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Are you wearing a well-known AO and not one that someone put together with high priority animations? At the very least, try turning off any AO and see if there is any difference. Most creators use sit scripts which are normally capable of stopping your AO animations. Since you mentioned furniture with different animations, you aren't talking about those using pose balls? Those likely would depend on you accepting an animation request which you might not be seeing. Normally they would show in the top right corner of your screen. They are easily hidden for some users depending on settings or hiding under other things in the same screen area.

If this happened, why are you asking in here instead of taking it to support?

There you go, Karen. If one of the most famous lunatics in all Second Life can once again predict complete doom for the platform, you know your are safe here.

Prokofy Neva wrote: Few remember that way back in 2006 - nearly 10 years ago! -- I was the one who blew the whistle on the imminent plans of the Lab to start selling their islands for a higher cost - and their secret offer to their friends in a special developers' group to get the old price and stock up on sims before the new price kicked in. You can't put outside links in the forums but this article is findable on the Alphaville Herald and is about "Sticker Shock". Of course outside links can be placed in here - with some restrictions. Disallowing the Alphaville Herald to blatantly be directly linked to from here is a responsible move by the moderators. And of course, we all know how well the voices in one person's head can accurately predict what is going on behind the closed doors of others.

And if it IS aimed at stopping or slowing region loss, why is that a bad thing? SL still makes enough of a profit to stay open as it is without a drastic decline. If there were any possible way to lower tier with the least amount of friction, the way they did it might well have the best possible. The rage from everyone paying more for years, and especially those who stopped because of how the rates were then, was going to happen no matter what. There is no way it was avoidable. Sad, but I'm sure they knew that some would be furious even if they lowered tier.

On this subject, just about everyone disagrees with you, including Jo in the blog post you linked. And still, whether or not curent land owners should have been given the reduction right away without further investment is a different discussion entirely. You are free to pass on it if you like, but I am already seeing others claim that they are jumping on it.

You basically have a house for rent. Similar to the skyboxes you see for rent. Don't be surprised if it still costs you more than you can take in, considering vacancies through high turnover and low land rental costs. If you are renting and not selling the land, nobody can move your objects unless you give them edit rights. ETA: Return rights through land group as well.

Whether or not the offer should have been given to current owners of full price private islands or not is another issure entirely. In contrast to almost the entire community's beliefs, and no matter how you look at it, LL actually lowered tier. Yes, it will take 6 months to see the reduction begin, but it still happened. You have no more disadvantage now than you did before. Nobody will see a reduction earlier than you if you take advantage of it now. If anything, you should have an advantage over anyone purchasing later on unless they purchase a grandfathered region.

Qie Niangao wrote: Jessica Lyon wrote: Apparently it cannot be revoked once enabled. Interesting. I wonder why this needs to behave differently from, say, the Cornfield experience. I will assume from your response that those can be revoked. I can't offer a reference because I cannot find it now, but I am sure I read (I believe in one or the other of SL forums) that at that time, Linden Realm Experiences could not be revoked once they were accepted although all others could.

steph Arnott wrote: You can argiue with those that have tried, failed and recieved them. You were given a link to the instructions. The DMCA procedure will easily make an entire thread's content by itself; way too much to get into here. I will pass on any arguing. You can try to learn it if you wish, or not. You aren't doing yourself any favors here, but have a good day.

RLV scripting has nothing to do with DMCA. The discussion not long ago even in the Scripting forum was telling others how to keep a copy of their huds with custom alpha settings for each outfit in the same folder with each of its corresponding outfits to make changing possible. You can add, replace, and remove clothing layers and attachments with RLV - within limits of what your specific product will let you lock. You can add, replace and remove entire folders. It should not be too hard to figure out from here.

You have tried and failed. Everyone else knows how to do it. Replacing what someone wears can be done with RLV very easily. Mesh avatar parts are worn, like every other part of avatar outfits. ETA: But I will add that many still see changing the avatar as going too far anyway and will likely refuse rlv folders. I won't accept them myself for this reason alone.

