[How many of you try to make your avatar look like your offline selves?]

When i first started in SL i wanted to look like me and tried to make myself look like me but that soon went out the window the moment i discovered red prim hair i only stuck with shape eye and skin colour although i made myself tall because i didn't want to be as midget sized as RL. I remember there was once a service where you could have your RL self made in to a skin even if it still existed there's no way i'd inflict my ugly mug on the grid

[Issue with shoes]

1 minute ago, janetosilio said:

On a side note do those stores that made really good prim shoes back in the day like Deborah’s still exist? Even on MP?

I have seen Deborah's and Shelly Laufer prim made shoes on the markeplace in the last few months and and lots of people trying to flog those awful full perm freebie store "Ronjas" shoes

[How does your avatar look today ?]

Feeling festive in fair isle, Santa wasn't best pleased with the reindeer antlers he thought i'd nicked them off one of his reindeer

[help please, newbie can't rez item]

1 hour ago, CharlieCooper said:

fantastic info folks thank you. So I guess I need to buy another property really.

Before you go to the expense of buying a larger parcel look as see if you can find areas you could do what i call "eprimamising" it's quite easy to find furniture items that when not in use occupy a single pim/1Li or you could source a lower LI home (if you are not in a Linden home) if your home and/or furniture is copy/mod you could always try getting rid of some unnecessary prims/Li (which may be slightly advanced for a newbie) if it goes wrong you can always rezz a fresh version and start over. if reducing your prim usage is a no go by all means find a larger parcel

[What are you doing today!? :D]

Doing the food shop, such a shame i couldn't fit in to the cosy coupe car

[How to use old skin with new mesh body]

7 hours ago, VeronicaVelvet said:

Hi I have a really old skin made by Linden (newbietemplate Linden) the account is from 2002- 15years old. that says it is able to mod and copy and I want to use it on a Maitreya mesh body. Can I do this and is it not infringing on someones copyright? ? Is there a way to do this? If so can i be directed to a place where i can get instructions on how to do this? I would be sooooo grateful thank you *hugs*

 

also if it could be used on another mesh body would work too Slink or whatever. Thanks

It is possible to adjust the body colour in the HUD when i was using an old skin, i demoed the body and using the closest pre-set skin tone then used the 'colour picker' to fine tune the body's skin to perfectly match mine, Slink has a skin tone HUD too so you can adjust the body skin to yours but i found i couldn't get it to go pale enough but will work out well if you are more tan

[How did SL gain its "bad" reputation?]

Before i joined in '08 SL had already been given a bad rep by the media as a place where paedophiles would hang out at virtual playgrounds with kid av's. but on the other side through true life magazines and magazine programs it was seen as a place for dating as people told their stories of how they met via SL but got married and had children in RL

[How to use old skin with new mesh body]

Depending on the colour of the skin you should be able to match the colour of the body via a hud i know it was possible on the physique body and the reason i ruled it out as i couldn't get a close match to the skin i was using

[The VaNiTy ThReAd]

Finally ditched upgraded the classic body

Body/hands/feet: Maitreya
Hair: [e] - Terryn
Dress Pixicat @ C88
Shoes: ChicChica @ C88
 

 

[What is your favorite OLDIE hair?]

I have 4-5 hairs that i used to have on regular rotation for a few years before discovering  L$50 Fridays hair these two that i wore most often are both Elikatira, if i remember right Pretend and Changes. 

[Free Alatmura Head - Omega?]

7 hours ago, Clover Jinx said:

It's not the only gift at Chapter Four, so the 10L isn't a waste. Almost every booth has a gift. I haven't had time to go through them all but they range from hair to shoes to poses so far.

Must make time to have a proper browse when the sim is less packed.

 

1 hour ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

I got in yesterday on my first try.  Don't know if demand dropped for a minute or if my Premium status helped - I didn't bother checking to see how full the sim actually was.

I didn't see the sim go above 41av's i'm not premium and managed to get in on 40 after a few tries thought it would be lot harder to get in to on opening day

[Free Alatmura Head - Omega?]

Grabbed this head before i had to log yesterday (didn't time to try it) had i seen it was more or less a demo i don't think i would have wasted my time and L$10 joining the group to get it

[Signing into account page]

If you type secondlife.com in to the address bar it will either take you to the homepage or if you are logged in to your account, your account dashboard

[In SL do you rent your home in a themed community?]

