Better applications of camping chairs.

Instead of just camping chairs, I thought the community could brainstorm better alternatives to this concept.

Instead of 3-4 dozen people sitting motionless, not doing anything, let's take this resource and exploit it for good measure.

Assume that 80% of camping chair people are AFK.

Therefore, AFK people have little control (or care) of where their av is going, as long as it's making them money.

Therefore, some amount of ancillery entertainment should be applied to these avs for a double benefit of land owners.

For instance, instead of camping chairs, make some zombie-walk attachments. Avatars sit on a moving poseball (that gives them money), and the poseball walks their avatar around in a confined space. Another resident can then pay a fee, and using a special gun supplied by the landowner, can "shoot" the zombies for fun and games. The avs wouldn't die, per se; there'd be some script-fu that merely makes a death animation occur. Instead of the AFK resident being sent home, he simply "dies" on the ground for a few minutes, before rising again. He is a zombie, after all.

The gun-toting resident could be paying by the minute or something. Another income source.

Or make the pod chair people a captive, receptive audience? You could have "worst stand up comedy contest", and have people come out; the host of the game would have a controller over all the poseballs and could trigger a variety of "crowd responses"; cheering, booing, applause, etc.

Controlled extras for a movie? Machinima is getting big in SL, I've heard.


Yes, these are semi-serious suggestions for the pod people.... i mean, camping chair hosts. Do something creative for once, and get your head above the rest.

LF

This is awesome.

I second, awesome idea.

There was a game for halloween where you shot spiders in a sim. It was fun and there were always a few people around playing.

Using AVs instead of prim monsters would add to the game: variety in looks, in animations and smoother motions too (prim spiders use llSetPos I think, it's jerky).

I say we put them in animation loops and have them constantly performing Vegas-style shows. Would be great for live(afk) entertainment for Casinos.

As long as we can still shoot them, sure.

yes, pie throwing and dunk tanks.
I would love to do that.

..of course you would have to use some carnie-script to ensure you get the right feeling.. so they would say things like "you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn" .. "you throw like my grandmother" .. "ahh.. that was just a lucky shot"

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one more.. along the same lines as shooting.. how about like a shooting gallery.. they move back and forth.. different speeds, and of course you have to have the *ping* when you hit

It would be more fun to pay the newbies to actually be at their computers, and run around and be moving zombies for people to shoot at. More fun for them as well.

That's really a "job" sort of thing though.

Inspired thinking, Lordfly!

How about making the "zombie" poseball a follower? Then the rest of us can have posses as well.

I have another idea - but as the forums are PG, never mind.

This is brilliant.

You want someone to make money by being AFK, then have them do something useful.

How about mannequins for clothing stores? Imagine showing up at Pixeldoll's and having an AFK employee standing there on a poseball modelling the latest style.

Add the camping script to Abremalin's pony saddle, and have some ridable Pony Linden clones on your ranch.

Write up enough scriptage and you could even have them be credible bartenders, waiters, clerks, and so on.

(Plus you could shoot them)

(Oh, hush, get back in my id)

Oh yeah, wait until the media gets word of this. Second Life: Massively Multiplayer Online Humiliation
Instead of killing crap and being a hero, you could... let your computer idle while your in-game persona is abused and humiliated! Fun fun fun!

As opposed to Second Life: Massively Multiplayer Snoozefest. Instead of playing, your in game persona sits in a chair while you aren't even at your computer because this is rewarded by some bizarre traffic related developer award, where LL believe this is a valuable service to the community keeping all those avatars 'entertained'.

I mean, really, it's all so much bullshit now, isn't it? We're at nearly 100,000 members! Of course, most of those are alt accounts. And of course, only 3000 of those are logged in at any one time. And of course, only 1000 of those are actually at their computer. The rest are far too busy making $$$ doing nothing! Oh yes, SL really has finally made it, huh?

Well, if they're going to be wasting electricity and LLab's resources, the capitalists running these pod-people establishments might as well get a few more miles out of these AFK avs.

I mean, seriously. The people won't be there to see their avs "Abused", and seeing as they'll be making cents on the hour (!!!), they won't care.

Good ideas everyone, keep them coming.

surely "a few more laughs"

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Ppl who install mouse mover software so that they can leave their machine runnning SL while they go to work, inducing lag, consuming bandwidth, abusing dwell to make a quick buck for doing nothing - well, don't they deserve to be abused and humiliated?

Yes. Because it's cruel to the mouse! You can't expect the poor little things to work all that time without a rest!

There are more suggestions along these lines in this thread: /108/5f/77377/2.html

Excellent ideas, all. Also, could make a better, more effective help-island parrot this way.

I tell you what we need - a Camper Organ. You have a bunch of campers sitting in a row, and a keyboard. Touch the keys and one of the campers stands up and sings a note, then sits down again.

Or you could line them all up and make them do the world's longest Mexican Wave.

This is the best idea by far, but they need to be dressed in mouse costumes and there needs to be a giant hammer involved.

This had gotta be one of the best suggestions I've read yet... especially the shooting! Campers are so dull, they don't even seem to use the opportunity to talk to fellow campers...
They need to be put to good use... and the best use I can see is for the entertainment of those who actually have a life in Second Life... (and really, when $10 buys around 2500 L$, if you are too lazy/untalented/or-simply-too-busy-having-fun to earn money other ways, just buy it peoples, and spend your time more productively!)

this is a brilliant scheme. sell your av body to shooters or sex clubs or such. i wonder if you could poseball a tour guide that would walk around, point and speak via script. Can poseballs detect avs and hand out flyers?

kris is right, this kind of reputation will guarantee that SL is viewed as a simple toy for generations. of course things like camping chairs do that anyway; so we might as well have fun with it.

Yes! Please. That'd be fabulous. And they could say 'Ow' in different tones instead of actually singing... maybe the hammer could be a phantom thing that would just appear over their head and smack them when their key was pressed. I don't go anywhere where there are camping chairs, but I'd go watch this.

I'll pay some of the money to fuel the "chairs" if we get a video of the final product playing a christmas song.

They could be wearing mouse heads with Santa hats on! Somebody has seriously got to do this, it's getting to be too funny of an idea.

Ohhhhhhhh....

Virtual friend for your second life. You could have an AFK person follow you to the club and dance with you there. Cooooool.
You'd have to pay for it to work, ex 100L$ for an hour. Buy a friend for an hour !