Jaylinbridges

I send in a support ticket on their website, and they promise to reply within 72 hrs. And they usually wait until 71 hrs and 58 mins to answer. It's a 2 person operation, and both work in RL, and tell me how busy they are... (Sort of like LL for non premium peons)

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Portal Park 2/82/131/53 It is still simple fun and works as usual, but they have done several things to reduce your payout for your time in the last 2 years. They would rather you buy a Premium membership and get a 300 L$ stipend per week, instead of earning 100 L$ per week in the Realms and Paleoquest. Bean counters in charge now... Added: Yes Paleoquest quest pays 50 L$ per week, and takes anywhere from 15 mins to an hour to complete, depending on your skill and luck. Linden Realms pays 25 $L/week for completing the quests, and you can collect enough crystals while completing the quests for another 25 $L. The quests take about 20 mins, and add another 2 hours to get 25 $L worth of crystals, for 50 $L/week. You can not start the quests until you have at least one green crystal, and you cannot cash in any crystals until you complete a quest every 7 days. So if there are no green crystals to be found, you get nothing for your time. Once you complete the quests, you can just collect unlimited crystals for the week. With skill you can collect about 12 $L per hour chasing crystals. It used to be 25 $L per hour, but they have effectively reduced the number of crystals that rezz per hour, which increases your time in game to about double what it once was for the same number of crystals. They also cut the payout from 50 $L to 25 $L to complete the weekly quest. Reason given was to stop cheaters. Walmart has a theft problem, so their solution was to close stores, cut the number of employees, and replace them with computer checkout terminals, where most of the theft occurs. Must be the same management school for both. LL is big on wage Deflation for residents... Creators and entertainers are seeing the same wage deflation, for other reasons (fees, low retention, weekend events, and RL inflation for the $L buyers. )

There are no green or blue crystals in the LR 181 - LR 192 estate. I have been looking for about 10 hours now, with a dozen visits. Don't waste your time if you are sent to this LR estate. LL is saving huge amounts of Lindens (which cost them nothing) by sending you on this wild goose chase. The LR 161 - LR 172 Realms estate does have green and blue crystals. It usually takes about an hour to find one, but they at least are rezzed there.. You just have to wait until the Lindens decide to open this estate, and close the broken one. QC in the Realms? Haven't seen a Linden or mole in the LR all year.

LL censor bot does not understand French. The blocked word is Petite with an s at the end instead of e. And we all know how evil the word t*ts is, cover your eyes children. The same phrase in French also refers to some XX rated videos among children. But they didn't block seins, for chest/breast, but the size of them. Stupid bot. Let's see if they censor this website for truffles: https://www.divinedelights.com/gift/category/pe*****_fours/ Yep those petite truffles are profanely good. Are their any children in the world who have not heard of the shorter word for breasts?

Why should a search engine also be a mind reader? Language and words exist to let others know what you want. My cat also complains he can't find any catnip on MP. He paws in Meoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!dsflk;ja, and not a hit, or gets 35.000 hits for sex furniture.

I like these historic threads. Nothing has really changed, even the names are the same. SL might die if the venture capitalists making the survival decisions decide to sell us to some idiot. Otherwise, I am planning on upgrading my 2012 computer to stay up with SL new shinies... someday - when I can no longer get 40 fps everywhere running two accounts on my old bucket of wires.

Maybe there are just too many clothes for women on the MP. I tried a search for women's bottoms, using the categories on the side also, and only found about 35,000 for say, shorts. It doesn't help that the creator stores list every tinted item as a separate item, so one piece uses up a dozen MP ads. From what I saw looking on the first two pages, everything was mesh and for women's bottoms. I didn't look thru page 50 though. Two pairs of jeans and a texture hud is all I need.

This is the way PaleoQuest still is today. Jump 1 meter too high when you need to jump over a rock or small cliff, and it boots you back to the start zone. There is really no way to control the height of a jump. Hold down the Page Up key 1 ms too long and you shoot up like a rocket, beyond your control. It takes a really light touch to avoid this crappy program's safeguards. Then the warning says, you are being ejected either because you were standing still, or flying, or your hair is a mess today. Linden Realms has eliminated most of the traps. It is after all a running and jumping game. There are many invisible physics prims hanging around at cliffs, where you must jump to continue the game. In a few spots, I jump as normal, and can either go up 2 meters or 30 meters, sometimes jumping over the tallest tree. This just wastes my time, since there are no crystals in the sky, or in the trees. At least this random jump behaviour does not trigger their eject algorithm anymore. What they have instead is the evil green mist. You can trigger it in a few regions by entering a region before you have completed the quest for that region. The swamp is the best example. It also happens in the upper forest, where the heart tree is, if you get eaten by a rock monster, and sent back to the recovery tank. You land in the tank, and then get hit with the green mist. Double whammy. This can crash some video cards, always removes your game HUD, and wastes another 60 seconds. I immediately attempt to TP back to the safe village region. But interestingly, while the village is supposed to be safe, since there is no game inside, the green mist can strike you again in the safe village. In which case I just TP home and log out, because such aggravation is not worth the time. I guess that was their plan anyway.

