Selene Gregoire

And again. And again. And again.

No. We've already been down that road. And the land tax road. And the teleport fee. And a few others. The prim tax was imposed to "prevent residents from overheating the servers with too many objects", something that is no longer needed or wanted.

Not necessarily. What they really do is change the email address on your SL account so that you can't reset the password on your SL account. The one time it happened to me, they never got the chance to change the email addy so it was easier to get my account back.

I don't have any reason to make comments on the Destination Guide. Zero. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. And in case you didn't bother to read far enough, Whirly, whom I know and have worked with, already informed me of my error. So maybe you should "check your own ability to comment".

Thanks. Might go do some poking around on my next day off. Not that it will inspire any brilliant ideas but I might think of something.

Thank you Whirlz. Again.

Would you happen to know if those videos are Closed Captioned? I ask because most videos without CC are not very useful for me. I haven't created any alts since 2009 and any changes since haven't really interested me so... I don't know what it's like now. I know I used the word now and that was misleading. Not intentionally misleading though. I was gone for 4 years and only came back a couple of months ago. Maybe 3. Anyone counting? I'm not.

There has never been a time when you had to log in with FB to do anything on the SL website or within SL. Never. Check your settings. Or be more careful when selecting a log in method and never choose FB as log in. I made the mistake, some time back, of choosing to use FB to log in to The Sims Resource and when I paid for a sub, it used my FB log in and not the email I have had on record for years. I learned the hard way to never, ever use FB to log into anything that isn't FB. Thankfully, the sub finally ran out recently and I can ditch that second account and use my email like I had always done prior to.

I had it in my head that it was 06 that it changed. The system I'm talking about was prior to the existence of Help Island, when there were only 4 Orientation Islands. There are at least 9 of them now with only 6 of them in use at a time. Hmmm... are new users allowed to return to OI after leaving yet? That was one of the things that almost caused me to not stay in SL*. If there hadn't been other residents able and willing to help back then I would have simply attended the memorial service and logged out forever and never given SL a second thought. *This goes back to my statement about creating an alt to go through the gauntlet again to catch anything I might have missed.

It's still not the same "system" that was in place in 2005. I don't think I can articulate exactly what I mean. It got a complete "makeover" in 2006/7 (I think, maybe as early as 05 and as late as 09) and hasn't been the same since. What I saw of the system in place in 2009 would have been more than enough to turn me completely off of SL if I hadn't already been a resident for 5 years at the time. To say the least, it was bewildering. As I recall there were far more new sign ups that never completed the tutorial than ones that did after the changes were made. In other words, most people never made it all the way through before giving up, logging out and never logging in again. After the change. I recall the figures prior to that change being much more in favor of retention.

Maybe (just maybe) they should dust off the old "gauntlet" that was in use in 2005 and update it. It taught you all of the basics of using SL such as changing your clothes, changing your avatar appearance, even flying. In fact, you couldn't even start exploring outside of the "welcome" area until you could control your avatar well enough to fly to the teleport hub that allowed you to enter the open world. You could, if you so chose, zip through it (I did when I created an alt) or take your time to retain as much as possible. Granted, it was a bit overwhelming at first and a bit confusing, but that is normal for me when starting a new "game". I created my first alt just so I could go back through it again to catch what I missed. Which, as it turned out, amounted to pretty much nothing. But it was still fun to do it all again.

The problem is, quite bluntly, LL does not have the first clue who or what the target market should be/is. Every time a demographic group increases in population, LL ignores them. They have ignored what the residents of SL want/need in respect to SL. They do NOT understand the audience they already have (and have had for 15 years). How will they ever understand something when they don't even know what it is?

wiggie out

never phasing Duke Nukem until

chop shop

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Do eet. 😇

I'll let you in on a little secret.

"Genuine people don't need alts." That's one huge, steaming pile of judgmental bull excrement.

I just happened to log in today for a few minutes. The request is still there...waiting. It'll still be there next time I log in.

You have to be a pretty exceptional person for me to make an exception to break my hard and fast rule of never adding anyone I haven't gotten to know over a period of several weeks or even months. I'll happily trade calling cards with you so we can maintain contact and get to know each other. Adding someone right off the bat is an extremely rare exception.