Amethyst Jetaime

Aside from the excellent advice given You just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan You don't need to be coy, Roy Just get yourself free Hop on the bus, Gus You don't need to discuss much Just drop off the key, Lee And get yourself free There must be "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" Sorry I just couldn't resist :smileyvery-happy:

Walls and Locking doors provide no security against someone determined to get in. Anyone can get through them with a little bit of thought. A secuirty orb or a seperate parcel under the area to be protected with ban lines are the only way to be sure only those that are not supposed to get in can't.

entity0x wrote: I'm glad you guys are having fun reminescing about the old ways. The old ways weren't always the best. I don't think either of us claimed this or said the old way of building with legacy prims was better or that we had not moved on. Serious builders have. That doesn't mean we can't say we miss the social aspects of building that were the norm for many of us before mesh. Mesh has taken the 'community' out of many aspects of building. I used to always have a couple of people I was teaching to build back then, now days I don't not only because it's difficult to teach when everyone is looking at a different screen and can't have hands on experience in building what is on the screen, but interest has waned. Many people who may have been interested in the past aren't anymore due to the learning time and higher expense of building in mesh just as an outlet for personal creativity. Does that mean mesh isn't an improvement, in many cases, in terms of lower LI, detail and server efficiency? No.

Pamela Galli wrote: ... Do people even know what free-market means?... For the entitled, when they are the person having to pay for something they want, a free market means greed. However when they figure out how to make something they can sell or can afford to buy land to rent out, then all of a the sudden the definition of a free market changes and they join the greedy enemy.:smileywink:

FIrst you are assuming that most sim owner's decided to pay the $600. But I haven't seen any statistics that say that is the case. Not many people have $600 sitting around. Many people bought their sims from other owners and didn't even pay that much for the sim to start with. I also think you are making a huge assumption that those paying $295 tiers still are going out of business. Again no statistics are available that paying $295 vs $195 is the sole reason a sim goes off line. All you could have heard is rumors or it's wishful thinking on your part because you don't want the competition. Just because a sim owner took the buy down offer doesn't mean they lowered the rent they charge their tenants or even will in the future. Tenants don't know what the estate owner pays unless told by the estate owner. LL won't divulge the info. Many single or small estate owners struggle to make ends meet or just break even. If they invested the $600 to buy down the tier they would need to make that back first before even considering it. Some won't lower it at all so that they can at least build a healthy reserve against leaner times or turn a small profit. Not everyone wants to rent land from a bargain priced small estate. Personally I find it a bit risky since these are the kind of estates that seem to fail by failing to pay the tier even though they collected the rent. There is also a market for luxury in SL. Some estates offer exceptional extra benefits or terrific customer service that some experienced residents are willing to pay more for. A small estate owner that pays $195.00 tier may still be at a disadvantage compared to what large and very large estates pay since no one but those estate owners and LL know what rate they pay. They may have gotten a more advantageous deal than that offered to small estates. LL may offer the buy down again in the future if they need to raise capital. But there is no telling if they will or not or even when. Maybe it will be tomorrow, maybe never.

The prims were given to the landowner not the tenants. If the landowner rents all the land on a sim and there is no common area then it makes sense to give the extra prims to the tenant since there is nothing else they can do with them. However, if they don't rent land, say they stack platform environments in the sky in layer and rent those, ,the land is group owned and your rental gets to use part of the land and a certain amount of prims, or you have a parcel and get to use a certain amount of prims over and above whatever landscaping or buildings are on the lot, then you aren't renting the land, you are renting prims. In the later of the above example, the landowner can choose what they want to do with those extra prims. Some landowners in that situation may choose to add more rentals, while some may choose to improve the sim by adding more landscaping, better rental homes, road, or common areas like a clubhouse or pool. I get tired of people accusing landowners or merchants of being greedy just because they don't like the price they have to pay for a particular item or place to live or the decisions they make. The bottom line is that it's the landowners choice what to do with the extra prims. It is your choice whether to stay or move if you don't like it. The free market will decide if the landlords choice was a good one or not. It has nothing to do with greed. It's just business.

I can't recall where exactly I heard it but it was probably on the forum here in comments about was was said in an interview with one of the Lindens. I remember that part of the process in submitting it was so it could be 'optimized' for Sansar. Maybe I'm wrong about it, but if it was just a vague statement someone made without referring to a reputable source, I would have discounted it.

