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"Harajuku Style" eh? Looks like a ridiculous amount of completely consensual fun! Sign me up (If I only had the RL spunk to try that in Texas)
I'll admit I've seen plenty of these "lil gurlies, with ankle socks and baby doll dresses and puff sleeves" roaming about however I can't say that I've personally ever seen them on a promiscuous poseball even in the middle of a "sex place" where I've been helping with animations (I''m only there to help... I swear). In my experience they've seemed rather well behaved and meticulously groomed which would be consistent with the 'Japanese' theme.
Ultimately I'd have to second Venus's suggestion to simply go somewhere else that's less concerning... there's plenty to disturb and inspire throughout SL and fortunately it's huge enough that I've gone weeks without concern depending on where I choose to TP. My experience in SL is wide open and easily all 'mine'.
(Would they 'Harajuku' in Austin perhaps?)
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Another trick to tuck away and remember is that you can get on the 'Beta Grid' where they give you a bit of money now and then so you can effectively upload animations for free. If you play with Phoenix there's a little pull down next to your names for 'Grid' and you just pick 'secondlife_beta'. When I used to play with Snowglobe or 1.23 it was called 'Aditi'. Don't know how any other viewers get there but it can't be too difficult.
I go there when there's couples or group arrangements I have to work with or several poseballs and other wacky devices that need to be stuck together and a 'preview' on the main grid just isn't enough.
Enjoy, and good luck.
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Looks like nearly every possible option has been covered but I'll throw in my vote in total agreement with Bree's "I'd rather that they not ask if I need assistance but simply let me know they are living people who are available if needed"
My favorite clothes shop seems to have someone throw that out now and then. I can't say I've seen their messages repeated twice so don't know if they're a 'Bot' or not but I doubt it. The messages are nice and friendly and I can see someone walking around with the store tag on so I know who to poke. They've been extremely helpful when I've needed them to find a friend an outfit from nearly a year ago or some other tricky knowledgeable sort of thing so 'helpful' is the most important as has been mentioned several times.
Certainly don't need more robo-welcomes to brighten my SL day...
Good luck deciding!
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Oh Hunter you are sooooo teasing me with that absolutely wonderful strategy of "shape tweaks" for "various clothing"... Where do I vote for that concept for the someday to be released RL 2.0. Imagine being able to "simply go into appearance>>Make Outfit" and your clothing closet drama would be a thing of the past... Shape Tweaks for RL 2.0... outfits that forever fit for sure... oh please... pretty please...
Sorry, this thread clearly distracted me in too many ways...
Thanks for the smiles... and hope... and wishes.
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This topic made me think of a reasonably helpful sounding way to point out someone's really out of whack avatar proportions if they suffer from animation float or sinkitis. Your advice could start with "Hey, I noticed you looked a wee bit out of place with that animation" (assuming that's true of course).
Occasionally I get poked by someone who says they float or sink strangely with some of my animations and 98.6% of the time it comes down to the proportion problems David so eloquently described. So the next time someone isn't quite lined up for their frisky activities or they're always positioned a little funny on furniture you can take the opportunity to sound concerned about their 'SL Experience' rather than their odd choice of dimensions (sneaky, but you get at the same problem).
By the time they get their proportions improved the animation positioning benefits as well. All bets are off with animations if you just have to be a giant or a child (Z Modifier in Phoenix is the best treatment in that case) but torso/legs is where lots of positioning trouble starts.
So now, in some cases, there's no need to offend the weirdly proportioned... you can simply blame the silly animators out there and inform the offender that to make marginal animations work better there are a couple numbers they can change on their shape and whaaalaaa two problems solved, no feelings hurt!
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That does clear it up, you certainly do need a clever animator! By the looks of it the creator put some thought into the arm and leg positioning to make it all look good and work right for the creature. I don't personally have any experience with animals other than walking tall beasts who are just big men with scary horns and fur so I wouldn't be best to help you with something walking on all fours.
