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    I have a really really embarassing question to ask about money

    in General Discussion Forum

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    15 minutes ago, So Whimsy said:

    I usually tip 200, sometimes more depending on the length of the class and the quality.

    24 minutes ago, FairreLilette said:

    I haven't taken many classes but for the ones I did take I tipped 200 lindens for a class.  I only have so many lindens too.   It kind of depends what you have and what you get out it.   50 to 100 is considered a fairly low tip in SL from things I have read and 500 to 1000 are for the big spenders.  I'd say I fall into the medium range from what I've heard but it depends on your personal budget.

    Thank you, that's very useful.

    I have a really really embarassing question to ask about money

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    I've been thinking about taking some classes at Builders Brewery, and I know you're supposed to tip the instructors. I have no idea how much I should tip. I don't want to come across as a cheapskate, but on the other hand I don't have unlimited amounts of money…
    So, would anybody be willing to give me a guide as to how much the tip should be?  I have NO frame of reference for this at all!
    And yes, I do find it embarrassing to ask... (I suppose I could ask the instructor, but that's even more embarassing)

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    52 Weeks of Color Revisited

    in Challenges

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    I finished Mahogany last night, so I'm only slightly late...

    Looking at the picture, I'm thinking the background is mahoganier (what do you mean, that's not a word?) than the top. Oh well.

    My socks are actually liver, but you'll have to take my word for it.

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    Akeruka gift head glitch?

    in Your Avatar

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    That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

    The only way I've ever worn a skin is by double clicking on it... I'm certainly not about to start with appliers (I imagine they are on their way out now?).

    And as far as I can tell, BOM layers work just as well without a mesh body, so it's like being back in the old days, lol.

     

    Akeruka gift head glitch?

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    30 minutes ago, Tarani Tempest said:

    BOM mode does not require alpha layers to hide the system body.   That head alpha will only be needed if you wanted to use APPLIER skins.

    Thanks. But when I wear the Lelutka head, I do need to wear one of the alphas provider, otherwise it doesn't look right, so that's pretty confusing.

    I thought that BOM was a layer that goes onto a mesh head/ body, the way systems layers back in the day went on the default avatar body; and that mesh heads/ bodies are mesh objects that go over the default avatar body, like mesh clothes but, well, body shaped, and that's why you need alphas, to hide what's underneath. So I've got it all wrong? Is there a handy guide somewhere, written for absolute idiots like me, that explains these thing in really really really simple terms?

    (I do not know what an applier skin is.)

    Akeruka gift head glitch?

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    I picked up the Akeruka gift head for an alt, and when trying it on with the included alpha mask, it looks bright tomato red. Like this:

     

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    It looks fine without the alpha, so I'm not complaining, but does anybody know what's going on? Is there some kind of setting I should be playing with?

    Free Lelutka Heads!

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Blush Bravin said:

    Since you aren't using a mesh body you need to check your body fat in edit appearance. You can see in this pic that I set my body fat normally to 30. But if I have it set at 30 using a system body the neck will never line up with the neck on the head.

     

    But if I move the slider all the way to zero then the body's neck will be the same size of the head's neck.

    Unfortunately, that will make you look very skinny. You can adjust body thickness to add back some of the bulk to your body but it will also affect the whole body so you may have to make adjustments to shoulders and hips so that everything is in the ratio you like.

    That worked PERFECTLY!

    Thank you!!!!

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    When did you last see a Bellessarian home available?

    in Linden Homes

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    37 minutes ago, Marianne Little said:

    I have started the refresh page automatic, to get a log cabin for the content pack. But is the correct word "Log" or "Cabin" or "Cabins"?

    I wish we saw Bellisseria greyed out, when nothing is available. Just to see the correct name.

    It's "Log Home". Rapsberry Crystal caught the LP with all 5 house styles and did a screenshot - so handy! It's here (hopefully the linking will work, but if it doesn't it's on page 803 on the 19 Nov.

    https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/439050-when-did-you-last-see-a-bellessarian-home-available/?do=findComment&comment=2217192

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    Free Lelutka Heads!

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    54 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:

    In the hud in the HD section, try clearing both layer 1 and layer 2 in the HD eyelids section and see if that helps..

    @Ceka Cianci  Thanks, that pointed me in the right direction. I did clear both, it didn't make a difference, but then I tinkered with the tinting of layer2 in the "taylor" section, and set it to a mid grey, and that definitely helps taking the edge of the brighness.

