Estella Beningbrough

I'm sure some other people will give a better and more informative answer but.... It's common to have that problem when crossing a sim border. When I am using a vehicle I find it helps to turn down graphics settings to the lowest level without going so far as to spoil your enjoyment of the scenery and to slow down and even pause for a few seconds before crossing. My friend said it helps to do this because it allows the next region to load a little. The longest journey I ever managed in a vehicle without needing a relog was a 78 sim journey and I paused before each crossing. When we did long journeys together in a car or boat, my friend also recommended that I detach as many HUDs as possible and kept my clothing and attachments as simple as possible.

Maybe the DJ needs to make his toilet a bit more SL so that he will want to use it. Tell him to write his initial on a piece of card and stick it up over his toilet. Next, he needs to put a box of clothes (in nasty colours) by the toilet and put a CD player with some happy music within reach. If he needs the toilet, he can go upstairs, spot that his letter is up on the lucky chair, take an item of clothing from the box, play the happy music and go for a poo.

Not a fan of surveys but this one needed under a minute of my time after clicking out of curiosity.

Those Troobles should be easy to breed. Just place them in a cool, dark place until they sprout eyes and then plant them in the soil about 30cm apart, remembering that potatoes need a lot of water.

I sorted out my inventory, getting it down from 29000 to 16000, and it seems to have sorted out my frozen logins - could be a coincidence, of course. Top tips! 1/ Delete everything called "demo". 2/ Delete everything called "object". I remember reading that over 70% of prims in SL are named "object". I am sure I deleted some good stuff but I would never have bothered to rez them to look at them anyway. 3/ Delete landmarks starting from the bottom of the list until you get to ones you still use. 4/ Delete all Calling Cards. I regret this one a little: I liked it as a record of my life here. 5/ Delete all the copiable stuff you kept taking rather than deleting - for me these things were plants, trees and vehicles. 6/ The Object and Lost And Found folders were rich grounds for finding obviously unwanted stuff. 7/ Set the filters to Landmarks only and delete all the lms sent within folders acquired through shopping. 8/ Get rid of Library items that have found their way into Inventory through Character Tests.

I've had this several times over the years. Removing SL from my computer and re-installing has always done the trick, I usually restart my computer and throw in a System Restore to the previous day, too. I'm not sure which, or any, of those makes the difference but I've always been back in SL within 30 minutes. Reading the reply previous to mine, my method does include the modem being switched off and then back on again so maybe it is that.

If there is going to be a war, I'll just get a freebie Swiss flag and stick it in my SL parcel so that no-one will invade it and then go on RL holiday until it is finished. War is one thing that could be avoided if RL was like SL. As soon as an army tried to cross a border, it would be tossed up into the air, crash, and then re-appear wearing their civilian clothing from the day before plus their army stuff. And no-one would ever invade anyone else 'cos the home nation's traffic would be down whilst their rival's would go up. Imagine fighting a long war and finally taking control of the opposition's capital city only to be told that the country was restarting in five minutes and that you'd best clear off quick.

A DJ using an alt as a hostess reminds me of a band from the late eighties called Gaye Bykers On Acid who would play as their own support band in order to avoid sharing the takings with a support band. Their "alt" band was called Lesbian Dopeheads On Mopeds.

Thanks for the suggestion and information! My computer is one step up in power from a TV remote control but I don't remember swearing at the screen in 2008-2010 a tenth as often as I do now.

Premium? Nope. I used to be but now rent the same size parcel on the north coast of the old continent. This afternoon represents why I won't be Premium. I've had over a dozen logins in an attempt to get a build done and been constantly thwarted by crashes and logins that were useless because the parcel info would not load, making the work at another mainland parcel on the Heterocera continent impossible. This latter sim is also one I have failed to successfully tp out of for over two months now. Our hobbies of sailing and driving are ruined by bad sim crossings. Half the time, my friend list is a list of "???". I'll pay money to my Landlady because she performs the role like a professional. I won't go Premium and send my money directly to amateurs. I know the landlady pays tier and it gets to LL in the end but I refuse to pay them a penny directly from my hand to theirs. I know there is the argument that it won't improve without money being paid in but in RL I do not hand over money in the bakers' store for a sticky, shapeless, amateurish mess in the belief that one day, they will be able to make a nice cake. I pay for finished products.

The posts prior to mine have it mostly covered but I will add... TP offers from new friends every time I log on, usually for voting in contests and Midnight Mania boards. People at Infohubs who sigh and post a URL into chat when I have asked a serious question, as though my request for help is interrupting their posing in the fashions of 1986. People who say "Bored!" in Local or group chat. It's not the world's fault. In a world rammed full with people from all over the world and with the creations built by thousands of minds, you cannot occupy yourself? Region restarts chasing me all over the grid. Stores that are too large. I don't want fountains, benches, cafes and architecture; I want a wall full of pictures that I can cam along quickly. I live on the coast of the Colour Sims and, for some reason, the constant presence of large numbers of people standing motionless on the seabed drives me nuts. I've heard it is something to do with Tiny Empires or something similar. We call them N00bwrecks.

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I have used this reason when someone has asked me for friendship... "I am building an alphabet of friends to make a Lucky Chair army and I already have a friend beginning with your initial." Another reason I have given was that I don't have friends with beards. He took it off. After blinking hard I added that I don't have friends with sandals. He put another pair of shoes on. I turned to the fact he had a hat on and told him that I don't have friends with hats and he told me to go and *&%* myself. I'm more considerate these days and tend to accept friendship requests. If they turn out to be someone I'm not interested by or we don't speak in the first couple of days, I delete them whilst they are offline. They won't notice I'm gone from their friendlist and no offence is caused.

My roleplay age is eight. I don't bother with childspeak because eight year olds don't use it. I blurt my thoughts out in SL, am blunt at times and make up eccentric explanations of why I think things are the way they are. Even a real six year old would not use childspeak; the majority pronounce their sounds correctly and the only major thing they do is to get their irregular verb endings wrong - "runned", "finded", "sayed", "bringed" etc. I've met plenty of childspeak kids and, although it's not my thing, it does not bother me. I've met the Original Poster inworld and chatted with her. She's a smart cookie. I thought "I know that name!" when I saw she had posted a thread asking for advice about how to speak and that she stated that she would prefer replies from curmudgeons. Oh. Hang on, She didn't.

Two quick points... 1 Being a cloud I never used to bother making outfit folders but need them most days now as I often get told by friends that my outfit has not changed. What I do is type "gth 3000" to go up to 3000 metres (or any other quiet altitude) and hover, go into the Advanced menu and do a Character Test for female (which sends you back to a default state), and then put my outfit on afresh. It's worked every time. 2 Slow inventory loading Not sure why this works but a friend taught me this trick two years ago and it still works: open your Inventory and type the vowels in isolation into the search bar within it. Typing "a", then "e", then "i" etc really does seem to speed it up although it occasionally is too much for something or other and I crash.

I would strongly recommend the Szym Metro made by Will Szymborska. It is a $99 Citroen 2CV but is the best car I have driven. Admittedly, I have not driven many but friends with more SL driving experience agree that it's a good one: fun, bouncy suspension; realistic turning circles whether going forwards or in reverse; takes four people; and it does not get ridiculously out of control.

Ummm...if a person is needing to borrow money and is not a scammer, they will ask a friend.