My best suggestion would be to contact the current AO's animation creator (IM me if you don't know how to do that) and simply talk to them a bit about what you're thinking. Many of my best and most appreciated animations have come from folks doing just that. Someone will say "I'd like a stronger dose of this" or "a little less of that" and I'll figure out what to charge them based on whether it's a one-off unique creation or, as is more often the case, something I can work into an AO or HUD for sale to everyone which makes the project more affordable for them.
Fingers crossed... I know there are talented animal animators out there so hopefully they'll see this or you'll have luck making contact with the current AO creator.
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A quicky question to help us animators out here know what to suggest is are you 'animating' a pile of prims made into a beasty or an actual Avatar?
I'm asking since you said "Even though it's not my avatar..." which made me wonder if it even was an Avatar at all... You mention LARGE & average avatars at the beginning but that 'not my avatar' comment threw me off a bit and there are completely different skills and approaches between the two. Help us help you by clearing up whether it's a login and walk around controllable Avatar or a prim monster that sits all by itself and does its monster thing?
Fingers crossed for you!
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Thankfully my experience hasn't approached Darius’s level of frustration either and I won't repeat everything that's been said by Claireschen, Steph , Leliel & Dilbert but I agree with them wholeheartedly.
I will admit that SL behaves in all sorts of ways depending on what you’re playing with. I have a sad old laptop that SL acts atrociously on… if that was my only experience then I’d have left years ago.
We recently had the addition of a wonderful new computer in our home that I put up a post about because it completely opened my eyes to a beautiful SL that I hadn't seen before. That new computer nearly rid me of almost every sort of ‘Lag’ like Steph mentioned (I know it’s complicated, but apparently my computer was 98.6% of my ‘Lag’)… I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it. I’ve gone back and forth from the old to the new a couple times just to pinch myself into believing the difference and it’s really there. I don’t think our computer is anything really special, but it’s not the one from 2003 that I’d used until a few weeks ago.
As for ‘buggy’ I can remember back to when I couldn’t be sure if I would be able to get on for days at a time (~2008ish)… now if I get popped out once a month I’m surprised (Phoenix viewer perhaps?). Unfortunately there are plenty of folks having unreliable experiences, including one of my best builder friends, but he was fine for a couple years until he went to a new college and his ‘wireless’ there appears to be the problem. At his family's home he’s fine just like me, at school he’s lucky to stay on long enough for us to finish anything together. I can’t imagine that’s SL’s fault, but I can’t deny it ruins the experience for some folks.
As for the rest of SL experience, I’m very happy with the people I know and have fun with. The ‘community’ is as enjoyable as ever for me so fingers crossed for Darius.
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I cut and pasted some of the Magic Box advice from that other forum if they're not letting anyone in anymore...
Re: Magic Box Tips & Tricks?
Darrius GothlyHonored ResidentReply to Lanas Criss - view message
@Lanas - I'll do my best to answer, but I think you're right to place it here. It is a "Merchant Only" topic (going by the old rules) and even if not everyone that is a Merchant can access this Forum (odd but we've never been told the answer to that question), you can at least echo it out as needed to others.
Lanas Criss wrote:#1 One thread suggested placing multiple Magic Boxes out and about but I couldn't be certain that the intent was to have the exact same content in each. Should you have multiple boxes in multiple places with the same items?
The purpose behind multiple Magic Boxes is to provide duplicate delivery points for each item you sell. The easiest way to arrive at that is to exactly duplicate each Magic Box then place those duplicated boxes in different Sims. So yes, you would put exactly the same products in each duplicated box. Note that this does NOT mean to put everything you sell into one box then copy that .. as I explain below.
Lanas Criss wrote:#2 Can/Should multiple boxes be placed in the same shop/sim?
Yes you can. Generally you don't need to but .. it doesn't hurt (unless you are in an already laggy or script-overloaded Sim). Usually just one of each Magic Box per Sim is sufficient.
