[How ABOUT that... an ad for SL found on Bing page]

18 minutes ago, Whirly Fizzle said:

You can click the UI & HUDs etc in Mouselook by using ALT+Click

One thing I noticed in Mouselook is that you can't see yourself. This is usually not a problem for walking around and stuff, but if I ever wanted to use SL in a virtual reality format, I would like to see my own virtual body when I looked down. Why spend so many Lindens on clothes I never see?

[Do you use ban lines or those things that kick people out...]

I don't really see the purpose of either so much. Security is provided by the fact that nobody else can rez things on my parcel, nor can they edit any of my stuff. Other than that, why would I care if they visit? And I don't understand the privacy setting so many seem to use either - I can't see any of my neighbours unless I walk on to their property. They don't prevent me from doing that, and when I do I just see avatars standing around. Can't really figure out what they're trying to hide from people not stood on the parcel.

Having said that, I only bought my land very recently, so maybe I'm just ignorant of all the potential problems visitors can cause me.

[How ABOUT that... an ad for SL found on Bing page]

15 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

 

https://trekmovie.com/2018/10/23/roddenberry-entertainment-joins-project-to-build-real-star-trek-like-holodeck/

I'm still hoping it will happen in my lifetime.

Didn't you ever watch Star Trek? The damn thing's only going to break down and try to kill you once a month.

[Second Life is too expensive!]

The good thing about necrothreadery is that some things are interesting to read from the hindsight of 6 years later:

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That "box" is precisely why you can walk into any shop in SL and purchase some clothing that is compatible with your avatar.

If there were dozens of different mesh avatars and no standard, you're ability to find clothes compatible with your avatar would be severely constricted to only those who supported the avatar you used.

 Most clothing creators would pick ONE avatar to support, and eventually it could become clear that one body or another would be the dominant avatar that EVERYONE used. In order to have the most clothing options, everyone would have an identical body.

Not exactly ideal for creativity.

She wasn't completely wrong, but it's far less apocalyptic than predicted.

 

[new starter avis,yay!]

2 hours ago, Viadetta said:

I would recommend that future collections, take account of what sells in SL. Look at the most popular things people are buying (not just for 1L), and then make a basic version of those things. That way, they might actually be worn for more than 2 mins.

That would inevitably mean Roxanne the hooker being included in the next batch, though.

[An insight on retaining new users]

44 minutes ago, Blush Bravin said:

I not so long ago made a throw away alt just so I could see what the process is like now for new comers. The area is not accessible to anyone other than someone logging on for the very first time, which is good IMO. Like Sasy said people tend to be asshats to newcomers so keeping them safe should be a priority. 

That explains the last ten minutes fruitless searching then. I was motivated after reading this thread to go and meet some fresh-faced newcomers and offer welcoming words of encouragement; but tried all sorts of words like 'welcome', 'orientation', 'newbie' without finding the place.

[An insight on retaining new users]

6 hours ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

Back when orientation island was a thing each step along the path, do this wear this edit that, it was good , and funnily enough all those oldies are still here because we were taught at the start, you weren't landing at a store straight off joining.

As a fairly recent joiner, I can confirm that you do indeed start off at orientation island - not at any store. You're invited to walk along a path while following a tutorial on learning how to move your avatar; how to use the camera; and how to interact with objects; then at the end there's a bunch of pavilions with more tutorials on things like building and clothing - I forget what else as I didn't stay too long. Never been much of a manual reader.

I didn't really find Second Life that difficult to get my head around though. There was some confusion on what to do with my first outfit - kept clicking 'wear' or 'add' and walking around with a big poster of the thing extruding from my chest - but I figured it out eventually.

[Mainland Parcel Division]

23 hours ago, Christhiana said:

If you have a parcel on mainland you have no guarantees that your situation will stay the way it is when you buy your parcel. A new neighbour can show up any day and put up banlines, an ugly build or a big plywood textured wall. You could of course see who the owner of the small parcel is and politely ask them to remove the banlines.

 

Btw, congratulations on your new parcel. I have two small parcels in heterocera and I find it to be one of the most interesting and diverse of all the continents.

Sure, there's no guarantee I won't have obnoxious neighbours tomorrow, but that's no reason to buy somewhere that has obnoxious neighbours today! Luckily, a lot of the land in this region seems to belong to the same group; who've had it for a long time, so hopefully it's pretty stable.

And thanks for the welcome! Still a lot of exploring to do but my immediate surroundings seem quite nice.

[Mainland Parcel Division]

I'm pretty new to Secondlife, and just bought myself a little parcel of land on Heterocera. I checked all my neighbours' plots before hand to make sure there was nothing obnoxious or irritating next door - there's some Linden-owned land, a small abandoned patch and two relative large landowners which, for now at least, have left me an unobstructed path and view to the road and the sea beyond - quite happy with my little spot

Once I'd bought the land and was planning my building, however, I suddenly stumbled into a banline. This surprised me since I'd checked for these before purchasing, and was wondering if next door had put it up just now. When I looked, however, I see that I had over looked a tiny little 32 sq m patch at the corner of my property which is owned as a separate parcel.

This is not a big problem - I just turned off ban lines in my viewer so they don't bother me, but it left me wondering how the land was divided up in the first place to leave this little square as its own parcel. Is this the legacy of previous owners subdividing and reselling land to buyer's specs with little bits getting left over?

It also leaves me wondering why someone would be so protective of an apparently empty square of grass; but that's probably not something anyone here can answer.