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Perrie Juran wrote: (snip) Right now, if I should bump into her on the grid, see her with another male avatar, I'd be hard pressed not to warn that individual about her. And yet I would find myself in a catch 22 because as someone pointed out, it is a violation of the TOS to share someone else's age. I could only hope that common sense would prevail at the Lab in a situation like this. IANAL, but based on my understanding of the TOS, I think the only thing you could do if you saw "her" with another male avatar would be to file an AR. Then, in the description section paste the chatlog of your dealings with "her" to support your statement. Someone who is immature and irresponsible enough to either engage in sexual ageplay or actually be underage and seeking cyber is certainly immature enough to AR you for spoiling their fun. I would caution you not to get involved with the individual directly again. LL has set it up so that you pretty much have to stand aside and let whatever is going to happen in that situation happen, aside from filing an AR of course.

Don't worry, LL is very good about taking your money. Just make sure that you have enough of a real world dollar balance in your account and they will deduct it automaticly. Make sure that you do otherwise you will be locked out of your account.

To add to Peggy's already excellent advice (Hi Peggy!), have you made any recent changes to your system such as adding or upgrading any components?

You got it. You are restricted to general rated parcels until you reach the age of 18.

Well... The PM's are gone and Suspiria did not delete them.... Something or someone deleted them. The question is who or what did it, under whose authority, and why? I for one, an quite interested in finding out the answers.

That is very disturbing. I think an even better question is were your (our) PM's being reviewed by LL and if so, why. I would recommend using another platform for any private communication. I know that from now on I sure as heck will.

Hello again! Sorry to hear of your troubles. Don't feel too bad. I often wind up screaming "Why wont you work?!?!" at my screen still. You want to make a script that when touched, puts up a dialog menu that hands out samples? Do you want the script to hand out only one of each sample or do you want it to hand out a certain number (five) of samples total and then derez?

Trewd Acer wrote: Marx Dudek wrote: "they stopped excepting pre paid cards? that is retarded!" It's not. Credit card on file is used as a means to presume that someone is an adult (and able to access Zindra and Adult-rated continents). As a pre-paid Visa debit card can be used by anyone of any age, continuing to accept them puts LL (and you, if you access adult regions) at risk. And pre-paid debit cards likely use a particular series of numbers. Just like a 4xxx number indicates a Visa, 5xxx indicates Mastercard ... one set of numbers (or more) in the sequence is reserved for pre-paids. Then couldn't they just make it so Pre paid credit cards can't give people adult verification? This sucks for us adults who can't get access credit cards or have no interest in owning a credit card Adults who cannot get access to a credit card or do not want a credit card aren't "mainstream". LL has no interest in those sorts of people anymore.

I hope it helps. Let me know how it goes.

You will need to log on to the SL website using your username and password and then look at your transaction history. It will show all transactions and tell you what happened, when it happened, and who you gave what to. Your missing lindens will be listed there.

Hate to break it to you, but **bleep** is sort of the flavor of the month these days. A certain ammount of patience is required when dealing with SL and LL. One can't expect too much. SL is a great place, due to the group of people who have made it their "home". Dealing with this sort of "**bleep**" is sort of what we all have to deal with in order to get to the customer created world that is SL. At the top of this page is a tab titled "knowledge base". Click on that. Once there, you will see at the top right corner of the page a little search bar. Type "age verification" there. One of the first results, or the first will be a link to this page: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Age-verification/ta-p/700021#How_to_become_verified_as_an_adult But... I guess you have a basic account like I do, right? Then yep you are correct, you won't be able to put in a ticket. LL decided that we basic accounts do not receive actual customer support and you can't submit tickets through the support portal (that's why you don't get the stupid tab). If you want their help through that portal you will have to pay them. Otherwise you will just get shuttled over to the knowledge base and here. The first part of the page that link sends you to discusses how to update your payment info and sort of touches on how to adult verify without the support portal but is to be honest, less than perfectly clear. I did a dry run just to see what I would have to do and this is what I found: Try logging into SL's website, and looking at your home page? On the left side under your name there is several options including one labled "account". if you click on that it will expand into a series of options including one for "age verification". I checked this out with my basic account and this still works. There is an application form there. Oh, if you really want a glimpse into all of our futures RL, look into their "partner" Aristotle... Interesting stuff. Aristotle has an advertisement video that is truly amazing. The future is now... (If you shudder just right it looks like you are smiling.) :smileyhappy:

Yep... That sounds about right. And that's the main reason that TPV's are so popular.

Oh, I see. In that case you could increment the touchcount integer at the same time you perform the inventory give ie. /blah blah blah { llGiveInventory (stuff...); touchcount++; } That way, it only increases the value of the integer when something is given. You could still have the same if/then at the bottom of the entire event to clean things up once the proper number of inventory gives was accomplished.

