Sy Beck

HeraclesTheHero wrote: I have set myself the task of completing twelve metaphorical labors in SL, ie inworld, here in the forums, and in the feeds, as well as any other public playgrounds that Rod and the boys establish in the coming months. While some of the tasks appear to be easy to associate with LL concepts (the slaying of the Lernaean Hydra, for example, even if might appear an impossible quest) I was hoping that the members of htis forum might be able to give me some assistance in identifying analogous undertakings. In fact, Heracles apparently did have some aid in completing some of his tasks, such as the aforementioned Hydra, so if anyone is interested in the role of Iolaus please feel free to pitch in. If you need a reference then Wikipedia is as good a starting point as anywhere. Here is a brief summary: 1. Slay the Nemean Lion 1. Derender or eject any Neko and pierce their narcisstic ego 2. Slay the Lernaean Hydra 2. Become a moderator and trackdown Pep's Thanatotic alts before he has posted 5 times. 3. Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis 3. Seduce a LWL and then be forgiven by her Goddess 4. Capture the Erymanthian Boar 4. Get drunk with some furries and then chase a scripter around in the snow till daylight and sunshine exhaust them. 5. Clean the Augean Stables 5. Audit LL's Marketing Dep't. 6. Slay the Stymphalian Birds 6. Neglect to feed your Sion Chickens 7. Capture the Cretan Bull 7. Visit a rodeo sim or film some cretinous bull being performed at a live performance 8. Steal the Mares of Diomedes 8. Feed your now dead Sion Chickens to breedable horses and corral with a large cylinder prim 9. Obtain the Girdle of Hippolyta 9. Tell your SL girlfriend that you would like to explore cross-dressing and ask to borrow some of her Trans only clothes. If she complains or one of your other girlfriends butts in TP them to a combat sim and kill them. 10. Obtain the Cattle of Geryon 10. Go to Zindra and buy a bordello from Geryon Resident 11. Steal the Apples of the Hesperides 11. Tough one. Remove all free thought and knowledge from the forums so that women and men may not feel shame? 12. Capture Cerberus. 12. Obtain 3 RLV collars and hang out at.....well you can work the rest out.

Sy Beck wrote: Void SingerContributor Posts: 7,475 Registered: 05-29-2009 Official Resources? [ Edited ] Options 11-07-2011 05:36 AM - last edited on 12-16-2011 11:00 PM I had a thought to compile a list of official resources, available from Linden Lab, as a go to source for official information regarding problems one might encounter in SL. The list I'm attempting to compile is of only the LL direct sources, since most of the informal sources (such as these forums) are fairly well known and often suggested, but not everyone is aware of all the official sources... so to jump start this list, I'm going to throw out some categories, and populate a few of them, and would welcome any suggestions for Official LL Resources only (which I'll do my best to update into this post) UPDATED Dec 16, 2:58 PM (PST) Information on current events and changes within SL: SL Blogs (general new features, trends and news) Grid Status (currently known large scale failures and scheduled maintenance, if it breaks check here first) Second Life Server Forum (particularly the weekly deploy threads for news on new features and fixes) Second Life Viewer Forum (occasionally has news from Lindens on viewer changes and fixes) Rod Humble's Twitter Feed(CEO's take on what's trending in SL now, and into the future) Rod Humble's Profile Feed (more of the same, limited to SL users, login required) Basic Information and Common questions: @SupportLinden (A twitter account that redirects users to the likeliest resource) Knowledge Base (a collection of preformated questions and answers on a variety of topics) Video Tutorials (collection of video detailing how to do many basic tasks and showcasing SL content) SL Wiki (only some information found here is official) Basic support: Quickstart Guide (something to get you started if you are new to SL) Billing issues (can't save your payment info? got overcharged by LL, go here) File a Trouble ticket (AKA Support Portal, for problems that you are personally experiencing, should be logged in if possible) Live Chat Support (must be premium member and logged into the website, limited hours) Jira(find out about known bugs, possible workaraounds, and keep updated on the ones important to you) File a bug report (only bugs that affect multiple users or regions, please search before filing) File a Feature Request (got a great idea? submit it here. please search before filing) Active Focus Groups: Server Betauser group (meets on beta grid [aditi] focuses on upcoming features and fixes) Second Life Beta (inworld announcement group for the same) Server/Sim user group (meets twice weekly on main grid [agni] focuses on current server limitations and workaraounds) Scripting user group (meets weekly on main grid [agni] focuses on scripting bugs and new features) Content Creation user group (meets week on main grid [agni] focuses largely on mesh) Community Tools user group (focuses on webside resources for SL) - Closed I only gathered some of the obvious links, it could used fleshed out with contact phone numbers, emails and other direct LL supported resources (one in which an employee of linden lab either directly answers, or can point you to the correct resource) - Farewell to your ports and good luck to you all

