on.
- Shoppers will notice a color they like and do the mental math and decide if it is worth it.
- Shoppers will notice that there is a rare and spend wildly to get it so they can resell it or enjoy it. (mostly resell it)
^This is what you think will happen. Let me tell you what will really happen.
1) Gacha Sellers who try this system with the basic Gacha scripts will see a sharp decline in sales because no one cares about teal, green, random pastel color, etc. Sales will drop but they will get a little something. It will be a flop until a savy scripter comes along and changes the game.
2) Next iteration of this will involved rares showing very frequently. Maybe after 3-5 purchases it will pop up at the end of the train almost requiring you to purchase it cause what idiot is gonna leave a 3,000L gacha item when the price to invest for it is only 500-750L or whatever. Oddly enough you'll only see 1 rare item ever in a train until it is purchased. Hm it is almost like it knows to not drop a second one... anyway! Vendors start making about what they use to.
This will catch on until....! Suddenly there is too many rares popping up in the 3rd party market of sales. Suddenly that 3k item will drop in price to like 1500 or 1,000 cause everyone can get it and now sell it. Some resellers won't like that and will avoid Vendors who are known to drop a ton of rares, hurting that Vendor's sales. It'll be tough to figure out the perfect balance, frustrating Vendors over time.
3) Next iteration comes out and now the Conveyor Belts will conveniently recycle its contents. Those 10 items you see there? Yeah they will just re-roll them all again after the vendor was left alone for 5-10mins. It would be advertised as the new Lucky Chairs! A new way to boost traffic sales! Now if customers aren't getting the rare they want they can wait for it to recycle and see if it pops up or after a few pulls it finally drops and you know, you know... it will be tracking who is around it and how long they've been standing there. You know... cause innocent naive reasons.
4) The 3rd and final iteration will be birth once customers start complaining about having to wait so long. They hate it, don't like and wish the darn thing will recycle itself when they want it to! Well jolly good! Boy do we have the solution for you! You can PAY to reroll and bonus, it'll even increase the chances of a rare to pop up! If it doesn't, pay again and it'll be even higher! It'll totally not feel like a slot machine and hey, you know, you don't to pay to re-roll them, you can always wait... but who will do that, hm?
Alternative the nicer ones might let you turn in unwanted gachas for a chance to re-roll it and in doing so they help control the marketplace prices so there is less of the same thing for sale and the prices for them are higher up. They say this is a nice thing they do, to not be predatory like the others but you still gonna be paying cash money either to the reseller or them, regardless.
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There you have it. My predictions for the conveyor belt system over the next year or so.
Aren't I evil?
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1 minute ago, Faly Breen said:
hold it. people can use prize giver-boxes and use this system and put the droprates of the items people could cast for extremly low and the rarety extremly high - yes prize boxes are a thing you can set up within the 7seas system so about that.
It is going to have to reach the levels of LL and governments noticing. Even so the success of this will be near impossible.
To fish with 7seas you must pay the vendor for bait and it is like 30L for 100 bait. You can even buy more bait if you spend more cash. 600 bait for 150L or 2400 bait for 600L.
Then you must consider the amount of time it takes to use up all that bait. Then finally the amount said 3rd party seller with prize boxes will make per bait sale. You make 20% per sale on YOUR vendor. So a savy person could make an alt account, buy the 7seas system, buy with their main to fill up on bait, then repay themselves the 20% discount and just go fishing at your Fishing spot for those extremely rare prizes.
It's been a while since I played this but I am pretty sure there's no way to enforce someone to buy bait from your vendor only to play the game and win your prizes. Also I don't think there is a way to require a certain amount must be spent on the commission vendor you put out. So a person who wins the ultra rare goodie might've not spent a dime on your vendor and walked away happy.
That is great for customers but utterly terrible for business.
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Let's contrast and compare some things:
Gacha
- drop coin into vendor, receive a random item.
- Rarity and market value can vary depending on brand.
- Sellers are vast, no standardization among gacha sellers.
- Few laws if any laws are regulating this, for now.
- Rare items are sometimes needed to complete an outfit or set.
- No other game elements
- You must pay to play, no free plays.
Trading cards
- Pay cash to receive a random set of cards.
- Rarity and market value varies depending on brand and poularity
- Original sellers are big cooperations and rarity of cards is regulated by laws.