LL could just ban the word wear. They have other filters so the cops won't arrest you. Wear is simply useless. But a wonderful griefing tool. So much content still has the word (Wear) on the object name. Only a few enlightened designers seem to understand the correct term is Add. If I want to watch a newbie panic, sent them a hat that says "wear". There are thousands of them still around. They lose their hair. Real funny. Or send them something to hold in their hands. It will say "wear", and their hands and possible other attached items will vanish. Very funny. Why does LL encourage griefing newbies?

With only one estate operating now, you will see the same players more often. I have noticed avatars with different names but the same awful Linden library newbie outfits more often too because they all go to the same LR167 village region from the portal. But they are only playing one avatar at a time and with different account names. I don't call this cheating. I have still not seen anyone using follower avatars for years. What time of day do you see them? Collecting crystals 24/7 is not cheating either. And if there is a team effort in RL behind that, why would that be cheating? I can see some school clubs, or even large families using the same computer and avatar, or multiple avatars, to play 24/7. With some currency exchanges that might amount to enough income to buy groceries for a few days. It is still not cheating. Just poor people with nothing better to do. What I do notice is too many players for only one Linden Realms estate. I counted 30 avatars the other morning in the LR161 to LR172 regions , using the dot map to see them all. Of the 12 regions, usually 3 have no players. With 30 players using 9 regions it's easy for 2-3 players to clear all the crystals in a few minutes. Major refreshes of crystals happen about every 25 mins. It can't be that profitable for the "cheaters" either, if someone would define what a cheater really is, and how they are affecting your game?

It went through later on Feb 13, so 6 days, or 4 business days to process.

Feb. 7, 2023, 5 p.m. PST Process Credit to PayPal In Progress Still waiting... Turnaround was 2 days last year, but not this year so far. Feb 13, 2023 Status In Progress

AARP is not for the kids. AARP (formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons) is an interest group in the United States focusing on issues affecting those over the age of fifty.[3] The organization said it had more than 38 million members in 2023. The magazine and bulletin it sends to its members are the two largest-circulation publications in the United States. It was founded in 1958. And SL could get a monthly full page glossy color advertisement in the two largest circulation publications in the USA for a tiny fraction of what a Super Bowl video advert would cost. Cheap and a targeted audience, for offering a discount to over age fifty members. But SL and the gamers here think the young gamers and mesh designers looking for the new and shiny are their target audience. And so SL stagnates. Presenting LL your AARP card number, LL/Tilia could check against your RL name, and give you a 25% discount on any Premium membership. Video card and computer manufacturers could also give a "senior" discount for new upgrades and systems. SL is set up more as a social organization, which fits the over 50 crowd better than the z-gen gamers., with 10 min max attention spans, and no concept of history yet. But LL management is full of "young kids" who only see within their own bubble. Hence shiny doorknobs, which I guarantee most AARP members could not give a mouse t*rd about, are called an attraction to spend big bucks on. Now I will admit, the PBR demo on youtube did get me looking at my real life brass and chrome doorknobs - for the first time in my life. First I had to use a cleaner solution to get the grunge off. Then, well what do you know, my bathroom has 5 bright lights above the sink, and I can see 5 tiny white spots on the chrome plated doorknob. I feel 50 years younger finding this previously ignored effect. But I still don't care if it can happen in SL, because I just don't find my SL doorknobs that satisfying, reflective or not.

Kids, what seems to be the SL desired demographic, like new stuff, not something that is 20 years old. Ewww, 20th anniversary, my parents just celebrated that. Not going to that old game. They could give a discount to AARP members, a growing demographic with real money. And forget about shiny reflective doorknobs that nobody I know gets excited about.

Why are all automobiles made before 2010 still allowed on the road? Shouldn't the auto companies install self destruct timers in those obsolete cars so they cannot start up ever again, and the government arrest anyone still owning one of those old potato cars? How else are they going to sell you a new car? Ask Jay Leno... Planned obsolescence to support new projects for software programmers has been the dirty norm for the last 40 years in the computer industry.

The visual studio downloads are right on the Firestorm installation page. Just download and run the .exe Not sure why you make everything so complicated for yourself. If you see errors like “missing vcruntime.dll”, “missing msvcp.dll” or the application is not starting at all, then please download and install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio for 64-bit operating systems or 32-bit operating systems.

