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US Residents to begin paying Sales Tax
Crim Mip replied to LittleMe Jewell's topic in General Discussion Forum
I don't believe that applies to internet sales, it's just the state that gets to collect their base rate. -
US Residents to begin paying Sales Tax
Crim Mip replied to LittleMe Jewell's topic in General Discussion Forum
It's not going to make a huge difference to my fairly small land tier cost. Fortunately my premium renewal hits this month so that won't be affected until next year. As for the rest, I don't buy Lindens, only sell them which shouldn't be taxed. -
Suggestions for Merchants in Shop & Hops
Crim Mip replied to Crim Mip's topic in General Discussion Forum
Yeah, I could have worded that better. It takes time and skill. What I meant was you usually get a lot of traffic with a lot of people who wouldn't otherwise have seen or purchased your items. Offering a discount won't hurt you and might well gain sales at full price of your other items. -
Suggestions for Merchants in Shop & Hops
Crim Mip replied to Crim Mip's topic in General Discussion Forum
You make some good points and I could have worded things better. Creating items takes time which is the most valuable thing we have to spend and skill which takes that to learn. That said, you're going to get a LOT of traffic for a S&H so offering a decent discount is not going to hurt you. People who would not have otherwise seen your items will and likely some of them will buy. As for the skimpy clothing. I know it sells. If you're going to make it, at least do it well. Maybe include separates so it can be taken off a bit at a time. Here's one. Include a 'floor decoration' version, for if things progress to that point. I don't mean system clothing, I mean sized mesh. If you've already made the model in Blender, doing classic sizes isn't that much additional effort. This is more a thing for males who are less likely to have bought a mesh body. To be fair, I can usually work with items made for the Slink male since that's still pretty close to the system body. We wouldn't be in this situation if the mesh body makers hadn't pulled the stunt of changing the rigging points to control who could make clothing for them. Overdecorating a store is one I missed, but there are always a few. I usually do the S&H run with 'Show Only Friends' turned on so I don't get render lag from the other shoppers. It's less a problem now since we got two big increases in script processing power. -
'US Football' probably would be more accurately called 'US Rugby' as it resembles that sport a lot more than what we call Soccer. I don't really follow it anymore. The Superbowl is generally either a snorefest with little happening or one team totally blowing the other out of the water, or, more rarely, an amazing game with back and forth battles and fought to the very last Hail Mary play. Generally it's pretty apparent which it's going to be by halftime so that's usually when I'll check the summary of the first half and decide if I want to watch the rest real time.
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Maybe it's that people have learned how to disagree and debate without so many personal attacks. If you disagree with something I say and give your reasons without calling me a moron or such, I'm a lot more likely to read what you say. That doesn't mean I'll necessarily agree with you or change my position (that does happen occasionally though), but I'll at least give your viewpoint some consideration.
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Suggestions for Merchants in Shop & Hops
Crim Mip replied to Crim Mip's topic in General Discussion Forum
Or worse, the SLURL is out of date and leaves you falling from midair or worse, puts you in somebody's private home. I really wish LL would add a feature to the MP where a merchant could just change a field once to update the SLURL for all their listings or maybe have a checkbox system for which to update. -
I love the Shop and Hop events. I almost always go around the whole circuit in the first couple days for the first run at least. The reality is your store gets maybe 5 seconds to draw attention as somebody is moving past, or it just gets passed by. Here are some things that tend to make me pause and at least look further: Textures need to rez fast. Seriously, use the lowest rez textures you can, especially near the front so they rez fast as people approach. If all I'm getting is a blur of panels, I'll just keep moving. Create an actual store front with an interesting graphic, color pallet, etc. If I look and it's just a wall with Casper vendors on it, I'll figure you didn't put in much effort so why should I? This goes triple for the corner spots. If you get one of these, you are like an anchor store at a mall. Make it interesting, make