Lanas Criss wrote:#3 Should boxes be placed in a particular type or version of sim? Occasionally I land somewhere that says this region is running some other version and whatnot so that made me wonder whether boxes fair better in certain sims (residential quite land, busy mall, mainland, etc)
The "regular" or any of the RC Candidate Sim versions is just fine. The only thing to pay attention to really is the Lag present in the Sim. If you have trouble walking around, chances are good your Magic Boxes won't deliver reliably. There are other more "techie" factors to consider, but generally if you feel comfortable being there and don't find yourself rubber banding or screaming "Rez dangit!" then it should be okay.
Lanas Criss wrote:#4 Is there a particularly happy or dangerous number of items to have in one box (10, 20, 100)?
The "recommended" upper limit is around 100 items. Some put more with no trouble, others find lower numbers work better. Being one that likes lots of "wiggle room" when it comes to techie things, I like to keep mine at no more than 50 items.
One other bit of advice on this is in regards the TYPE of items you put in each box. If you have some items that deliver at a very high rate (popular freebies, high-rate sellers, etc.) then you should try and put those in a Magic Box with very few other items. If you have items that tend to sell in groups (for example, people always buy items B, C and D when they buy item A) then you should split those up across different Magic Boxes. That way you don't have everything coming from only one Magic Box; instead they'll come from different boxes and will tend to deliver more reliably.
Lanas Criss wrote:#5 Other than pressing the 'sync' button in the Marketplace after you add things to your box/es are there some other tricks or habits that are helpful? Another thread hinted at removing bad links to boxes in the Magic Box status section which made me think of this question.
BE PATIENT! I know that sounds common sense but .. it's important. When you add items to a Magic Box, wait for it to complete its entire color cycle .. then wait a bit more. THEN go to Marketplace and hit the Sync button. THEN wait some more. There are a lot of interconnected parts involved in that process and depending on the time of day and system load, it can take quite a while for them to all get on the same page. If you rush things or start mashing buttons, you increase your chances that one of those parts will get "lost" in the communication chain and then ... well .. it can get ugly.
When it comes to trouble-shooting a grumpy Magic Box, the best approach I've found is to just drop out a brand new box, put the full set of items inside and do the "wait .. sync .. wait .. refresh" dance. Once you're sure the new box is being "seen" and things are looking okay again, you can pick up the old box and do the dance again. If it STILL won't sync, you have two options:
- Assume there's something wrong with your end of things, so try the usual clear cache, log out, log in .. start over routine.
- If that doesn't work, ask your Sim Manager for a restart then while it's happening, you also do the clear/log routine too.
Sometimes just waiting 6-8 hours can help a lot too. There are times of the day and of the week when the system load just makes everything iffy at best. Meh .. fact of (Second) Life.PS: Crossing your fingers sometimes works too. 8^) -
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You know… as soon as I left for work after posting I began to think to myself that your concern was far trickier than just doing gymnastics with a sheet from Marketplace (it’s only half the battle more or less—In-World sales etc etc, of course, what was I thinking… more like hoping). I’m not even going to begin jumping in on this one again, my head hurt just thinking about it on the way home tonight before I’d even peeked at the rest of the posts here.
You are absolutely right! “LL: Stop crapping up the data”
I’ll simply surrender now before I completely lose my peace of mind… I never knew how good it was, so I’ll accept how bad it is and gladly join your rant of desperation for hope and change!
Where’s the petition? Sign me up.
Always just hoping to help…
Lanas
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Kerigann,
Go here~~
https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/
Submit a ‘Case’ ~ ~ sounds way more sinister than it is
Pick: Marketplace
Then: General Marketplace Issues
They just type this: Please give me access to the merchant’s roundtable forum
You’ll get a message like this back:
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Hello Lanas Criss,
Thank you for contacting Customer Support regarding access to the Merchants Roundtable Forum.
