Quote: "Just curious, so does anyone here play it?"
I occasionally play it so I can do things like attach a big sphere to my head and make myself look like a big ball of metal.
Second Life is a famous Virtual World. Several companies have done demonstrations there.
It's money has become it's own stock market, with over 50,000 accounts who don't even play the game, just buy and sell L$.
The reason here, is that you can legally trade L$ for $ or £.
You have to actually go on the phone and talk to them to get it directly transfered into £. I just get it as $, then use a national bank to transfer the currency for me.
I like the idea that you can build anything anytime (In a sandbox, anyway), and then wear it, add physics, or if you learn the simple scripting language (As if Jedi Knight-Jedi Academy was toned down in scripting difficulty...), you can pretty much do anything.
I made a Mercedes Benz that actually got car damage. But, I forgot to copy it into my inventory, so I had an old broken down Mercedes Benz sitting around.
I am not sure if Linden did it yet, but the game is supposed to soon have, or already has, mesh sculpting. (Blender-style!)
There is an... explicit community of Second Life. A lot of people don't know better and end up in a place they really don't want to be, because they did not want to enter their real age.
Quote: "Disturbing, I wanted to play second life but my Dad read an article about the second life sex community in PCGamer and gave me a flat out no "
Apparently your Dad didn't read all of the article.
As long as you enter your real age, you cannot go into a mature region.
It will NOT let you in the areas if you are under 18, and if you teleport in there, you can get banned for good.
Since I am over 18, I have to and go to the options menu and un-check "Allow player into mature regions".
Second Life had a problem with cable and wireless connections for a while, but fixed it.
Quote: "but in the first minutes your there you will be sweared to death,or asked if you ever had sex or whatever."
Never go to a place with low traffic. Places with low traffic have a reason that they have low traffic.
Go to sandboxes, those are where I live in SL.
Remember, the golden rule to actually be able to enjoy SL is:
ENTER YOUR REAL AGE.
I know, I know, a lot of people like to say they are older then they are, expecting more respect among the people, but SL is not the game you want to do that on.
The silver rule is:
DON'T GO ON A 56K CONNECTION.
The bronze rule is:
DO NOT WEAR A TEACUP ON YOUR HEAD.
Who will die first?
