[Is Second Life more toxic than other games in general?]

On 1/8/2024 at 11:05 PM, Silent Mistwalker said:

Been there, done that more than a decade ago. Still run across toxic people in SL occasionally. Whenever I leave home mostly.

I have a no drama policy now so if anyone starts something it's on the block list instanty. All my friends knows this

[Is Second Life more toxic than other games in general?]

SL is only as toxic as the people you hangout with. Clean out your friend list and put up some rules about how much drama you want around you and you'll have a much better experience ^^

[Whohoo helped out five newbs today]

On 9/27/2022 at 6:33 PM, Ceka Cianci said:

You could go to one of the sources..  There is a start point called Adventure Island and Central Park..

You would have to land in Central Park where there are new people to SL just starting out.. The next sim over from that to the west is Adventure Island which is where they first enter SL.. I would wait for them to cross the bridge to Central Park, so they can finish their tutorials.. But Central park is a good place if you are wanting to help new people to SL

Tried that now. Got told to leave the sim by some moody staff since "this is only for newbies! you haven't been approved to be a guide here!" so I think I'm good. Now I get why so many are finding it hard to get into SL at first, no wonder when you meet such a moody person right when you start out x.x

[Whohoo helped out five newbs today]

I'd love to know where to find newbies to help~ whenever I go to the newbie places it's just 5+ year old accounts chatting or spamming

[CasperTech Acquisition Discussion]

On 9/22/2022 at 8:36 PM, JJValero Writer said:

Although I am aware that many users distrust this solution, I think it is the best possible one. My argument is that network vendors are not a product, they are a service.

When you buy a networked vendor, be it from Casper or from any other creator, it is providing you with a free service. This free service is the maintenance of servers, backup, technical support, ...

This service is not free for the creators who provide it, and I gather that a service that handles over a million transactions in a single day consumes a lot of bandwidth. Hosting is not exactly cheap.

This is a fixed cost that must be paid month by month. At first, when there are few users, there are more benefits than costs that are covered by vendor sales.

But if the number of users continues to grow and especially if the number of new buyers decreases, there may come a time when the benefits are significantly reduced and may even be lower than the costs.

That is why in a short time the creators are forced to create new products and addons.

HippoTech "got its fingers caught" and had to close down. But it is not the only one since there are other less well-known systems such as AeonVox or E2V that also "got their fingers caught".

I don't know if CasperTech is above or below the line where it still makes a profit. But in the long term it is inevitable that this business model will be unviable.

There are only two solutions, either a subscription system or the purchase of the system by LL.

If the subscription system is adopted, many users will switch to other systems and the sword of damocles will continue to threaten to fall just as HippoTech did.

That is why I say that the solution that has been adopted is better.

 

 

This is true most of the time but I think in caspertech's case it's not an issue since there's always new stores opening up. Creators wants the systems on their "store avatars" rather than their main one which means buying the systems again. This is what covers the costs

[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

Please reconsider the conveyor belt idea.

While this idea might seem fair since you see what item you currently get, it's pretty much just an advanced gacha machine. People will still pay for the chance that the rare or item they want appears on the board.

If you don't ban it, atleast make restrictions like "board gotta cycle to next item atleast once every x min" and "a min of 2 mins needs to have passed before it cycle to next item"

Reason for the first is to avoid having to play it like a gacha machine to get the item you want

Reason for the second being that if more than 1 person are paying the board at the same time for the item that is currently there, they should all get that item and not only 1 while the rest gets something random