    27 minutes ago, steeljane42 said:

    Apply some makeup, it should help. And do tinker with "puffy eyelids" slider in your shape, it's under eyes tab.

     

    If you're using maitreya, then set neck to 0 there (type 1) under skin/base tab in maitreya's hud. If you're using legacy, then default neck fit should be fine. On belleza you can play with neck size too, but it won't be perfect until creator updates bodies.

     

    Depends on the brows style you want. Simple bloom has a large variety of natural ones, and there's a demo for every type: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/215211

    If you want something more wild, then just check MP and try demos.

    And yes, you'd need browless version of a skin and just add BoM brows on top of it.

    Ah, but see, I like a minimal make up look.... Guess I'll have to look for nude effect make up 😄

    Thanks for the pointer about the puffy eyelid slider, that helped too.

    I'm not using a mesh body... I tried changing the neck thickness of the default body, but it makes no difference. Time to buy some stylish scarves, maybe. French chic!  Or maybe buy a mesh body... Nah, I'm not ready for that.

    26 minutes ago, Marianne Little said:

    Can it be your light, it looks like default midday. The light hits the top of your cheekbones so they are almost white. The inside of the eyes looks like they are in the spotlight. But the visible edge is so deep. Are you not using the included eyes? If you want the system eyes to show, you can click "BoM" on the HUD. I believe that the eyes is meant to always be worn with the head, if you use either appliers or BoM.

    I agree that the included brows is bushy. I am using brows from Simple Bloom. They are on the Marketplace and maybe inworld too. Free demos.

    I am using another Evolution head now, with Glam Affairs "Elizabeth" without brows and Simple Bloom eyebrows LivAutumn. It is unedited. You can see my edge is barely there.

     

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    Yes, the light doesn't help, but it's definitely more than the light. No, I am using the included eyes (they are lovely).

    Thanks to both of you @steeljane42 and @Marianne Little for the Simple Bloom recommendation - I see they have lots of choice, which is what I want.

    So thanks, all the suggestions helped a lot and "I" look much better now.

    Free Lelutka Heads!

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    I've never had a mesh head before, but I thought I'd try this one (can't beat the price…), and I do like it. But there's one issue that really bothers me, and it's the bright coral coloured inner eye line or whatever that's called. It's really, really ugly. Hopefully the pictures I'm attaching to explain what I mean will show up.

    I've tried playing with the settings, and tinkering with the shape, but nothing seems to help. How do I make it thinner and more natural looking and not as bright? If that's possible?

    Also, is there anything I can do about the neck seam?

    Also, can anybody suggest a good place to look for eyebrows? (The marketplace is not helping.) I'm assuming I need to find a skin with no brows, and then I can add the eyebrows of my choice on a separate layer, is that right? (I really don't like the original ones…)

     

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    Now I have bought some land, I have a few questions...

    in Mainland

    Posted

    I recently changed my payment method from Paypal to a credit card, and I did not have to agree to anything (as in: "please provide us with gov approved ID otherwise you can't go further"), so it looks like giving money to LL is easy, it's the taking money away part that requires verification... LOL. Oh well, regulations are what they are, and at the end of the day, they are put in place to protect people. I hope.

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    Now I have bought some land, I have a few questions...

    in Mainland

    Posted

    21 hours ago, Alwin Alcott said:

    see here :) .. btw... if you'r in the UK ... thats soon no EU anymore, while LL specificly speaks about EU countries.

    https://secondlife.com/corporate/vat.php

    LOL, now that is an interesting point! Now much I can do about it, of course, but it means in theory, the UK could choose to stop slapping VAT on top of most things... but apparently the value of VAT to the government is about £120 billions/ year (I could be wrong, I only did a quick  scan, so don't quote me - it's a LOT of money, at any rate). So the probability of VAT disappearing from tier (to stay within the context of SL) is probably quite...remote. And either LL will keep UK as part of Europe for their accounting purpose, or there will be a separate TOS for UK only, but from a user's POV, it doesn't make that much difference (I think).

    19 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

    The way it's supposed to work is that you won't be able to purchase land nor donate tier unless you've set sufficient Land Use Fees for the account. Buying land does, however, pop up a window that allows you to increase the account's Land Use Fees setting without needing to go to that page, and (I'm pretty sure) bidding on an auction is granting permission for those Land Use Fees to be increased if necessary if your bid wins the auction.

    The radio button controls on that page should be disabled for any amount smaller than the land already committed by individual land ownership and contribution to group tier.

