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Bozzy
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 01:30
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I just tried this out, and honestly I feel its well erm rubbish. No offence to anyone here if they bum off it, but I've been on it for 3 days and have got exactly $0.

Theres like 10,000 ppl crammed into one space = wrecked PC.

You can build and code stuff to make it work which is quite good, but its generally awful.

IN MY OPINION obviously.

You ever heard of it, and if so what dya think of it?
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Person99
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 01:33
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It is hard to start out in second life, because you have to sell things to make money.
I love the game. (Especially with the new model importers and sculpting tools.)

The problem with the Ping is that you cannot join a place with traffic over 20,000 without having a lot of patience.

Who will die first?
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Bozzy
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 01:35 Edited at: 1st Jun 2007 01:36
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Hold on, you can import objects and sculpt?

This makes it better by a long way, I was stuck with boxes lol.
Erm whats your name then?

So what stuff dya think I can sell?
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Oolite
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 01:36
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I've never tried it, but you can't expect to have earned much after just three days of playing, if you went in with the intention of making money you may have to invest a little more time with it.


[Looking for work]
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Bozzy
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 01:36
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I would love to but I'm stuck with GCSE exams ... In summer then possibly = yay
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 01:37 Edited at: 1st Jun 2007 01:38
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Are they still charging monthly fees for this game, and if so, (A) how much are they, and (B) is it really worth it to pay them month after month? After playing WoW for a short period of time I grew extremely bored with it. The quests are all pretty much the same thing over and over again (go kill this or get that), the combat is extremely slow compared to the FPS games I'm used to playing, and the people that play it are far too caught up in their little digital universe for me to want to talk to them for any length of time. If Second Life has any of these qualities, count me out :/

Edit: Wait, by money, you do mean in-game money, right?


"In an interstellar burst, I'm back to save the universe"
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Bozzy
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 01:40 Edited at: 1st Jun 2007 01:41
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You can have a basic account = free
Something else = 1 time $9.95
Premium = Monthly $9.95
Annual = $72

Theres tons of chat going on in the popular places.
When you start off, like me, its best not to pay until you gain some skills in building or scripting (like C++ syntax a bit) but yeh...

I need a job lol

You can transfer in game money to real money and vice-versa
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Virtual X
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 02:20
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if you need a job get a REAL job, you will learn alot more interacting with people lol, anything like this takes a long time to generate any viable income that you can live off.

do yourself a favour and don't be one of those sad people, sitting at their PC all day trading binary land (I say, sitting at PC lol), get out you may even meet a girl ;o) woohoo lol
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Bozzy
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 02:24 Edited at: 1st Jun 2007 02:25
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I would love to get a real job but Im only 15 (theyve put me into the main one while they get the crappy teen one sorted) and apparently you have to be "Mature" to get a job lol

I've got a paper round (smiles happily and proudly!)

Huh, whats this thing girl? lol
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Raven
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 03:18
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at 15 you're allowed to work at a supermarket or such for up to 16hrs a week. tbh though when i worked for budgens, they ripped me off with taxes and found i made more doing 3 paper routes a day... plus far less work. So went back to doing a paper route lol

this aside, Second Life.. sucks. it's the next evolution of VR Chatrooms, and sucks just as bloody hard.. cause the only thing evolved is the technology running it; the visual quality and useability is still crap.

Playstation Home looks good as the next VR Chatroom template though. That said emoticons = someone dancing in their underware in front of you. Happens in every online game, some 1337 player will always jig while wearing as little as physicaly possible... there's got to be something in a mental health journal about that.

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Bozzy
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 03:24 Edited at: 1st Jun 2007 03:24
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Oh yeah, I saw that Playstation Home... looks great I think and the visual quality is awesome.

So you think SL is crap then... kewl
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 03:35
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Quote: "someone dancing in their underware in front of you."

Yet another reason I quit WoW for the most part. Too often people would do that in the auction house, and running around the forest near Stormwind... annoying. It was funny the first time, and even then it was only worth a giggle or two.


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Person99
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 05:12
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Hold on, you can import objects and sculpt?

This makes it better by a long way, I was stuck with boxes lol.
Erm whats your name then?

So what stuff dya think I can sell?

Quote: "Hold on, you can import objects and sculpt?"


Since a week or so ago, yes.

Quote: "Erm whats your name then?"

On SL it is Four Numbers. (If you look at my profile, you can tell I just entered a bunch of random junk when I joined SL. )

The only way you can have fun with SL is if you have a good connection, like me.

Who will die first?
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Jeku
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 09:55
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Well I quite enjoyed SL last year, and made some money from a casino. I built the Blackjack and various other machines on my own, and had my own land. Partnered up with a chick from Germany, and she turned the place into a brothel. Sold my share of the casino/club and made close to $200. Not bad for a few hours a day, considering I spent lots of time setting up scripts for fun. I enjoyed doing things in my home like building a switch to turn all the windows in my house different colours, building elevators, etc.

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Fallout
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 13:58
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Sounds like SL is what you make it then. Might give it a bash at some point.


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indi
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 14:11
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the white tower is a good place to learn to build.
the free dungeons is full of freebies.

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Virtual X
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 17:46
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the money programme was on yesterday and they were reviewing second life, and other MMO's like WoW, Lord of the rings etc... quite alot of people have actually given up their day to day jobs and working full-time in second life LOL - which I find very cool, If anyone saw the programme it's quite shocking what goes into a serious MMO, notice 'mission control' for LOTR near the end of the programme lol, now do you wanna work on that MMO? lol
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UnderLord
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 19:10
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Quote: "You can transfer in game money to real money and vice-versa"


Theres a game called project entropia that allows you to do this (it came before second life) however the game is so rigged you will spend more money trying to make money then you will actually make, me and my friends called it the worlds fancyest slot machine...because thats all it is.

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
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Bozzy
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 12:35
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lol, anyway I've decided making money on secondlife was too hard so I decided to go around babysitting... It's actually really good, all you do is send the kids to bed and eat all the food in the house out... AND they don't mind you doing it
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Virtual X
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 13:31
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they don't mind? hmm... they maybe be too polite to tell you to bugger off LOL, don't be surprised if they never asked you again, *haha*
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