Maybe she should have explained it better to your friend, but the fact still remains she rented a certain amount of prims and then got extra that the landlord didn't have to give her at all. Maybe she just said she was giving out extra prims or that's what you friend told you and you assumed it was going to be all the extra prims. Some estate owners and landlords are using all the extra prims that LL gave them to add landscaping, roads or common areas or otherwise improve the sim. Whether you think that's to everyone's benefit to have a nicer looking place to live or not is up to you. But a renter is not entitled to the extra prims given to the land owner. Your friend is happy so just leave it alone.

I agree that I had much more fun building when it was all done in world other than custom textures. Sometimes I was alone, but most of the time I had onlookers. The onlookers could be apprentices I was teaching to build, building buddies there just to give me opinions and feedback, of a lot of times just various people watching that eventually would populate the sim that I was hired to build. Occasionally I'd even participate in a group build project. Building back then was many times a social experience as well as a creative one. At first it bothered me to talk and build at the same time. But I soon learned to multi task and could answer people while I built as long as they were patient and were willing to wait a few minutes for a good time for me to answer. When voice came along it was a lot easier as I could voice and build at the same time, even if the person I was conversing with just listened and typed their part of the conversation. I really miss those days because now I'm mostly isolated on another screen or not even in SL, other than for finishing up the final build by assembling and texturing it or scripting. Wouldn't it be great if we had much more flexible in world mesh building tools built into the viewer, even if it were a special version of the viewer so as not to confuse non builders. I anticipate Sansar will be even more isolating, since I understand you'll have to submit the complete build for LL's approval before it's even in world. I'm not even sure I will want to create anything in Sansar.

Here are the steps Buy or get free software that you can use to broadcast your music on the internet. Some will only let you choose and play one song at a time, while other's have the ability to make up play lists of music. Google where to get the various software and be sure to research it's abilities, reliability and costs before choosing. If you plan on maybe DJ'ing in SL, get the best one you can afford for the most flexibility and sound quality. A lot of DJ's use SAM which is probably the most expensive choice, but also the one professionals and internet radio stations use. (DON'T accept free versions of SAM as you will violate copyright laws and will get in trouble with the law in RL if you are caught.) Use Search or look on Marketplace for Shoutcast stream rentals. Choose the number of listeners you want. That can be 10 to 100 or more. The more you have the more it will cost. If you choose 10 and 11 people are on your land, then the last one there won't hear anything. So choose a number that will cover as many people as are likely to be on your land at one time and add a few more just in case. Set up your software with the stream info you get from the rental compay. You'll have to see your software instructions to see how to do this if you don't know how. Plug in the URL the stream rental gave you into your land tools under Sounds. Start broadcasting from your PC. Enjoy your music. Note that you will have to have your PC on all the time if you want people to hear the music when you aren't in SL. Alternatively you can rent a server and upload your music on it along with your software so you don't have to use your PC. Some stream rental companies will rent you a stream with server space. Of course that's going to cost more. There are classes offered sometimes in SL to teach you how to stream. Some stream rental companies will help you get set up too. See this wiki page and the links in it for details http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Streaming_Music

Qie has given you good advice. Your 'business plan' is a bit off. You have to take into account your initial investment buying the land. The more prime the land and therefore the most attractive to tenants, the higher it will cost. Your vacancy rate will probably be higher than you may think. Even the most well run and beautiful estates have vacancies. I live on a sim on the Blake Sea and the landlord charges a very reasonable rate compared to other Blake Sea rentals. Renters get full ownership rights except the right to use ban lines We can ban individuals though and use a security orb. This sim does have turnover and vacancies on what is considered the most prime rental land on the mainland. So some months you will be paying some out of pocket tier. You have to figure profit on an annual basis for that reason and take into account vacancies. Don't count on tenants who are premium members to contribute any of their free tier or stipend to a land group unless they also have some control of the group and get the equivalent discount on their rent. Especially contributing stipend to someone and trusting them to use it to pay the tier is iffy. In fact there is no reason to be a premium member if you rent mainland, unless the other benefits are attractive enough to the account holder. Groups that own land and contribute their tier discount and stipends are most always groups of really good friends, or alts. Also note that the majority of people that rent in SL live on private estates. You will therefore have a limited market for people who want to rent on mainland.

There are alpha layers for various body parts on MarketPlace. Try there.

LL always changes those types of places as they try different things to make them attractive to new people to retain them long enough that they learn at least the basics and meet people so they then can go off to the rest of the grid and live their SL. I'm not sure but they may do some research into what might attract new comers - or maybe not and they just try random things. The only thing you really can do is go to the suggestion page and make your case.