- Some have actual game elements (Pokemon, Yugioh, Magic the gathering, etc)
- Rare cards are not needed to play the game and sometimes not compete but do help.
Gumdrop machines
- Drop coin in machine, receive random item
- Rarity is random but market value is nonexistent.
- Sellers are localized to mom & pop shops and do not achieve brand recognization for their gumdrop machines.
- Laws do exist that might hit a vendor if their gumdrop machine started to have monetary value.
- No other game elements involved, usually.
Breedables in SL
- Pay lindens for a set of pets and food to raise.
- Rarity and market value can vary depending on popularity AND breeding.
- Only 1 true seller per breedable brand, but each have a huge community and 3rd party market compared to gacha.
- Game elements are present in the form of breeding and maintenance of pets. (Meeroos had petting for example)
- Rarity of breed can be stacked in your favor with planning and proper breeding. Showing skill is a factor
- Original vendor does not sell a chance for a rare breed. They only sell you the food to keep it going, like a token.
- You can not cash dump a ton of money into original vendor like gachas to spam the machine and roll many times for a rarity. Nixing that gambler itch. You must wait for the animals to breed, however long that takes. Yes, you can just get more but you still wait regardless.
- No regulations currently exist related to breedables.
7Seas Fishing
- Pay lindens for starter kit
- Fishing is free but no level or rare items for fishing, you must buy bait
- Only 1 true seller of 7seas fishing products.
- Bait is extremely cheap (literal pennies) and provides 100 uses or so. Each one is a chance at a rare item.
- Rare items have no monetary value (aka no one resells in marketplace anyway).
- Fishing takes time even with bait, there is no way to spam the fishing with cash to get your rare items quicker.
- You can still play with friends without spending a single linden beyond initial fee. Levels and rare items are optional.
- There is a semblance of a game with the levels and crafting you can do.
- No laws would bother with this given there is zero monetary value with the game's products.
Conveyor Belt idea
- Pay vendor for random item.
- Rarity and market value is dependent on brand.
- Sellers would be vast and there will be no regulation. Even if LL released their own conveyor belt script (they won't) people will still try to sell their versions of the conveyor belt script or try to hack the LL one in some way with clever coding.
- While no laws specifically target the Conveyor Belt idea, there will be a country that will eventually nail it. Plus there was a case about this in the US: https://www.moberlymonitor.com/story/news/2021/02/25/moberlys-deskins-1913-gumball-machine-led-illegal-gambling/4576611001/
- There no other game element to it.
- You must pay to play, no free plays.
When you compare it like this you can see why Gacha and the Coveyor Belt idea are in their own little boxes and different from other random change games, because you know those are actual games while Gacha (and gumball machine) is not. They are just product dispensers and sure getting a random gumball that is could be purple instead of red might seem innocent.
However when the prize award can be worth from $50L to $4000L ($0.20 to $16) then we are reaching claw machine level of prizes and those two are regulated by the law. Yet even they are more of a game than say a gacha machine that just takes coin and spits out a prize.
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14 minutes ago, AmyBlackwood said:
From which governments? Not even Belgium law defines the conveyor belt vendor as gambling. You can't be punished for following the letter of the law even if it circumvents the spirit of the law.
The Netherland laws would deem them illegal if the prizes have a market value and since gachas generally do have market value because you can resell them, then they would get hit with fines.
Just because the RNG numbers have been displayed for the next 5 slots doesn't remove the gambling aspects of it. The gambler will just be eyeing the 5th slot and feed lindens into the machine waiting for that epic rare to drop in the 5th slot.
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My ava is 1.67m by SL measurements, by firestorm it is 1.84m. In inches that is 6.7inches of difference. Shoe bases add about that much.
Despite that height my arms ARE long enough to wipe myself and I got 30 more points in the slider to make'em even longer...! 😝
Firestorm is not. It is an overhyped viewer.
All "accurate" measurements in SL is based on LL's own prims. How certain can you be of that 0.5m cube being actually 0.5meters when LL has messed up so many things-- as you say. People are measuring avatar heights with the same broken code LL used to build this uviverse. How you trust the cube to be exactly 0.5m like in RL, but trash everything else is beyond me.
My avatar is perfectly fine and normal looking.