Sorina Garrigus

If LL is still getting money for the land then they probably won't treat it as abandoned. But it's possible it is and they haven't gotten to repoing int yet. I also have the majority of a mainland sim with a couple holes here and there ... I don't really need them. But some thought I was eager to buy so they cranked up the prices and sold thinking I would jump on it ... I got them later when it went back to normal price levels just for the heck of it even though I didn't need it. But if you come off as over eager they might try to sting you with inflated prices. I just wish RL real estate prices did the supply and demand thing properly. If you couldn't tell ... I live in California where if you don't own a house now and you are not rich you are kinda screwed.

Mainland is limited on terraforming ... your best bet is to make some fake land using prims with grass textures such. I have a huge building on mainland and the building has to be 20 meters up with stairs going up. Terraforming on mainland doesn't have the flexibility it use to back in the old days.

I am filing in a cafe kind of environment and I got a plenty of great things like coffee and booze where it shows it being poured and using the experience features it puts the drink right into your hand. I am looking something like that where you say might have a plate and you can order prim food which appears and you eat it and using animations etc. I can find plenty of food props but looking for something interactive. Any suggestions?

I have walls that I set to Planar and I link it to another wall. But everytime I come back the walls change back and are no longer set correctly. What am I doing wrong? or what is the work around to get it to work?

Yes I have a number of their things already.

I am looking for more current games to add to my arcade and board game area (not a skill game place). Especially things like bowling, billiards and dart style games that have great game play. I have some old SL antiques but was looking for something more current or just the best in general. I am interested in other game suggestions but currently focused on this catagory of games. Thanks.

What was your idea to prevent such theft and profit of theft? That was the point. You are saying it's not possible to duplicate a scripted item ... but most everyone knows it is. Maybe you only worked with scripts alone maybe? but scripted objects not hard to make illegal copies. It has happened through out SL's entire history.

It is stealing because they are making illegal copies and selling the copies. Which is the case here. Making illegal copies ie copying a no copy transferable object with scripts and then selling those copies is a violation of LL policy and a way to get banned without warnings. It can and does happen. The problem is VPN is fairly common place and a sponsor for half of all the youtubers so LL can't really ban you very easily by IP anymore like they might have in the past. Instead of defending theft which on this scale you are stealing food off someones table at this level given he is not microsoft, how about ideas on how to prevent such theft? Like I said some had servers the scripted item did call outs to prevent such things. Why can't LL have something like that. I mean have them give Aargle Zymurgy or Karsten Ruteledge a call. they have done licensing protection approaches in the past or currently? They bought Caspertech ... they can probably do this. Charge a mimiminal fee for it if they like. Better than nothing and it would free up their employees from daily trying to whack a mole a ton of stolen sales in the market place. As would a cool off period and an alert to the creator of the item. How about some ideas on keeping people from being ripped off. Why defend actual obvious thieves?

It's not a belief. It is experience and for most that been in SL for a long time ... common knowledge. Yes LL can help. That is why I am bringing up this conversation so they can be encouraged and come up with ideas to help protect content creators from low life thieves leaching off of their hard work. Kind of shocking that there are people defending thieves in a forum about merchants. Your saying "not interested" sounds like you already know about this common knowledge.

The particulars in this case are I talked to the game creator that is dealing with these issues constantly. And the unnamed "resident" created their account about 2 weeks ago and is "selling" stolen property via illegal created copies for a profit of at least $68 US dollars. Possibly more for what already may sold. It is safe to say they didn't buy 10 to 12 games just to sell them again in the span of a couple weeks. Thus the proposal of offering more protection for content creators.

Sorry you can. It is actually shocking someone been in SL that long would even say that. I won't tell you what is done here for obvious reasons but if you IM me I will tell privately. It's not exactly a big secret but I really don't want to help noobs wanting to do the wrong thing steal stuff. Heck I did it on accident without thinking once. But pretty much everyone that has been in business with a high profile product knows this. I been working with games for over 15 years worked with game creators for most of those years.

The do deal with it ... on a weekly to daily basis. He has been dealing with it for probably a decade now and still does. I mean someone with a dozen games for sale that created an account two weeks go .. that goes beyond sus.

I am not sure how long you been in SL ... but yes you can duplicate illegally scripts along with entire objects and it isn't that hard at all. Linden Labs has policies in place to minimize that but it still happens. There are ways and for obvious reasons I Am not going to say how but anyone that has been in SL or at least in business in SL for at least 5 years or so knows how it can easily be done. Back in the day skill games were duplicated with the most well known method. It is why Aargle Zymurgy set up a protection system for Zyngo and why some other game creators still have their own system. But not everyone has the skills to build outside servers to act as copy protection. The solutions are to build a system of serial numbers into each object that sticks with it regardless of when it was rezzed or rerezed. Or offer a copy protection service. The problem is when these blatant thefts happen Linden Labs profits off of them the same as when a counterfeit product is sold by a third party seller on Amazon. Amazon still profits from that particular crime. So there seriously needs to be something in place to reduce these issues. really hardly anything has been really done since the beginning. I mean without the content creators ... where would any of us be? They should protect them from these blatant slimey acts with new tech to avoid it from happening in the first place.

