When you started..

What did you do for fun? I have a RL friend that just started playing and after the 3-4 day he is already saying he is bored and that there is nothing to do. He likes WOW =\

I built for fun!

'Course, back then, you started with a couple thousand L$, could pick up a nice chunk of land for next to nothing, Land Barons didnt exist til the following week, and you could use as many prims as you wanted unless your neighbor had built a bookcase. What would I do now as a noob? Dunno. Money roolz. Can't have fun without it.

(should I put a Mole style </sarcasm> at the bottom of every post, btw?)

i hung out with new friends i made, built stuff, made pitiful clothes, avoided scripting like the plague, went to clubs and fought the lag monster, went to events....... basically everything.

if he's into WOW there may not be any hope of him liking SL. nothing wrong with that there's just no goal to SL and some people like goals. and beating on orcs or whatever.

Oh my, it is as bad as i thought. When he told me sl was getting boring i told him its better than wow.. just running around womping on creatures all day. His response was but yea you have goals.. to complete quest and to lvl up and get stronger! I hope he doesnt get scared off!

People who don't have the imagination for SL probably shouldn't even try and make it work. If you need goals in your game - to be told what to do in order to 'win', then I concur that SL is not for you.

I built a (crappy) house. Then my AV. Then I searched for dresses for my AV. Then I build a few stupid things. Then a better house (still am). And a beautiful thermal power station.

I don't see how you can be bored in SL, it looks like IRL ; many things to do.

I second what Kris said.

I think DarkLife is still around, I forget what sim its in, but he could try that, its basicly an MMORPG inside SL... but its no WoW yet.

If he likes WOW have him visit DarkLife or SimCast. Both are RPGs in world.

I became attached to a pole and worked it regularly to wind up my then dork of a bf , I also became renowned for throwing parties and generally being fun

It is only now, almost a year in, I have settled down and started to be useful to society

No, it's incorrect COML (Cynical Oldbie Markup Language). The correct tag is </FOAD> assuming of course that the correct opening tag was used.

You are Catherine Cotton, and I claim my £5.

Would anyone be willing to take him around and show him things that he might enjoy? If you are williing please pm me on the forums and i will give you his name.

I started last month. I bought some clothes, bought some land, built a building. Building was a lot of fun.

Now what? All I see in the events listing is TRINGO whatever that is. This should be called Tringo Life!

Yeah, I also meet and chat with the friends that got me into the game, but I can also do that through Yahoo!. So I think now I will tear down my building and start all over.

Have you tried setting up a Tringo game?

Seriously though, if you like building, try Primtionary or a Building Contest... always good for kicks.

hehehe what a goal. "i made a number get bigger!" you can play that game with a pad of paper and save the monthly fee.

It's on the island Navora

Or IM me.. I'll make him a prim that increments his score by one every time he touches it! Should keep him happy

and laggy lol

When I first started I just explored the world. I then bought a little land and decided to build a small, ruined castle. It came out pretty good so I ended up selling the land and buying more. I got right into building mode (gas station, old cars, etc..).

I've always looked for a "game" that allowed the most amount of freedom. The last game I was in was Star Wars Galaxies. It was fun but SL beats it hands down. Simply because I can create whatever I want. That's what SL is to me. Whatever I want to make I can do it.

SL is perfect for me, no specific goals, do what you want, etc.. but some people do want a structured game with goals and leveling up and such. Everyone is different in this respect. Your friend may never be able to get into SL. Which is a shame but it isn't for everyone.

Wow, you aren't kidding either, lol.

I just use calculator.exe whenever I want to make numbers go higher. No need to IM anyone. Plus I save a tree!

I think I spent the first 3 days going to events.. all of which had some sort of dancing involved. I thought all people did in SL was dance.

I was directed to the Ivory Tower of Prims and spent an evening there learning how to build. Then I got my first land and spent the next week or 2 building. I also did quite a bit of shopping hehe. Essentially that is what I still do, spend most of my time building and hanging out with my builder friends

I think the best thing someone can do is attend events that will introduce them to people interested in similar things.

DarkLife is a lot of fun! Maybe point him to some of the weapons clubs.

I just HAD to build, so abandoned my free trial and got a tiny chunk of land and built really ugly builds.

I explored some, but the world was much smaller then, and I would go dancing with friends I had made at either The Elite, or Club Midnight, which at that time were the only two active clubs.

Oh..hung out with the vamps in Hawthorne alot as well And partied at DaBoom!

SL is not for everyone. If you are into mouse clicking and leveling then having to turn to inner creativity for entertainment could be boring, or perhaps impossible.

I spent my first few days stuck up against a wall unable to figure out how to move, which was the fault of my old computer, and I still was not bored. Hmm, maybe I should look into leveling...click...click...click.

I spent my first few days trying to make it out of prelude, since SL crashed like once every 5 minutes.