    Going the other way, an account is only supposed to be billed for the tier corresponding to the most land owned during the past 30 day billing period, so even if you reduce land holdings without going into that page to reduce the setting, the bill should automatically drop to the correct amount in the appropriate billing cycle. Note, though, that the "appropriate billing cycle" might end as much as 60 days afterwards if the land is shed at the very beginning of a billing cycle. There have been reports of this reduction not happening automatically, but I'm not sure those incidents weren't merely because of this lag of billing in arrears.

    Thanks - good to know. I actually tested what happens when you try and reduce land holdings to an amount that's less than the amount necessary to hold the land, by having an account that is definitely going back to basic [account 1] setting their contribution to 0, and the system would not let me do it. So I used another account [account 2] to make up the shortfall (the way Pussycat Catnap outlined above), and then I was able to remove the contribution from [account 2]. (Just thought that info might be useful to somebody...)

     

    14 hours ago, Pussycat Catnap said:

    I think... that I read somewhere... (as in, I'm not sure) that if you have a negative number in the "Land Available" value, that in some number of hours, your land will be auto-abandoned on you.

    I've never tested this... I think it can also negatively impact your account, which is why I've decided to avoid testing it. I have had negative values for very short periods of time when swapping land around between groups or trading it to friends... but I've always tried to keep these as short as possible - like working urgently to get the value back up to 0 or above.

     

    Ouch, yes, best to work on avoiding that...but it's good to know there IS that possibility, if it's unavoidable - thanks!

    14 hours ago, AdminGirl said:

    Yeah I think I read that somewhere too and I think it's 72 hours. I'd play on the safe side as well. Knowing me, if I leave it for more than 30 mins, I'm likely to forget before it's too late!

    72 hours? That's actually very generous. I agree, though - best done straight away. I know I might forget too.

    15 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:

    I think there was some misinformation (not this post) along the way up there but hopefully that will get sorted out.  So anyone not clear please double check :D.  

     

    But I did want to reply to this idea in the first paragraph. While the stipend argument is often put forth by those that buy lindens, I have never purchased lindens and it still applies.  Back when membership was $72US (and some folks are still paying that for awhile) a 4096 with four avatars (not all me) paying premium cost in total $5.00 ish a  month depending on conversion value -- that is TOTAL not each.  When premium went up I did the math (this all based on YEARLY PAYMENT which I didn't see mentioned but VERY important).  It was still cheaper to do the "alt" method than to pay the land fee.   This if you never spend any of the stipend and then just convert to US and add a tiny bit (hopefully from earnings) and let your USD balance pay the tier. 

     

    I switched to renting using lindens but not because of the savings. You CAN still rent cheaper than paying premium for tier -- if you shop around. So it also depends on what other premium perks you care about and if you really need COMPLETE power over your plot.  And if you want to agree to the Tilia documents too of course :D. 

     

    Yeah, as far as I can tell, this works for UK accounts as well, even with the 20% VAT. I could be wrong, though, and it probably breaks down at higher numbers.

    I did sell some L$ and they went into my US$ Tilia account, and I can confirm that I did not have to go through a confirmation page for that (obviously, I did not try to take them out).

    Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're renting and pay for it with L$ you bought, you also don't need to agree to the Tilia agreement? Am I misunderstanding you @Chic Aeon?  (it's a long time since I bought L$)

     

    Anyway, thanks to everybody for the feedback - it's been very useful.

     

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    Now I have bought some land, I have a few questions...

    in Mainland

    Posted

    11 hours ago, BJoyful said:

    Maybe as no VAT is charged on a yearly Premium Membership it would serve your needs to just upgrade an extra Alt and donate that Alt’s free 1024 to the same land group?  (Then maybe no account would need to downgrade to Basic, perhaps just one upgrade from Basic to Premium).
    I’m very glad you posted these questions as the answers and info others already know has answered some questions I also had about the same thing ☺️ 

    Yeah, I've crunched the numbers, and using a premium account is about the same price as paying land use fees, in my specific circumstances, so that's probably what I'll end up doing. It's good if the info contained in this thread can be useful to anybody else - there's not much out there (that I could find easily) that deals with managing group land with respect to payment of land use fees, in a really practical way (ie in a way that similar to what Pussycat Catnap outlined above).

    I've assumed in my calculations that land use fees ARE subject to VAT - do you know otherwise @Alwin Alcott ?

     

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