We have added your name to the access list and the link to the Merchants Roundtable section should now be visible under the Commerce Forum Index section on the left side of the main page of the Second Life Commerce Blog page, located here:
https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/commerce
The link to the Merchants Roundtable section should also be visible under the Sub-Channels list on the left side when you are viewing the discussions section of the other Sub-Channels on the Commerce Blog.
If you have any difficulty viewing the Merchants Roundtable section or participating in conversation in that area, please let us know.
Regards,
Dakota Linden
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Linden Lab
SL Marketplace Customer Support
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/
http://www.secondlife.com________________________________________________________________
Then you’re all done… that’s of course after the FBI background check, Marketplace credentials verification, Visa/Green card status review, etc… sorry, that was just too easy to throw in since the process probably seems harder than you hoped... I survived (whew)
Good Luck!
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Hopefully you can get at the post link below... it's in the 'Merchant Roundtable' forum that you can join, but I'm not sure if the link will work if you haven't joined yet.
Anywho... there's plenty of helpful advice for fixing the "unavailable" problem, although sadly time may be the only thing that really fixes it, and all these other sync, rez, reset, and repeat jobs we do just distract us for the appropriate amount of time... who knows.
If you can't get at this post let me know and I'll cut 'n paste it over to here for you tonight when I get back from work.
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants-Roundtable/Magic-Box-Tips-amp-Tricks/m-p/770949
Fingers soooo crossed...
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You may want to poke your friend to see if they somehow cut and pasted something accidentally and monkeyed up the customer names and order numbers. I just discovered those Excel spreadsheets a few days ago myself while I was responding to another post and I found them to be all sorts of enlightening.
I'm grabbing my sheets from "Reports > Orders - little blue 'Download CVS Output'" link on the MarketPlace. If I had to guess it sounds to me like your friend got your sheet from the 'Transaction History' section... I'd double check that because you may still be able to easily get at what you're hoping for, although admittedly not as easily as we'd like.
Here's the information that I can get at and none of my 'Buyer' names are MarketPlace Linden from the link that I use.
Date Order # SKU Item Order Item ID Buyer Recipient Price State Commission Distributions Net amount
If we're ever on together I'd be glad to try to get you through the wickets... some of your questions like totals for the day, total someone has spent over a time period, etc really aren't too tricky to tease out.
Try playing around in that "Reports > Orders" section on MP and you may be pleasantly surprised... or become more completely spun out of control and into a rage over what you've lost in the transition... who knows... but more is always better right? (maybe not?)
Fingers crossed for you!
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It’s been an utterly new Second Life for me the last three days… and I gave it three days to make sure I wasn’t just lucky once or twice. Our home was graced with a new computer this weekend and I didn’t expect to be wowed in any significant way, but I was soooo wrong.
The sky is beautiful, things appear practically in an instant, TPing back and forth between two places I’ve already been really is ‘instant’, all the little billboards on the tall walls at Bare Rose pop up so quickly it might as well be instantly. This really shouldn’t be surprising, since our old computer was seriously from 2002 or 3, but I wanted to share my ‘new’ experience to give hope to anyone out there who suffers through agonizing minutes waiting for shops to be shoppable, clubs to be clubbable, and homes to be livable because of ‘Lag’.
I’m sure ‘Lag’ is real, but mine has been nearly eliminated and I’m pretty sure there’s been no change in our internet situation over the weekend. I’m truly exploring a whole new world, and while I couldn’t argue that folks should get a new computer just for SL, I can tell you that your Second Life can all sorts of improve if you do.
Unfortunately I couldn’t tell you exactly what makes this one special… my husband peels every possible sticker off everything he gets in seconds, but it says HP Pavilion Elite HPE on the front.
Just had to share that there’s hope, and that maybe it really isn’t all that bad on Linden’s end after all… now shame on them for making anyone need a new computer to enjoy their SL, but that’s another story.