Chrome and MS Edge already have stopped support for WIn 7. Chrome 109 is the last version of Chrome that will support Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2. Chrome 110 (tentatively scheduled for release on February 7th, 2023) is the first version of Chrome that requires Windows 10 or later. You’ll need to ensure your device is running Windows 10 or later to continue receiving future Chrome releases. This matches Microsoft's end of support for Windows 7 ESU and Windows 8.1 extended support on January 10th, 2023. And I get the nag screen in Chrome every time I start the browser now, about Win7 is no longer supported and I should upgrade to WIn 10/11. But of course it will still work without updates (that change the style pages every update, grrr), until some day it won't. So far MS is still updating the virus/spyware definitions every day though, for real-time Microsoft Security Essentials for WIn7. The same continued for another year when they stopped WinXP support.

And luck, like live for 15 years with no emergencies that require you to raid your computer piggy bank to survive. Many middle age persons have no safety net in the USA, or savings.

Maybe I usually don't go to the Realms between 8am SLT and 11pm SLT, because I am either sleeping or working on my businesses. Those are American continent hours and European hours. I see mostly foreign sounding names (to me) when American continent peeps are usually sleeping. Continent means North and South America and all in between of course. But still, followers are obvious to see, and before the signs and the 50% cut in quest reward, I saw followers all the time. I have not seen anyone with another avatar attached for several years. That was the only kind of cheating that amounted to anything, especially when xyz001 to xyz100 was systematically running with 4 avatars attached thru the quests until they finished with xyz100. Then they moved to Paleoquest and did the same thing. They are all gone from what I have seen. I see lots of tiny bugs and critters there, and some seem to think jumping gets them somewhere faster. Of course it does not, but they probably never took a physics class, so they don't know any better. About once a month I see someone using the gravity settings to "fly" over the rocks in the swamp and lava pit quests. They get out of my way faster, and seldom collect crystals. They also save about 30 seconds over legal jumping the rocks to the quest. So if saving 30 seconds PER WEEK gives them a thrill, so be it. Nothing to get concerned about. Now I see single players with normal account names simply running through the quests and collecting crystals. Most of the players have been in SL for 1000 to 5000 days too. The 1 day old alts have also disappeared. And everyone I see has PIOF, which they need to cash in any crystals or quests. I was there last night from 3am to 7am - saw no cheating, and collected about 100L in crystals plus completing the quests for next week. Only reason I averaged 25L/hr was I caught a region right after the restart, and was the first one in. I don't exactly need the lindens, they are about 0.1% of my SL income, but I do enjoy getting the stupid rock monsters to all collide with each other and explode. I figure there is a Linden playing the monsters.

Most of Thomas's products still work, except for the Full Sim scanner, that was broken when LL moved to the Amazon cloud. Just a caution that Thomas has not logged into SL since August of 2020. And emails for him to fix the url pointers in the full sim scanner have not been answered.

If I want to find an old topic or post in this forum, I use Google Public Search. It is much faster and more accurate than the search function in this forum while logged in.

I am in the Linden Realms several days every week, for the last 4 years. I have not seen any increase in "cheating" during my time collecting crystals. I have yet to see any followers in the last two years, since Patch had the signs put up. I have yet to have anyone out run me, at the standard avatar run speed. Of course I have no HUDs attached, except the Linden HUD, that keeps detaching every game. Most of the re-attach HUD terminals do not work. You need to keep crossing region boundaries to wake up the re attach the LR Hud script. I wish they could fix this bug in the game,. It has been there since LR began. Some players seem to think that all green crystals are theirs. If I see a green crystal, I will run to it, at legal speed, and if I get there before you do, it means I was closer to it than you. Newton's laws of motion still apply in the LR. What you should be complaining about is that LL has reduced the Realms from six estates to one estate. The number of crystals generated has not increased for one estate, but the number of players is now about triple what it was. And, some players are just more experienced or have solid internet connections (zero lag) and will beat you to the high value crystals in a race. Not cheating.

There used to be 6 (SIX) "servers' actually estates, with 12 regions/estate all in operation for the Linden Realms. By cutting back from six to one, they save more lindens since the number of crystals generated per region and estate has not changed. Actually it seems like there are less crystals now than before the "cheating prevention measures", but that could just be too many players for only one estate. If the bottom line is for LL to save money by preventing players from cashing out too many of their lindens to RL dollars, then the Realms are a LL success story. Since you are lucky to earn 25 lindens/hour now by collecting crystals, this must be a huge savings.

Is it too early to say "In before the close" ?

I suppose this song will manage to offend everyone here in one way or another. Really folks, worry about something important for a change, what a waste of a thread.