Carolyn Zapedzki
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Need to get my mind out of the gutter, initially I read it as submissive painter
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Send me 100 linden
Give you back tomorrow
I'm gonna block you
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36 minutes ago, Mistress Morbid said:
How would SL be viable without land use fees?
The first 3 were real, the land use fees a joke, it is quite obvious why they are needed.
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Scammers, griefers, bullies and land use fees.
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Yes you would, and yes you did! Still a good song though!
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1 hour ago, Perrie Juran said:
And not just camping and sploders. There were the 'best dressed' and similar contests at clubs.
Yes! They came in useful as well.
Was thinking of opening a nostalgia club, maybe call it Club Nostalgia. Ask for everyone to dress in system/prim clothing, and system avs. (I have lots of women system clothing free on my MP and a few mens things incase people have binned their old stuff.)
Weekly contests, legal sploder, a few camping spots - done in a way that doesn't breach any rules. And an "old school" Type club, but without tons of flashing lights and fog that used to be off-putting.
Just paying tribute you could say to the starting days in SL.
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2 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:
Alts are a problem when placing multiple camping spots. I removed the 8 non-traffic camping chairs I had in the store (mentioned previously in this thread) because of it. My intention was to give a little bit back but I found people using alts on them. I removed the chairs after I found one person occupying 7 of the 8 with his alts. If I did it again, I'd use just one spot and script it to not allow the same avatar back until a certain amount of time had elapsed. Even then, it wouldn't prevent a person using alts to take over each time.
Another possibility is to limit the use to avatars that have existed for less than a certain number of days. Someone who was intent on getting the minuscule amount of money would surely get fed up of creating new accounts for the purpose.
It would be really good if camping in it's various forms became common again. It helped a lot of people when they were new.
Some good ideas there, will keep them in mind.
Not sure how long I would have lasted in SL in the early days without camping and sploders.
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2 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:
Contrary to the vehement claims in this thread, the Lindens appear to have cracked down on camping as a way to enhance traffic. And duh, they can do this not by literally banning a script (the Lindens seldom have met a script they didn't like).
Instead, they can just nerf the algorithms (secret) in their wacky search system and make your camping efforts useless. But I have the impression they selectively crack down on bot farms in the sky above stores as well.
And that's why we saw things in the last year like a club known to be filled mainly only with dance pads where you could earn a whopping $1L per HOUR -- ridiculous -- totally shutting down that sort of system, and moving to an "XP" system where I guess you get goods are rewards, not cash. And it is now EMPTY. Either they got a reprimand from LL OR they found their club, despite numerous efforts to buy e-labour and picks, ceased to work to show up in search.
I get around a fair amount and I don't see camping or even money trees anymore. The reason for the demise of money trees is that bots harvested them, and while they kept injecting ways to defeat bots, the bots kept winning. So who wants money trees intended for newbies to go to somebody wrangling bots?
There are various silly fishing and crystal games where you spend hours trying to bring traffic to venues and earning peanuts -- just buy the Lindens for God's sake, and be done with it.
The only way to make Lindens now for ordinary people is either various low level clerk or bouncer type jobs or in prostitution. A lot of people used to be in the gatcha resale business which was a great entry to the economy for the unskilled -- there's less than that now since the really super-charged sessions with total mysteries got outlawed, and in their place came these machines that show what's coming -- so no one wants to play them as the rare isn't in the chute.
The tiny percent of people who can make money with either skilled labour (coding, dress design) or who have huge amounts to invest in their land business (time and money) -- they don't make the economy for the rest of us.
It's a real problem because it directly affects the life of the world and concurrency. Many, many people come on as newbies and ask how they can earn money. They are used to skilling and leveling up and making at least game currency. The Linden games are also very much nerfed now against all the people trying to exploit them.
It really is a puzzle, the inertia to which virtuality tends and how to fix it.
When I was doing some blog articles on high traffic sims I had to laugh at a sim at the start of the day, they gave something like 10L to vote and an army of bots coming and grabbing the lindens until the max payout level was reached, tons of the pesky little things. Felt the need to spray fly killer on them.
