Ciaran Laval

A documentary that was developed in association with Second Life has received an emmy nomination. The virtual mine exists in Second Life and is used by educators. More information from Hamlet Au over at New World Notes. http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/07/deep-down-second-life-virtual-mine-emmy-nomination.html

Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: Grid Survey says mainland is 6401 regions. Seems like a math error somewhere. Thanks, not all Linden owned regions need to be mainland but I agree, there is a maths error somewhere.

Peggy Paperdoll wrote: I agree........... Jesus Christ! I'm screen shotting this for posterity!

Peggy Paperdoll wrote: I don't know where you got those numbers. The most comprehensive grid information I have ever found is: http://gridsurvey.com/index.php No where that I could find did anything get broken down by regions for sale. It is broken down by parcels and square meters.........did you do some crazy math to come up with regions? I want to see some credible source..........otherwise it's just BS. Best stat site around, even Lindens have been known to point people to it for info. Tyche is a legend. However, even without that site, there's no way there are over six thousand mainland sims for sale, there may be land for sale in six thousand mainland sims, but there's no way there are six thousand full mainland sims for sale.

Dogboat Taurog wrote: could be, mainland was worth something a long time ago. Even allowing for that, mainland holdings are generally spread between different folk, unlike estate land, there's no way there are over 6,000 mainland regions for sale.

Maryanne Solo wrote: I've been saying it ever since I joined and in no way will I EVER buy land until the price drops by about three quarters of it's current level. (half? maybe just maybe...) Neither will I return to my previous level of enthusiasm in making original items until this happens. I assume you're talking about tier costs, because the sale price of land has never been lower since I joined in 2007. I put in a ticket the other week to buy some abandoned land next to my current land and was charged L$1 per metre, that's overpriced these days, when I started in 2007 L$10 - L$15 per metre was common.

TriJin Bade wrote: Mainland regions for sale: 6502 Are you sure? There are only 6883 Linden owned regions on the grid, there's no way that 6502 of them are for sale.

DarkMoon Lilliehook wrote: Friendly greetings... A warning to all of you out there: While requesting support from a UK company in SL that produces items for businesses in SL I had to wait over a month to get a reply which was incomplete and unprofessional. They state tickets get answered within 2-5 days. After putting in another question to their support ticket system and waiting for over a week i wanted to check on the ticket and had to find myself suspendet from their website. This company gets over 15000 L$s each month from me for a subscription to a webbased group system. This is one of the worst support i ever received. Acting like this is totally unprofessional and i see no other choice than warning all of you about their services. 1. The original guy has merged the company with another guy and has taken a back seat. 2. They made support low priority for those not paying for support several months ago.

There's an "Allow anyone to copy" option, you may have accidentally set that, look here for a screenshot: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Permissions-on-objects/ta-p/700129

I don't really see how a new product forum is much different to an events forum, which we now have. I don't know why they don't have a classifieds forum either, with restrictions on how often you can post. As for advertising in the forum, people use signatures to advertise, sure you can turn that off, just as you can choose not to read the forums that contain advertising.

There isn't one, there should be though.

Sassy Romano wrote: The value of mall spots is in advertising and brand building and yes that mall spot might be a cost but so is an adboard which are hugely expensive for what they offer. Typically L$200 a week for a single ad! You can rent 20 prims in many malls for the same. Indeed, it's brand awareness and checking whether people are coming to your main store from the mall is an extremely sensible thing to do, with a small store in a mall you can give a much better demonstration of your wares than an adboard delivers, of course if you aren't getting those clickthroughs then it can become a waste of money, the one thing you can't measure is whom sees your items in a mall and then checks out your mainstore based on noting your details from the items created.

Void Singer wrote: and 4 years ago there were no plans... because at that time, they didn't have enough control of content to sell the idea. The line they regularly used was "There are no immediate plans", they had plans to allow the minors in officially.

You're going to want to look at starting and stopping animations, a good starting point is llStartAnimation: http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llStartAnimation Take note of the good practice of using llGetPermissions and there's a link to an example there too.

http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llGetNotecardLine

Phil Deakins wrote: Darrius Gothly wrote: They're moving to a new system based on the SOLR packaging of the Lucene search engine. Ah. I assume that's one of the open source ones? Do you know if they are using it for the classifieds tab? In the new viewer it all looks like it's using the new system.

