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ChantillyTex

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  1. As others have already answered, there is no way to prove you don't have an alt, and also that there is not anything wrong with having an alt either. It really is not anyone else's business. To me, when I hear about people all up in arms about whether someone else does or does not have an alt, it looks like someone is trying to control not only an online avi, but also the RL person behind the avi. In my mind that would not be OK, and I would not want to remain friends with someone who tried to take things to that level.
  2. Thanks for posting the link. I've heard bits and pieces of how to handle some of the different types of griefing, but it's nice to have all the relevant information in one place. There was a lot of information included that I hadn't heard about before, particulary regarding particles and sounds.
  3. Did you abandon your Linden house so that you could cancel your premium account? We are all residents here, so can't offer an explanation of why that is necessary immediately when your paid-up premium account still has a way to go. Presumably, it's cleaner and less hassle for LL to make sure you've met all the qualifications up front for returning to basic account status, at the time you make that decision. In hindsight, if you wanted to keep using your house awhile longer, it migiht have been best to hold off on cancelling the premium access until closer to the renewal date.
  4. This may not apply to your situation, but I'll put it out just in case it does. When you edit it, and move it into position, be sure that you move it down to make sure that the object is all the way down onto the floor or the ground (or another object that you want it to be on or below). Sometimes objects will look like they are on the floor or ground, but they are not really, and as you walk around and view them, they appear to be 'floating' around a little bit. Same with horizontal/vertical placements - something may look like it's on a shelf or hanging from a railing until you zoom in from another angle and see that it's not very close.
  5. In the mean time (while you're still waiting to find a job) check out the FabFree list for avatars 30 days and younger for places offering free items (skins, avis, clothes, hair, shoes, etc) to new players. That's a good way to start improving your look without having to have money (or Lindens) right off the bat.
  6. I am sometimes over-cautious, but I was also curious as to why your friend thought that edit permissions were needed on each other's items. Are you helping with the building and he may need to move some of the objects you put out (and you may need to move some of the objects he puts out)? I would probably NOT put out any objects that were no copy, to lessen the possibility of losing them.
  7. Login to the secondlife.com web site. Under "Account" there will be an option for "Delete Account". Information about deleting your account will be displayed, along with the delete button. If you are a premium member, you must sell or abandon all land that you own (including any Linden Home) and if you had donated any tier to a group, you need to remove the tier dontation. Additionally, if you are a premium member, your account will stay active until the current subscription term has ended. If you do not have a premium account (or after reverting your premium account back to a basic account) you might want to leave your account as is, in case you should want to give it another try sometime in the future.
  8. If you go the route of covering your existing parcel with a thin prim to apply a grass texture to, there are some free grass textures in the "library" part of your inventory. Also, if you do some exploring in the areas with the Linden Homes, and find the welcome centers for each of the Linden Home categories, there are free texture packs there. I really like using the shire roof grass texture as a texture for grass at my house.
  9. In addtion to Rolig's suggestions about different styles/lengths, you might also want to try some of the mesh or rigged mesh hair styles, as Chic suggested (be me to it ). Be sure to try the demos first, to ensure that you like the way it fits. I have gone this route for long hair styles, and have been happy with the way it looks when I move around.
  10. Unfortunately, it is not possible to increase the number of prims availabe in your Linden Home. The number of prims is based on the size of the land parcel. So, the only way to increase the number of prims available is to get a larger parcel of land. There are several options for doing that - you can buy your own parcel on the mainland, you can rent a parcel on the mainland, or you can rent from a private estate. If you abandon your Linden home and buy on the mainland, you will get 512 m of tier free (so if you bought a 1024 m parcel, you would pay tier at the 512 m level). There is a free class about buying land offered at Caledon Oxbridge on Fridays at 5 pm SLT. That is a very worthwhile class to get a better understanding about how land works here in SL. ETA: While there is a set number of prims per meter of land (I forget the exact formula) for common parcel sizes it works out as: 512 m2 - 117 prims 1024 m2 - 234 prims 2048 m2 - 468 prims 4096 m2 - 937 prims 8192 m2 - 1875 prims If you rent, though, the number of prims available may differ. If a land owner owns multiple parcels in the same region, the land owner shares the total prims across all the parcels owned, so can allocate them differently. Also, some land owners that rent parcels with houses on them and/or that are landscaped, generally offer the rental with a smaller amount of prims to take into account prims used by the house and/or landscape or common areas for their renters.
