Prokofy Neva

The difference is that the lease of an island is really more expensive. You have to pay the purchase price on many islands, and then the tier, and these are higher than mainland, because the owners have $295 month tier instead of $195 tier. So you will simply have less cost even paying tier directly to Linden Lab for mainland -- if you get a mainland rental you will have the lowest cost of all. But with land so dirt cheap now there are good deals for far less than the full island price that are still nice. Islands are isolated. If you can't expect to be found in search, it doesn't hurt to get near other people especially a shopping area, but it depends on the goals.

I've been in business on the Mainland for six years with a rentals and content business, and I love it. But mainland isn't for the faint of heart. No land purchase in Second Life is "an investment". It is like a boat: a hole in the Internet into which you pour money. Or, it's a business expense -- really costly server rental. You don't say whether you want to put up a rentals or a store or what. If you find the right sim -- a pretty sim where the view is fairly stable -- you might get some nice rentals going but you can't charge island prices. I think starting a business is better on the mainland because you have the additional factor of fly-bys and serendipity and also working with neighbours to make things work that you don't get on an island. The rolling restarts happen just about every other day. If the sim seems to lag out you can call Concierge if you own 1.5 or more sims and ask for a restart. Or even as a premium customer try putting in a ticket. I think mainland gives you more flexibility. You can buy smaller sizes and you can sell it at least for something, although not what you paid, if you are done. Islands are big and you have to deal with all or nothing.

It doesn't just violate the spirit of the rule against ad farms, it violates the letter of two rules: o you can't sell on Linden Land o you can't have more than X number of ad signs on one sim -- and these are each mobile ad signs. The Lindens who are backing these because of some beloved stress testing or something need to weigh this alleged boon against the harassment and diminishment of Second Life for other people. If the Lindens need a stress test, they could script their own vehicles better and be willing to have them not go on certain sims.

I believe it doesn't exist anymore. It was a project run for awhile and then perhaps the people got busy or couldn't pay tier, not sure. I used to have it in my list of landmarks for the U.S. at the International Bazaar, but I found the same thing you did, I teleported there and it was gone. If you go there in Ross at the infohub there, into the building with all the tables and displays you can pick up the landmarks card and see a few other sites, but I think several others now are also defunct including virtual Harlem.

Everyone should AR them: o they are selling products on Linden Land -- the cars are for sale and have a scripted popup that tells you to buy them -- that's not allowed, selling on Linden Land o they use up region resources -- dozens of them carom across sims all day long o they crash into avatars -- this is bumping, and is against the TOS o they go on other people's property and often crash and stay there -- this is encroachment and trespassing o they are about one resident using public resources intended for all, to the detriment of the enjoyment of SL by others So they involve many offenses, and the Lindens who may be permitting this under the notion that this gives them free stress-testing on sim seams or something should take a step back and ask why they are inflicting this on the population who pay them tier.

Mainland is for everybody. That's what's great about it. It is open to the public. There are no ban lines on the Linden roads and byways through the water, although it can get rough with the security orbs. Even so, there is a basic openness and geographical contiguity.

I like the Linden dams of course: o Sutherland o Ganymede o Barton (are there any others? I don't think so). Also like Linden bridges, i.e. the one going from Maryport. Lately I have to say my favourite hangout are the icebergs on Ice Bay (Kara, next to Refugio). Of course, all the Nautilus, Pyri, etc. Linden builds are great. Nautilus is just great to stroll through on a Sunday afternoon. Still like all the crystal gardens, etc. -- and that drill-bore sort of site in Nautilus that is one of the Magellan sites. The one place I never get tired of is the Iris Moth Temple. I tend the infohub next to that built by Jessica Ornitz which is in the SL Public Land Preserve. Really, all the Mainland places have a unique special feel to them. I haven't had as much time lately to see the newer ones out in the new continents (and to me "new" is anything that is newer than what I used to call "the new continent" which is Heteroetcetera or whatever it's called, which I always call "The Atoll Continent"). I've been staring mournfully at Salazar's abandoned land lately, the areas that lost the builds in some kind of tidal wave.

Well, I give y ou a quote from none other than the founder and first CEO of Second Life, Philip Rosedale: "I'd say, stay on the mainland: the idea of clustering and the magic spell of working with your neighbors is just a great appeal." Philip Linden 7-7-06 Town Hall

If you don't find the things batched into a bunch in your inventory, i.e. sort by latest and pull out the last few objects, they can be clustered together, then go to view/preferences/ and general page and clear cache the relog and wait patiently while everything loads again, it might flush back in.

