OthirMan

Test your account by using a different computer -- I suspect malware on your primary computer.

With your rig, response should be blazing fast! I use an ancient business quad-core with a 2GB graphics card, and I'm okay -- because I use the Firestorm Viewer, turn off both Transparent Water and Advanced Lighting Model, and MOST IMPORTANTLY take my Draw Distance down to 48 meters. Your Draw Distance is what's killing your performance.

I see that this thread was locked 14 years ago.... but I can't make out the "final answer". ---------- I had a friend who was banned for ***** ..... but has no memory of any ***** whatsoever. She, however, did play as a Tiny (I don't). This is where I get confused. (1) Why are minors allowed in the Adult-rated regions at all? (2) Are Tinies considered "child avatars"? Should Tinies be banned from the Adult-rated regions?

Some years ago, there was an attempt at players posting their own lands for auction. It floundered, due to dirty tricks like spamming, signs offering to "sell cheaper if IM'd" being embedded in the ground, etc. Allegedly there was also a lawsuit, which has been officially denied. What's the story to-date? Will P2P Auctions be returning? ---------------------------------------- My recommendations would be (1) land must be bare and use a "library" terrain texture, and (2) a maximum of a L$3/sqm required for the starting bid. ---------------------------------------- By the way... why is there no Auctions forum?

I'm very confused. In "Policy Change Regarding Gacha" it is made clear that the real-world "regulatory climate" impacts and at-least-sometimes controls in-game activities. How, if at all, does this apply to income taxation? Does making a real-world monetary profit require sales tax or VAT? And do price-fixing or monopolization regulations apply? Let me give you a current in-game example. As of about three weeks ago, it looks like the majority of Adult-rated land that is available for sale is not actually listed for sale -- if you can identify land that you desire as being owned by a realtor, then they will work with you and give you a quote, but by looking at the World Map you can't see what land is available (you have to go to the parcel and look). Simultaneous with this holding-back-of-information, Adult-land prices went up roughly 50%. What would the regulators say about that? ( NOTE: I did have one realtor, Clyde Coy, once sell us land for significantly LESS than we offered. Kudos to Clyde!!! )

Knowledge Base --- https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/creating-your-own-auctions-r1514/

(1) Look at the cost of land in the different regions. Adult-rated land costs about 12 times as much as Moderate-rated land. General-rated land costs about 5 times (check that, please) as Moderate-rated land. (Note: some "toys" in SL are apparently disabled outside of Adult-rated land.) (2) There's a book ("Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life" by Jason Lehmiller, 2018) that (among other conclusions) avers that we fantasize about what we CAN'T have in real life. It could be argued that SL allows the enactment of those fantasies.

(NEW POSTER.) Yesterday I began experiencing "kaleidoscope-colored" heads on one of my classic avatars (some other avatars were not affected) -- but only in Firestorm Viewer, not in SL Viewer. I tracked the problem down to being my having exactly 1 Alpha in an outfit. If I had 0 or 2+ Alphas, everything was fine. My fix was to add a "System Eyelash Alpha" to an outfit experiencing the problem, and that resulted in an immediate correction.

And I gave actual reasons for why I disagree with that. If LL's #1 goal is to sell Premium Memberships, then maximizing the actual ownership of land by individuals is the way to go -- because a player can do everything else without a Premium Membership. EDIT: Perhaps LL is "fixing things faster".... but a different way.

I'd have to disagree --- affordable Adult-rated private land ownership (as opposed to sell very low, buy very high) translates into Premium Memberships. Certainly the changes to mesh, to double the land impact, and to double Premium's base lot size have made it possible to have both a decently-furnished home and a stocked playspace. Now the only real hurdle is the land price (as low as L$1.1/sqm for decent Moderate-rated but nearly three times that much for the worst Adult-rated). I think playability is also affected. If the standard Adult-region practice, without private-to-private auctions, is to have to sell your current land low but have to buy high, then obviously there's an implicit incentive to "churn the market" by inducing people to move (for example, there's a burning house on a plot for sale next to mine: it was standing alone in an area with many plots for sale when I bought). Less playability translates into fewer players and so fewer Premium Memberships.

Still no progress on Auctions, nor any explanation? Since Auctions were working well before this upgrade attempt, it does seem likely that the resident-to-resident auction abilities posed a financial threat to the essential-monopoly on Adult-rated land.