Polenth Yue

Nobody left to kill in Murder Village means the murders have been very successful! They should talk that up more.

Can you explain exactly how you tried to update the item?

How to tell that an account is adult has been covered, but worth mentioning about avatars. There's nothing official that marks the age of an avatar. It's a judgement based on how the avatar looks (which support doesn't usually do unless someone is reported). If your friend's avatar looks like a child or underage teen, she needs to switch avatars if she's planning on taking part in any adult content. If she's concerned that the avatar is a bit borderline, work on making the avatar look older.

It certainly helped when I got too sick to really leave the house or even stand up very often. It was something I could do and still talk to people. I'm glad I had friends online when that all went down.

They have changed things on no-housing regions before. Java Sprockets appeared and the community events board place was added. Repurposing some of those regions would be a sensible way to add in a few more community things (and does seem more likely than a theme reveal right now, but you never know, maybe they'll announce all the things at once).

They were probably there on purpose if it wasn't an infohub area. Some bots are left in out-of-the-way places, like at the bottom of the ocean, because they don't need to be anywhere in particular.

Or the next reveal was in 1985 and we all missed it!

Not only does it not need to be inside the house, it's better not to put it inside the house. People will be wandering around looking for them, so it's best if it's visible from outside your parcel. For reasons I hope are obvious, we can't enter every house we see in the hopes that there's a bucket. We're not trying to annoy everyone who isn't taking part. Another thing that came up last time, check to see if you have forced teleport routing. If so, either turn it off or set the landing point outside your front door. A number of people posted slurls for their buckets last year and ended up trapping people inside their homes. (Locked doors and the landing point in the house is a silly combination at the best of times, but you really don't want it here.)

You could join Governor Linden (also a hamster) and eat waffles though!

The trick or treat event will be a good time to search around as we're out and about anyway (also possible others might do seasonal ones).

I don't do weekly sales. I mainly shop at big events, which might have discounts, but it only really makes an impact for expensive items. Most of what I buy isn't that expensive. I just have a lot of it (little pets and stuff).

Thank you!

Yay! As a request on holdables... including a non-scripted version makes things easier for non-human avatars.

I got up early and managed to find Lulabell. She was asking about the chocolate, but I'd already used it in the mole traps, which are out there somewhere.

You'll need to make sure the protected land (not abandoned land) is right next to your parcel. When that's the case, nobody can block your access. Parcels that have both protected water and road aren't that common, but getting one or the other isn't too hard. Rather than rely on land listings, I'd suggest opening the world map and see what's for sale on the coast (make sure "Land Sale" is checked on the map options, so you see the overlay for land for sale). There are quite a few random water regions owned by the Lindens, so you can get parcels next to one of those (if you just want some water, not access to the main water routes). An alternative idea is to get a road parcel with a direct route to a coast rez area. An example is Chiffre, which has a public coastal rez zone and a road leading right to it. Many of the regions around there will have land coming up for sale. Or you can go for a Linden Home in a theme that often has water access. Houseboats have guaranteed water. Many stilts are by the water. Sakura and fantasy have a lot of waterside houses (and also roads, so a house with both is very doable).

You can ignore the official spikes, because it isn't a QA spike. You are in the sort of areas that Max works though.

Yep. Earlier in the thread he said "It is absolutely and definitively NOT a QA spike." Which might sound like a riddle, but isn't.

The new vendors where you can see what you're buying are called conveyor vendors (as an overall name, rather than individual vendor brand names). I've seen the transfer thing before. It's a weird function of the permissions system, where the original box looks to be transfer in inventory. It can be transferred and sold on the marketplace from the inventory. But the moment you wear it or put it on the ground, the system realises it contains a no transfer item, and the whole thing becomes no transfer. All you can really do is make sure you don't buy from that seller again. For unknown sellers, buy a sample item and test it before getting anything else from them. The most extreme I've had, the items turned to no copy / no mod / no transfer once placed on the ground, so I couldn't do anything with them.

No special tricks were required to get in the top ten. In addition to any places that were publicly posted, I did a grid search of every released region (going from region to region, then up and down the roads in that region). I wasn't working with anyone and all the candy buckets were public. What it did take was a lot of time. It also helped to be able to hyperfocus. Realistically, most people wouldn't have found that fun (I thought it was great though, as I got to see the whole continent). This year, I'll probably drive my tentacle car around and see if I can find any open houses. A list of open houses would be great (at an easy level, we could start a thread here for people to post their house links).

Baiting the traps as we speak!

Being armed with pointy sticks is a fine and noble tiny tradition. However, I decided that a ranged weapon might not be sporting, so went with my giant trident instead. I found a lot of moles this week, but for some reason, I can't find Lulabell.

Who is the everyone that wants the huge friends list? Not you. Not me. Not many people in this thread. Not the majority of people I meet at events. There have always been some people who send random requests to as many people as possible, but most people use their friend list more selectively. This isn't really something that's changed.

The rules can never list all the exploits, because the whole thing with exploits is it's unintended. People did something wrong, because they knew it wasn't how the game was meant to work based on the description of the game. It was made very clear that every bucket was only supposed to give candy once, even if moved or replaced. So figuring out a method to make the buckets keep giving candy was very clearly not how it was meant to work. They also knew they'd get into trouble if it was found out, because they hid that they were doing it. People getting precious about calling it cheating just get a hard stare from me. The people doing it knew it was cheating. They absolutely knew, which is why they tried to hide it. Even long after the event, the people involved still avoid admitting it in public, because they know it was wrong. It also got dealt with, so they wouldn't end up with all the prizes. If that hadn't been done, winners would have been set up for abuse (whether they were one of the cheaters or not), which would have soured the whole event a lot more than a few people outraged that using exploits was called cheating. As it was, I didn't have to worry about people cheating, because the Lindens/Moles handled it. I just got to wander around, collect candy, and enjoy my prizes. All that said, I've said from the start I'd rather see a set number for each prize. I wouldn't like the bears less if more people had them. They have the data now to set the levels at realistic values, so it won't impact anyone else if somebody finds an exploit.

People put out candy buckets at their houses. Hunters wore a HUD and could click on each bucket to get a candy. It was only one candy per bucket, so hunters needed to move around and find more houses with buckets. There were prizes (special bears) based on who found the most candy. One candy was enough to get the first bear prize, so everyone who took part got something. The top ten hunters got the top prizes (I was in that group... it took over 1000 candies). You didn't need to be a premium member or own a house to go around collecting candy. The security issue was mostly a crossover with people not following the rules. A bunch of us got autobanned from houses for stepping onto the porch to click a bucket. This improved later, presumably because the orbs were getting reported and removed. Allowed security was less of an issue. 15 seconds was enough time to reach a bucket and leave again (though a weird choice to have a big "Trick or Treaters Welcome!" sign and the security on). A few people were banning any hunters that got anywhere near their house, though I'd say that also improved as the event went on (I was banned for walking on public paths and visiting neighbours, but mostly only early in the event). There were also a few people using an exploit. I don't know in the end if they were disqualified or simply had the extra candy removed from their totals, but either way, it was handled. Some houses did extra stuff like offering gifts or having an open house with decorations. The buckets were obviously a good way to direct people to extras.

It was a nice way to get people to visit the decorated houses. I'm still decorating and putting out a gift whether anything happens or not, though I've not finished yet. I would like to see set prize tiers though, as that'd solve a lot of the issues from last time and fit better with how people played the game (most people wanted to help others find the buckets, rather than competing).