Hot Investment Tip!!!!

Scenario:

Newbie fresh off Help Island steps into the big beautiful world of second life with visions of creations and making some money dancing in their heads. "You can create anything you can imagine" a well intentioned mentor will say.

Unfortunately this isn't possible. Promises abound in sl. Promises which can never be fullfilled. If they can't be fullfilled that makes them lies doesn't it?

With hopes of a new better update that will cure all ills we keep tredging along. Waiting for the future of a wonderful creation tool. Well boys and girls after one year of this crap i am convinced this will never happen. Or at the very least it hasnt happened yet.

Sure go ahead and create something wonderful. But the chances of it remaining wonderful are slim at best. Why? Because LL in it's infinite wisdom will create another update and your beaming invention will go kahputt! No? it hasn't happened to you? Don't feel left out... it eventually will. Perhapes a script will no longer work. Or perhaps your particles can no longer be seen at a distance. Perhaps all your scripts in your creations will magically become full perms and the rest of the world can share in the joy of your creation at no cost to them. Or perhaps your sounds wont play, someone will steal your textures or grief the hell out of you to the point you will eventually leave the game altogether. Ahhh the joys of second life.

And then to top it all off you may eventually make a statement that these things are taking place. And some do gooder angel from the heavens will come down and tell you love it or leave it. But that's ok .... they don't understand that you plopped down $1250 USD and $195 a month of your hard earned bucks to invest in an island in second life.
They don't realize you feel like you've been duped into believing you can actually do something here and are now frantically trying to make your investment pay off so you dont feel like an utter idiot for spending so much of your cash foolishly. They don't know you feel like an old lady down the street who got caught up in some retirement scam and entrusted her funds to a con artist who ran off with her money and is now afraid to admit she was conned. Or someone who went on a three day drunk, got locked up and took it up the shoot all weekend.

Moral of the story boys and girls, if you want to invest $3600 a year you're better off investing in the opti grab.

(blows kisses)

Word....



Now let the flamers out

Does this mean you have an island to sell?

make me an offer

Savi!

what.... what

Yes, things change. It's what makes SL progress and it's something all content creators face.

I have nearly 2 years worth of work I am wondering how upcoming changes to animations will effect. Am I running away saying I will quit? No I am thinking how I will adapt, and what new things will be possible to make.

No I didn't run away when things got tough... I foolishly invested in an island and made it one of the best islands in second life in spite of the massive greifing problems. But I don't have the power or the resources to wreak havoc like the updates have... errr I meant make changes hehe.

The unverfied account things I agree with. I was hoping that by now LL would realize its causing more probelms than good for them.

I thought the griefer problem was bad until all the stuff that broke because of updates and all the things i've had to fix because of updates.... which is everything i have ever made.... So now the greifer thing is a walk in the park compared to how messed up the game is now with things not working

they long realized,even before opening it.
they want big numbers to sell sl

That would explain the indifference we see to our problems

None of the 'updates' have to actually accomplish anything, fix anything, or make anything better. It's just a blind race for the 'new', 'cutting edge', etc. and if your experience in SL gets worse...too bad. Because they're hard at work on next weeks' 'update'.

Agreed Savi! But if you take the long view of all of human history - it all pretty much sux the same doesn't it? The Roman's coined the phrase "Caveat Emptor" - let the buyer beware. From the long view, you invested in what is effectively a virtual environment during the early stage of maturing the environment.

There was always a risk that <any> change would break something. And there always will be - its a dynamic environment. Your investment represents a much higher risk acceptablilty than I prefer for example. So, yes you are involved with creating patterned bits of data on a server cluster in California, and have spent a lot of money to do so. I admire your courage let alone your skill!

1 mil users by end of 2006.

This is what the invesis want to see and that's what Philip would show them. Anyways, for resis this is a good thing, maybe after Jan, he'd go to sane mode and with the additional $'s from invesis he'd be able to provide havok 4, better lighting, html on a prim, HDR and phone sex.

a dozen beers and a lolly pop stick for 16k sqm of island and u pay tier?

And on the other end of the phone, I can hear some deadbeat, bored out of their minds saying, "Do you want an Island with that Upgrade? It's only 10 cents more."

If I want fast food, I'd go to a hamburger joint. If I want fast game service... okay, I never want a fast game. Those tend to be buggier than Windows ME.

Simply put, the numbers mean that 1 million people signed up. It doesn't mean they stuck around. Free drive-through service is great.. for a fast food joint, but it doesn't mean I'll be back again and again, especially if the food makes me sick.

Hmm.. I think I'm hungry.

Isn't the problem that the number of concurrent users (8300 indicated in another thread) has also crept up to a point pushing the asset server to the edge?

Yes, it is. The asset system was screaming with 5000 concurrent users. I'm surprised it hasn't given up the magic smoke on 8,300. I'm half afraid to log in right now.

Oh, yes, it's your world and your imagination.. because you sit there trying to imagine what that grey square might look like or even be.

I'll give ya 100 lindens for it.

I bid $L101.

SL has been progressing?

What sort of offer are you looking for? Is this "I want to get the hell out of this place" pricing, or "This thing is valuable, and I want to turn the reins over to someone else" pricing? Also, do you plan to keep what's already there? Or do you care?

you shouldn't let your ass do your talking like this. Its diction just isn't that good.

Did we just add 40000 residents in 2 days? or did I miss something...........?