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Thankyou all, some great advice

This happened before, not too long ago, then it was good, and now it's happening again, at least for me. When i go to MP, and use their categories links, for whatever, let's say Avatar Accessories - Hair, I get all of these old, antiquated hairstyles from the past. None of the top designers, none of the pretty new hairs are there. I browsed 8 pages of the category results before i saw even Doux. Another many pages further I finally saw one of Stealthic's hairs. I truly hope they are working on this.

Hi everyone. I am trying to create a new account, but on the sign up page, where you input your email, it won't accept any email I put in. I've tried them all, from tutanota.com to protonmail.com to even gmail.com and a bunch others in between. Upon inputting an email address it says in red letters under the input box "hm, that email doesn't look quite right. Please try again" I suppose it could be a glitch but that would be a pretty major glitch on a sign up page, which is usually pretty basic. I have to wonder if SL is no longer taking new sign up's or what the case may be. I did go and submit a support ticket, but that was hours and hours ago, and not a peep yet. So wondering if anyone knows what might be going on? Thanks

Hi everyone. I want to start a new account, but all of the names that I like are taken. I see alot of people in sl have odd text characters in their names, but it escapes me how to do it. I've tried bringing up the character map and pasting some of those characters into the name and it is never accepted on the sign up screen. Yet there they are, with various text characters in their names. Can someone please tell me how this is done? Thanx!

FairreLilette, the Firestorm viewer shows it on the log in page when you start the SL viewer. Usually it shows around 30,000 in world. Of course time of day has something to do with that. I most often log in early mornings eastern time because I work. There are more on those occasions when I log in in the afternoons, and I never log in at all evenings.

Yah, that is true too Rowan. SL is competing against new age chats and video chats, etc. Alot of my friends spend their days on skype and so forth. I don't know what the answers are. I just only know what i see in there today and the picture my mother drew in my mind... shrugs.

What can I do? I tell friends about it, they come and check it out and never come back... shrugs. I've posted some ideas, maybe the new owners will think about some things and get something going? Beats me.

Oh, thanks, I will have to ask my Mom why she told me that, since it isn't factual

Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents opinion here. Now that SL has been acquired by an investment group and by the sounds of things and what I have read, they wish to not only keep it going, but to make it better. So here's the deal from my own personal perspective. My Mom was in SL years ago, several years ago and she is actually the one who introduced me to SL. We sat at the computer together as she helped me build my avatar. As we put my avi together and went shopping for this and that, she told all about what SL used to be like. When there were 70,000 people online at any given time of day. She had built her own business in SL. It was a brothel, yah yah, i know right! But the point is, she says it was very successful. She said it was always full and she even had staff that she literally paid by the hour. But then, according to her story, one day, things changed. Yes there were tons of clubs and social places but you could go to one of the clubs and walk in with your avi and it was standing room only, literally. Then LL decided they needed to raise their tier fees. I guess they also added a lot of new land space? (someone else told me that.) After this move, my Mom saw the steady decline of people in SL and she wound up having to let her land and business go. She told me of many great clubs, stores and activity based businesses close the doors and clear out of SL. Big beautiful thriving places just gone. I trudged forward into the world of SL, filled with both hope and cynicism. I wondered what I would discover for myself in this world. Well as I teleported around from sim to sim, club to club, social place to social place, it was my cynicism that bared out. Everywhere I went was empty, or nearly empty. The whole virtual world was like a huge ghost town. Empty clubs, ... gorgeous ones too! Empty bars, empty malls, even entire cities... empty. If not empty than maybe one or two other lonely people would be there. I think most people do like to socialize. I would bet that a large percentage of people come into SL hoping to find an alternative life, where they can meet others and talk and text and hang out, am I right? That is what I was hoping to find at least. But things are like a huge ghost town. Yes clubs still get built and so do other interesting social activity platforms in world. But a great club, bar or other type hangout is built and then sits there empty. An occasional teleport in from someone who found the place isn't going to be enough to keep that place thriving. People are social creatures on the overall. Many of us come into SL because we can hang out in places we like with others and we can chat and dance and even go into bars and spend our days hanging out with others and maybe we even meet someone and strike up that latest hot romance. But everything in SL is so spaced out. Too many skybox bars, restaurants, clubs, motels, cities and other, etc. Being a bit of a socialite myself, I do like to go into SL and go the busiest hangouts where lots of people are there hanging out. I will typically have 2 to 5 or 6 or more conversations going on in my im, as I am meeting new people and having some interesting conversations. But there seems to be toooo many empty bars, clubs, malls, diners, parks, etc, all across the grid. People come in to see this grand virtual world and want to meet others, hook up and hang out and what they find when they first arrive in SL is barren ghost towns. A great club over here with not a soul in it. A great bar they find over there, but it has one lonely person in it. Or they visit some ideal tropical beach resort only to find a couple people there. It is because there is too much land and not enough people and prices for land and rentals is just too much. Socialites don't want to go to empty sims and hang out alone. Would it not be more profitable to lower land fees once again so that more people can actually afford to set up their online in world virtual businesses, and not only set them up but keep them on grid? More people would be coming in, numbers would rise once again, perhaps slowly at first but they would rise as more and more people come in and find out that it is actually affordable to have a chunk of virtual land. I always thought that LL should have a few cities or large towns where everyone could live together in a city or suburban settings. Lots of homes and apartments surrounded by real clubs, stores, malls, parks and other businesses. Where people can come into SL for the first time and they can go to that city and actually see lots of people in it. Then they see apartments they can actually rent in that city that they can afford. And when they go to that nightclub in that city, since it is centrally located within the city or town, it is actually busy and bustling with people. It's too bad we don't have a little more realism. Wouldn't it be totally cool if instead of just teleporting somewhere across the grid, if we wanted to go span the distance and go across town we could either walk, take a cab, ride a bike or get on a bus to travel there? Wouldn't it be cool if your best RL friend actually lived across town in their apartment and you could jump in a cab and go visit them for the day? Maybe go to one of those busy nightclubs together and dance or have a few drinks while chatting with others who are there? Then maybe catch a cab to another part of the city or town to maybe stroll through a museum, or play some mini-golf or go bowling or some activity that would also be there in the city or town? Lower land fees and LL built and sponsored cities and towns and sprawling suburban areas that THEY rent out the apartments and homes in, that people could actually afford to buy that club and rent that home and build that business would surly draw more people once again. If someone new comes into SL their first time and actually finds these bustling places they like full of people to meet, chat with, find some new friends and even stumble into an unexpected hot new relationship, would more people not be staying? And then as they stay longer and learn more, perhaps that new person also has a great idea for a new business and he/she builds that new business and it actually works because there are actually people still in world. That's just my humble little opinion, and some of you may wish to jump down my throat and argue it and try to tear it apart, but it is still just my opinion.