Ishtara Rothschild

Make sure that you fluently speak the language of the country. While most people understand a little written English nowadays, you will find it very hard to communicate in spoken English in countries like Spain or Portugal. Also, make sure that you'll be able to make a living there once SL is no more. The technology juggernaut rolls on and stops for no one, and SL is already quite outdated. You can't rely on being able to make a living over the internet. Finally, be prepared for a lower drinking water and food quality (even in Spain, you'll want to use bottled water even for tea and coffee), lower hygiene standards, a generally lower standard of living, higher crime rates, and a sub-par health system. I don't know if the sunny climate can make up for that. ETA: US citizens will probably also find that other countries are less multicultural and more ethnocentric as well as xenophobic. As a "Ruhrpöttler" (Ruhr area dweller), I already find it hard to fit in after I moved to Northern Germany, although I still live in the same country. I can't imagine what it must be like to live in a completely different culture (unless we're talking about a cosmopolitan place like the USA). It might be best to go on an extended holiday trip first, somehwere away from the tourism hubs, and see how welcome you feel as a stranger in a strange land.

What merchants still badly need are the options to turn off automatic sales notification emails and enable item review notifications. As for the customer side: Customers need to be educated about what to do in case of a delivery failure. Right now, the preferred course of action is to leave a negative rating along with a review that says "they took my money and I did not get my item" (which, as mentioned above, merchants are not being informed of). The worst thing is that these are the pretty much the only ratings and reviews we're currently getting. Unlike XStreet, the Marketplace does not remind buyers to rate their purchases, which means that only disgruntled customers bother to find out how to leave a review.

Just do what 90% of the SL population are doing and download Phoenix or Imprudence

I think that's what the JIRA is for. I'm the first one to complain about the decline of LL's customer service, but I can fully understand that they reserve it for paying customers.

If you have payment info on file, you should be able to enter almost all adult regions. There is only a handful of adult sims that requires age verification. By default, account verification is enough.

You only need to age verify (or account verify by adding payment info to your account) if you want to visit adult-rated sims. Sims with a mature / moderate rating don't require age verification. I assume that you will automatically be able to enter them once you turn 18. If not, you should file a support ticket.

If you go ahead and try to buy L$ on the Second Life website, you'll get a list of all payment options that are available in your country. You can always cancel the purchase process if your card is not accepted.

I think what you mean are the seams between sculpted clothing parts and the avatar body, due to the shading of the prims. (Mismatching color is also an issue, but if you use the same texture on both avatar and sculpts, you usually get a pretty good match under all lighting conditions. This is mostly a problem with tinted prims). You can minimize seams by altering the angle in which the sculpt prim surface meets the avatar mesh. Let's take a sculpted sleeve for example. Many sleeves look something like this: The rounded end towards the elbow is bound to create visible seams as in this exaggerated example: If you instead sculpt the sleeve with a pointier end, the part of its surface that blends into the avatar arm will be almost level with the avatar mesh, and the shading will look almost the same: You will never be able to avoid seams completely though, unless you switch to a bright Windlight setting that eliminates all shadows. Of course that will only fix things on your own screen.

You can also take landmarks to get the coordinates, or look at the coordinates in the menu bar of your viewer (I'm not sure if viewer 2 displays this information, but most third party viewers do). The third coordinate measures your height, so you can ignore that. The first two show your position within the sim in meters. Every sim or region is 256 by 256 meters, so the corner points would be 0,0; 256,0; 0,256 and 256,256.

Isn't that a bit like asking for a map of the internet? A map as a navigational tool appears a bit archaic in a world where you can teleport anywhere in an instant. PS: How much of SL's land mass is concentrated on the mainland anyway? With a few exceptions, all the interesting places that I've seen were hosted on private islands.

Kirsten's is basically viewer 2 with proper shadows. Which means that it looks great if your PC meets its immense hardware requirements, but the interface sucks as much as LL's official viewer does. And if you turn off the shadows, it looks as crappy as any other v2-based viewer. If you're used to Emerald, you're best off downloading Phoenix.

Mix Frequency wrote: ...like I am a cheating bitch,... Because everyone knows that bitches cheat all the time, right? If this supposed psychopat [sic] thinks that you are cheating on her, she probably has good reason to assume that the two of you are involved. There are always two sides to a story. Aside from that... who the heck are you, and why do you bother complete strangers with your personal drama? Do you think that's particularly sane behaviour? In my experience, the craziest people are always the drama queens, who feel insulted or persecuted if others as much as look at them.

