Persephone Emerald

I found the same problem a couple times recently. I tried to TP to land that was listed as being for sale, but was set down in a nearby lot instead. I can only assume the owners of the land didn't think to change their land access permisions.

The only poem I wrote for Second Life is more of a chant than a poem. Play, play, play all day Make the real world go away Go away and let me play SL is where I want to stay

Conifer Dada said: "One way to safeguard your main avatar / resident is to keep them as Basic and have an 'administrative' alt with the Premium account, which can deal with land etc., leaving your main free of any money worries." This seems to me to be the ideal way to handle the desire to have a Premium account, though like most of us I never thought of such a Machievelian manuver when all I wanted was to own some land of my own. When you own land, you can teraform & landscape, and your tier will likely be less expensive than leasing Estate land. If, on the other hand, you can only afford a 512 m lot or aren't sure you want a long-term commitment to Linden Labs, then don't go Premium. The weekly stipend is nice, but it doesn't ballance against the threat of losing your avatar & his or her inventory. If someone wants to try Premium & is afraid of the risk, then do as Conifer suggested above. Create a land-owner alt & a land-owning group. Then add all your other avatars as officers in that group, giving them all the rights of ownership & none of the risks. They can set the land to Home, rez stuff, teraform, change the music & everything, but they will never be thrown into "Debtor's Prison" for non-payment of fees.

The Pheonix viewer lets you sort by a few fixed catagoies, but unfortunately doesn't make any finer distinctions within the "Body Part & Clothing" catagory. Within that search field, you have to use the visual icons to distiguish a glove from a tattoo, skin or system skirt. The best you can do I think is make folders & sub-folders for different kinds of outfits & types of clothing. I have a folder for Dresses & within that are subfolders for Casual dresses, Formal dresses, Short & Sexy dresses. I have a folder for Separates, & within that are sub-folders for Pants, Tops, Skirts. I have a folder for Accessories, & within that are sub-folders for Gloves, Stockings, Hats, Scarves, & etc. I also have folders for different styles of clothing, all within the Clothing system folder. - Of course, I'm a Virgo who loves to have everything as organized as possible. The problem with searching for say "glove" in your Inventory is that items with the word "glove" in their description may not be what you want & some items that are gloves may not have the word "glove" in their title. Usually, this technique will work ok though. - If you want to use this system, try to change the name of your clothing items to reflect what they really are.

I hope the LL folks responsible for these payment policies read this thread. I love Second Life, but policies like this cause them to lose Premium members. And it's Premium members who pay their RL rent & payrole. My boyfriend has had his account suspended several times for non-payment. He's also had his phone & internet service turned off & had his new motorcycle repossessed. When a person makes an agreement to pay installments for an item or a service & then stops making payments, this is what happens in RL. Ok, so your account has been suspended. - What do you do next if you want it back? 1. Phone Customer Service & explain what happened. Ask nicely for help. They may offer suggestions for what you can do next. Your avatar account & inventory may still be in the computer system somewhere. 2. Pay what LL says you owe them. Then downgrade your account to a Basic free account. This way you still keep all your Inventory. 3. If you ever decide to get a Premium account again or if ANYONE wants a Premium account, make sure you keep a Basic account alt & give full Edit permissions to your avatars for each other's stuff. This way if your Premium avatar gets suspended, your alt can probably still pay rent on rental property & may be able to take stuff your Premium avatar has left in world. 4. Remember there are big risks & reletively small benefits to being a Premium member in SL. That's not to say there aren't some benefits though. I'm happy to be a Premium member myself. - But I also keep track of my payments, try not to spend too much on inventory, & keep a couple Basic account alts for insurance.

When th item is in your Inventory hover over it & select Properties. You should be able to change the permisions there. You should alo be able to change the Permission when you rez the object & go into Edit mode, at the bottom of the first tab. If neither of those options work, then perhap someone else has an idea?

Before you invest in owning or renting shop space, you might want to ask other merchants how their sales have been lately. I don't think there's much demand for guitars in SL, but maybe if you have a good location & marketing plan, you can do ok. Maybe you can have vendors for other creators guitars & get a percentage of the sales? Reselling other people's stuff is a tricky business in SL since many people think you should only sell items you make yourself.

Welcome to the forums. I voted for the JIRA even though I don't have a Mac.