You have to go into view/preferences/graphics check off "custom" and then add the shadows.

This is definitely, definitely caused by Viewer 2.x Many people will argue with you about it; take my word for it, it is most definitely the cause. Switch to viewer 1.23 on the downloads page, or get a third-party viewer.

I believe it's your anti-virus program. That often interferes with SL. You may have to disabled the AV program temporarily in order to log on to SL.

I wonder first of all about the technicalities. Is the friendship list a thing that is "a load" on the database? Are calls to it "expensive"? that is, does merely loading its long dead tail each time I log on creating lag for me or the whole system? If so, then I'd be happy to be mandated to prune it. I used to try to put things in folders -- events, customers, builders, actual friends, etc. But it got hopeless and I gave up. So many people friend me because they are worried that they might need something in their rentals and can't tell if I'm online or not that they friend me for that reason alone. I always tell them not to fret, IMs in fact *don't* cap if in fact you tie them to offline email so they shouldn't needlessly friend. Even so, I let anyone who wants to friend, wny not? The result, however is hundreds of cards, quite a few useless. And of course people who tend to abuse the cards to force-TP you to clubs and mall openings. As for "actual friends" I just can't see removing them on some time schedule or some "activity" basis. For example, recently an old friend returned to SL after a 4-year hiatus. I was able to see she suddenly logged on and visit her. And that's a great thing to keep -- why not? It's like an old-fashioned telephone book where you have written in your friend's numbers. You wouldn't have gone through and crossed out the friend or torn out the page merely because you didn't hear from them for awhile. Why this urge to delete online, in the pixel version? So unless someone tells me that it is somehow "healthy" for SL to prune this list, I won't!

Good reporting job. And good that you didn't zoom in on some of the pictures as they were obscene and gross and that would get your film removed from here. But it's important to keep documenting this. Don't be fooled by the fake "Stop Racism" hippie-style sign you see spewing -- other pictures this griefer spewed are indeed racist and of course obscene and broadly offensive. Among the many broadly-offensive memes spewed is my real-life picture : ) It's pretty creepy being summoned by tenants agitated by a grief attack only to be greeted by a giant RL picture of yourself flashing over a sim. Not for the first time, but it's always a shock. There's a tendency to view these attacks as just random, just bored young kids. That's not the case. They're from Anonymous, and they are very concerted, organized and there are perfectly grown men behind them. Their purpose is to control the Internet, so it is only used as they feel it should be used, and not in any other way. It really is a case of "they hate our freedom" when it comes to the creativity of virtual worlds that can be used for socializing, education and business. These pictures are assembled by very definite groups in SL, LL knows who they are, there are very definite texture UUIDs, there are very specific vaults of these textures and scripts used in attacks which are held by a number of main accounts for whom these are the alts, there are very specific groups on the alts --even the alt names all help identify them. The Lindens are swift for the most part in removing them. But we all know that there are certain groups/sims they don't remove which are the root of this. I personally find it helpful to remind the Huffington Post's Ken Lerer, an investor, and now Ron Conway, noted early Google investor, that their investment in Canvas by Moot is part of what enables this sort of Anonymous attack to continue. Moot is the owner of the 4chan.org site (made an advisor in Lerer's company), and 4chan.org is the source and repository -- and incitement and coordination zone -- for a lot of these attacks in SL and elsewhere. The support by Silicon Valley investors of these goons' "creativity" and the ensuing whitewashing of their reputation enables them to go on harassing others under the radar and harming other people's businesses. If every business harmed by these sorts of Anonymous attacks wrote to Ken Lerer and Ron Conway about their unwise investment decisions, we might see some change. Little else would work. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/technology/internet/14poole.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Ken%20Lerer&st=cse

Group finances only process in the Second Life system only once every 24 hours. So you will see it in your account tomorrow. Make sure that you only have alts in a group like this because if you sell land with members in it, the money distributes equally and automatically to every member of the group. So look on all your accounts for your money. Also MAKE SURE to go to the website www.secondlife.com under your accounts and find LAND and GROUP LAND and *lower your tier*. The system will NOT do this for you automatically. It assumes that the tier you made available to that group remains in use. So you have to physically remove it out of the group, and then go on the website and tier down to the next level, or you will be banged with another bill for that tier level. Hopefully you will do all this before your tier date hits. You are always billed for the highest amount you had for that month. So even if you tiered lower, at the end of the month you will be billed for you highest level. But the next month, you will have a lower bill.

