BilliJo Aldrin

The friendships. Having said that, why would I search out cheesy mountain views in SL when I'm only an hours drive from the Blue Ridge. Even the most amazing Sansar experience (no i refuse to visit) could in no way compare..... blistered feet, sunburn, biting insects, danger of falling and dying, there is so much missing from any virtual experience. It's a cheap cheesy copy of reality, nothing more.

When they bring in death panels, I want the full 20 minutes when its my time to go.

You are the one making assumptions not me. I was speaking only for myself.

Fantasies played out in SL are much safer than in RL and if you really immerse yourself in the experience, it can be quite intense, and seem quite real. As for a walk in the wood in RL vs SL , or enjoying a mountain vista, I'll take RL every time. What I can do in RL, I do in RL, what I can't do in RL, I do in SL.

actually i thought they liked comparing sansar to RL... those long vistas, distant waterfalls, feeling totally overwhelmed by the scenery.... naw still no comparison... I'll just hop in my car and experience it in RL. Just imagine in a few years though... hey kids we aren't gonna go on a trip out west, i got us some vr headsets, we'll just do a virtual tour instead.... ummmm.... no

***deleted*** so I'll just say..... Have a nice day

And that brings up my biggest beef about mainland. On my sim, there's my "club" which has never had more than 10 people there at once, there's a popular furry club which often hosts events which draw maybe up to 20 guests, usually closer to a dozen and the rest are private homes, or low use fetish clubs. However there are parcels for sale, one being a 4096. I always worry that someone could buy it, build an afk s e x club, then fill it with 30 afk avatars, effectively destroying the use of the sim for me and for the furry club. Is it fair? No, not really. Is it allowed? No, not really. But to AR the club and get satisfaction would require a certain amount of concerted effort on my part and on the part of other parcel ownrs affected

Yes but, you effectively blocked anyone new from buying land on the sim, since no one would buy land on a sim that has 36 bots parked on it. With your system, you basically reserved the whole sim for your own personal use. So, yes, I object to that. Want the resources of a full sim? Then go buy a full sim.

If you didn't own the whole sim, it seems then that you were the mainlands worst nightmare, making it so that only 3 or 4 people could get on the sim at any one time. I would hope that you were reported many times for hogging sim access. Of course it wouldn't have affected me, since if i was looking to buy land, seeing all your bots parked at your place, I'd have kept on looking.

Either way they are fooling themselves using unregistered bots or alts to boost traffic numbers. Inworld search sorts by traffic, a place with inflated numbers is easily determined once you tp in either from a search , or looking at clusters of dots on the map. I'm more annoyed when a club hogs mainland access by putting 20 alts on their parcel, thus limiting sim access to real people. That is a far bigger issue to me than gaming traffic counts.

Thank you, that's my point, why do people go on and on about whether an alt parked in a skybox is a bot or not, both affect traffic counts in the same way, both are either allowed, or not, which ever the rules say. Of course this thread isn't about search results, it's about dots on maps. So, since my club isn't listed in search, I could put 10 alts at my place, and people might be drawn to the cluster of dots on the map, looking for some place active

Almost every knot of avatars on the map is a bunch of alts. I go to clubs all the time, cam up, and go, oh alts, byeeeee. I really think there's maybe 10,000 "real" people logged in at one time, 80% of that 50,000 people concurrency are probably traffic gaming alts

Oh, so it I wanted to inflate numbers at my club, there's no reason to have bots,? I'd just log in 10 alts on 10 copies of a chat client? That's how it works?

Then I guess I'll post my brilliant plan to combat man made global warming someplace else.

Yes but isn't a bot still an avatar? Doesn't it use up just as many resources as an alt logged in? 10 alts sitting on a platform at a club 24/7 to inflate traffic numbers are NOT being used as LL intended

Is it okey to derail this thread then?

So what's the difference between bots and alts logged in on a text client to boost traffic numbers?

and of course after google or facebook ban all adult content, whats left of SL will quickly wither and die

prims and sculpties for mine but I suppose mesh could work too

I think I'm gonna start a thread called "building small" for people to show of what they can accomplish with modest sized parcels. One doesn't have to throw away $350 US a month to have a satisfactory land owning experience.

It could be worse, they could be running Lumiya on a tablet.

What I find funny is avatars that state in their profiles that one must activate a particular windlight setting to see them "properly" Like seriously? You think I care?

So are your tenants playing the game? I'm confused here. I'd guess yes, or else your tenants wouldn't know they were being aggressively targeted. It's really not your job to chase off EC players that are targeting your EC playing tenants.

jellydolls r yer friend

If one doesn't want to be tracked on the internet one should just not get online, oh and while they are at it, they should get rid of their cell phone too, every move move they make can be tracked. Of course, when one has to go to a doctor, every facet of your health info is stored, "securely" of course, but all data is available if the price is right. Credit cards, same thing. You could opt to go cash only, but then you run the risk of being pulled over and having your big wad of cash confiscated as "possibly earned from selling drugs". But, that's a whole other (RL) topic for discussion