Taking the Luck out of Lucky Chairs

I get this childish pleasure from discovering a lucky chair with my initial on it (is my real life so lacking I ask myself )...I also get pleasure if I spot a friends initial on a chair and getting them to tp to claim the prize...oh the nail biting thrill of it ...will they arrive in time ? what will the prize be?

Now apparently theres a hud which can tell you where lucky chairs with your letter are..

I think its 'cheating' I also think it takes the fun out of lucky chairs...

I just wonder what others think on the world shattering subject of potential lucky chair abuse.

Are people illegally finding chairs just to win half immobile zebra avatars, over sized jewellry and the items people just couldnt sell in the shops ?

And remember, anyone can sit in a chair with a question mark on it. ?

damn and I thought those were for people confused over their sexual identity

I pretty much see it your way - it kind of takes the fun out of it.

On the other hand, as you say, it's not earth-shattering, and it's not like (in most cases) people are getting money out of them. I even IM'd one such group to announce that I now had a chair.

In my Lucky Chair, I have put something not available for sale, except as a freebie along with a house. So it isn't something that "wouldn't sell," but rather, something that doesn't sell by itself.

I like to think that most people who get a prize from my lucky chair happen on it by accident, in the fun way it was intended. And you know, my sense is that most people actually do.

I think those groups are mainly for high-buzz items, or prizes already highly valued for some reason or another.

coco

Yeah next thing they will do is instead of giving you gifts, just have these chairs that pay you money for sitting on them long enough.

they do that in the British House of Commons

That would be horrible. I would hate to have that happen. It would really screw of the search system, and make finding interesting places very time-consuming. It might mean you would see a huge clump of green dots, but then find that they are just a bunch of odd-balls sitting there doing nothing. I will have to pretend that they are all using voice chat so that I won't have to cry over the wasted resources, the lag creation, the damage . . . think of the baby hamsters!

I once won L$700 by sitting on a Lucky Chair, I'd just started so I was well pleased.

I'm not interested in chasing after those chairs - I like chancing upon them, and discovering what I win.

Worst? A pair of bear claws. They went in the trash.

Best? A Lamborgini! Which my BF drove into the ocean lol. And it's transferable and can be copied! Does the Cartel need one?

How come I can never win bear claws on a lucky chair ?

Oh Maelstrom! Had I know you coveted such an item, I would have saved them for sure! Next time, I'll post here first

wow ..

I don't think all that would ever happen. Dont worry.

I think instead of lucky chairs we will call them "Camping Chairs"

I found a ballgag dumpster diving once. I decided that given where it came from, someone else would have to wear it.

You can get a lot of money for Bear Claws on the Bear Blackmarket

is that what you call a 'paws for thought'

okay you can groan now

/me is grossed out thinking about where THAT has been!

OK, now I know who should be wearing that gag.

but we're all telepaths in sl anyway so it wouldnt make any difference.............

Before or after it found it's way into the dumpster?

Remind me not to play with you........

You mean you're prone to forget? I'll remind you... after...

why are you 'instantly' forgettable ?

I think it just proves the futility of having lucky chairs around: people with no money have no interest in the store and they'll only stay long enough to get the goodie bag and run and (some) people who actually are there to spend are annoyed with the constant text flooding of the chair or the people they tend to attract so they leave.

Just because it doesn't look like a camping chair, doesn't mean it's not designed to do exactly the same thing.

Perhaps. Or perhaps it's the special cocktail that makes you rather sleepy...

Personally, I mourn the passing of Lucky Chairs the way they used to be when I joined. I know that many others do too. They were gathering places, and people "called" the letters on the chairs to groups. You got to know other people of roughly the same age as you, plus a few older ones, and you would just hang out and chat ... call chairs ... show each other cool stuff you had. A lucky chair crowd was the first place I saw a tiny, the first place someone explained to me about land, the first place I found out what a collar does. I made real friends standing around waiting for chairs to flip.

A Group was created to re-create the experience of Lucky Chairs the way they used to be. But there is no going back. The passing of lucky chairs is an example of how the charm that once pervaded SL is slipping away as it becomes more of a mass market product.