It is very common to do this with RLV no matter how much the inexperienced think otherwise. The problem with this is that many users will absolutely refuse to take folders because of this reason specifically. Changing or removing clothes is one thing; changing the entire avatar that people spend so much time creating each version of is seen by many as griefing even when it is done using RLV. It is the reason simple things such as unique clothing layers (slimy films for example) become more useless. When you have to refuse RLV folders to keep your whole avatar from being changed, it ruined the simple, reasonable use cases.

They have addressed the issue. They have given land ownership and regulation controls for all parcels from borders to include all the space above. There is no free range depending on height. Furthermore, the places most people will want to secure will be around their skyboxes. A lot of us would like to have seen a free range area in the air, but I think that ship sailed years ago. You can't truly blame the orbs or landowners when they are not the ones with the misunderstanding. Those with a 30 second warning are among the nicer ones.

Usually you can find land cheaper to buy through the auction (not necessarily though). Without considering other factors that might be specific to you, and unless you hold large land areas for various reasons, it is almost always cheaper to not be premium and rent than it is to own and pay tier.

Pussycat Catnap wrote: CarlottaAdagio wrote: Why are almost all of the advertisements in the adult search women degrading? Sex is sex. Men and women having fun. Sex is not degrading women! I don't accept: "Then don't tick the adult box in search". Degration of women has nothing to do with adult or whatever. It is simply wrong! There's an extreme amount of misogyny in SL. You will see people sit here and say "why don't other people just post more" and "well that is what sells" but these people ignore the impact of silencing, **bleep**-shaming, and others being driven away by a hostile environment. Look to real life fields - women and minorities were shut out of many places by a host of factors, the least of which was Jim Crow laws. The bulk of it was social pressure, condemnation, and 'reverse accusations'. Consider: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/10/protests-against-campus-racism-dont-threaten-free-speech-they-embrace-it/ This is one example of a common phenomenon. Thsi thread is a replicate of that issue. That when people who have been marginalized call it out, they get attacked and accused of the very thing they are seeking to stop. Police call blacks racist at the very moments they murder them, rapists call women sluts as they rape them. - Victim blaming is a global passtime. And it can be very effective at creating communities that might "legally" or "technically" allow marginalized people - but for whome those people will face strong hostility when they actually show up. Creating an overwhelming presence of violence against women (Gor, BDSM that is mostly male-dom, and even dolcett) and people of color depicted as rapists of white women (go SL search the term "interracial") does NOT encourage women and minorites to show up here to create an alternative dialog... it causes the bulk of us to turn away and reject the platform. You have to be a pretty hardened fighter to withstand or be able to move past and ignore all of that and find the alternatives. It is perfectly possible to represent sexuality, and even D/s, without making it about downpression of women. It is also perfectly possible to represent minority communities, without it being about racist stereotypes. All of this ALSO exists in Second Life - but it exists outside of the easy spotlight. The easy spotlight ends up on the negative representations, because there is too much of a philosophy of tolerance of hate. Tolerance of hate is not tolerance, but enablement. There is as well, a great deal of femdom fantasy in SL. You can find the same issues reversed in about every way for each gender. That the opposite, (male Dominants) is more common to find here is likely relative to the real world fantasies. Either way, those wishing to portray themselves as the submissive, (even the ABUSED sub), greatly outnumber those who choose to dominate. There may be no 'official' source, but I will challenge you to meet in any of the most popular (and unpopular) of these communities to verify, if you do not believe this. The same can be said of rape fantasies. Where the rapist is not representing a person of color still far outnumber the other way around. If one's skin is dark, are they not allowed to roleplay the fantasy? Do you deny that there is a desire among many for a dark skin partner, dominant or not? Or for a lighter skinned partner among browner people? I won't deny that there will be some racist roleplay, but it is often assumed to be the case when it is nothing more than a normal, common fetish. You can't really eliminate one without the other. The tolerance expected is not toward hate. It is expected for the existence of a variety of fantasies, even those you want no part of participating in yourself. I'm sure real life racism and misogyny will be at play in some occasions, but discerning them beyond a doubt will be a rare case.

steph Arnott wrote: Then you never understood the OPs comments in the first place. I have read and understood all of the OP's comments, and replied to one reference from another poster. Perhaps you should read it all a little bit slower. All posts, including in the future. It can help prevent your rampant miscomprehensions throughout the forum.