I have always thought that selling freebies is improper. If nothing else, it would probably open a big ol' can of worms and cause you more grief than the lindens that you would gain would be worth. It would be impossible to predict the original creator of each freebie's reaction. Some won't care, others would completely lose their <bleeping> minds. Even if you tracked down and got the permission and blessing of each freebie creator, the average passerby wouldn't know that. The term "appearance of impropriety" comes to mind. Even if you were "in the clear" you certainly would not look that way. a lot of folks, including myself, would tend to assume that anyone that they saw selling known freebies is a bit of a sleezeball. It would probably cause a lot more trouble than it is worth. I have always felt that when I mod a freebie, the result should also be a freebie. That is sort of a grey area there though. I guess it would depend on how much of a change you made to the original. If you made a significant enough change that your mod is essentially a new creation, then it would not be that much more effort to make a whole new one from scratch and avoid any future problems. (edited to add: I guess "dollarbies" (1 l$) freebie packs are ok or at least common enough as to not cause too many raised eyebrows. )

I would recommend defing a global integer (one defined at the very beginning of the script) for the total number of llGiveInventory functions. Then each time you you give someone a sample, you increment that variable. At the end of the event handler that triggers the inventory transfers ( in this case touch) place a simple if statement that will trigger the llDie() once the limit has been reached. Be sure to place this statement at the end of the event so that the final inventory transfer will be completed. Example // really basic cause I'm feeling a bit lazy integer maxtouch = 5 ; // this sets the total number of touches at 5 integer touchcount = 0; default { state entry () { //blah blah blah... code and stuff... } touch_start (integer num_detected) { touchcount ++; //this increases the integer touchcount by 1 // This is where you do all the inventory transfers and whatnot... once you are finished if (touchcount == maxtouch) llDie(); } } Something like that would work. Once touchcount = maxtouch, the llDie() will be performed and the item and everything in it will go poof.

If they honestly think that is where their future lies then they are even bigger fools than I thought and that's saying something.

The short answer is no, you can't. To elaborate, SL usernames are unique identifiers and can't be transferred or re-used. You cannot "legally" buy or sell a username. if you do, don't tell anyone about it because if LL finds out, the banhammer will fall...

Everyone else pretty much covered it well but I would like to add that a video card that would be adaquate (perhaps not the absolute best) for SL can be had fairly reasonably most places. It does not take a top of the line card to be able to enjoy SL. Even a cheap one will be of some use.

YES!!! Exactly!

You make an interesting point. Grey areas are fun aren't they?

Right, buying land on the mainland as opposed to private regions. But, aren't most sales of private region land essentially "leases" where the original "seller" can evict and recliam the "purchased" land if they so chose unless, of course, someone bought an entire region? Thanks for the clarification. That was a distinction that I needed to make in my original post.

The big difference between premium and basic membership is the ability to buy land. There are a few extra perks that they include in a premium membership (stipends) but the trickle of lindens you get back does not even come close to the cost of the membership so I don't really consider them. As a basic member you can buy and sell lindens. You can create buy and sell content. You can age-verify and to to adult places if that is your desire. You can do anything a premium member can do, except buy land. As a basic member, you can rent land, shops, residences, pretty much anything you want to, but you can't "buy" it. Do bear in mind that even if you "buy" land here in SL, you still have to pay a regular maintenance cost or "tier". The "tier" costs of land ownership can be significant so be sure to look into them before you make any decisions. I also recommend looking into what will happen if you fall short and don't pay your tier on time as opposed as to what will happen if you don't pay your inworld rent. As a premium member, the first 512 square meters of land is free from tier costs. You can also get a "linden home" which is one of those 512 squ meter parcels with a place already on it if you choose. I would recommend, especially if you are new, to look at the costs of a premium membership and compare that with what you can get if you used that same money to buy lindens. Compare rental costs with the costs of purchasing land, paying tier, and maintiaining the premium membership. So, long story short, unless you want to buy land there is no difference between the two accounts except you pay for one and don't pay for the other. I used to have a premium membership and scaled back to a basic membership and to be honest, I really don't miss the premium membership at all and wind up spending less on SL and I am every bit as happy with my experience as I was before. If you are just starting out, I would not be in a hurry to get a premium membership. Just play SL and have fun. When (or if) you ever feel the need for a premium membership you can always get one later.

I love cheese almost but not quite as much as I love LL... thankies! (looks at your nice blue letter jacket and sighs... "one day I will make the team... one day...I will be an M") I do like my fellow residents enough that I don't mind helping out even if LL does get some benefit... gags....

Dude! You do know that this is a public forum and you just posted a picture of your passport for the entire freaking world to see, right? You might want to edit that part out (immediately) since this is not the place to submit it. If you go to the knowledge base and search for age verification, you will be directed to this link that I have included below for your convenience. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Age-verification/ta-p/700021#How_to_become_verified_as_an_adult Buried in that pile of B.S. is the paragraph that I have included below on how to submit your information: What happens if I experience problems when I try to verify my identity? We are committed to making sure the process is as smooth and user-friendly as possible; however, we understand that this represents a change for Residents. We have also tested the system extensively with our systems provider, Aristotle-Integrity, which has delivered this type of technology to other companies. If you are a Premium or Concierge customer and you continue to have problems verifying your identity, please go to the Second Life Support Portal and submit a ticket. Please attach an electronic (scanned) copy of one of a Government issued identification that has your name and date of birth clearly displayed. This identification could be one of the following: Birth Certificate Driver's License Passport State or National ID To attach a file to your ticket: Log into the Second Life Support Portal and click the My Support History tab. Click the Ticket # of the age verification ticket you submitted. Click the Comment button. Click the Attach a file link. Browse for the file on your computer and click Open. To attach another file, click the Attach another file link. Click the Submit button. The files you specified will be uploaded and attached to the ticket. Please expect manual verification to take 5-7 working days. Good luck on your SL travels, have fun, and be safe.

oooh why oh why did you not post this back in the old GD forum? Such a waste... You know.. there are so many rank happy folks out there that if you were to go and post this exact question in the Answers forum I bet that several folks would kill themselves trying to answer such an open ended question. In fact, please please please do that so we can watch the reaction (Edited to add: I promise that I will give your question a kudo if you do it. )