  11. Did you check to see if the no-copy items you deleted ended up in your Trash folder? If they did you should be able to move them back out to some other folder.
  12. I find that I'm less likely to receive this error when I try rezzing the object on the floor right next to where I'm standing. It's when I try to rez something on a wall or across the room or yard from where I'm standing that I'm more likely to get this this message.
  13. Before trying to do something like create a custom skin, I would suggest that you get a good understanding of the basics in SL, including building basics. There are several places that offer free classes inworld on basic building, learning scripting, learning how to create clothes. NCI is one place, and Caledon Oxbridge University. There is also the Ivory Tower of Primitives, which has a self-paced inworld tutorial on building basics, and Builders Brewery. Being able to use Photoshop or Gimp, or Blender, may be needed also, depending on how far you want to go and whether you want to create mesh items or not. Joining one or more of the furry groups is a good suggestion, especially when you're new. After you learn more of the basics, members of those groups will be able to help you with kemono/furry related things. Getting used to the menus is something that will come with time - just keep exploring Selling art and finding commissions is certainly possible, though it's something that you will probably need to work up to doing. There are a variety of options for selling - renting a store space, having your own store on a piece of land you rent or own, selling in the marketplace, etc. There is a forum area also, where you can post looking for commissions. SL is a huge place, and what can be done here is just about endless. Explore, try things out, enjoy yourself!
  14. From the Auction FAQ it looks like you don't have to do very much, although they do suggest visitng th auction site to check on the status of your bid to see whether or not you won. If you did win, the land should be assigned to you within 24 hours provided that there are not any billing problems. How will I know if I win? We will notify you by email if you win; although you are responsible for determining if you have won by visiting this site and checking the status of your bid on the My Bidding Activity page. Collecting Your New Land: How will I know when I can take possession of the land? Unless there is a problem with billing, winners of auctions will be assigned the land within 24 hours. How soon do I have to buy the land I won in the auction? The land will be assigned to you as soon as the auction closes and billing has run. This may include an increase in land tier. How do I take possession? The parcel has already been assigned to you inworld once the auction ends and the billing has run. Is it possible to avoid tiering up by releasing other land before confirming a new higher tier? Arrangements with tier should be made prior to participating in an auction. Land won in auction will be delivered to the winning account and will affect peak land use.
  15. It's going to be a new platform, so it's hard to tell how much similarity there will be with the existing SL. It would make no sense to have avatars in the new platform with rez or join dates prior to the existence of the new platform going public. The fact that you have an old age in SL wouldn't really mean much in the new platform. I can see LL allowing you to bring over your avatar name, because of the identity association people have with their avatars - that's who "they are" in the virtual world.
  16. Nice green roadside parcel for sale in Servo, along Route 13. 512 sqm, 117 prims, L$2,000. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Servo/28/248/71
  17. I have usually had good luck finding a parcel that suits me, at a price that is also affordable for me, by spending some time checking the 'yellow' for sale parcels on the world map. When you hover over the dollar sign tag on the map you can see not just the selling price, but the price per meter, if that's one of your condiitons. I would agree with the above post, that being located on a road isn't necessary to bring in traffic. When I'm out exploring, I do pop into businesses that I see along the roads out of curiousity, but the places that I go to for almost all of my shopping needs are places that I TP to from a landmark either from adverstisements or from the MP. (Though I do like living on parcels that are along a road). Another thing that some businesses do is rent a tiny spot or a cart in a high traffic shopping area and put out a few items there, but also give out LM's to their main store. Also, be careful of sims where there are periodically large numbers of green dots representing high traffic - there is a limit on how many avatars can enter a mainland sim, and even before the limit is reached, a high number can make the entire sim very laggy while an event is taking place (I rented - for a very short time - on a parcel with a shopping center that had one of the newer fishing games, attracting people looking for $L's, and during those 'fishing' events, I could hardly move around on my parcel). Good luck!
