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    Millennials & Land Costs?

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    4 hours ago, Haggerty said:

    On the other hand, what about people that want to have a house? They aren't going to make money from having the house but I am really finding it unbelievable people are paying $199USD for a residential sim, virtual. Maybe allowing the user to host the server themselves would be a good fix for LL but is that possible? I appreciate all the comments here but I'm trying to wrap my head around this better. I get LL needs money to fund the next upcoming projects, but why not focus on the people and its members. Apparently people used to be able to afford homes on here. I'm done hearing about parcels and sharing land, that seems all ridiculous to me, what a scheme that is.

    Why hasn't other companies taken advantage of this and recreated a world that promoted open world, private sims, and creations? There aren't any from my knowledge. Where is the competition that is supposed to be keeping LL on their toes? I love SL, love its community, but I am concerned its roots are long gone in 2017. I need to figure out if spending my time here with friends and colleges is a good investment or maybe I'm getting baited into a down-spiraling environment where its member are being abused. With the recent booms coming in 3d-modeling and virtual reality, who is going to most likely replace and take the community here?

    I am reading online and no one is discussing this issue. I see the amount of sims running are becoming less and less each year. Are they killing SL and going to create something new in upcoming years to compete with some company I haven't heard of yet?

     

    In terms of other existing virtual worlds most similar in concept to SL, there are hundreds of OpenSim grid communities out there, plus at least one other which started out as OpenSim and then went a different path on their own.  You also used to be able to (and maybe still can) download sim-on-a-stick and run your own sims on your own computer.  

    Whether any of these really are competition or not depends on what factors you want to compare, and how important certain things are to you.  I haven't been to any of the OpenSim grids for six months or so, but I did own a sim on one and have an account on another more commercial variation for 2 years.  Personally, I found that the longer I was in SL, and the more familiar I became with things in SL, the more I noticed shortcomings with my experiences on the other grids. 

    This was my experience, others may have different opinions. 

    Why Isn't There a Combat Section in the Forums?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Tyro Gutter said:

    We do actually have our own boards, but nothing involving VICE, Gor, DCS2, those guys with the mechs, etc. The problem with the LLCS community is, as you can see here, you have these guys who at best meme-lord about things that make them look cringy or, at worse, bring up internal drama like Parx and Wyatt, so most attempts to create a neutral space on our own in the past have failed. I understand why people on SL would say "Well sounds like a you problem~!" and it is, but I believe Parx is aware of that and it's why he attempted to make a point about a combat forum involving other communities ... and then only proceeded to showcase our community, because he isn't very smart. But as I tried to explain before, most communities integrate combat with something else, so it wouldn't necessarily occur to any of them to showcase their combat in livestreams and videos like we do sometimes.

    By the same token, we could create a forum for all the combat communities, sure, it's an idea that may have some merit. It actually isn't that hard to set up a nice looking forum, I've helped do it before. We actually have had two forums within our own community that had a registration API where you could only register new accounts by clicking on a box inworld (one still active.) I can't really give you a good reason why no one has not attempted to reach out to people of similar interests beyond Linden combat to involve the other communities in discussions that might be of interest to them.

    All of that said, I have really nothing else to argue about everything else you said. If you're open to reading about topics of interest to our community, then I'm open to making threads about it and I would implore others to whenever something comes up. If enough threads are made about the topic and there is a positive or negative reception on it, some in the forums may wish for a containment board; like I've already mentioned. I suspect it may be irritating at times to decide whether a specific topic of discussion should be "General", "Roleplay", or "Games."

    In addition to "General", "Roleplay" or "Games" there is also the "Creation" forum area which has sub-forums for topics like scripting, LSL, mesh, building and texturing, animation, etc., so depending on what aspect of combat you're posting about, it would seem to me that some of those sub-forums under "Creation" might also be options. 

    If you have an outside forum, you can include a link to that in your signature area here, to help interested parties find your outside forum. 

    If you're trying to highlight the existence of the combat sims, and to draw in new people, another good question might be why there isn't a combat category in the Destination Guide...  Have any of the combat sims tried to get a listing in the destination guide? and if so, what category did they end up under there?

    What is your favorite OLDIE hair?

    in Your Avatar

    Posted · Edited by moirakathleen
    added some additional info

    One of the first hairs I bought was this A&A Loreen hair, and it's one I can't get rid of, though I don't wear it much anymore because of alpha conflicts (and there are a lot of strands to try and change the alpha blending to alpha masking).  However, I think it does go well with this outfit.

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    ETA: I was able to fix the alpha issue without having to edit selected parts, so maybe I will wear it occasionally when I want to be a younger me :)  (I still have a couple of flexi skirts I still wear, just because I like the style and the movement). 

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    What are you doing today!? :D

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, eighthdwarf Checchinato said:

    This reminds me of the Dresden Gallery - which closed down some years ago (the sim, not the Dresden Gallery in RL). :(

    That said: If you ever manage to come to Germany in RL, do visit the Dresden Gallery. It's definitively worth the trip.

    Thanks for the recommendation.  I really hope that my husband and I are able to visit Germany and other European countries.  I have a feeling that there is so much we'll want to see, that we might need to make it a 2 or 3 month trip. :)

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