transferring to new av

Can anyone tell me if it possible to transfer my account and av belongings to a new av. I am so plagued by griefers my life is becoming unbearable and I just want away from the nasty little monsters. I'm a target and have been getting daily attacks for months. Moving home, reporting abuses, etc are all useless, because it doesn't stop the bullying and I did not come to sl to get my rl life repeated.

You can create a new account (new name) with the same or different email address and using the same or different or no payment info. You can give all your money to that account and you can give all Transferable inventory to that account. You cannot give 'No Transfer' items to anyone.

You can transfer any L$ you have, as well as any inventory that isn't specifically marked 'no trans' via the new av's profile, but there isn't a way to transfer the account intact.

Sorry to hear that Myah, but welcome to the forums anyway. Regrettably, there is no way to transfer all of an AV's belongings to a new one, even tho LL may know they are tied to the same email address and credit card. The only things you can give to a new AV are the things you have that have Transfer permissions. Plus all your Lindens, of course. Usually:

> Hair, skin, and eyes are almost always notransfer. But do check ... I know skins at Rha! Designs are trans, as is hair and eyes from Miriel.

> Whole avatars are usually notrans.

> Clothes vary, check them explicitly.

> Furniture, houses and landscaping items vary.

Good luck.

You can also set any land you have for sale to the new av to buy for L$1 (be sure to put your new av's name in the box) but I suspect that if someone is harassing you, you may not even want to keep land that they know you may have. LOL

Best of luck to you!
~Maddy

You can make a new identify (an new Alt) the same way you made the first one.

Then your old alt can give the new one anything you(he/she/it) have (has/got/owns) that is 'tranferrable'. For the non-transferrable stuff ... nope. You'll hafta buy again.

There is no official process, witness protection program, or trasfer in which LL will do something so that Myah Juran is now ... whoever. You just gotta start over, make an account like you did the first time.

It'll be a lot easier for you this time - just TP off Orientation island right away then detatch the n00b HUD.

In fact, I recommend uising one of the new "partner" dedicated portals. Asche Chung's Dreamworld, actually, was pretty smooth and troubled-free. Where I landed was not busy and low-lag. The Scion portal was probably even better.

FIVE simultaneous answers. Nobody can say we're not helpful.

And......keep your old account going, even if it's just at unpaid basic level - you can always go back to it when the griefers have gone.

That's a very interesting comment, Myah. You might want to look at how you did this, so you can avoid it with your next av.

If you are being harrassed AR, AR some more, and then AR again and again. It might take them weeks or months to get to it, but if they do it to you they'll do it to somebody else.

A lot of people change avies because of harrassment and Linden should offer some kind of service to change your name.

trouble is this advice is stuff I already know and if it was viable would have been used. I have three avs now and the griefers have already tracked one of the alts and are griefing her also.

I put much time, real money and effort into this av and am not prepared to lose one iota of her to griefers. AR I have done till I'm sick with the wasted time and effort, that doesn't help me get rid of a group of thugs, I am sure you know that they just get another av and grief me all over again

the only solution I have been able to find is to pay for a vanity name, but that is an extortionate solution - why should I pay my meagre income to LL for a simple name change, when that should be a matter of course for victims of griefers. We have no defence nor protection against these disgusting morons and I resent it.

As new avs are not the solution and vanity names are not worth the expense, I guess I will have to do as I do in rl and live in a box with no freakin life anywhere. At that rate, what's the point of giving any money to Linden at all. I will not be putting my cash into this game any further and will leave when my ac is up for renewal.

Thanks guys for you help and good luck to those who think this place worth the garbage.

I just can't help but wonder exactly what you're doing or where you're doing that is bringing this upon you.

I've been in-world many hours of every day for over 6 months. I've worked at clubs, visited clubs, managed clubs, own a club. I own clothing stores. I come in contact with many, many people every day and have not ever once been griefed.

So how is it that you not only under one av got griefed, but under two avs? Where do you hang out that people are locating you and griefing you?

You took the words right out of my mouth, HoneyBear.

I don't understand why you think a vanity name would be any kind of solution. As I said before, in your position I would look very closely at the similarities between the lives you're creating (RL and SL) because I assure you it's not coincidence that you're playing the "victim" in both of them.



I agree with HoneyBear that it has to be something that YOU'RE doing that's causing this. I've been inworld over a year, spend a lot of time interacting with all kinds of people, and I've only ever been griefed once (and that was very short-lived lol).

You can complain all you like about the griefers and AR them to death, but if you're getting results that no one else is, it would be a lot more helpful (in both your lives, I'd suggest) to take a long look at your own expectations and actions. I also noticed that you refer to your av as "her" and in my limited experience, griefers are more likely to target male avs - so what exactly ARE you doing and WHERE?

At least if you take responsibility for the results you're getting, you're giving yourself the power to change them.

I can understand the OP's frustration.

But I agree with Honey...I think it's likely that she did something, or has something in her personality, that may be a contributing factor.

Myah, SL teaches a lot of lessons, if we're open to them. They're not always the ones we expected to learn. I've learned a LOT about myself, both good and not so good, here.

I really don't understand this point.
If a 'vanity' name (together with an avatar and clothing package) is a solution, then it implies that the problem is the names you have been choosing and/or the avatar appearances you have been using.

I should have thought that a mix of appearance and behaviour within a given social environment would be the triggers for bullying.


If the same group of people are doing the bullying, then that implies that either they are bullying anyone that they can use as a victim, or you are giving off recognisable signals.
It also might imply that you are going back into the same groups and activities in whicj the initial bullying took place.




On a separate note:

I don't believe that "griefing" is the correct term here.
Griefing is generally indiscriminate.

What is being described sounds more like bullying.
Bullying in schools and in the workplace is illegal in my neck of the woods.
It's not treated as "someone being an A**hole". It's treated very seriously in the knowledge of the intense psychological damage it can inflict.

By the sound of it a new name and look will not help.. I have some more positive suggestions perhaps.. Do in this order.

1. Leave every group you can.. They may be tracking you through your groups.. If you own group land keep that, but don't show it in your group listing.. Your group list should be empty to strangers.

2. Do not go back to your normal haunts for a while...

3. Move to someplace far away, even it is just a rental plot someplace.. But move..

4. Now change your AV's look completly.. Go be a furry robot, or Neko for a while.. Anything as long as it is different.. Go places you never go.. SL is big, find something fun to do for a while..

If you do this for a couple of weeks you should find they have lost interest in you and moved on to other targets...

You did not say what brought this on... This level of griefing is normally a vendatta of some sort.. That may be harder to deal with.. But even then they should grow tired of looking for you after a while..

I would honestly have different advice for someone with a different mind set than yours.. And this is not how I would (did) handle something like this.

okay, hang on....

if you got a totally new account, and didnt tell anyone who your alter ego is, but these people still find you, track you, and harass you... then the only thing i can think of is that they're hacking your account, or your email, or SOMEthing that gives them this information.

or, this group is given information by someone who knows you -- someone who lives with you, perhaps.

at any rate, i would seriously consider taking this to law enforcement authorities.


IF they really are finding you through non-sl channels. and you're not somehow 'advertising' your new 'identity' in-world.