Not a favourite, but more for the season. :smileyhappy: Merry Xmas

Thanks for the info Nber (nice little boat and video) and Prok for the rezzing areas and rental info.

Void SingerContributor Posts: 7,475 Registered: 05-29-2009 Official Resources? [ Edited ] Options 11-07-2011 05:36 AM - last edited on 12-16-2011 11:00 PM I had a thought to compile a list of official resources, available from Linden Lab, as a go to source for official information regarding problems one might encounter in SL. The list I'm attempting to compile is of only the LL direct sources, since most of the informal sources (such as these forums) are fairly well known and often suggested, but not everyone is aware of all the official sources... so to jump start this list, I'm going to throw out some categories, and populate a few of them, and would welcome any suggestions for Official LL Resources only (which I'll do my best to update into this post) UPDATED Dec 16, 2:58 PM (PST) Information on current events and changes within SL: SL Blogs (general new features, trends and news) Grid Status (currently known large scale failures and scheduled maintenance, if it breaks check here first) Second Life Server Forum (particularly the weekly deploy threads for news on new features and fixes) Second Life Viewer Forum (occasionally has news from Lindens on viewer changes and fixes) Rod Humble's Twitter Feed(CEO's take on what's trending in SL now, and into the future) Rod Humble's Profile Feed (more of the same, limited to SL users, login required) Basic Information and Common questions: @SupportLinden (A twitter account that redirects users to the likeliest resource) Knowledge Base (a collection of preformated questions and answers on a variety of topics) Video Tutorials (collection of video detailing how to do many basic tasks and showcasing SL content) SL Wiki (only some information found here is official) Basic support: Quickstart Guide (something to get you started if you are new to SL) Billing issues (can't save your payment info? got overcharged by LL, go here) File a Trouble ticket (AKA Support Portal, for problems that you are personally experiencing, should be logged in if possible) Live Chat Support (must be premium member and logged into the website, limited hours) Jira(find out about known bugs, possible workaraounds, and keep updated on the ones important to you) File a bug report (only bugs that affect multiple users or regions, please search before filing) File a Feature Request (got a great idea? submit it here. please search before filing) Active Focus Groups: Server Betauser group (meets on beta grid [aditi] focuses on upcoming features and fixes) Second Life Beta (inworld announcement group for the same) Server/Sim user group (meets twice weekly on main grid [agni] focuses on current server limitations and workaraounds) Scripting user group (meets weekly on main grid [agni] focuses on scripting bugs and new features) Content Creation user group (meets week on main grid [agni] focuses largely on mesh) Community Tools user group (focuses on webside resources for SL) - Closed I only gathered some of the obvious links, it could used fleshed out with contact phone numbers, emails and other direct LL supported resources (one in which an employee of linden lab either directly answers, or can point you to the correct resource) - Farewell to your ports and good luck to you all