  18. If you do decide to buy a mainland parcel and build a house or put a skybox way up high, before you purchase the land, fly up to see how populated the surrounding sky space is. If the parcel you are looking at is next to or near to one of the big rental places that rents sky spheres, it could be difficult to find an altitude where one of them is not in view. However, the other side of that is that on the ground level, there is usually just an empty parcel, or a parcel with minimal landscaping (so basically no ground level neighbors). If you're going to put up a sky sphere or sky box where you aren't expecting to be able to look out from you platform into the surrounding sky space, then the level of sky population from the other parcels may not matter.
  19. If it only happens in mouselook, it's still worth checking the mouse drivers, I would think. Just curious - you mentioned "I need to use 125% dpi setting in windows to make things readable. Because that settings Linden lab viewers create problems." Does the 125% dpi setting cause issues no matter which viewer you are using or just with the LL viewer? Have you tried using other viewers to see if they have the same issue with mouselook?
  20. I still enjoy traveling around on mainland roads and railroads, though it's been a few months since I've been up on the atoll area. I often stop and stores I find along the way. The last time I was up on the atoll I found a nice little amusement park and a bowling alley that I stopped and spent some time enjoying I guess I've been lucky so far, and haven't ran into the types of situations you've described - no yet, anyway.
  21. The first few days (or even weeks) in SL can be confusing and frustrating - even without the additional land/place rating issues. The group of Bay City sims that originally came from the teen grid are still all rated as General, so that might be one place to start exploring. (If I remember right, I think Mashpee is in the section, so you could search for "Bay City - Mashpee" on the world map. Caledon Oxbridge University, which should show up in the Destination Guide under Newcomer Friendly Areas is General. They have some great tutorials and classes there. SL Botanical Gardens is a beautiful place to visit that is General (though no stores there ) Exploring the different places that show up in your Destination Guide is a good suggestion. Also, you can use the Marketplace as a way to find clothing stores, etc., that have styles you might like - if they also have an inworld store, that info should be on their MP page and then you can visit them inworld to see if they have group gifts or freebies there. Besides the Fab Free area inworld that was mentioned in one of the other posts, you also might want to take a look at the Fab Free '30 days' list - google 'Fab Free 30 days list' to get the URL to their site where they have the list with the stores and their SLURL's. I have no idea which stores (if any) on their list are rated General, but it's worth taking a look at. Besides the general/moderate/adult ratings, some places also restrict avi's based on the avi's SL age (for example, not allowing avatars less than 30 days old) so that's another thing to keep in mind. Be patient, explore around, and enjoy!
  22. Just curious as to what type of places you feel you are being banned from - clubs with contests? stores? gaming regions? I wouldn't think that ALL owners of a specific type of venue would be using the same security service. Perhaps you need to find some different venues that do not use it? I would imagine that the parcel owners probably pay for the service? So they must feel that even with some 'lost' business due to false positives, they are still coming out ahead and acheiving the results they were hoping for by using the service. Also, if I was in your situation and talked with an owner that was banning me due to the security service having incorrect information, and the owner believed the security service over my explanation, I would probably not want to spend my time or money at that venue. If it is all being handled by scripts, that might be how they are not running afoul of the TOS - they are not publicly and visibly sharing the information about which accounts they have classified as bots or trouble makers. I also think it's easy to forget (as noted above in one of the other replies) that the only land we have unrestricted access to is LL public land and any land we personally own (or rent).
  23. On "About Land" on the Options tab, do you have the box checked to allow group to build?
  24. Bay City is pretty unique (and the land has double prim allowances). There are a few other communities (loosely) not too far from Bay City, but not on the same level of roads, parks, etc., as Bay City, in my opinion. While Bay City land is very expensive to buy, there are several rental companies with very reasonable rental rates for land there. One is Robin Ivory who occassionally has a lot or two for rent, the other is TowerRental. If you just want roadside land, the best way to find it is to look for land for sale along the roads on the SL map of the mainland continents. All the mainland continents have road networks running through them, and often you can find lots of varying sizes and prices for sale. (There's an option on the map for displaying land for sale, and when turned on parcels for sale will be displayed in bright yellow).
  25. Your best bet may be searching for "restaurant dining" in the in-world 'everything' search. There were a fair number of results that looked like they did pertain to dining/restaurants but you would probably need to visit one to find out if it's the type of dining experience you're looking for and to find out their hours. It would give you someplace to start from however.
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