That isn't what they are doing ... at all. Nobody buys something just to sell it for more at a loss. Nobody. Maybe if they were insane I guess? There are a few ways people can make illegal duplicates. I won't go into them here but some are pretty well known. In this case these are not full permission anything. They are items that are very well known and been around for over a decade. Yes will sell their old non transferable stuff. Obviously that isn't the case with an account made a week or two ago. But that is why I put the idea out there of a cool off period before it can be listed and the legit creator can be alerted. In the real world they pawn shops do something comparable to reduce criminal theft and sales of stolen property. Again the problem is ongoing as these thieves just create new accounts and rip off these creators. This particular victim did tell me it is constant. It is years and years over do that LL should take more action and introduce more protection tools to avoid these issues.

With an Avatar it will be very hard to do because the green dots will give you away. But if you were to hide a mesh object based avatar in place of your avatar it might be possible. But at that point it would just be an easter egg hunt.

I posted about repeated issues of posting of illegitimately copied items via exploit issues. The post was pulled for "publicly discussing a dispute with another Resident" I posted a snap shot from the market place which showed the name of the "resident" an alt created in late September for stealing the work of others and profiting off of it on the market place. I have no dispute with this non resident. My dispute is with theft of people's work in general and basically criminals profiting off of said theft. So reposting without the marketplace snapshot because in order to protect criminal theft and sales of stolen goods. this is a very important issue that needs to be worked on instead of being profited off of. The example: Game Maker X is a fake name and the victim in this example and I have zero dispute with just the opposite. I am calling him game maker X to protect the guilty thieves who make new accounts steal again likely using VPN to hide their ip. Also so people don't search Gamer X to find the name of the non resident who only exists because they likely were banned before for repeated thefts and will do so again. So their name was never relevant since they will be banned shortly when Game Maker X reports them ... who reports them constantly without any real solution. They will I was informed I can report the individual by a mole ... but the report options cautioned me not to because reporting a thief of someone else's property is against community guidelines. Now the legal mumbo jumbo is out of the way. I don't have a way to report a market place of something that is not my own. The issue is posting stolen property on the market place using various techniques. These unnamed individuals who are slime ball thieves are doing this respectively to profit off of other people's hard work. The solution I proposed so nobody is profiting off the sales of stolen property be it the perpetrator or indirectly Linden Labs who will get a small cut of sales ... which hopefully are all refunded to the actual creator of the stolen items, was to alert a creator of a second hand sale so they can verify if it was legit or stolen through various means. And keeping that sale on pause from being listed for say a week so they have time to check and then being listed. Another solution would be for third parties create like what Aargle Zymurgy did years ago when Zyngo was still around a way to protect from such thefts. OR Linden Labs create a serial number system for individual non copy objects themselves. "Game Maker X" told me he has this problem all the time and described it like playing whack a mole ... no moles were harmed in the writing of this message. And the issue is they LL doesn't have time to respond in time I also mentioned Amazon in the post who in real life have profited off of counterfeit sales for decades and is a billion dollar industry. In this real world example of the same problem. Hopefully I stayed within the community guidelines and protected a criminal alt who will be banned shortly as per community guidelines. But this is a serious ongoing issue which needs solutions to protect the creators of the things we all enjoy ... not alts created for the sole purpose of repeated thefts.

That is unfortunate. Kind of why I am looking to more self contained grids. Though I think a lot of that stuff reached the ones I seen as well. People work hard on some of this stuff. It is sad to see people just snatch their hard and creative efforts.

You make it sound like everyone on open sim is lazy, steal, and don't want to make anything. I disagree.

except ... except ... there is no such thing as president of SL. She is joking. She might as well as be saying she is running for president of that galaxy. I am not even sure why I have to explain this. I guess you are joking as well?

I agree ... however this isn't really politics. It is satire. She isn't really running for anything. It is just for laughs and giggles so it is completely fine. Now if people were saying talking about Trump or Biden etc ... I would also be saying hey hold the horses. We don't need this talk here. But no it is just funny and amusing.

Will there be a debate between Amber and Governor Linden. The Governor has ran unopposed for decades. I would like to hear if the Governor has any plans for affordable simhousing and what he is planning to help the simless camped out at freebie stores.

In the last month I been working in multiple grids in addition to Second Life ... Are there any policies with Linden Labs on creating groups in Second Life about other grids? I my google fu couldn't find anything against it at all. I expect peanut gallery comments but I would prefer some direct links if LL doesn't allow such things.

I kind of wish SL would have a clear label of gachas and second hand stuff. Some of the exclaimers on some of those in the market place basically comes off saying it sucks to be you if you don't get the item kind of policy. I also see a lot of popular games being sold in batches which looks a little fishy to me. It feels more buyer beware than ever the way it is with those things

I have a texture I want to use the setTexture command or something similar but be able to edit the texture on the prim to just show part of the texture. This is what I am working with now. There is a part on the very bottom of the texture I want to show animated and crop off the rest by editing the prim's texture setting. I got it so I can resize the script but the offsets don't seem to be able to change that I can tell. default { // state_entry() is an event handler, it executes // whenever a state is entered. state_entry() { // llSetTextureAnim() is a function that animates a texture on a face. llSetTextureAnim(ANIM_ON | SMOOTH |LOOP, ALL_SIDES,0,0,0.0, 0,-0.355); // animate the script to scroll across all the faces. } }

I am ok with gambling with age restrictions obviously, but they have to follow various laws. There are other things that are allowed that are totally gambling like some fishing games. Where you can increase your chances to win hypothetical fish by buying bait or a better fishing pole. But if I wanted to run a chess tournament I Would have to contact a lawyer to get a legal opinion and restrict it to a gaming sim. I understand solo skill game issues very well ... but they really need some adjustments for things like chess tournaments and the like.