Just How Bad is the SL Economy

Spring 2007, LL dumps a ton of new SIMs to create a new continent, the effect was to drive the sqm pricing on Mainland which later trickled onto Estates as well. Too bad for those people who bought overpriced land before that

Yea totally. I cannot understand this. But many people just want to come here and instantly look good with little but preferably no effort at all.

I can understand having someone else close to you make your shape, but buying off the shelf shapes and using them without modding it is really beyond belief for me.

That's not entirely Linden's fault. They should have done that sooner, instead of letting the speculators and bots push the land bubble up before that.

Yeah, but the person you are referring to as being 8 Months old might be closer the mark than you for all your age'ism. She might be a hell of lot smarter than you....and from where i'm standing, she probably is.

Wow you can't help but cut low every time, eh?

I think your arguments speak for themselves.

I take my Q from you!
I know what i'm dealing with here i.e a nasty piece of work
I have seen your posting style on several occasions before on this forum and SLUniverse.....so i know what to expect from you!

Heck if I know. Who the hell buys shapes? Guys who don't want to learn how to use the sliders, I guess... the fact that there's even a market for shapes has always boggled my mind.

We had a thread about that some time ago, in which I voiced that opinion, and I still would to a large extent. The person on the other side argued that most people are not familiar with good proprtions and wouldn't get them reasonably right. I argued against that, but, since then, I've seen one thing that is proportionally wrong with the shapes of a lot of avs. I don't know if they are bought shapes or not, but they are wrong.

It's the arms length - they are a too short by a long way. I made an animation for normal length arms but I saw a lot of people with hands inside the tummy of the other person instead of you know where. Oddly enough, those avs look ok when standing up, but when I told one or two people to look where their av's hands end and compare it to where their RL hands end when hanging down at the side, they were amazed. The avs were too short by a long way, but they didn't look wrong. An RL person with such short arms would look wrong, but not the avs.

So there really is a need for shape-makers who are familiar with general proportions. That doesn't mean that all shape-makers / sellers *are* good with proportions though - I really don't know.

It's the arms length - they are a too short by a long way. I made an animation for normal length arms but I saw a lot of people with hands inside the tummy of the other person instead of you know where. Oddly enough, those avs look ok when standing up, but when I told one or two people to look where their av's hands end and compare it to where their RL hands end when hanging down at the side, they were amazed. The avs were too short by a long way, but they didn't look wrong. An RL person with such short arms would look wrong, but not the avs.

I take my Q from you!
I know what i'm dealing with here i.e a nasty piece of work
I have seen your posting style on several occasions before on this forum and
SLUniverse.....so i know what to expect from you!


If you think i'm going to put up with any of your boll#x, you're got another thing coming!

Seems you have a history of telling people they are being rude or "snidey" to you to excuse your own uncouth behavior:


LOL. Omg the irony is killing me. Im done...

You really need to get a life. All you can do is search out posts from other threads.
If i were to attach URLS of all your offensive posts across both RA and SLUniverse forums it would fill up my screen!
Your history is well known!

Hang on everyone! I just ran out of popcorn, give me 15 minutes to go to the store and come back.

I can leave RA for 3 months, come back....and you'll still be talking smack to another poor victim. Nothing ever changes with you! It's the highlight of your day!

be·lit·tled, be·lit·tling, be·lit·tles -- To represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant; disparage: a person who belittled our efforts to do the job right.

In the process of an In-world conversation with you Rhaorth, you publicly belittled me in front of other people about my general comments. You do not need to complain about your own standards not being fullfilled and stack them up against other peoples success.
You cover your bum by saying "sales are low by my standards (but might be considered high by others). You say " just what constitutes great sales?" Do you think we are going to base that great sales red line on your standards and hold it as the dictating marker because you say so in some form of wisdom that shows the shallow nature of your VIP complex. Your head has swollen to the same size as the head on Avatar Island.

I knew a Rhaorth at tiny little night club that had humility back in late 06.

You have forgotten your like every other resident here in SecondLlife.
But you get a little power and misuse it and the votes start coming in.
You have my vote, not to mention the others that have expressed themselves to me.
I'm not trying to start a war here but, you need to come down from 4096m.
I've been here since 2006 also Rhaorth and I have seen your progression.

You have these hours posted on Avatar island to help people out but we can barely get you to answer any questions and then you get annoyed when a noobie is just learning the ropes. I have personally seen you push non-english speaking people off Avatar island because they didnt speak your language.

I'm also sure you will ban me from Avatar island as you might get mad about my forum post because im giving you a little heat. 8D If you want to do somthing stupid like ban me from avatar island thats fine but it will just go to show other people the truth about your attitude and agenda. I also see you take this same line of thinking here in the forums, as I have included a previous post of yours.


02-13-2009, 05:57 AM #28
Rhaorth Antonelli
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 5,944 the thing that comes to mind, when I see people saying sales are great etc

just what constitutes great sales?

what might be astounding to one, might be minuscule to another...

for me, 500L in sales a day is very low sales

( I use the 500L as a marker, as that was what I needed before to break even on land fees per month, 500L per day in sales) and lately not even getting that

sales are low by my standards (but might be considered high by others)






Question? How many people are you going to step on in Secondlife before it comes back to bite you in the bum?

Even loading a current 10 sec sound file can inccur lag before it starts playing. I see that with a number of my gesture files which plays a wav file. just imagine trying to load a file that is 20 times larger. Its not feasable...and i don't think the SL platform could handle it even it wanted to.

- Gambling Ban - Casino owners take a large hit on the money spent on assets (machines,) not to mention the sale of SIMs as their business models collapses.

These Forums can get a bit wacky, claims and counter claims! Don't let it upset you Rhaorth

That's one reason why midi support would be very helpful. Sure it'd eliminate things like voice, as far as I know there is no midi instrument definition for voice, but that would also help with the copyright issues involved in creating full songs that were already pointed out (although of course you could still run afoul of the law when it comes to copyrighted instrumental works).

Another advantage of midi:

I have some ideas in mind that cannot be accomplished in SL without a guarantee that everybody present is hearing the exact same music at the exact same moment. At this moment that is impossible, whether it's being done with shoutcast streaming or embedding uploaded sound clips. If we could upload midi files, that just might make it possible to have that much control over timing and synchronization with music!

So I believe having midi support in SL would really make a positive difference in the arena of dealing with audio.

Blame that one on the US Government. It is illegal to run a server in the United States that hosts gambling operations. Period. Under no circumstances can you do this, even if the casino owner is in a country where online gambling is legal, and so is the person actually doing the gambling, it's still being hosted on a US server. Not legal. Linden Lab will bear the brunt of that fact.

So they had to outlaw gambling, and made the right decision in doing so. It was either gambling goes away, or SL goes away.

I believe having midi support in SL would really make a positive difference in the arena of dealing with audio.

Ah yes Midi files, i remember them well....they are lot smaller in file size like 50-200 Kb and usually instrumental sounding...correct?