Conall DeCuir wrote: and thankfully not every woman is a hardcore feminist I agree with everything you wrote but this does bother me. Not the point you are trying to make - rather, the wording with assumed definitions. Since a feminist is simply one who supports feminism, I'll concentrate on this word refering to the belief rather than the person. The definition of feminism is misconstrued far too much by so many people lately, but that doesn't mean its definition has changed. To keep it short, I'll use this from Mirriam Webster: "feminism: the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities—feminism in a sentence." Broadening its meaning to include anything else is demeaning. There really is no such thing as a 'hardcore' feminist; you are either a feminist or you are not. Using your sexuality or kinks to help define your position on feminism is absurd. You can choose to live a BDSM lifestyle with your partner in real life, and still be a feminist. You can even play the role in Second Life that females should not have the choice to leave this demeaning role, and still be a feminist. It is a fantasy. If you hold the position in real life that females do not have the option whether or not to choose this role, then I will say you are not a feminist. The OP's position is not displaying feminism at all. It is displaying intolerance.

I still have 7 adult parcels remaining for sale in Oved Valley sized for tier-free group ownership. Four rectangle, 20x28; Three not perfectly rectangular. Willing to make size changes to suit, if needed. $L2323 each. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/14/245/70 . http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/35/241/71 . http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/59/216/71 .sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/15/185/67 .sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/15/167/67 . http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/45/192/69 .sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/48/164/68 .

I think the missing information that should have been explained beforehand is adding to that confusion. The amount you are charged for tier is determined by a setting in your dashboard under Land Manager -> Land Use Fees. You can owe and be charged a tier rate without holding land. This setting determines your rate regardless of how much land you actually own. It will include any land tier you have donated to groups, which is what allows group ownership. You can adjust this manually - it will not lower automatically. It WILL rise automatically if you purchase land without it set high enough. If you see the warning that your tier will be adjusted accordingly when you try to buy land, this is a red flag if you thought your settings were already sufficient. That example is a weak attempt to show how your land use fees are a combination of what you own personally in addition to what you have donated to a group. When you sell land, you need to manually change the settings in your dashboard to prevent still being charged tier for land you do not hold. To reclaim tier donated to a group, you also need to do this manually from the group's land tab. Better published explanations have been needed for a long time and there isn't a soul who has not been mystified at least to begin with. You are doing good to ask here to try to understand details.

It really is a good question. I can only see a good reason NOT to rate it Adult: you are expecting it to be used on land that is not rated Adult. I've noticed I was unable to allow Adult rated experiences on Moderate regions; the same limitations translate to the associated group ratings.

That example is wonderful example of confusing explanations. It assumes you are donating tier allowance to a group and hold all of the 1024 square meters of land yourself, outside of the group.

Create your group (if you haven't already) and buy for group - you now are allowed 560 sq. meters tier-free using the 10% group bonus. I have eleven 560 sq meter adult parcels in the northwest area of Oved Valley. Nine of them are regular shaped 20x28 meters. Two are 16x32 512 parcels with 4x12 (48 sq m) added on one end. If you prefer a 512, I won't mind changing either of those two. If you want a little extra, there are 4 small strips (one 32, two 64s, and one 128 m). I don't have the small ones set for sale but will offer them to any who own the other parcels before doing anything else with them. $L 2323 each for the 560 sized parcels - 128 prims. Any of the smaller strips thrown to a buyer willing to accept tier responsibility, otherwise offered for maybe 1.5 L/m only after parcels are sold. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/14/245/70 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/35/241/71 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/58/240/72 sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/59/216/71 sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/40/216/70 sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/17/224/70 sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/17/207/69 sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/15/185/67 sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/15/167/67 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/45/192/69 sold http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oved%20Valley/48/164/68

In short, the land prices you see are charges for land you hold in addition to (beyond) the first tier-free 512m.

That is correct. If you have a 1024, you pay only $5/month because the first 512m is credited free of tier.