it memorable. You are the ones people will landmark. Cool stores/storefronts have prop objects. Make sure to sell those too or indicate where they can be bought. Do try to avoid having prop items that are cooler than the items you are actually trying to market. Yes, this happens. Less is more. You don't need to show every item you make. Show off the best selling and the newest. If those click with somebody, they will seek out your main store or marketplace. This brings us to.... Make it easy for people to get an LM to your inworld store and/or a link to your MP store. They may not want/be able to buy immediately, but they may do so later. Make sure to indicate the selection of products is greater at those places. This also makes it easier to offer the thing everyone loves....discounts. By discounts I mean 20+ percent off. These are digital items, they cost you nothing to produce, stock, or send. Let people get a great deal on some of your cool items and they are a lot more likely to pay full price for other ones later. Too little is a bad look as well. If you have a huge store with like 10 items for sale....well you get the picture. If you are selling mesh items, the LOD models for near, medium and far need to be done right. I don't care if it makes them a little higher in LI, we all have prims to spare now. If I look in from the front of your shop, and the mesh items at the back of your shop are a mess of triangles with my setting at 3 for Object LOD, I'm probably going to assume you don't know what you're doing and not buy. I give a bit of a pass for something that will be inside and not likely seen at a distance....to a point. If you are selling apparel and it's for a subset of bodies (especially if that doesn't include the system body), Make that known at the front of your store. I hate finding a really cool outfit only to realize it won't work for my AV. I don't care how cool your apparel is. It's not going to get me to buy a different mesh body. If you are selling apparel and that includes apparel for males, please make that apparent from the front of your store, shout it out, make glowy arrows to it, etc. Seriously, we males will snap up anything good made for us. It will help your sales if you make versions for the standard system body. A lot of us don't bother with mesh bodies because of the lack of apparel. There's no nice way to say this, but *****wear is *****wear. It all looks the same. It's not new, creative, or original most of the time. You'll do far better with something elegant, something creative, something that doesn't leave everything hanging out. Don't be the low hanging fruit. Gachas are dead. Stores filled with those at previous shop and hops were annoying enough. Nobody wants to take the time to deal with Mepion, NextUp, or whatever variant to get around the Gacha ban you've come up with at a Shop and Hop. We want to buy what we want to buy quickly and move on. I welcome disagreement (with reasons for such), discussion, and even additions to this list. If you just fire off a blast of insults, I'll simply ignore you.
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How Do You Know When the Inworld Economy is Hurting?
Crim Mip replied to Prokofy Neva's topic in General Discussion Forum
What difference does that make? Each of those accounts has to be premium at a minimum cost of $37/year each ($100 minus the $63 you get back as L$ stipend if you actually saved all of that). LL still gets the money regardless. -
Are there non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in Second Life?
Crim Mip replied to Gopi Passiflora's topic in General Discussion Forum
Think about this one. NFT's contain a URL. That URL can't be changed. How long before we see NFT trolls that start hacking the servers those links go to and substituting other images. Can you imagine some idiot who'd spent a huge amount on some NFT going to look at it and finding it was now a link to goatse or some such? It's going to happen at some point. Blockchain might be fairly secure, but servers storing the images NFT's link to aren't necessarily. -
Are there non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in Second Life?
Crim Mip replied to Gopi Passiflora's topic in General Discussion Forum
They aren't backed by anything at all. The NBA could shut down the server where the links go and the NFT's would cease to link to anything. There would be zero that anyone who'd bought one could do because they'd still have the unique coupon which is all they bought in the first place. They don't own the link and they don't own the image/page it links to. Think about that. Still want an NFT? Cryptocurrency isn't much better but at least there's a much larger pool of believers in it's value since the units of currency aren't unique. -
How Do You Know When the Inworld Economy is Hurting?
