Elvina Ewing

i'll just post this here, too lazy to look for the proper thread... Scheduled Redelivery appears to be broken. Just discovered that the items that i marked for Redelivery (to all who previously bought it) on March 23, are still marked as Scheduled, and not as Complete. Today is 26th. Normally redelivery resolves within 24 hours. And i said to my customers 3 days ago that they'll be getting the update shortly... *facepalm*

i think this is the new normal. I'm bracing myself for the coming end of March, when Lindens will (traditionally) most likely come out with some new draconian ways how to squeeze yet more pennies out of their favourite cashcows. Gonna try and take most L$ and US$ out of SL in the last week of March, just in case...

If i banned somebody from my Marketplace store, will they be able to redeliver an item they bought in my store before they got banned? Say, if i make an update and send automatic redelivery to all customers who previously bought it, will they get this update?

i know this is only partially related to the OP, but i don't really feel like creating my own thread as i feel it is not so important... Yet i would like to share a curious thing that happened to me yesterday. It's about reporting listings, but not for spam in this case. My store has been around since 2007, and this is the first time it ever happened to me since nearly 17 years of my store existence... I was so shocked i didn't know whether i should laugh or cry about it... 😕 Yesterday i was in the process of listing 5 new items (different colours) that all have 1 demo. As per usual, - because that is how i always have done it and because it is most convenient to me - i list the demo first, and then bulk-edit-list the other items linked to that item by copying the description from the previously listed demo. So, bulk-editing several listings at time, i hit the Submit button... only to get a warning popping up in front of my eyes that says that the demo listing i just submitted less than 5 (!!!) minutes ago has been flagged and removed for disallowed listing practices because it wasn't linked to the actual product!! 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️ I couldn't believe my eyes! Not only someone flagged the listing that was up only 5 minutes, but it also already got removed !? while i was still in the process of adding items to link to it! I mean, just wow! That was, FAST. Also, because of that warning popup, i nearly lost my bulk-listing-edit. It's a blessing that Back button works, so i was still able to use the back button and go back and all the info that i put up in the bulk-edit was still there!! I was relieved that i didn't have to redo all that, i just hit Submit button again and it worked. But i mean, come on. How overzealous can you get to report a demo listing that has been up less than 5 minutes! The only way for anybody to even see that listing at all was, if they were looking at that Category sorted by New Items First. And then, they could have used their logic and think that the merchant was possibly busy right that moment adding the item in question? Anyway, i just wanted to share this curious story about how absurd you can get reporting MP listings. 😅

oops, nvm 😶

Why they aren't waving the 10% fee: Because that's the only incentive for LL to even keep trying to fix it, because if it isn't working, it will be their own pocket, too, that will feel it. Maybe 10% isn't enough, so i will not be surprised if at the end of March we will get another fee increase... I'm guessing PR people are out of office celebrating New Years Eve...

thanks so much for the heads up! i vote for "end of year"+"not bought recently" combination as a possible explanation. FYI, half of my store is gone missing! Thanks so much, LL!! *facepalm* I have about 1500 items, now only 731 of them are showing up. Among them are brand new items that were listed only couple of days ago. Like, 2 colours of the same dress, the one that was bought since then, is showing, the one that wasn't bought yet, is missing. The same thing is happening when i go to my Manage Listings page: all of the same listings are not there. So, i cannot even edit them, unless i do the trick that you suggested. Another trick: all those listings are still showing as Related Items. So, from there i can access pages of the colours that are missing, if i want to edit them.

