Sparkle Bunny

Yes, Freya is still the better choice if you want a curvy body on a budget and would like to wear clothes; but it really depends what your avatar spends most of their time doing. If you're planning on hitting up the clubs in latex and just need, say, one pair of jeans to go shopping in, Erika will be fine.

Been broken for a while. I suppose if you're dedicated enough to the cause of festive lighting to use up that many prims, you're also sufficiently motivated to edit them into place yourself and hence don't really need the script?

Ah, so they're not actually interested in getting money from new subscribers, just in minimising their losses from Premiums cutting their costs. Got it.

WellMade and Entice usually have advents as well, and I think eBento event does a 12 Days? I remember getting some nice eyes from the latter a couple of years back.

Well, yeah. So is most of mainland. At least if I grab a Meadowbrook I'm not having to use prims up on the actual house, I'm avoiding the initial purchase price of a mainland 512, and a mostly-empty sim is seeing some use that it wouldn't otherwise have had. My hunch is that the majority of Plus subscriptions are going to be Premiums downgrading rather than Basics upgrading, which makes it unlikely that they'll manage to sell vast quantities of abandoned land; but including an actual parcel in the package, rather than just tier, would encourage more upgrades even if the homes in question are second-rate. Since there seem to be no immediate plans to get rid of the older homes or even remove them from the land page, LL might as well let Plus members make use of them while they're deciding what (if anything) they want to do with them.

General tip if you're searching for BoM layers; set your search results to display oldest items first, which should weed out any mesh/applier items. (Yes, it also increases the amount of dross you have to scroll through before finding anything decent, but that's just part of shopping on MP, right?)

Why not let Plus users have OLD Linden homes? It'd give them somewhere to hang out while they're looking for a mainland parcel, and encourages them to upgrade to Premium if they want something nicer. Kick them out after a couple of months if you're worried about the continent filling back up, but it seems a better use of resources than having so many 512 homes sitting empty.

They used to, but apart from the Premium Plus introductory discount it's been some years since the last one. So I wouldn't count on it.

Might also be worth trying with old standard-sized meshes (since those generally come with alphas). But yeah, the guy has two other bodies on MP that nobody has ever heard of and seems to be the only one making clothes for them.

Olive also have a 50% off sale at the moment. I went there over the weekend and I'm pretty sure I saw some that was floor-length.

If they get enough creators on board and don't charge too much for it, it could be a Kupra killer. And the creators don't need to be big-name designers, just template makers, seeing as furries are usually fine with making their own textures (and can then sell them on to the humans, lol). This kind of body isn't really for people who care about (or indeed wear much) clothing, and the alpha cuts and ability to wear freebie Maitreya stripper heels could well be enough to lure curious Kupra girls into demoing it.

I make alts for two main reasons: I want a new name, and I want a new aesthetic. The last ones I made were Teddy and Dolly, twins who wear the AK androgynous heads so they can be kinda identical like Viola and Sebastian from Twelfth Night. (Dressing them in the same/similar clothes given my budget of nil is a challenge.) Before that was Olive the drag queen, who mostly hangs out in a sandbox inventing terrible new looks involving latex and playing lucky clover machines, and I think the last before her was Candy the anime girl, who ended up winning a Kupra in a raffle and doing GTFO runs in a freebie Cadillac. Some are friends with each other, two are partnered and have kids, nobody bothers very much with people who aren't me. I used to be a Sims obsessive, which should tell you what kind of player I am.

Literally no-one. The only shame I'm seeing is from people who refuse to admit they have that many; not because it's shameful to spend a lot of money and own a lot of stuff, but because it's shameful, in most cultures, to say you have a lot of money and own a lot of stuff. It's just not a classy look, and that's why the OP's never going to get a straight answer from the more dedicated home-collectors. Which is fine, because how many houses you own is neither the OP's business nor anyone else's; and also, yeah, I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly how many fountain pens or notebooks I own either, because that's how collecting works. I have no trouble believing that there are people out there who have literally lost count, and aren't just saying so to be coy.