Perrie Juran wrote: This thread reminds me a little bit of the fast lanes at the super markets, those wonderful 10 items or less lanes. Whenever I'd see someone with more than 10 items in the lane I could only surmise that they were either a math major who could not read or an English major who could not count. *cough They will start removing lanes? :smileywink:

PeterCanessa Oh wrote: Why oh why oh why can't we give forum kudos to slum graffiti and love forum posts. Won't someone think of the childrennnn!!!!! - Let's face it, LL is interested in the sort of people interested in all this rank/kudos/love/trend/feed/twit/slap-face stuff. The rest of us can safely ignore it. +1 Kudos :smileywink:

DQ Darwin wrote: @Sy: In answer to your question I might suggest you would, you found your way here looking for whats hot, so? Count me in the sadly disappointed at what they found quotient then.

Could someone point out to me the person or persons who wake up every morning and can be bothered to rush to the feeds to see who or what is trending? What do these people do when they get there? Plan their day around whatever is trending? Go and buy anything they see in the picture? Print it out and pin it up on a bedroom wall. Believe and trust in whatever is posted there? Or, maybe they obsess about it a bit too much, let it take over their life, write and fret endlessly about it and believe it's the thin end of a conspiratorial wedge intended to take over SL. Beats me.

She looks really nice under sail Caity, I feel like I want buy that one as well now, it was my 2nd/3rd choice when looking for one.

Thanks to everyone who passed me tips and info here and in IMs inworld, it really helped. I bought two from Trudeau, the Lindara and the Trucordia and I can already see myself wanting to get a Catamaran and go racing. If you haven't tried sailing in SL before then I really recommend that you give it a go. There is something uniquely pleasing about travelling across large beautiful seascapes with your best chilling tunes in the background and seeing small islands and atolls loom up on the horizon and then moor up at them for a while.

Monti Messmer wrote: Hi, typos doesn´t annoy me much anymore. I know sometimes brain is faster than fingers But talking about the use of language in common i have to agree to a point Peggy brought up. Wat da hel dos dat men´. Alot of english speaking kids think that most/all of their words never have more than 3 letters, sorry folks wrong! As a not native english speaker let me tell you, this is not funny or cool is just rubbish. What does annoy me is the use of g..gle translators. No, not in chat, they do a fine job there, but here on the forums. Please do not use translators to ask a very specific question. The results, at least for the languages i can read/understand, are useless and not helpful. Some said it´s only to raise their post count :smileysurprised: That is, for me, a major reason to not answer to questions i am not 90% sure my english... is understandable. And to brighten up things a bit. Sometimes a typo made the best time ever, not only the ones done at very private moments Monti ^ THIS and Peggy If you find it difficult to comprehend their question or statement then in all likelihood they are not going to understand your reply due either to not understanding English adequately, a capricious translator or that they can only sp33k l337.

Orca thanks for a really extensive answer and all the useful tips and info. Surprisingly I was surprised by the smoothness of the sim crossings, didn't have one bad crossing all night and only got into problems once when I sailed too close to a private island. I've visited all but one of those shipyards listed and I've been assuming that if a boat's description says it doesn't attach parts to your body then it doesn't and you are free to move around the boat. Would that be correct as a general rule? Once again thanks for your input Orca.

That is just the kind of style yacht I'm leaning towards Wildcat. I'll certainly go check that the LM out and test some when I'm next inworld. Is it the kind of yacht though that if I'm sailing I'm unable to stand up and move around because the yacht is attaching a stackload of prims to me when I'm sailing? I'm guessing from the bench seating that it sits passengers too without them being forced into crew working postions like the racing yachts? Thanks also for the rez point. and err...meow. :smileywink:

Theresa Tennyson wrote: I can't speak to their sailing qualities but Trudeau yachts are absolutely gorgeous if you like an older "classic" feel, which I wouldn't be surprised by what with the top hat and all. Just had a look at their selection. My finger is hovering over the Larinda model am waiting to see if any more suggestions come along, but I do like that one.