Crim Mip replied to Prokofy Neva's topic in General Discussion Forum
To the extent I take part in the economy, it seems to be ok. I cash out L$ a couple times a month, once to pay land tier and the second goes to my wallet. I've sold my L$ for 241L/$1 within a couple minutes consistently for the last 2 years. If you see the backup at 240/$1 it's not rocket science if you want to sell quickly. There are markets that are booming. The equestrian community is one. There are new horses and new accessories for horses and riders coming out consistently. Some of the apparel makers could clean up if they'd cater to that community because that's the one real thing lacking for the most part. I manage one of the older airports on the grid at this point and all of our rentals have been claimed for the last year and a half. Finally, just look at Bellisseria. They keep adding area and new Linden homes and they keep getting snapped up. Every one of those represent somebody paying at least $99 (well more like $36 after stipend payments) each year with many paying more because they pay monthly. Obviously this makes it more difficult for the big land holders, but no sympathy. LL gave fair warning they wanted to reduce their dependence on you and your influence and Bellisseria let them do just that. You're now competing against them and the perks one gets for a premium account. -
While I don't think there's much that could be offered that would convince me to pay for this, here are some things that would certainly have me considering it: 2k of tier free land. This would of course coincide with super premium Linden homes with more land and prim allowance. The ability to buy an empty lot on Bellisseria and do your own scratch build or pick from any applicable Linden home. The ability to get a spot in a commercial district in Bellisseria that would be created for that purpose. The ability to buy a Homestead sim without an associated full estate. Obviously rules for use would have to be followed. Elimination of upload fees. I'd be fine if that meant doubling them for unpaid accounts and left as they are for premium. No group limit (this would probably require the fix to group chat that would preclude seeing who was logged in or last logged in) No message cap (not a huge deal, but it sounds good). A free user name change. Let's face it, the current fee is just to discourage people from doing it often. It doesn't actually cost LL anything to do it. If you're going to charge an additional $50 or so might as well include that as a perk for those who want it.
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Are there non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in Second Life?
Crim Mip replied to Gopi Passiflora's topic in General Discussion Forum
People who want to get into NFT's really should look up what they really are. NFT's don't contain much. There is enough storage capacity for each one to store a URL and that's about it. You aren't buying any actual thing if you buy an NFT. You're buying an uncopyable digital coupon with an URL encoded into it. That doesn't mean that link will remain valid. If it doesn't, congrats! You now have an NFT for 404 Not Found. It doesn't even mean that somebody else can,t also make an NFT with that same link. The link isn't exclusive, only the digital coupon itself. There's also no way to enforce any contract or agreements about any of this. They aren't legally recognized or backed by anything other than others' believe they are worth something. -
The only paid groups I join (rarely) are store groups where the group gifts available at the time are worth the join fee. There are some groups that ask a token fee of like 1L to help deter trolls and griefers. THat I don't care about. I would certainly not pay a 'membership' fee to a club where I would then be presumably expected to tip performers/DJ's
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To correct you, they get back the minimum payment. If they put in more than that, there's no guarantee they get that back. Thus to spike a sploder, somebody has to feed it more than the minimum. Also the owner can't get a cut of the amount paid in.
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LL loves land barons because they have one account to deal with for a huge amount of land and then all the customer support for that land falls on the landowner, not LL. The other thing is you really don't own anything when you buy land. It's just LL becomes your landlord. Selling an NFT of a parcel wouldn't change that. You'd sell a receipt that said somebody owned the land, but LL wouldn't have to honor it at all. It would mean nothing.
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Does Second Life plan to get into NFTs ?
Crim Mip replied to richelieu Glom's topic in General Second Life Tech Discussion
NFT's are a scam and more or less a way for shady people to move money around undetected and tax free....well they were. The US has closed that little loophole. If you want to do that now, you'll have to use investment grade art just like before. Also, if you think they are anon, you are nuts. Blockchain has been traceable for years. Why do you think there has been no move to shut down the tech. it's too valuable to the FBI and NSA for intel. -
That's fairly amazing. By all rights the SL viewer should be doing the things you've done by now. Multithreaded and running on Vulcan or Direct X. As it is, the bar for hardware remains pretty low because the viewer literally can't take advantage of new top end systems. Also, the caching algorithm sucks balls (Oz admitted that years ago). If you can get this working as a full viewer, it will be wonderful. Even better as plug in code for TPV's
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Deploy Plan for the Weeks of 2021-11-22 and 2021-11-29
Crim Mip replied to Mazidox Linden's topic in Second Life Server
Well I guess the land I own and sims I help manage are now on the new config because Wow!. Scripts running at 100% with spare time up to like 9ms. Those took a major nosedive after prodject uplift so it's nice to see it's been fixed however it was fixed. -
You are expected to abandon your Linden Home and dispose of any other mainland you own before your premium account expires and then you have to specifically downgrade. If you're still holding land, they will bill you for another time period. The most cost effective option is to pay for a year at a time. The extra groups and much higher message cap are almost worth it without the land allowance. Remember you get back 300L a week which works out to a bit over $60 worth. The voice morphing is pretty bad in general. There's better third party software for it, but mostly, you aren't going to fool anyone.