The Future of Second Life

No it doesn't!

(I'll kill you!)

Oh dear. Silly me! The depth, coherence and sheer intellectual force of your argument have completely convinced me.

Pep (not)

PS Perhaps you have your "SL" and "RL" a bit mixed up, thereby making you look *really* dumb?

What they could do for Copy items is to have a command to purge the resizing scripts in the worn version once the fitting is done. The wearer might have to guided to a parcel that could support the scripts while the fitting is done.


Edit: Ah! So while I was multi-tasking in between typing, I see from new posts that some already have.

you big

..(o)

Only one response to that utterly compelling rhetoric.

Pep (!)

They do it to try and slow down the copybotters.

Pep, they were talking about scripts, not fashion.

It's the principle of it!

Pep (You don't hear much talk about changing the size of men's shoes!)

I'm sticking to my New Year prediction. The greatest threat to Second Life's survival this year will be that Linden Lab will finally screw the wrong person hard enough that the victim will sue Linden Lab into oblivion.

I think the biggest threat to SL and virtual worlds in general is governments. We get adverse publicity that often gets blown out of proportion and it would only take one or two high-profile cases to do with virtual worlds, like a RL murder provoked by virtual activity, or maybe the discovery of use by organised crime or terrorists, and the heavy hand of internet censorship could come down on SL and other worlds alike.

But my prediction is that SL, or a successor, will still be here in 5 years' time.

I hope not, because usually I have to size everything down past the point the manual editing will work (due to the small center prim they put as the link root. But, all the resize scripts I use have a delete function - after it has been adjusted for me, I delete the scripts in the items.

Surely, in SL, those shoes start overtly large and stay overtly large. (^_^)

Immy (Overcompensate much?) =^-^=

I have a "Small Prims Fixer" script for that. Just load the script in the root, size it down until all the bits hit rock-bottom, tell it to fix and it finds all the prims @ 0.010 and changes that dimension to 0.015. One more command wipes the script from all prims. It's really nice. (^_^)y

i see SL fading away like Activeworlds and ppl running their own OpenSimulator and able to teleport to each others servers kinda like the internet, and google will have a teleport search engine for OpenSimulator 3D internet

I predict a riot.

Actually I see LL outsourcing certain grids and having trusted status with them for us to TP there. So for example someone like PKR might run a gambling grid where those who live in countries where online gambling is not allowed won't be able to enter, the third party will be responsible if any infractions occur.

actually, that's not really true. Copybot works regardless :/ However there are some script based copy scripts that may in fact work on a mod item - those are probably the ones some people are trying to stop.

but a bigger reason and in fact the main one I hear from people - items with a lot of small prims are really hard to resize or recolor well, especially if they use a lot of sculpties. I leave items with a lot of tiny difficult to mod prims - no mod to reduce the amount of support from people who IM and scream they broke their stuff. Scripts are really not an option there - they actually are easier for people to use and it allows me to sell at a lower price point.

If I sell mod for difficult to mod items - I definitely will have to raise the price, and I am not sure that its worth it for many things.

Hair should be left mod, though - its really not hard to mod it and hair is actually pretty easy to make by any relatively talented sculptor. Things like jewelry and shoes are pretty hard to mod for an average user however. I've been experimenting with permissions to see which ones may be better. I'm considering a tiered pricing system... might work better. No mod + scripts for some, mod + scripts for more money.

Is there a way to make money in this?

I predict that in the future that Linden Lab will make some changes to Second Life.

And I predict that some people will be angry about it.

I predict they will leave.

I predict other people will show up and take their place.

I predict none of us will get it right because we only see a small fragment of the big picture.

and then the online world would be redefined?

Heh, you've played Anarchy Online too

Trail blazing is all about redefining. Like everybody else, I'm not sure exactly where M and Phil are taking us, but it's been an interesting ride thus far, so I'm in.

The new sims in Ursula will be named after Julie Andrews' characters.

A new prim type will be introduced, the woody. It will be shaped like Woody Allen, and you will need an nVidia 8500 or newer to see it.

The main welcome area will be redone as a giant watermelon farm.

The prim editing box will gain the ability to set the prim material to "Homer".

SL time will be localized to Swatch Beats.

A special "golden prim" worth L$500,000 will be created. It will appear during normal prim rezzing from the edit menu once a month. Sandboxes will be full of people creating and deleting prims, trying to rez the "golden prim", but the first one will be tragically turned into a floppy dong and lost in a sim-crossing incident.

it wont

ROFLMAO!!!!