Did you ever Camp

I just camped while sorting my inventory, after 6 or 7 times decided it was boring to camp, spent the hour doing O/T in RL instead and just used my Credit Card to buy Lindens.

I tried, but didn't have the patience to sit there so I got up before I had earned anything. I used the Money Trees for cash in my first month and actually accumulated quite a bit. And then used the Lucky Chairs to get a starter wardrobe. Then decided I was staying a while and staring dumping cash in. Never even considered camping again after that first dismal try.

At first, then I discovered farming money trees and found this more enjoyable. You would actually see new places you would not see sitting in a camping chair, and meet live people, not zombie bots. I have had conversations with other such farmers when I started. By the time I was a month old I decided to go premium, buy land, and have not looked back.

I thought everyone camped at some point. Sometimes for the few extra Ls to buy something, sometimes just to have general cashflow. I never made much, but it was a useful starting point. It's a no-skill job that anyone can do. Less productive than my time spent trying to work out how to build, but HUMBLE ORIGINS, dammit!

Lot of us old timers predate camping.

I played Slingo though. I guess thats bout close as I came.

I camped, did the money tree thing, and an SL game park too (now gone, but you had to run around looking for money balls that would randomly surface before they poofed). I did it for a long time, as part of me did think that buying money would be "cheating." And after I started owning land and renting, I used it as an offset to my expenses - if someone was willing to pay, why not? But the camping bots did make a big difference, and when the rates sunk really low, it really wasn't worth hunting these places down. I'm too busy these days to even think about camping, and it largely isn't worth it.

I camped only once because a RL sculptor I met wanted to camp while we chatted about sculpting/building in SL and I went along with it. By this time I was charging thousands of lindens for custom clothes design, so I found the L$16 I earned by camping rather ridiculous.

I started SL with ambitions to make real money using real skills, so camping just never appealed. I bought Lindens so I could buy land and skins and clothes and sometime bought things so I could study them and see how they were made. I viewed the early spending as investments or entertainment. It has certainly paid off.

:: old lady here (in SL terms) ::

not a day in my second life... then again when I got here I ran into some of the now top design people and being a newbie they felt bad for me (or couldn't stand hanging out with a newb) and I got several quality items for free from them (something I try to do now too)

but I find the abuse campers funny... saw one for dumpster diving, cleaning toilet bowls, and a few others....

the concept isn't completely broken, it could be used to flesh out a regular staff to spiff up a location... sort of like temp work that you don't have to advertise for or keep track of employees... although the closest I've seen to this is open dance poles at clubs with linked tip jars that take a percentage for the club...

but I swear I'm going to make a fast food restuarant with campers that wear huds and respond to things like menu selections just as a proof of concept... wouldn't be that much different than having a 'live' cashier at your store. pay them based on time, and also on sales that go through them... maybe they'll drum up some free advertising in the process (after all they get commision)... you get a semi live employee, your location gets traffic and maybe some word of mouth, and the camper is made useful as an employee... not to mention the novelty factor for customers.

Same here - I used to play a bit of Tringo, but it was more the competition against other players that attracted me, not the L$. If camping had been about when I arrived in SL, I wouldn't have gone for it - I can't see how it even covers the leccy bill for running the PC.

I used to camp a bit when I first joined, especially on dance pads. I probably made my first L$100 that way.

Dance pad for - ooh - twenty minutes.

Spent my sign up money on a pair of shoes which came with a butt wiggle animation (this possibly should have told both me and the metaverse what was coming their way someday - I still have that animation tho the shoes themselves are long gone!).

Thought "Hey if I stay logged in I might make 50L overnight! Muhahahahahaha".

Came to the PC the next day and was sorely disappointed (if only I'd known how to stay connected!). Decided it wasn't worth the hassle ... explored a bit for a few days and by day 3 I had a premium account, my First Land with a little house I was so proud of and the sworn determination that I would never charge the credit card for anything but the right to have my rent-free 512 by paying the subscription.

/me looks at that ambition, 2 years later, and just laughs and laughs. Bless, how green was I? Idiot

***edit*** Thanks for starting this thread. You've made me remember a very innocent time before other people's drama, my own mistakes and the changing nature of SL made me feel so old and jaded. I'll take that thought inworld in a mo when I go building

I only camped once. I think it was my second day. I kept running into so many camping places that I thought it was almost a requirement. I sat there, no one really talked much and was bored stiff. Once I figured out how much I was making hourly I decided I would never do it again. Fortunately I learned there is much more to do in SL.

