UnilWay SpiritWeaver

Yeah having a non-random prize or even a "use this ticket to redeem for your choice of prize" would likely work as forms of 'loyalty programs". However I'm just another resident, just like you. So these are just my guesses / opinions and not actual facts about the rules.

Look at the intent of the rule. I would think what you're suggested would not be allowed. Banning random is meant to curb gambling efforts and addictive purchasing. People constantly trying to hit the target marker to get a random item in the hopes that they get the right random - that's problematic.

I think it was already covered up thread, even with photos of real people; how for many of these saying they're unrealistic is... at best not accurate. Perhaps the old SKING bodies could be classified that way but even there counter examples can be found. THAT stated. Tiny hands / feet, shrunken heads, etc - you can certainly go wrong with the shape dials.

Oh that drives me nuts. From both ends. If your a seller and you have a mod-able object but there's a no-mod notecard or script in there, it will try to flag you as no-mod even though the object itself can be messed with, re-textured, etc. If you're a buyer you sit there looking at it wondering if you can trust the merchant that tells you it's mod despite how MP flagged it.

The one thing that bothers me about all these "too curvy" or "too thin" choices is that developers all follow each other rather than carving out new space. Everybody puts out 'mild curves' for a decade and so we have maitreya, legacy, belleza, slink and several others. Then it's all very curvy so we go from SKING to Kupra, reBorn, etc. One developer does big bottom on tiny top, so they all do it. And then the 'mild curves' brands put out mods to make the top smaller. There's a lack of variety. The big brands boil down to three choices right now: Maitreya, reBorn, and Legacy. And that gives you two basic body shapes because the difference between Maitreya and Legacy is like the difference between brands of bath towels - they're aimed at the same customer. I'm reminded of when I lived in Korea 30 years ago, walking around a corner and seeing motorcycle repair shops. Not too weird, not something I had any interest in. But it was the next two blocks, both sides of the road - identical shops all the way down. Another time it was florists in the same layout. I kept thinking: isn't your business suffering if you're the shop 2 down from the middle of all of that? What makes you stand out here? Be unique. We can do that with our own avatars, but the merchants are all copying themes from each other rather than looking at saying "hey, here's this segment that is X-Y% of women or men, for which nobody has a body in SL that can make it - I should sell that." Instead they plop down a shop next to the other florists, and sell the same flowers, but the sign outside is a cartoon rose instead of a cartoon orchid.

Yeah I know the covenant allows it. I just can't stand the site of it. In the past I've left plots because someone within cam distance had a fake island. Even abandoned a blake sea plot over that almost a decade ago.

Well we're up to 77 Stilt on Piers available. Right now there is 1 on water available but since it took me longer than 0.31ms to post this it's likely already gone.

The system is older than Premium Plus but I kind of agree. It definitely is designed to be frustrating to an extreme and that makes going Premium Plus even if just for one billing cycle seem worthwhile. My main and 2 alts have linden homes, and I got all 3 of them with premium plus. If I decided to move - I'd waste no more than 1 day on random before bumping up and just filing a ticket. At some point you have to look at the $20 difference and compare it to your time and mood.

It could also be a stack. In computers we tend to think of either a stack or a queue. Stack is - last in, first out. The newest item gets handed out. Queue is: first in, first out. The oldest item gets handed out. So in a stack, if a home goes back, it had to be taken by someone before a different home can show up. The home system seems to work like a stack very often. Most of us wish it worked like a queue, or was random. We can be fairly sure it's not random - but whether they're using s basic stack or something more complicated like a heap or a even a 'stack of items - the inside of which is random' or whatever... who knows. But it definitely likes keeping recent hand backs in the handout list unless they get handed back a LOT in a short time.

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To the OP: It may be worthwhile to look into deformers to make the Lara body thinner. Right now Maitreya is probably the thinnest body among competitive options. You could of course go Senra as that is actually thinner and "new" but it's meant to be for newbies and is of dubious quality without notable work. Some years back there were more thin and I recall one that was almost totally lacking in curves to the point of being potentially androgenous. But most of those have fallen into obscurity and if you do track one down, you might be stuck being an SL nudist or always in your basic 'body included undies'.

I think people understand the value of mod. It's when you go after a specific brand for using no-mod that fur will rise and folks start hissing and barking. Vehicles being mod (which you mention in the part I snipped) is a very good idea. With SL vehicles you're dealing with region crossings a lot - and that's the place where script load starts to matter. Every last thing you can do to make your scripts load in faster on a region crossing is a good idea. That can be the difference between someone buying your brand of motorbike and smoothly racing through the streets of Belli or Bay City, and someone else buying that other guy's brand and doing the "electric slide" through the air every time they try to cross a region. Of course you can make the best motorbike ever but still can't control the 75 HUDs and pile of scripted attachments your customer is wearing. They will blame you when they get tossed on a region cross, and not all that junk. But hey... you can still try.

That's not unlike the reaction one would get about a decade ago if they mentioned having good proportions or being closer to 1:1 scale for avatar height. People would pile on to attack whoever suggested the idea and start claiming they were being "persecuted" by the person for that person daring to have a different style of shape. It was comedic tragedy in how wild the reactions could get. But now - SL is about evenly split between people making proportioned shapes and people not. But that's also why I think the issue will take a lot of time to get across. Despite the fact that 'copy/mod' was actually the norm for SL for it's first decade when the vast majority of 'creators' were furries.

The average Belli region seems to have 18-20 homes. But of course this varies by theme. We could probably do some very rough estimates of how many homes likely exist, and then by seeing how many are available figure out a +/-10% estimate.

Mostly yeah. We can pester shops, and "vote with our wallets." However at the moment the number of people annoyed at no-Mod is a minority. Or rather the vast majority don't understand the issue as they've never really experienced a mod-able SL. I feel if this issue is to change, it's going to be like how SL shapes have been getting better proportions over the last ten years. Meaning it will be very slow, take time, and be hardly noticed until one day we're just there. Assuming SL even lasts another 10 years given how technology is changing.