A SL account is considered an asset of the estate and must be handled according to any will or last wishes of the deceased. This will tell you what you need to know: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Death_and_other_worries_outside_Second_Life

Unless there is a clear TOS violation reported in the AR, LL will do nothing as they don't get involved in resident to resident disputes. Alwin gave you good advice. LL has given us tools to deal with kind of thing. Just don't accept anything from this person as it unblocks them. If you use Firestorm you can also derender them so you don't even see them. They disappear from your SL. People like this want your attention and want you to react. Ignoring people like this soon will make them bored and go away. I've had direct experience with this and it works.

Not sure why you think it's abuse. It's a standard request for a custom avatar.

When you cross a sim line the core on a server that runs that sim has to hand everything about your avatar, including inventory, and your vehicle to the next core on a server that runs the next sim. It's been a problem forever in SL.

entity0x wrote: If anything that separates one user of SL from another is those who are stuck with nicknames or first names only followed by 'resident', while others have the privilege, status and now clearly elitist ability to have first names "Jadewyn Wildfire", "Johnny Shotwater", "Alyssa Philborne". So I guess some people think that avatars with a last name AND mesh bodies etc. are the creme dela creme! How can a 'Resident' hope to compete against that? /me rolls eyes 

I think people who like mainland will go there, and other's who like private islands will continue to go there. I don't think the prim allotments are going to make much difference. The majority of people in SL that have land do gravitate to private estates. I agree that some parts of mainland can be laggy as well as junky looking because it's anything goes there, but to be fair so can private sims unless the estate owner outlaws certain things and keeps on top of it. Right now I do have one of my homes on the Blake Sea and like it. People in this area tend to have good builds and don't lag things out because the property costs a lot more, rent or buy, and they want to keep things under control. People in the area are sailors so they want low lag and scenic vistas. However I prefer private estates with good covenants for most purposes. The biggest cause of lag is avatars though and that's true of both mainland and private estates where there are high traffic venues like clubs.

Haven't you ever heard of not judging a book by it's cover? Maybe a particular artwork on a book attracts you too it and that's fine. Judging people by superficial appearance is not. In your first post you did generalize about all legacy avatars and disparaged them all, while your comments about equally bad people in mesh qualified your statement by the use of the word 'some'. It seemed clear to me that you thought all legacy avatars were not up to snuff no matter how well done they were and bad people to boot. Maybe next time you should choose your words more carefully.

While it may be 'harmless' now that your son is young enough he can't read, and I assume you don't let him hear people voice, what will happen when he is six and starting to learn to read? What if you are in one of these places and something is said that is inappropriate for a child to read? Children are not allowed in SL. You are riding on the edge of a violation of the TOS now and not being fair to the adults in SL that doen't expect children to be observing them. What if he wants to control the avatar? That would definitely be against the TOS, even if he is sitting on your lap. If I were you, I'd break the habit now when he is young enough to be directed to other things for his amusement. Maybe even something educational by way of teaching his letters and numbers to him.

Your post is a gross generalization and just contributes to prejudice. You length of time in got ot SL is immaterial, since mesh bodies have only been out a few years. I've run into poor attitudes, unwanted advances and extreme rudeness just as much, if not more, with avi's that are fully decked out in the latest mesh body, heads, clothes and accessories. I also know people that still use legacy avatars and system clothes that are some of the nicest people you'd ever meet. It seems legacy avatars are being subjected to the same bigotry by some people that sport mesh (which is more than rude and shows a "poor attitude"), that happens to people in RL based on superficial appearance. Try judging people on their merits and what's inside, instead. SL is what a resident wants it to be and their spending priorities can't be dictated by what you want them to be.

Probably the Brazilia Doll series are what you should look at. The shop is Sking.

Using one of these payment services: Skril or PayPal. Your account must be 'verified' to be acceptable though. That means that even if you don't have the money in the account the service can get the money instantly through a back up of some kind so LL can be paid instantly and doesn't have to wait. You are after all given what you pay for instantly. See their instructions or information about what they will accept to verify your account as it varies by country.

I have to disagree than classic avatars are 'second class'. People are allowed to be who they want to be in SL. Prejudices based on superficial things such as how someone looks are one of the things that tears communities apart in RL. We don't need that in SL. Not everyone has a lot of money to spend in SL. Other's may choose to spend their money on what they consider more important. Perhaps those people have a private sim with a fabulous home much better than most people. Should they look down on them? Yes it is true that a lot of jobs require an avatar to look good and be 'up to date', because they are the public face of the business. That's true in RL too. People can disagree with it but it is the business owner's choice. What makes someone second class is how they act. People that grief, play on other people's emotions for their own gratification and thieves, among others, are 'second class' IMO.