Heathcliff Harbrough Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 After four years afk I have decided to return. So, what have I missed :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda Huntress Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 When the new CEO took over, everyone was given a free pink Cadillacs and their own homestead sim for a year! Then there was the invasion from IMVU who tried to stage a coupe but were driven off easily by flying freenis brigades. The bot armies of the early to mid 2010's eventually got together in a hive mind way and became self aware. However the bot-queen was so distraught because of the lag (it took her 3 hours just to say "do I have a soul" because her sim kept crashing) that she self terminated after saying something about not even getting any fish. And Mesh bodies. That's about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathcliff Harbrough Posted August 1, 2016 Author Share Posted August 1, 2016 New CEO, well well well interesting. How about SL? Are there still enough active users? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KayT Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Welcome back! The most game-changing in-world improvement, I think, was the introduction and the following widespread of mesh - Second Life looks beautiful now, however, to stay competitive on the creators market, one has to learn much more than working with prims, because prim items and system layer clothes fail any possible competition. You may want to update the wardrobe - it's worth it. Mesh is beautiful. Shopping events are the residents' favourite pastime now - those are basically where many brands rent a booth and offer no more than a few items at the moment of time, so residents can get acquainted with many apparel brands at one location. Very convenient. New ones appear every other month. Second Life Destination Guide has the separate category for those since very recently. The number of active users is on decline, rarely going higher than 50,000 users loggen on at the same time in-world. The Grid looks barren, the regions are empty most of the time. Adult regions do not seem to have that problem. The new CEO, Ebbe Altberg, strives for receiving the regular feedback from the users, answering to their questions as frequently as once in 2-3 months at the events such as LabChat and SLB Community Celebration. His aspiration for the consistent dilogue with the users is inspiring. Look up LabChat on YouTube to get the idea. Good luck exploring the brand new Grid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathcliff Harbrough Posted August 4, 2016 Author Share Posted August 4, 2016 Thanks for your great comment. I am shocked, 50,000 users online. That's nothing, compared years ago. Is it still worth to re-launch my job agency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Alcott Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 KayT wrote:, because prim items and system layer clothes fail any possible competition. this is simply not true, and not right. There is a LOT very well made prim and layer clothest available.. And you simply ignore the fact the ALL appliers for mesh are nothing else than layered clothes. There's a lot of crap in the mesh market, if you'r on a LL viewer you'll see them... the jellebabies... ALL louzy made mesh and overly scripted, thousends of polygons mesh stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Mokusei Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Heathcliff Harbrough wrote: 50,000 users online. Well it's not as bad as it sounds if you look at reliable data. Second Life's maybe lost 1/4 off of Concurrency, but population fluctuates less than it used to at at off-peak times. It doesn't see busy peaks like it used to earlier in the Hype Cycle but neither is the Grid 'empty'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda Huntress Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Yeah, the traffic bots are gone for the most part. I'm not denying the real and active population being down as well because it is. But that is not the whole of the numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure that traffic bots disappeared before Heathcliff disappeared 4 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda Huntress Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 You are probably correct. I was gone for 4 years as well but I came back last year. I didn't really leave, you know. I just hadn't logged on in a while. Anyway, traffic bots were just starting their purge when I was on before but you could still easily find rooms everywhere full of poor AFK newbie avatars. It was quite sad looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathcliff Harbrough Posted August 4, 2016 Author Share Posted August 4, 2016 Thank you all a lot for the additional feedback, the ratings looks better. Fieeeuwwwwwww I never used traffic bots, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathcliff Harbrough Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 Businesslike i get attention, however I had my wow moment. A business owner recognized me. She did business with me 4 years ago before I left Second Life. She's back client again, wauw. That was a very special moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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