There are some good dark & futuristic freebie clothes at Lapointe & Bastchilde's freebie corner. Good regular outfits too. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Evocative/181/106/30 The White Armory has fantasy gowns, some of which could be futuristic magic-users (for female avatars obviously.) Join their group to get a free gown almost weekly or free suits of armor less often. They have male fantasy clothes too. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Emerald/160/130/25 Fire Horse has mostly male RP outfits, but not many futuristic ones. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rosemary%20Isle/126/128/26 DV8 also has good futuristic outfits. Join their group & watch their Midnight Madness boards & Lucky Chairs for good freebies. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lasombra/180/140/25

As in real life, explore the things you're interested in to find other people who like the same things. Dance clubs are a good place to meet people. So are sandboxes, hunts & active groups with lots of people in them. On thing to be careful of with TPing to green dots, though: If there are just 2 dots on top of each other, DO NOT TP to them unless you're sure of where you're going. Otherwise you could well end up in someone's bedroom when they don't want a stranger popping in on them...and that is not a good way to make friends.

A sandbox in SL is a place where people can rez & build stuff without having to own land & usuallly without having to pay. Some require you to join a group, but most don't. They all have different rules, so read the rules to decide which ones are best for you. If you leave stuff out, they all have some kind of delete or return policy. The longer the return time, the longer you can play or leave stuff out without it being returned to your Lost & Found folder This place has a large sandbox that I think is very good. They have private & semi-private platforms, so you don't have to be bothered by other people when you're building. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Skidz%20Isle/26/17/24

Starr Heron said : "IDK but sure would love to have a Jack Russel" VKC has a cute Jack Russle.

I sometimes use the Library for textures. I hope that doesn't transfer those textures into my regular Inventory like wearing Library clohting or hair does. I just found a new trick for storing Inventory. Instead of putting stuff inside a box, you can put it on a notrcard. Lable the notecard so you know what's in it, same as you would for a box. The advantage to this is that you can open a notecard anywhere to see what's inside & take out pieces, without having to rez or wear it. The disadvange of using notecards is that you have to box clothing (& maybe body parts) before putting them on it. Otherwise, you lose the icon that tells you what clothing layer the clothing is on. Another limitation of notecards is that you can't put temporary textures on them. I suppose this is to keep people from sharing temporary textures. You can use temporary textures on objects or clothing, however, then treat those objects & clothing normally. This trick saves alot of lindens because you don't have to pay $L 10 to upload temporary textures, yet you can still use them to create stuff.

Keeping your inventory around 10, 000 is actually very good. There is some good advice above about keeping your inventory down, but it all takes work, which is not as much fun as buying stuff & opening packages. I've been boxing up some of my inventory, but then one has to lable the box to remeber what's inside. Boxing up seasonal decorations is a good way to start with boxing, since you know you'll only use those things at certain times of the year. If you're worried about accidentally deleting favorite items, you can save back-up boxes of stuff in-world too. Just don't end up like this woman.

I recently turned the attic of my SL house into a storage space for back-up items, just in case they might accedentaly get deleted from my inventory. This space is also useful for boxing up items, so they dont take up so much inventory space, and for seeing what is inside these boxes. Symbolically I think, my attic space represents my inventory in world. It's sort of an in-world extension of my server-based inventory data. In science fiction movies & TV shows about virtual realities there is usually some visual representation of the control center/ data storage area, usually shown as a hidden control room. I thought then of the virual reality world represented on "Caprica" & thought we're probably only about 20 years away from something like that, The technology to see images, hear sounds & even feel sensations generated by a computer controled headpiece & gloves exists now. We know that our 5 physical senses are experienced because of electrical signals in our brains, & we're not that far from recreating those senses artifically. I think "Caprica" depicts a believable scenario of how society would react to the ready availablity of a realistic & emersive virtual reality platform. Most people in that world are still more concerned with real life than with the artifically contructed virtual world, but many are so addicted to VR that they spend more time there than in real life. In one scene a woman tries to get a boy to build a model ship. He says he'd rather play in the virtual world, where he can be the captain of such a ship instead. In another scene a conscious AI avatar tells a person that when people know they can't be hurt (as in a virtual world), they give in to their basest instincts for sex & violence, they become insensitive to other people, they care less about the real world & the real life consequences of their actions. If one looks around Second Life to see what kinds of virtual worlds people create in it, one sees mostly shopping malls & private, ensular homes. Sometimes the worlds people create are beautiful & spiritally uplifting, but more often they cater to our baser drives for materialistic pleasures, sexual stimutlation, competition, power & violence. One sees dark & violent sims full of combat, vampires & torture. One sees an abandance of strip clubs, BDSM, virtual prositution & deviant sexuality. Anyone who's been in SL for a while is so familiar with vampire & Gorean RP, that it seems practically "normal". If our virtual worlds could reproduce touch, scent & taste as they do in science-fiction VR experiences, I have no doubt people would be even more hedonistic in them than they are now. What are your thoughts on the future of virtual reality & it's effect on people?