If you are on a laptop, that's your problem. Sounds like it.

Are you using viewer 2? That could be overheating it. They always say SL wasn't meant to run on a laptop. You do need a fan.

I've been visiting the Japanese sims, looking around to see how the owners are doing, if they survived the tsunami. Some are empty and I hope the people are alright. They must be going through a devastating experience. One of my favourite Japanese areas: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sapporo/177/142/26 Also Japan Tempura is very beautiful: http://slurl.com/secondlife/tempura%20island/104/234/33

It's not the job of Linden Lab to support resident sims, even very good resident sims, when people cannot pay the tier. The job of Linden Lab is to make and suppor the platform and create fair and equal conditions for any kind of activity on it within the law. When a sim like this closes, it means the community did not value this build sufficiently to enable it to stay. Those are the facts. People are quick to demand that "somebody" pay for tier, but they never want that "somebody" to be themselves. 28,500 is not very many people, given that Numbakulla has been around for at least 6 years. As long as I can remember, it has been a feted oldbie build with lots of Linden attention in terms of writing about it in their publications and so on and featuring it on their Destinations. Yet precisely because it *is* a Myst-like game, it's not for everyone, and perhaps even frustrating. I don't think Lindens should play favourites to "rescue" sims. They already play favourites by putting them in Destinations, and this game has already been featured for a year in Destinations. Rather than weeping for lost sims, get your friends together, and if you get enough of them together, perhaps you can rescue it. But if you can't do that, it means it isn't sufficiently valued, so don't expect others to value it.

Use search/places with the term "Ravenglass Rentals" to find all our vacant listings. Also there's a notecard giver with the main communities and vacancies and specials listed that is updated daily. In fact the key words "Mainland" and "vacancies" and "communities" will turn up a lot of good rental options from various companies on the Mainland that offer rentals for less than islands, and have more flexibility, i.e. I have refund any time.

Beautiful old-world Mainland, roadside, and with breathtaking bay view with nice builds. Access to boating as you are adjacent to our land preserve. Pets welcome as are skyboxes. You can make a shop or home or combination here. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Maryport/74/55/61 $1700/week or $6120 a month with 10 percent off. 1054 prims. Get ban/eject, terraform, media powers.

Any human can chose to exercise self-restraint in the first place. Whether they chose to do so is a manifestation of character or absence of it.

Some people are abusing the ability to put up threads and essentially spamming the view, posting numerous specious and vacuous threads just so they can hog the view. They do this either as a means of essentially advertising their stores, or gaining power over the forums in a manifestation of their "lifestyle". Not everyone will figure out to put on ignore, nor will they put on ignore before first being spammed for a time. Attention is a scare resource, and the top view is scarce "real estate" in a forums. It's not about being able to use a filter if you don't want to see a particular person; it's about no one person grabbing the scarce resources in a community in this fashion. Proof that of these intentions being dishonest is the fact that this kind of thread-mongering didn't occur with the old software because it didn't have a top view in the same fashion. The real question is why you are carrying water for the people doing this. There are other ways of dealing with this problem besides limiting everyone, of course. The moderators have the discretion to apply the TOS. And they can apply it with a warning of spamming to specific individuals who do this with threads so they stop feeling impunity in doing this. This shouldn't be a "scaling" problem as most people don't have a burning need to start a dozen threads to get into the view.

I find that the worst people can be friends of your friends on Facebook. In SL, it doesn't always work that way. Is this about weak ties getting weaker on social media, and virtual world immersion being a better substrate for human relations?

The Mentors were disbanded. That's evidence enough. Um, no, dear. I wouldn't be complaining about one week when I was a newbie when I got hijacked to stores. Not after six years, um, no. But it's witnessing that happen to *hundreds of other people* that didn't make me "bitter" but made me -- and others who witnessed this -- indignant. They were caught at it again and again. In fact, one of the funny things the Lindens did to try to curb this problem was to promise anyone who helped as a Mentor on the Help Island that they could have their freebies featured in a store, and they also began to feature Mentor prefabs, furniture etc in a showcase on that island. It was hilarious to see them favour people that way as a sort of "incentive" but also as a bribe to get them to stop hawking in the infohubs. It didn't work lol. They always wanted *more*. I could list numerous cases of Mentors that were disciplined, and some permanently banned finally for their antics. They lorded it over other residents, it was a system that was heavily abused. Those in it who reined supreme with it will discount this; so will people who simply don't like me for whatever reason; so will those who are in similar groups today. I don't care. The proof is this: the Lindens disbanded it. End of story.