Thanks for the tip. If I buy one I shall offer you a trip half a league, half a league, half a league onward, what with your name and all. :smileywink:

Many thanks too Amethyst, I will TP over and check his shop out as soon as I'm inworld. The 100 sim sailing estate that you mention, is that private as in you have to rent or buy land to use the sims or can you become a group member to use them? [ETA] TP'd there and they are great looking yachts, but they seemed to be all for primarily racing and not for some cosy sailing as well. Still, I will buy one of them soon, but will look for the a more passenger accommodating sailing yacht first. Thanks though for the tip Amethyst, will definitely be returning there.

Pussycat Catnap wrote: I mention a number of resources in my blog on SL sailing: http://catnapkitty.wordpress.com/category/second-life/sailing-second-life/ - Some of which will drive you insane in shops with way too many choices. Thank you Pussycat that was a good read and packed with info. I've bookmarked it for future reference. :smileyhappy:

Thanks for the tip Knowl, much appreciated.

Perrie Juran wrote: Sy Beck wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: May I suggest if money is no object, RMS Titanic: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/XP-RMS-Titanic/2782146 However I would be very cautious going out to sea in her. It seems that ice bergs like to float along SIM crossings. Oooh I dunno Perrie, I've heard some really bad feedback on this model; single use and has never done a return trip yet. Plus there are two damned annoying NPCs stuck on the bow. but just think how awesome it would be to watch them fly off as the bow hit a SIM crosssing. and how much shorter that damned movie would have been! Well, if I could have Celine Dion strapped to the anchor it might be a clincher, but I got my heart set on a sailing yacht at the moment.

Perrie Juran wrote: May I suggest if money is no object, RMS Titanic: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/XP-RMS-Titanic/2782146 However I would be very cautious going out to sea in her. It seems that ice bergs like to float along SIM crossings. Oooh I dunno Perrie, I've heard some really bad feedback on this model; single use and has never done a return trip yet. Plus there are two damned annoying NPCs stuck on the bow.

:smileyhappy: Isn't it a BLAST!? I had a couple of DCs, which is really unusual for me so I don't know if that's down to the Blake environment, seemed to happen everytime I picked up a music stream, but meh, we'll see in the future. Best fun I've had in a while.

Venus Petrov wrote: madjim wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: None of the disappearances were done by moderators, unless they've got rid of the moderators and are doing it themselves now. So the author of the disappeared thread, and the writers of the individual posts that disappeared, wouldn't have been informed. But Lexie Linden herself assured us that posts would not be removed without notification and explanation. Are we now to distrust commitments made by Community Managers? Father "Trust in me" Jim That is not entirely true, Father. Lexie said that if one had a post removed due to a violation of a CG, one would be notified by a mod. They also remove posts where the offending post was quoted without telling the author. They will also remove entire threads without informing the OP. One can always ask the mods via PM why something was removed. One will only be informed if the removal was due to a violation. I'm still awaiting a reply from Genn on an outstanding PM asking why a post was deleted.

Being a lazy sod I've just got round to picking up my free Linden boat and have just taken it out onto the Blake. Unbeliveably after nearly 5 yrs in SL it was my first time sailing and in short I'm hooked now. So could any of you dedicated sailors out there recommend a great sailing yacht to buy? Price is no object, it would need to seat min 4 passengers including me, gimmicks and gadgets a plus and be copy/mod. Also can anybody advise me of any popular yachting/sailing groups, good voyages to do, good rez points etc...? /me rushes off to buy an admiral's uniform. P.S. Seems the Linden freebie is going to profit at least one merchant for the time being, spotted a few other Linden boats while out too.

Venus Petrov wrote: This link was posted yesterday as an aid to those seeking resources for various issues. I do not know why it disappeared, but here it is again. Void Singer compiled it with the help of other residents before she left SLF. It is full of very helpful information. Jolly good. I'm not bumping....honest.