CandyCole

I often get things bought for me from my Marketplace wishlist. It happens often with reasonably priced items. The other day I noticed two wishlist items were no longer available. I searched Marketplace and found the demos, but not the full items. I sent a notecard to the seller asking where the items had gone and could they be re-instated. She said due to the increase in MP fees they are now only available from her main shop in-world and no longer listed on Marketplace. I removed the residue from my wishlist as nobody can buy those items for me now. Arguably she has lost sales, but I understand why she did it. What I don't understand is why not increase the prices on Marketplace to cover the fee increases, but state in the advert that the items are available at a discounted price from the in-world store and provide a teleport link. Why don't I just buy it from the store myself? ~ Because I don't have much money, but would like the item, should someone choose to gift it to me. It's a shame.

I use a laptop for SL and things run pretty well. For this and my previous laptop I've always set up a RAM DISK for the SL cache, rather than using up SSD life or waiting for my HDD. It also clears at shutdown, which suits me fine. I most definately notice the difference.

When all I see is messy BoM avatars and I'm the last one standing, that's when I'll upgrade my viewer. I don't care what other people look like. Second Life is all about me, as far as I'm concerned.

1. Stands in room, sees chair against the wall, sits on chair .. now screen completely filled with the back of the wall. 2. Stood in store, sees nice group gifts and a lucky chair with my letter on it .. looks around for group join button, cannot find. Clicks on a few group items but no join offerred. Right-clicks one and checks under object for the group name, searches for group name, cannot find. Lucky letter changes, I leave and never come back.

We all change our appearance over time. Consider it as SL's way of ageing. Perhaps a useful concept to adopt for those who struggle to differentiate between their SL and RL selves.

No need to justify yourselves. My post was neither a question nor a showing of interest, rather a statement of ambivalence.

I agree about being asked a question as an introduction, as opposed to just saying 'Hi' etc.. Being asked a sensible question regarding my avatar or what she is wearing will almost always garner a positive response from me. Second life is not real life and the differences and nuances when introducing yourself are not necessarily the same. Just because someone comes and stands in front of you does not automatically mean you can see them. I'm often camming in stores or events and not looking at myself and I don't want to lose my cam position just to see who it is. I may read their profile but if it was sensibl conversation starter I may just start chatting without ever looking at them and then like them regardless of their avatar appearance. If I like a man's avatar I will almost always talk to him. These men are rarely the smooth, sleek, polished and modern avatars, but rather the ones I simply like the look of. Often they are the classic system avatars because to achieve a decent mature male look is not easy with mesha body and face. I like older men in RL too, so it's how I am. I feel for men sometimes as the onus is often on them to make the first move, so when I make the first move they are often flattered, but not always. I get the occasional kick-back too and it's a shame when he has an avatar I really like. The division between real life and 2nd life is a very easy one for me to make. Even while Firestorm is loading I am already becoming 'me'.. and me is my SL avatar. I'm not interested in the person's real life at all, any relationship is between our two avatars. RL questions, even as basic as 'which country are you from', are off-putting for me. My avatar is what you see, my personality is my avatar. Take it or leave it.

Why someone spends forever trying to make a mesh head look like their old system head is beyond me.

I have SL sound permanently muted. Other people's sound and noise .. bleugh!

Hang on, I remembered another one. Please stop calling things you need to pay for a 'GIFT'. If they're at a bargain or special price or a promotion then call them what they are, If they require payment they are NOT a gift. gift /ɡɪft/ noun 1. a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present.

New to forum and my first post is a moan, a pet peeve. So let's get it out of the way Please forgive me for not reading all 80+ pages so far as it's probably been mentioned already, but my moan is about opening boxed items. One or two and it's over and done with quickly, but after grabbing all the gifts at an event, such as Kustom9 for example, there are many, many items to 'open' Let's see what we have. Some need .. 1. the floor of a sandbox and a single click then 'open attachments' 2. the floor of a sandbox and a manual right-click then 'open attachments' 3. to be attached (as bag/item) and open automatically 4. to be attached (as bag/item) and require clicking 5. to be attached (as HUD) and open automatically 6. to be attached (as HUD) and require clicking 7. to be attached (as HUD) and require clicking in a particular place, which requires full rezzing 8. some of the above revealing more boxes to open 9. some of the above revealing more boxes to open with a different method 10. me to reset my AO as a built-in animation has disrupted mine Please, sellers, may we have some consistency? .. and drop the animations. My always preferred method is when I attach as a HUD and it automatically offers 'Accept'. I can grab a bunch in inventory and attach all at once. Then click Accept repeatedly until all done. Then take the opportunity that all those boxes in inventory I no longer need are all still highlighted and delete them all in one go. I dream