You're not going to find many people on a public forum who admit to having more than a dozen, regardless of whether that's actually the case. And of course there are grey areas; would your partner's house count towards your total? What about your friend who grabbed a parcel for you to decorate but never goes there herself? Does RL partner who never logs in count as an alt for these purposes? I have one premium account at the moment, who moved into a Trad yesterday in the hope of new floorplans happening before the end of the year. I'm considering downgrading her to basic when she comes up for renewal in the spring, since I'm currently having hardware issues which prevent me spending too much time inworld and I can't afford to replace my computer right now. The most I've ever had is two, when I've temporarily upgraded alts to try out new themes and/or change their names. If it's a hobby you can afford in terms of time and money, knock yourself out, but I have my doubts about how many houses one individual can realistically enjoy to their full potential; which, to me, would involve at a minimum decorating the place and visiting once a week. I've never been able to see the point in bagging a house in a prime location and having it sit empty.

Most of my alts run around in Lucybody or the Classic Meshbody, depending on how many outfits they want. Their free heads are from Genus, Genesis Labs, Lelutka, Logo or Akeruka; their free skins are courtesy of 7 Deadly Sins, for the most part. One girl belongs to the Escalated VIP group, another to the Truth VIP group, so they never spend money on hair; the others wear freebies, old gachas or stuff from the weekend sales. Obviously if you want to set things up in a hurry and not wait for annual gifts or free group join you're going to to spend more, but I wouldn't budget more than L$500 to meshify an alt unless they were a child.

AR it under whatever random category appeals to you (object littering, inappropriate content, etc.) and clarify in the subject line that it's out of theme and therefore a Bellisserian covenant violation.

I wasn't buying anything at full price anyway; I picked up freebies/cheapies and waited for sales. Now there are more sales, I buy more stuff.

Whiny person with superiority complex wonders why they have no friends 🙄

Well, it's in active development, so if you ask the creator nicely for a specific feature or bugfix you have a much better chance of getting it than with any other brand (except Belleza, possibly, since they just launched and are still working on stuff.) Apart from that, I have no idea.

lol, most head brands these days don't even make bodies, and vice versa. I mean, yeah, she could get an all-in-one from Altamura or something, but the whole point of this thread is the OP not wanting to look like a noob.

I picked up a vase in a hunt once that had no texture on it and was no-mod. It was a shame because it was really pretty in the ad, but I couldn't really complain given that it was a freebie. Also a secondhand gacha dress that turned out to have the skirt texture missing so must have been poorly copybotted or something, ugh.

I've finally accepted that the creator intended Erika purely as a sex body and that's why we're only expected to want fetishwear and heels. It's OK, I ended up getting a Freya for clothes-wearing purposes. If I'd known Belleza-X was on the way I'd have waited for that rather than buying both but oh well, you live and learn.

Yeah, but the tracker has still given her the identity of the griefer, which she is of course free to share with other members of the group; and what she and her friends choose to do with that information is also outside LL's remit...

Oh, Maitreya are proactive enough on the DMCA front that you're not getting a 'Lara knockoff' from anyone. Compatibility with existing Maitreya clothing is something that Lucybody have been able to manage with a variety of mesh models running the usual gamut from ironing board to Willendorf Venus; but feature-wise they're so basic that the freebie is the only one anyone bothers with. None of this hurts Maitreya; if people already have a wardrobe of free Maitreya clothes it's not hard to guess which body's going to be their first choice when it's time to start spending money. If LL do refrain from making NUX Maitreya-compatible, it's because they don't want to give an unfair advantage to the existing market leader, not because they're at risk of destroying it. Yes, that's what I want; Maitreya feet without forking out for Maitreya. Tonic has Slink flat, mid and high fits built in, and if I wanted to get Slink kitten and pointe to add on to that it'd cost me L$350 more than the Prima. Lack of clothing isn't an issue since she's a gothic lolita who never shows any skin; I just put her in floofy Maitreya dresses and alpha out her torso, lol.

New users need/want access to free clothing. Most mesh-era freebies are for Maitreya. Therefore, if they don't at least try to make NUX compatible with the majority of Maitreya clothing they're wasting their time, since new users will still be obliged to get a Maitreya-compatible body in order to utilise the decade's-worth of clothes that are currently out there. I don't see this as a Maitreya-killer any more than the Lucybody was: people will always have to pay for extras like nails, alpha cuts, applier layers, kitten heels, materials etc.etc., and if they want those things they'll always be willing to do so. (I probably will upgrade to the Prima purely because I want the new feet, but it's not something I'd be considering if it wasn't for the L$1000 offer. Tonic has been taken off sale during the promotional period for the new body, but will apparently be back in January. I'm assuming that, like the current Belleza models, that will be for a discounted price.)