Sis also went to grab one...

my first mesh head EVAH! yes, i've been managing without one so far 😅 but since this one is free, and i managed to not miss it this time, so i grabbed one too, along with a bunch of other Advent gifts... some stuff in the HUD doesn't seem to work for me, also for some reason the freckles are not showing up, or they are sooooo subtle that i cannot see them. Also, since wearing all those BOM layers i crashed 2 times, when normally i crash like once per month....

i guess you all missed that part... it was this: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/ZHAO-II-reboxed-SCRIPT-ONLY/845675 and it doesn't work on me, but does work on my alt. so, i still don't understand, - what is causing this? The bento animation in question should have nothing to do with the rest of the body bones, it only animates the wings (supposedly). So priority shouldn't be an issue at all, since it's not animating the legs. There is a JIRA about this, https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41048 , and it is marked as Unresolved...

i have the same problem. I'm making bento wings and made a ZHAO hud that plays different bento animations for those wings. Everything works great, except walking. I have spent entire day now trying to figure out what's going on, and still am none the wiser... At first i thought that it was a priority issue. So i loaded my AO with different priority walking animations, - it didn't make any difference. They all froze while wearing my bento hud. I am using the builtin Firestorm AO. Then i read somewhere that it might be a Firestorm issue, so i got myself a cheap AO and turned off Firestorm AO. The walking animation in this AO has a priority 4, and my bento animation has a priority 3, so when walking the walking animation does keep on working, but the bento animation doesn't work instead. When turning off all AOs, and just using native SL walk also freezes that walk!! Then i thought that it might be a ZHAO specific issue, and went looking for another fullperm AO system. The first one i saw on MP was a totally different system, but the review on it said that it freezes their walking animation, too! Clearly, there is a problem somewhere, but where? Then i tested both these wings and hud on an alt, who uses another non-builtin AO, and she had no problems at all. Everything kept on working as intended, nothing froze, the walking animation kept working and the bento animation too, while walking. So, i really have no clue what causes the issue. Any ideas? PS. could mesh body have something to do with it? I wear Meshbody Classic, my alt wears Maitreya LaraX.

Today's body stats: #1 : Maitreya - Lara : 152619 unique wearers: 30.3% #2 : Signature - Gianni : 33843 : 6.7% #3 : eBODY - Reborn : 30151 : 6.0% #4 : Belleza - Jake : 28089 : 5.5% #5 : MeshBody - Legacy (Female) : 23990 : 4.7% ... #32 : Maitreya - Lara X : 1374 : 0.2% Not bad, after just 1 week! Or was it 2 weeks already?... Re: Belleza Freya vs Gen.X: Me personally, i still occasionally make small new items for Freya, and i will not bother with Gen.X. Because : #14 : Belleza - Freya : 6862 : 1.3% vs #55 : Belleza - Gen.X (Classic) : 650 : 0.1% #56 : Belleza - Gen.X (Curvy) : 639 : 0.1% And it's been like this for what 6 months now? Even Belleza Isis has more wearers atm, than both GenX combined! #29 : Belleza - Isis : 1402 : 0.2%

my shape looks like this on LaraX. I consider this a flat butt. It looks like that because my leg muscle setting is at 95. Butt is at 27, fat at 0. I am going for an athletic look (like in, what female Olympic runners have, not bodybuilders hehe), and the only way to get any muscle definition in the leg is to up the muscle to almost a 100. So, it won't work for skinny folk, who like to be skinny allover, but it does help the butt not stick out like on Katherine's picture

RE: butt dimples... i guess nobody noticed the ad poster in the store when they went there to grab their redelivery? I'm pretty sure there was a closeup poster of those dimples on the wall. I think Maitreya might be actually proud of those, because they were kinda signature of the brand back in the day when Lara was just released. At least that was the first thing i noticed on the original Lara when i first tried it on and that's what stuck in my mind the most... I think it will be very easy to make a BoM mesh patch for those dimples, hell even i could just make it right now if i wasn't so busy with preparing for Xmas Shop & Hop... Maitreya better fix that REAL FAST, otherwise there will be a fix for sale in no time made by some less busy creator...

so, when the new LaraX is released, will the old Lara still be available, and the new buyers will be able to choose between Lara and LaraX? Or will LaraX replace the 5.3, thus phasing out the older version?