Nya Linden wrote: That said, we've found that when people are confronted with ads that are just a bunch of keywords, they are less likely to click on them. We really encourage advertisers to use human-friendly language, as it will raise the likelihood that when people see your ad, they will actually teleport there. Whether you want to use a single ad with a high price or many cheaper ads, keyword stuffing ends up working against you in the long run. Have you got any evidence for this? When you cut the amount of characters back to 256, you seriously nerfed the human readable aspect of classifieds, you've made it little better than a tweet. I understood why it was done, but it seriously nerfed human readable adverts. I much prefer writing human readable adverts, I have always tried to do that, they are more fun for me and the person reading them.

I love flickr, I used it for all sorts related to Second Life: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23556228@N08/ As for groups, the biggest flickr group I know of is the Second Life group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/secondlife/ Very quiet group but it has potential is Second Life Fantasy Photography, this group is mainly aimed at fantasy roleplayers: http://www.flickr.com/groups/slfantasy/ A busier group is Second Life Snapshot Journals: http://www.flickr.com/groups/76949973@N00/ Last but not least, there's You Were Here At Torley Island: http://www.flickr.com/groups/here/

Phil Deakins wrote: Anaiya Arnold wrote: That would be bad enough, but trotting out this arrogant, high handed and insulting nonsense about "educating us" (punitively) while refusing to supply such basic and obviously necessary information, truely takes the cake. I'm not in agreement with your comment about "educating" customers. To be fair to LL, people do need to be educated to put things where they belong instead of where they don't belong and a good way to do it is to have the customer redo the listing. It's a very good way of learning. Otherwise, some people will seek to gain an advantage by listing in the wrong places. What is *really* bad is not telling people the correct places to list their delisted items. Having to redo a listing is "education" enough. I read Anaiya's point as saying there's not enough information to educate people, rather than suggesting people shouldn't be educated.

I'm working with llEmail for a project, what concerns me is that llGetNextEmail looks for the next matching email so llGetNextEmail(address, "Some Subject"); What happens if, for some reason, my prim is receiving emails from elsewhere, would the email queue just fill up and if that is the case, is it therefore better just to leave the strings blank?

the latest viewer 2 with new search seems to list them in price order, which viewer are you using?

You need to make a texture, Gimp is a good free program for this but I suggest you read the wiki on texturing tools: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Texture_Tools This may look daunting at first but it really isn't and once you've made a couple of signs you'll be happy.

Asking how to make the picture and put writing on the picture. Thanks very much for your response.

You don't need to set the box for sale, it's best not to as otherwise it will be set for sale when the customer rezzes the box. I would set the box perms the same as the contents, this avoids confusion for the customer.

Paladin Pinion wrote: So on most systems, you have a bunch of form letters on the side of your screen, and you send the one that fits. You just have to click on it, and it addresses itself and sends automatically. You have thus informed the person what's wrong, and the form letter explains what they need to do to correct it. You do this in the minute or two you have available to assess the issue and respond, and then you move on to the next one. Dakota mentions "limited resources". I know what that means, I've been there. It means there are only a few people available and there isn't time to go look up the appropriate category, open the form letter for editing, and type into it. There just isn't. If you spend even a few extra minutes on each one, you're immediately backlogged. The solution of course is to hire more people for the work. But that would mean you, the customer, would either have to pay higher tier, or the customer base would have to expand. I don't suppose you'd want to pay someone's salary, but you could perhaps encourage others to buy land or expand your own. Personally, I'd be happy with the form letter and I'd opt for extra programmers instead. But that's just me. I've worked in support for many years, the answer isn't always more staff, one of the questions that needs to be answered is why are people doing this. in this case, this being putting items in the "wrong" category. Once you start to answer the question you have the possibility of going to prevention mode, which in turns means less support tickets on the subject, which in turn frees time for your staff to do other things. Now there was a recent example of the problems of how this wrong category works, someone had listed their item in a perfectly suitable category, but there was another equally suitable category, in circumstances such as that the right thing to do is surely change the category and inform the person, rather than delisting. In answering the question of why that item was in the "wrong" category, the answer is simple, it appears to be the right category. Dakota has mentioned above that work is needed with regards to the categories, so they understand why it's happening, but the current delisting solution isn't satisfactory when there is more than one logical category, when it's a clear case of being in the wrong category, a house in the clothing category, then sure, delisting is the thing to do.