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13 hours ago, JUSTUS Palianta said:
Camping is how i started SL camping all day to upload textures to make dresses, until i built a mall and had my own camps and a club and began to buy lindens to pay my campers and the DJ. I wonder if i would of ever made it to the stage of buying L if i could not of camped and started my SL store for free.
The same for me, though I opened a club with the lindens I earned, used to leave myself parked in a good camping spot all night. Between camping and sploders it worked out a nice little earner.
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11 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:
You may want to use something to make sure they are users rather than bots..
What that would be, I have no idea, But I would expect bots would sniff the chairs out..
Yeah, that's a good point, will think about it.
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On 7/14/2022 at 9:32 AM, Phil Deakins said:
There was a time after the rules changed, when I had 8 camping chairs in my store. They were in the middle of the stuff for sale, but they were perfectly legal because I'd cut a small parcel for them that was not in search, so people using them didn't count for the store's traffic. It was just a way of giving a little something back.
Now that's a good idea!
I may do something like that at my place
I really do miss camping, was a god-send back in the day.
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Just now, Carolyn Zapedzki said:
Because they sell what they want to sell as in in RL, you could say why don't McDoanlds sell a Nice chicken mardras with rice and nanna bread.
Should read naan bread, but nanna bread sounds pretty cool as well.
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20 hours ago, kittycatdoll2 said:
wants to know why all wont just add in all the bodies let the customers decide what they want
Because they sell what they want to sell as in in RL, you could say why don't McDoanlds sell a Nice chicken mardras with rice and nanna bread.
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This made me laugh way too much, hope it has the same effect
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Feel free to add me as a friend as well. I need to make an effort and get to know new people as SL is starting to lose it's enjoyment and I feel it is the "human touch" I am missing.
I am in the UK so mostly on during the day time UK time, and usually all night Sat and Monday due to my shift patterns.
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1 hour ago, Rowan Amore said:
Custom requests, as per the wiki, must be company names of some kind.
Upon creation of a custom surname, the account designated as owner will be billed a US$500 setup fee plus the first annual US$500 fee. On each anniversary date, the owner will be billed US$500 to retain custom surname ownership. Last names must clearly be an organizational or corporate name, and distinguished from personal last names (surnames). For example, "Smith" is not acceptable, but "SmithCorp," "SmithInc," "SmithProducts" or "SmithConstruction" are.
Geeze, that's rather expensive to say the least, I would rather have the last name of resident than pay that, it's extortionate.
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Wonderful, I feel so pretty today
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LIVES - Lunatics irritate vegetables especially spouts!
VAMPS
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"Second Life is what you are, what you would like to be and what you could be." Knup' Wanweird
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3 hours ago, Missy Starchild said:
I yearn for the days back in 2013 when I was a fresh SL newbie who didn't know jack squat and my avatar looked like absolute crap because I was wearing obnoxious freebie earrings and heels. It just seemed a lot more alive and atmospheric for some reason. Maybe I am just more cynical now.
It did seem so much more exciting back in the day. Yep, our Avs did look like crap but we liked them and anything was a step up from Ruth 🙂
"It just seemed a lot more alive and atmospheric for some reason." Absolutely, I aint felt like that in a long time in-world
I know that the novelty of things wears off, but I just don't know why people don't seem the same.
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On 10/27/2023 at 5:55 PM, Sid Nagy said:
I clean up my friends list every now and then. People who are never online or who I never have contact with for a long time, are silently removed.
My friends list will never become a nostalgia museum.I used to delete friends but when one guy came back after a 7 year absence I stopped doing it.
I know that doesn't often happen but, it can so mine stays as it is.
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Really, they should be totally ignored, as you can bet they are reading this now and feeling rather proud of themselves.
There should be better ways though to block people so that no contact can be made in any form
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No, everyone plays a part in SL, we all started out as free as well.
What about alts, say alts that people run their business through in various ways, should they all be paid accts?
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It looks great and I found it rezzed as quickly as everywhere else, no lag.
It was quiet tough, only spotted 1 or 2 other avs, not sure what it would be like when busy.