[Will someone make me an avatar :D]

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MoiselleErin Teardrop wrote:

Don't forget that this is SL, your avatar does not have to look like the RL you.

Let us face it - while most SL avatars are either beautiful or buff, do you think the operators are that sexy? I know mine is way prettier than RL me.

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And don't remind the often excessively large breasts and other genitalia people elect to employ. Might depend on zone and time of day of course.

[Whats Best In Shopping In SL? In-world or Marketplace? (Not making a series here) :P]

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Charolotte Caxton wrote:

I would say that I love the inworld experience much more than the marketplace. However, MP does have its uses, such as if I need to specifically narrow down what I am searching for quickly. Unless I am already familiar with the store, finding a specific item inworld can take time.

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ig is like going to the mall to browse, mp like going to Amazon

I usually end up either checking the mp when I stumble upon a store or visiting a store when I see something in the mp. Both tend to have things (even from the same vendor) that the other lacks.

mp could be better though. E.g. I'd love to be able to search for much more fine grained categories, maybe some tagging system where the reseller can more closely describe that item as a gold jeweled nipple chain rather than "**bleep** and nipple jewelry" which tends to end up with a lot of things I don't want when shopping for something highly specific. But still better than having to visit a dozen stores several times while trying to remember what each item looked like before making a purchase decision

[Whats Best In Shopping In SL? In-world or Marketplace? (Not making a series here) :P]

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Knutz Scorpio wrote:

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braylasana wrote:

Use the MP as a search engine, then go visit the store inworld.  Many clothiers go to great lengths to provide an inworld shopping experience.   Also, inworld vendors are more sophisticated and reliable than the marketplace is.  

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Agreed, just want to add if they don't have an inworld store where you can go see the item close up before buying it be very cautious about buying it.  MP is a great place to get scammed, I've seen freebies listed in MP multiple times by different people at different prices.

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I've also seen freebies stripped of their "no copy, no transfer" offered specifically for retail as "store starter packs" in some freebie stores.

[Whats Best In Shopping In SL? In-world or Marketplace? (Not making a series here) :P]

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braylasana wrote:

Use the MP as a search engine, then go visit the store inworld.  Many clothiers go to great lengths to provide an inworld shopping experience.   Also, inworld vendors are more sophisticated and reliable than the marketplace is.  

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I wouldn't say reliable, but there's often more choice, and you get to see different places (maybe even a competing store next door with products that appeal to you more).

Also, quite a few resellers will offer goods at slightly lower prices ig than through the mp. Might be that the MP charges a percentage, I don't know.

One disadvantage of especially the very large ig shops is that it can be hard to locate an item you know you want, rather than just browse. Hugo's for example you can literally spend hours browsing the collection. The MP is in those cases easier, as things are presented in a tabular way and you have a search function for item name (hint for the scenery designers, what about a sort of store directory where you can enter keywords and it gives you some pointer to that section of the store).

[Changing identty of avatar]

indeed. Or, if your friends are all or mostly in the same groups as you, put all your other avatars into those groups as well (or don't, if you create others for when you want to be something completely different, with no link to your other personae, of course).

[nice survey]

A week after starting my account, while logged in, I get a survey asking me why I had quit using second life :)

 

Hint, suggestion, misdirected mail, or just an out of control mailbot, who can tell :matte-motes-nerdy:

[Any 'older' folks out there?]

sl, the facebook for adults

[What are they thinking?]

it's annoying, and I'd not buy their product because of it even if it did look nice in the demo and screenies.

I think it's done under the assumption that most people would just use the demo instead of the commercial version, or want outfits solely for a few screenshots before never using them again (true for freebies, but I for one am not going to spend hundreds or thousands on an outfit without carefully weighing whether I'll use it more than occasionally).

 

 

[Donating clothes to Newbies]

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16 wrote:

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jwenting wrote:

Didn't help I guess I never even got to the start island, the client crashed right after character creation and when I logged back in I was somewhere random on the mainland.

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welcome to Sl jwenting (:

it gets even more random the more times you log. after a time you nott ever want to leave. just like the rest of us (:

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hehe. Meant it randomly transferred me to a zone that wasn't where I was supposed to end up, missfiring teleporter or something.

Made me miss out on things like the movement tutorial, which was a bit of a pain.

[Donating clothes to Newbies]

One reason new players quit is because they're completely lost the moment  they leave the start island (I know I am, lol).

Having people actually help you rather than giving you wrong or misleading "advise" deliberately helps a lot in getting them to stick around.

 

Still haven't got a clue as to what to do, how to eventually support myself, etc. but having fun just exploring places, seeing the sights so to speak.
It's hard to make friends if you don't know anyone, don't know who you can trust and who to be wary of (as in real life, the people who seem nicest may be the bad guys, but are you being paranoid assuming that or not?).

Didn't help I guess I never even got to the start island, the client crashed right after character creation and when I logged back in I was somewhere random on the mainland.