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Extraordinarily happily married in RL, but partnered in SL to a totally talented builder friend of mine who I’d worked with for a couple of years… He was having a horrible time with some of his more dramatic SL ‘partnerships’ and on an out of the blue whim he ‘partnered’ me and I accepted because I knew him well and truly wasn’t looking for any serious partnership so I figured it was fantastic cover… plus I figured there was some degree of humor to it.
Well, the funny part of this, but I don’t know if it’s still true because I didn’t bother to check, was way back then it cost like L$25 to ‘un-partner’ yourselves so I told him he’d have to pay for that since he got me into it for only L$10 at that time. So just like RL it’s apparently more expensive to split than connect… really? I still laugh at that… and now more than a year later we’re still partners because I’m sure not paying to fix his relationship problems… oh dear, still laughing… it’s a running joke amongst close SL friends. Bets are out as to who’ll pay for the annulment… but persistence is my middle name… sooooo… no single SL life for me in any future I can imagine. (SL Prenuptials anyone?)
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This title caught my eye and I really sat back and thought about it a bit...
In my case, ‘my’ avatar is me, but I do have two SL imaginary friends. I got started here quite a while ago after seeing a blurb in a magazine that was sitting around the house during a winter vacation time while I was home alone. I went through a “what in the world?” phase for the first couple days after being pounced on quickly with the “hey baby, wanna do the… etc… etc…” that quickly introduced me to the poseballs and other friskier activities out there in the wild.
I was shocked, intrigued, fascinated at every turn, but quickly became uncomfortable with the straight forwardness toward ‘intimacy’ that surrounded me. Without boring everyone with my whole story suffice it to say that I married my high-school sweetheart, am still ridiculously in love, and I just wasn’t ‘feeling’ what I was being invited to participate in.
As I was trying to give SL ‘one last try’ by exploring all sorts of new places I ran across some really clever and nice people in sandboxes, and some other ‘new resident’ type locations. They inspired me to try my hand at animations since I did get a kick out them, but some just didn’t do what I wanted, or just looked uncomfortable. Long story shorter, by the end of my free time for those few winter days I’d made a couple fun animations and a couple new wonderful friends.
Fortunately the frisky poseball people didn’t give up easily and since I’d ‘friended’ waaaay too many of them during my manic first couple days they kept at me to come out and play. Eventually they clothed me nicely, painted my face, and made me look and feel great. They also learned that I could, and was making animations… flirty ones at that. I was introduced to some ‘themed sim’ owners and amazing builders, and the rest is my animation history.
But… back to why the title caught my eye… because I make couples anims (and occasionally threesomes
) I brought another man and a woman anim to life so they could do the work of sitting, spanking, shaking, sleeping, rubbing, kissing, or whatever the clients required. Those two are my imaginary friends! The very few people who know who those two are snicker whenever they know I’m not working but one of those two avatars is out and about… everyone starts to wonder whether they’re being naughty or nice…While ‘my’ avi really is me, the happily married, well behaved animator, my other two imaginary friends are occasionally out entertaining me and everyone around them. They do a few of the things I wouldn’t (although it’s all in the name of ‘market research’), we debate their spending habits, and the fact that the girl just can’t keep her prim numbers under control so our sim owners are always telling her to take down most of her newly found furniture. I suppose those two are actually imaginary friends of everyone in my group of owners, builders, and sims, because we talk about them as if they were their own little personalities and we all get a great therapeutic laugh out of it. Those two do ‘think’ and act much differently, so they really are fun to have around for me… hence the imaginary friend connection. (maybe I need the straight jacket)
Probably more than anyone wanted to know, but I can confidently say that yes my avi is me, but yes SL has provided me with two wonderful imaginary friends… now if I could just get them back to work!
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You piqued my interest with the question... shame on you, it never bothered me till just now!
Best I could find was to pick any dates you wanted from the "Reports > Orders" page and then there a little blue link at the end of the date bar that says "Download CVS Output". That'll pop a spreadsheet out at you that you can do some Excel gymnastics with and figure out anything you want... totals, averages, blah blah blah.... by the time I was done it actually felt like work.
