Warning- Money Chair Exploit!

An exploit of an exploit! I love it! I might find myself one of these chairs now to log out from

Me too. I love the smell of free money in the mornings.

I'd think the Flanders family would be most interested in this

I wonder how it is that the chairs "create unnecessary lag." Is this just because they are there, or do they have something about them that makes them more lag-inducing that most other things?

coco

Zoinks.

I sure hope the money chair makers don't use llRequestAgentData() and the associated dataserver event for this.

If the chairs are lagging now, just imagine hundreds of them polling at like 5 second intervals. Ugh...

Now that's a shoddily coded chair if i've ever seen one. It's trivial to fix it.
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=changed

Don't try to keep up with the Flandereses.

Can you log out from multiple chairs?

What if I

loop
Find New Exploit Chair
Sit Down
Log Out
Log In
end loop

Great idea!

If you re-rezzed from logging in still seated in the chair, then no, otherwise, yes.

(Edit: is changed() raised if you sit in a chair then teleport out?)

It's a good point though - that badgeo page says nothing about a changed() event being triggered when the av sitting in the chair logs out. Thinking about it, though, it is an easy fix - just check llAvatarOnSitTarget() before paying out each time.

On the same line, you could probably adger such a camping chair nicely by scripting an object that links itself to the chair - assuming I've read things correctly and llCreateLink really doesn't require any permissions (which looks like a huge security hole to me.. mmm, all those nice link messages, I'll be viewing them, thanks very much.)

And as for "why can't they find something more exciting for them to do", there's plenty of reasons for that.

(And my own gestalt "camping crystal" was ruined by the detection limit )

I think it's more the traffic that is mudding things up as opposed to the scripts used in the chairs. Just this morning, I went to a mall to shop, and there were about 20 people in the middle of the mall sitting in money chairs. Things took forever to rez- it took me about 10 minutes just to scroll through a 36-object vendor. There was so much greyness and blurryness that I couldn't even tell what a store was selling without having to sit staring at it to rez for a minute. In the end, it was taking so much time that I had to abandon my shopping trip and log off, else I would have been late for RL work.

OK, I get it. Well, at least they're just SITTING there. I have a big club next to me now that fills up with dancing nude people. People dancing ALWAYS just KILLS my ability to function. (On the positive side, I'm happy to see a popular place that may bring more window-shoppers to my store.)

coco

I am wondering since you can set a maximum sit time for these chairs if that doesn't cut this exploit short. if they can sit for 1 hour by this setting I would think the log off while sitting would simply pay at one hour and minimize the damage.

Although the money chair thing is a bit of a disturbing concept, owners could make the chairs more interesting and funny by changing them to, say, exercise bikes where avatars would cycle endlessly.

Or make the avatars transform to statues of different poses.

Alternatively one could make the chairs ala Matrix, meaning that the avatars spine would be connected to some kind of monstrous machine that would appear to suck their bio-energy or whatever.


-Something along these lines might actually attract more workers and tourists too...

hehehehe

I like the last suggestion the best, though they were all good..

Cute ideas! Are you a scripter?

Ah, the ever-present "naked dancing clubgoer as virtual homeowner" demographic, eh?

I'm going to submit a vote for llDrainBioEnergy().

There's no way a camping chair script could cause lag, though. Without notecard configuration a camping chair's script would be under 25 lines and wouldn't need any sensors.

I wonder how many times a new resident has seen a group of people on the map and went there to meet people only to find zombies?

Is there a difference between regular logout and normal away logout then? Because every time I've seen someone logout in a chair, the chair's paid them immediately and freed itself. The only exception I've noticed has been when a sim crash forces logout, then when you get back to the sim afterwards you can see what the opening post described.

I kinda like the posing ones... aka Rocky Horror ... My vote for llVogue().

You misspelt "hamster wheel".

*blueman thinks about how the news of this exploit should effect dwell and how so many people trying to sit and log out will each cancel out the previous person's attempt.

Camping chairs in a clothing store, hmmm!