That makes sense too. I'm sure people would save plenty of RL money by just buying their L$. But, I guess that's only if they are paying that bill. (^_^)

Can someone do the math? I don't even look at camping chairs anymore. What do they pay out? People could be losing a lot and missing out on what could be tons of fun. All the time, driving up the fake-popularity contest and ruining search for everyone. Really, I want to use search for places that are fun and popular, not just loaded with greedy sleepyheads. (>.<

I one tried running the hamster wheel next to Oryx's shop but crashed immrdiately (proof on Alyx's Flickr site).

Does that count as at least trying to camp?

Otherwise, the answer is no.

Awhile ago someone did some figuring and I think the answer varied. First off you take into account if you normally keep your machine on 24/7. Then the cost of electricity where you live, relatively inexpensive here in the States, to moreso elsewhere. Some can make a slight profit camping it seems, but to me it's still not worth it.

I had gone premium before I even logged into SL, I am the sort of person where I do all or nothing.. I remember the first newbie question of mine to some poor unsuspecting resident.

ME: "Can you, you know like buy stuff in this game?"
HIM: "LOL that would be a yes..if you can think of it, you can buy it"

That was all I needed and I loaded up with lindens and went shopping, major shopping, I had my avie sorted within half an hour of being off orientation island!!

I was told about camping and I tried it, I remember trying to talk to people as they walked by or to the other campers...all I got was a wall of silence, I was SO bored, I think I lasted about 1 min and 30 secs!

I dont mind campers now, in fact I admire them for their patience I guess! I have tipped campers as I have walked past before, but thats before I knew about camping bots.. I suspect I have tipped a few of those

Why did you tip campers?

If anything I would tip stuff on them for lagging up the sim lol.

I do know that in a lot of places the camping is so extreme and that does make me sad for the others trying to use that sim but I have tipped campers before when I am out shopping and I see one or two. This sounds so stupid but I feel guilty if I am shopping in a store and there is a camper, I know its not the same and I will most likely be flamed for this, but I always feel bad for them like walking past a homeless person with a bowl outside a store in rl So I try spread a little happiness, and you never know my tip may have meant they can end camping earlier and go have fun in sl instead!

Oh and here I thought you meant like cow tipping....now THAT would be fun~!

I used to camp as a noob but I got too restless and I never made enough L's for it to really be worth doing 'nothing' in SL for hours at a time. I figured out quick that it was just a traffic building scheme. There used to be a club when I first got on that I hung out at....met a lot of cool people (still friends with a few to this day) and the owner paid rather handsomely to camp....... but then he got really weird and control freakish and a lot of us abandone the club.

I have a few friends that still camp and when I mentor I do tell noobs about camping...but I also warn them that it's a lousy way to make a buck in SL. If slow and painful is your thing....well then hey, go for it LOL

Didn't even know what Camping was when I first logged onto SL.

I wasn't going to spend a penny in SL till I saw all these beautiful creatures walking around whilst I looked like a cheap sex doll!!! and that walk!!!!. When I saw you could use PayPal and I did the maths then I realised that it's bloody cheap.

1000lds is just over £2. 5000lds is about £9 why would I want to sit for at best 2lds every 10 mins?

Must confess that I didn't even used to sit on Lucky Chairs till someone told me what they were for. Now I do use a Hud and chair hop when I'm bored. Most of the stuff I end up binning the beter items I keep in folders to give out to Newbies and occasionally you come across something that makes you go Wow. Also I do look around and have found a few good shops that way.

Not with the current exchange rate, which conversely makes it efficient for those of us outside of the US to buy L$, too.

I don't know if there was actually camping when I arrived - I think there was, because people were still whinging about traffic being fixed (there was still Dwell then as well) but it wasn't anything like as significant as it is now, probably because there were no free accounts and far fewer people generally. Certainly by the time I'd heard of it, I was buying land and so on and quite used to buying L$ as a concept.

The day I was born in SL more than one year ago, I camped in some bar or club that offered me some money just for sitting there.

However, I did not stay long enough to actually get any money.

That was my one and only experience as a camper.

Not once, ever. When I was new and needed L$, I whipped out my credit card and bought them.

The closest I came to camping was in my first week, visiting a few "money trees" and picking L$ off them. It was more as an exercise in camera control than anything else. I don't think I collected more than L$30 before I gave it up as a waste of time. They don't have many Money Trees any more, because greedy people would make alts just to farm the darned things.

I never camped in the sense of sitting on a camping chair. However, when I first joined SL I found a sandbox that had a camping zone of sorts, where every ten minutes or so someone in the sandbox would be paid like L$5. I hung around in there while working on my first couple products, used the money I collected to pay the upload fees, started selling those first products, never camped since.

I remember the first Camp chairs I ever saw in SL, and they were the only ones I saw for a long time.

At Lostdog in July(ish) 05

Was kinda creepy sampling sex balls when there were a bunch of campers in the middle of the room downstairs.