Alycia, my favorite alt, gets $L 150/ week for rent. I feel a little sorry for her since her own home burned down. (She set the fire, but we don't mention that.) She's given me some 7Seas items & DV8 outfits she caught fishing, which I resold to a yardsale. She helps pay her own way as much as she can. She was born in SL & had a troublesome life, so she doesn't understand RL economics. She's good-hearted & charming in her own way, so I don't mind helping her out. For myself, I've learned a few tricks to save $Ls, though nothing can reduce what my tier costs except reducing my land. 1.) Find images off the internet & upload them as temporary textures. You can save them on your hard drive instead of in your Inventory, then upload them as temporary when you want to texture something. This way your textures are free & you can still sell or give away the items you make with them. 2.) Systematically look for free & inexpensive items on SL Marketplace, searching from Low to High priced. 3.) Copy & Modify items. Also take them apart for the pieces. ( I just bought a renaissance gown from Wunderlich's Historical Garb $L 450, but it has so many pieces that are tintable, that it's practically the only renaissance outfit I'll ever need to buy.) 4.) Try making your own stuff when you can. Use free textures, free scripts, & pieces you've taken out of other items. Some merchants probably hate me for promoting freebies, but we can't all afford to spend hundreds of dollars on virtual merchandise that could disappear from our inventories if we're unfortunate. I've also been creating several LM lists of places in world that have good free or inexpensive clothing. One list is for general clothing, skin & hair. The others are for different cultures & time periods. I joined a time traveling RP group & wanted to provided inexpensive clothing options for people who will be jumping around frequently into different envirionments. Contact me in-world for my lists or visit one of my 2 Briar Rose shops for the general one. http://slurl.com/secondlife/witchfest/147/90/701 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Darkstar%20Enterprises/162/149/24

Thanks, Cerise & Clairschen. That's a bit easier.

Not to be snippy, but just to present an alternate point of view, - but I want to enjoy the view I'm paying for in SL. The land I own is on the coast, & I've landscaped it to look like a Northern Califorian coastal region. From my front yard I can view headlands with meadows, coastal pines, golden poppies, purple ice plants & surf crashing on the rocks in the sea. From my back yard I can see a a duck pond, blackberry bushes, a hill covered with golden poppies & a little white Victorian house on the top of the hill. From my side bedroom window I can see my neighbor's garden & pond. From the other side of my house I can see buildings that also fit well into this environment. I pay $40/ month for tier, to recreate a part of the RL world that I can't visit easily in RL. If I didn't care about my view, I might be happy in a sky box a 1000 m up in the sky, but that isn't the experience I want from SL. Lag is not a big problem for me either. . http://slurl.com/secondlife/Belleville/120/65/106

@ Blondin Linden, When I clink on that link, it seems to take me to a thread that doesn't exisit anymore.

Good point, Penny. SL residents would have more space for furniture & camera views if they'd shrink down to more reasonable sizes. For instance, if you want to build a low-prim house, a 10 m high wall is tall enough for two 5 m high rooms, which is plenty tall enough if your avatar is under 2m tall. Begin shorter thus saves on prims as well as on space. Unfortunately most clothing is still made for tall & skinny Amazon women. My avi is around 5' 7", based on my Edit Appearance menu, but I still have to shrink my prim clothing attachments to fit into my clothes.

Currently, when I want to see my previous posts & see if anyone has responded to them, I have to follow several steps. 1. Find a thread I've posted in previously. 2. Find a post of mine in that thread. 3. Click on my User Name to call up my forum profile. 4. Expand my recent posts list to see as many of those threads as possible. 5. Click on the new posts count to the right of each thread description to view the most recent responses. Could we have an option at the top of the forums page to take us directly to step # 4? Thanks.

I probably spend more than average on tier & rent, but less than average on purchases of virtual goods. I've been spending more than usual on purchases lately, so I did some calculations & came up with a realistic estimate of $60/ month total on SL expenses. This total is further broken down to $40/month in tier, $ 11/month on rent for shops & RP locations, & about $9/month on virtual goods. This means LL gets 2/3 of my money directly, while 1/3 goes into the SL economy. How much do you spend & how does it break down?

Couldn't we just go to 1920s Berlin & stand by the measuring stick in the train station? Serriously, though, I had to slide down to the lowest possible height in my Edit menu to reach a "normal" height. Normally I try to stay at 50, but even then most clothes are too big for me.

The Basic viewer doesn't have access to your Inventory. You need to use the "Advanced" viewer or a third party viewer to use your inventory.

@ Arkady, you're correct of course if the town is a Bristish Victorian Town. I was grousing about that because I was thinking of US Victorian towns. I should have been more specific in my post.