I don't live in a themed community as such but since all bar my 1024sqm and two 512sqm's worth of land in the sim is abandoned i guess the theme would be Barren, Bare, Abandoned etc. Nearest i've been to living in an actual themed community was in "Free land" (Trilegy) and all the mainland sims that made up the free land had huge multi storey apartment buildings to live in or a mansion you could have a room in if you didn't want to rezz your own building

[How to purchase Maitreya Lara mesh body]

9 hours ago, Naomeny said:

Does anybody know if Maitreya makes discounts on their products at Christmas or something? 

 

Doubt they would i think it's only retired products that get discounted, normal price on the occasions i've been to the store the body was L$2750 and there was always people crowded round the display 

[How does your avatar look today ?]

17 hours ago, AnnistynSL said:

Sorry sorry sorry. For the people who liked this, It's not a picture I made. It's really done on this link . My pics and photoshop are really not this good 

That site is awesome

Not coming to a record shop near you any time soon lol

 

The jacket @Marianne Little posted was so gorgeous i had to hunt it out no alpha included but the fitmesh size only alpha-d by something i was wearing prior works really well on a classic body

 

 

[Would you go back to your first mesh body?]

For the time being till i have enough save in my alt i'm still using the classic body having demoed all the most popular bodies i decided on going Maitreya partly because it was the only body i could use out of the box with my old skin until i'd want to invest time skin shopping, partly because the HUD was easy to use partly because i liked how the body looked in relation to my current shape 

[Anyone use the N-Phone from Neurolabs? Looking for a review or something...]

 

14 hours ago, Moraxo said:

So which one in the store should I be looking at?

Is this basic one the hud you mention? the description sounds similar https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AKEYONanoAOFemaleBOX/3735359

If you want dance animations too that hud linked won't be enough you will need one of the full AO's i currently use https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AKEYOPowerAOGianaWildBOX/6621023 and previously used https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AKEYOPowerAOKimChanBOX/1375885 

[Anyone use the N-Phone from Neurolabs? Looking for a review or something...]

7 hours ago, Moraxo said:

 I've seen the stuff from Akeyo mentioned a few times now but aside from that I'm clueless lol

If you just want a hud that does AO and dance Akeyo is a really good option any animations you buy in store whilst wearing the AO HUD are automatically added to the HUD any animations you buy elsewhere you rezz the HUD inworld and drop them in contents in edit mode and they are automatically configured to work

[Avatar Pushes Me After Derender]

Assuming no blocking and de-rendering/blacklisting is going on, unless something new has come along as best i know it's possible to be visibly completely invisible (nothing not even name tag on show) all you want but you are never invisible to mini-map, radars, chat, bumps, pushes & hits log or anything that logs your presence in a sim. When i was still allowed in Linden Realms it was not uncommon in the lucrative sims to see or rather not see an incognito Av sat in prime position to block the maximum number of crystals from rezzing unlucky for them they were always visible on mini-map and/or my radar would say xyz resident has entered chat range 

[lumiya removed from third party viewer directory?]

I've used Lumiya quite a few times since it's stopped appearing in the TPV to quickly check an alt's balance see how much i've saved towards a planned purchase and it's showing up as available to download in my library on a new Android device. I have seen a few people pop-up in, in-world groups wondering why Lumiya's not on the list but not yielded any insight. I do hope it's not the end for the app as it's the only SL app for Android that's worth bothering with

[How does your avatar look today ?]

Fuelling up for the SL day

[How is piano normally positioned?]

I think because it's SL it doesn't matter too much where the piano is positioned as long as it's placed somewhere any included animations that place you on or around the piano don't place you in a wall, outside your property or anywhere you don't want to be 

[restart of Mainland]

You can wait for the weekly restarts Main channel sims Tuesdays RC channel sims Wednesdays or request a restart through a support ticket/live chat. if you think the sim is at blame.

[LL is sitting on a gold mine]

41 minutes ago, Phil Deakins said:

Do you mean selling land in the auction with a starting price of 1L per sqm.? If that's what you mean, don't they do it now?

ETA: Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing any purple-coloured land for a long time.

A couple of months ago land in a neighbouring sim to mine was auctioned off definitely purple on map around the time some near by land a store was on in my sim got reclaimed and abandoned, the most that's happened in the sim since is all but 512sqm of abandoned land as far back as 2010 got consolidated in to one lot of abandoned land so lucky or not all the land around me and in direct border sims is either abandoned or protected