Yeah, it really is a shame. I'm sure that Omo would agree.

That is definitely a problem with ATI Radeon cards. Some of the checkerboard / star patterns that appear in clouds and on some prims (see screenshot blow) vanished when I disabled the Catalyst A.I. in the video card driver, under "Graphics --> 3D --> All" in the Catalyst Control Center. But I still ran into this graphics bug on occasion. What finally did the trick was an older version of the the Catalyst driver. Uninstall your old Catalyst version and download version 10.9 from the ATI homepage. You can find it under the "previous drivers" link at the bottom of the download page, after selecting your video card and OS. All newer drivers don't seem to work well with SL. PS: Peewee is right that disabling VBO in the viewer also helps with some visual bugs. It has no effect on this weird pattern, but it prevents polygon borkage like this:

I forgot to mention that items are often returned as a single coalesced item, which is indicated by an inventory icon that consists of multiple box symbols. If you find such a coalesced item collection in your Lost & Found folder, rez it out in a sandbox, or on a sky platform above your land if you have enough prims left, and pick the items up one by one. Chances are that your missing items are somewhere in there.

You could try to clear your cache (in the Network tab of the viewer preferences), relog in a low-lag region such as Lime, and wait for your inventory to load. That often helps in case of inventory loss, which is usually just a failure of the viewer to display your complete inventory.

Oops. Sorry, I thoroughly misunderstood you there No offense meant.

Tonk Tomcat wrote: Also ich bin irgendwie ein Honored Resident. Ich hab jetzt nicht wirklich viel geschrieben bisher, nur hier und da mal eine Info gegeben und öfters mal Spam gemeldet, evtl kommt das dadurch? Honored Resident ist der höchste Rang, den man durch reines Posten erlangen kann. Gibt es glaube ich schon für fünf Posts. Wenn du "weiterleveln" und zum Member aufsteigen willst, solltest du im Answers-Forum posten und Punkte für richtige Antworten sowie Kudos-Punkte sammeln.

Außer massenweise ARs an LL zu senden, möglichst mit dem Namen des Original-Accounts und sämtlicher Alts, gibt es nur noch die Möglichkeit, die Sim für Accounts mit dem Status "No Payment Info on File" zu sperren. Das ist leider die einzige Maßnahme, die anonymes Alt-Griefing erfolgreich unterbindet.

You don't want to use viewer 2. Pick an 1.2x-based third party viewer instead, such as Phoenix. That will rid you of most viewer-related bugs.

Did you relog after verifying your age? PS: You can also account verify instead of age verify, simply by buying a small amount of Linden Dollar. You can do that on your account page on the SL website (the "Buy L$" link on the left). If you live in the USA, it's enough to add your credit card or PayPal account as payment information. Account verification will get you into almost all adult areas, except for a few (very few) regions that restrict access to age verified residents only.

Void Singer wrote: in RL I can curse with enough strength to make a german artist cringe, vulgar enough to make a scottish sailor blush, in enough detail to make an irishman pub owner proud, and with enough underlying subtlety to make cherokee casino managers wary.... <snip> It's pretty easy to make a German artist cringe Or any other type of German. Contrary to the widespread opinion about German swearwords, they are actually pretty tame in comparison to English curses. Our worst swearword is a colloquial reference to fecal matter that is deemed quite harmless in the English speaking world. We have nothing that compares to the F-word, or the C-word that ends in "...sucker". Which means that the popular HBO series Deadwood will never be shown on German TV, because every third noun can't be translated. ETA: I've learned so much English from Ian McShane in the role of Al Swearengen Probably 10% of my current vocabulary.

In adult-rated areas (and in M-rated regions too I suppose), the only limits are insults, harrassment, unwanted sexual advances, disclosure of RL information about other residents, and intolerance based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.

John Mahogany wrote in part: I want it to operate at mid---when i set to mid--the graphics in sl look like they are breaking apart. You need to uncheck "Enable OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects" in the graphics preferences of your viewer (in the advanced settings). In addition, you should disable the Catalyst A.I. and OpenGL triple buffering in your Catalyst Control Center, under Graphics --> 3D --> All. That should help with the visual bugs. This is not really an SL issue btw, it's ATI's lack of proper OpenGL support.

I'm afraid that all popular teen hangouts that are mentioned in this thread will soon be overrun by a certain kind of adults, even if the OP is really a teenager.