Probably not as easy you'd hoped, but it's one way to get at it... thanks for totally distracting me
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Bree,
That's a super cute and clever solution to Queenie's question... I was snickering to myself thinking how true your comment actually was... Although look at me, I've already spent enough time typing that a whole other Right Hand Hold could have been made... Still snickering...
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I skimmed this rather quickly so I may have missed it if the point was already made, but I was told to go down the Copy/No Trans path by other 'merchants' so that I could quickly and confidently respond to the Marketplace folks who told me that their deliveries hadn't worked out right.
I've only been selling from my own Marketplace shop for a few months, but I've been making fun animations for a few years now that were always sold by others so I've paid attention to their 'customer service' concerns. When most of the sales were from In-World shops and the deliveries were fairly reliable I saw more of a Mod/Trans/No Copy trend.
As more and more buyers enjoy what they describe as the convenience of the Marketplace then merchants I know have responded to its occasionally unreliable deliveries by switching to Copy/No Trans so they can simply 'Resend' if there's a customer delivery problem without worrying that folks are asking for resends and simply giving them away.
I quickly resend things about twice a week when I see some sort of delivery drama on my Marketplace page... I don't even wait for the sad IM's anymore... and every once in a while I'll get a "Thanks for paying attention" note. If I resend it and they actually had gotten it already then it's No Trans and no real issue... If they didn't get it and it just shows up magically because I resent it myself automatically, although a little late, then they're thrilled. If they have to ask me for a 'resend' and I easily (and confidently) reply "Sure, I'll send you another right now!" then they're super thrilled.
Hopefully that puts a slightly different perspective on it for you. There's supposed to be a fix for Marketplace MagicBoxes and such coming soon and if that returned a bit of confidence to merchants that a request for redelivery wasn't some sort of devious plot to pass out precious merchandise then I can't see why you wouldn't see a trend back to more Trans-ishness.
Everyone I work with puts customer service first, and redelivery tops my list for customer concerns, so you can see how Trans/No Trans with unreliable deliveries complicates the customer service situation... and yes, I have tons of No Trans stufforama that I'd love to share too so I sooooooo feel your pain.
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I've been so happy that SL continues to look better and better at all the places I wander around. Things were quite scrappy when I first started peeking into this place. The variety of Avi's and the personalities behind them have also kept me entertained in ways I hadn't expected. There are some really clever and nice people hiding out there if you're lucky enough to wander across them.
The worst thing for me has been than fact that I enjoy 'Hunts' so much that my inventory is a complete useless mess so I've sworn off hunts until I can put some order back into my SL closet. That's not so bad I suppose... Although I doubt I have the will power to actually behave that long. Fingers crossed!
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That post has enough worthwhile advise from some fantastic folks to get you more than started. I haven't been clever enough to do everything they suggested but I got off to a very satisfying start and I owe each of the contributors a huge thank you!
Good Luck and have plenty of fun...
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I apparently didn't cross my fingers tight enough.
You could try putting it in a script friendly sandbox somewhere as a test, or move it to some other friend's shop or 'sim' just to see if where you're hiding it right now is unhappy with it... frustrating I'm sure.
My only other suggestion is to make sure you have the newest bestest should work but who can be sure Magic Box as they suggest:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Xstreet-SL-Magic-Box/36791
"IMPORTANT UPDATE! If you are using a magic box prior to version 3.0.11, we strongly suggest you update to ensure reliability of deliveries."
If you already have that box, and you probably do, then you'll be left in the hands of some other box genius out there for help.
Fingers crossed even tighter for you now!
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Something similar happened to me a month ago and I read that 'resetting the script' might help. I, like you, had moved it around, picked it up and rezed it again... blah blah blah... Opening the script and boinking the 'reset' did the trick. Fingers crossed for you!
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