Polenth Yue

I got in the top ten and stole all the other candy! Which you can see at my house, as the bears are having a picnic. The food is a selection of the stuff given out at houses during the event, except for the bowl in the middle (that's my treat or treat gift giver and you can click it if you missed it). Go inside and to the left: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aramis/131/24/21

Do you think there will be a pumpkin fairy as a prize next year?

It's not unusual for people to clear up from events too early, because they don't read the instructions. A few might have made a dramatic gesture because how dare you call someone using an exploit a cheater, but most removals aren't going to be down to that. There are still a lot of buckets out there though. (Edit: I meant to post this in the other thread where bucket removal was mentioned, but it's all the same topic in the end, so it's near enough.)

I mostly buy pets (not breedable), toys, art and other things like that. I like things that are creative and colourful. I can't wear most clothes. I don't need much furniture, but prefer single animations only.

They could do a radar hud and then still be able to keep residents placing the items. A radar hud would notify you if the region had any buckets and show a warmer/colder display of some sort as you get near them. I know people have been using the pins and area search in similar ways, but this would be more efficient and be there for everyone taking part.

I find the discussion pretty uncomfortable from two directions. The first is I'm someone who talked about bad banning experiences, but I didn't ask for all orbs to be banned on my behalf. I want people to sort out their orb settings and for some changes to future events to make it easier to avoid stepping onto parcels. The second is trying to use times when someone has harassed a home owner to justify why it was okay to ban me for using the public areas. I am not the person who did the harassing. I didn't report anyone. I've done everything possible to stay out of the way during the event. It doesn't become okay for me to get randomly banned for using the road because someone else entered a house and shouted at the owner. What I will say is that I haven't been randomly banned for the last few days. There has been increased awareness about the event and some home owners have sorted their orbs after the complaints. Which was the goal in complaining.

Open for visitors and there's a gift next to the bucket: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aramis/131/24/21

There are more than 800. Most people I've seen who say they've searched every region and can't find that many... they're going too fast. I've watched them fly over me at full speed and completely miss the buckets I find in that region. So, slow down! The biggest thing I think would encourage more to take part is to use set goals rather than a top ten sort of contest. Some people are hunting anyway, but I know a fair few who just clicked a few and didn't do more, because they knew they'd have no chance of getting top scores. Set goals reduces the impact of people gaming the system, which can happen with any system. It also goes better with people wanting to share their location and have visitors. It reminds me of the RFL issue, where they had awards for the top laps run. They expected the awards to go to people who spent the most time on the track during the weekend. They actually went to whoever had the fastest speed boost. Then they changed to awards for set numbers of laps, so anyone who ran the required number got the trophy. It meant more people could work towards the trophies and it shared the fun. It also meant the speed boosters no longer mattered. I really hope this contest does get won by people who spent a lot of time searching, especially as I'm one of them! But past history suggests that even if this contest works out, the next one won't.

I lost a couple on a relog that didn't come back (I didn't crash, just logged out). It'd be wise to get a few if you're aiming for the first bear, just to be sure.

To be clear, I wasn't the person who counted up the names on the ban list and crosschecked them with forum names. My aim in discussing the banning was to make people think of what's not working, so that it can be improved. A lot of my bad experiences could be solved with one simple change: up the click distance to 10m so that people don't need to enter parcels in most cases. I feel for people who want people to come inside and look around, but maybe that could be handled with a sign system. "No, just the candy" or "Yes, come in and look around".

I like the theory of the event and I've had solo fun, but overall it's made me feel more disconnected from the community as someone who was collecting candy. I've been banned from more places in the last few days than the rest of my Second Life. Today's one, I thought it was an orb at first, but then realised the owner had manually banned me for stepping onto the porch to click the bucket. I've generally felt less and less welcome at houses as the event has gone on. I think there should be a rule that you can't place a bucket if you have security on. Also a reminder that placing a bucket will result in visitors on the parcel and it's not in the spirit of it to ban them as they turn up. Some people really didn't make the connection that the bucket would mean visitors.

I have a lot of candy and I've seen a few versions of the list (it's a notecard, not the pin/bin thing). It didn't have many places that I hadn't been and missed off a lot that I had visited, so I don't think it'll impact the top ten very much. You really need to be good at searching each region for that. The top hundred might be skewed by the list though. For anyone that'd like to find a bunch in one region, Lost Caves has been the best I've found so far.

I'm not really into the idea that you must have one reason, and only one reason, for doing something. I enjoy exploring and hunts. I like contests when they're things I can do, so I'm trying for the bears. I've been playing mushroom spotting in the fantasy areas. There's no reason why an event can't be a bit of a several things. What it's not is an open house where you can look at people's decorations. Even a lot of houses with buckets have security running and the owners ban anyone who stays too long. I avoid standing on the parcels and won't go inside unless there's a sign saying I can and the door is open. I was banned from a house today for being in the garden of the house next door (I saw the other house suddenly go red on my mini map and checked to see it was a specific ban by name). I'd been banned for walking on the path near another house previously. I'm sure as I revisit areas, I'll find I'm banned by other random houses because I visited the region and appeared on the visitor counter. A quick glance at my profile might suggest I really have no interest in your adult furniture or sex life, so you can relax a bit people. I'm just there for the buckets and won't enter other parcels unless I accidentally lag over the corner or something.

I was autobanned for walking on the path next to someone's house. I never stepped onto it as it wasn't a hunt house. I got to 176 yesterday and I haven't visited most of the regions yet. I found a bunch that said they'd been clicked zero times before I clicked them, though jumped to 2 or 3 after I clicked them. I don't know which number was correct, but in theory you need to find a bunch of buckets that only ten other people find to get the top bear. I'm hoping people settle down from creating masterlists after the first day. I'm not sure that everyone got that it was a contest to find the most, not a set of targets to reach to get the different prizes.

You live in the same region! But if anyone is really stuck, it's in my picks and the gift is right by the official candy bucket.

I just have a couple of bits of decor to finish off tonight, but my gift is out as well as the official pumpkin. My gift is a mysterious surprise! (Okay, it's mushrooms, it's always mushrooms.)

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I was sent v5.0 of the bucket and waited to see if there'd be any comment on that, but not seen any notices, discussion or followup notecards. Has anyone heard anything? Do we need to swap out buckets? I see the thing now and will replace, but is it a functional thing or just land impact? Will we get candy from v3.0 or need to avoid old buckets?

Cthulhu now has a generic number name. Maybe they're saving the name for something with more tentacles.

I managed to get in by selecting a different start location. It's not working well though.

It's been discussed here before, but it's been going on for years, so you might not find a thread in the last week or something. It's not usually clear why it happens. I've had random colours set to adult when the others aren't.

The link you need for an item disappearing as you tried to load it into the marketplace is "Create a Support Ticket" at the side of these forums. I do suggest you are more concise in your ticket. Skip the part about them not working a real job like you do and the whole thing about merchants hiring customer support staff. Just provide details about what happened and what you've tried to get the item back.

They're big signboard vendors. One with the HUD and one for the candy bowl.

I'm suddenly trying to decorate my Linden Home in time for the treat or treating event. Then I will be going out to get candy and earn at least one special bear (if you've not seen that announcement, worth checking the Linden Homes forum... you don't need to be premium to take part). I tend to like cute spooky stuff more than horror gore. I read horror, but it's not what I'm looking for in Hallowe'en.

I've never found that marketplace adverts do much and the last announcements group I was in didn't really have customers (just other merchants sending notices that nobody read). Take part in events. You make money and advertise at the same time.