Percentage of time spent watching people build?

How much of the time you spend in SL is spent actively watching people build?

How much of the time you spend building is spent knowing that people are actively focusing on watching you build?

By "watching people build" I mean something like actually looking at their avatars, looking at the edit beam run from their hand to an object, looking at the objects being edited, noticing the changes being made in the objects, thnking about what they are building, etc., not just being in the vicinity of someone that is editing something.

I spend essentially zero time watching people build.

People watch me building quite often, but I don't often watch others.

Hey I used to live in Cayuga! My first proper land was in Cayuga! I loved it there until an absolute asshat moved in and started telling me I was going to be his woman (I wasn't) and then when I one day started wearing platinum blond hair he started drunkenly abusing me and generally making things tricky for a relative noob. Wow I was green then

Never watched anybody build but I have watched paint dry.

Zero.

Can't watch. Gotta do.

Shortly after I joined Second Life and picked up my first piece of land, I hired someone to build a house for me. I watched him intently as he rezzed each prim, sized them, cut them, textured them, and fashioned them into my house. It was a rather magical experience for me, and one that I shall not forget.

Other than that, I've not had much interest in watching people build, nor in having people watch me build.

I never watch people actually build, but I very often inspect a finished build by highlighting parts and seeing how the prims are shaped and combined.

I spend 100% of the time building and 0% watching. I have my store in the sky so always people wandering about up there. I have a tropical island on the ground and people are welcome to wander down there. My building site is 600 metres in the air (thats 300m above my shop) If i find anyone up there then I instantly kick them and ban them from the land. Dont care if they could be customers, i hate people watching me build, offering advice or critisism where it is not required and I am paraniod about people stealing designs and releasing them before me which has happened in the past. The only time I let people watch me build is when I am helping resolve a customer issue on their plot or setting up a custom job, but even with custom work the majority of the building is done in private and set up for the customer afterwards at a time when I am ready to recieve their imput and feedback. I even get anoyed when my wife in RL starts looking over my shoulder saying ' ooh darling, look at that amazing build, arnt you the the most amazing builder SL has ever seen?'. I leap up, show her the back of my hand and shout " STOP INTERFERING WITH MY CREATIVE JUICES AND GO AND DO THE WASHING UP YOU WENCH!"

So nope I dont like being watched when building.

PORK IT TO THE MAX!

ROFL Porky. I don't mind being watched in SL but I ****HATE**** it RL if I making something.

I participate in the Oldbie Blitz Build every Sunday night. During the competition, I am always out on a platform building. But there is always an audience.

I never get to see what others are building because I am concentrating on my own build. Then when time is up, I stop and look around and am often amazed at what the other contestants built in such a short amount of time, and can understand why there is an audience.

Maybe one Sunday night, I will just go sit in the audience and watch some of those talented builders do their stuff. I'm pretty sure I would learn a few things.

about 10 minutes a day

Contrary to my above post this sounds pretty cool and I would like to watch/participate. All of my building is business related so building purely for fun or to entertain is a new concept for me. I'll do a search for this.

Thanks.

Kind of a random question

My companion loves to build, while I'm only marginally good at it, so I spend hm...25% of my SL time watching him build.

My partner takes one look when I start building and waves goodbye to any chance of nookie

I'm usually one or two squares away from Cheree making a bloody mess of the area. (^_^)

I've had some blackout days where I just couldn't build according to the theme, so I've bowed out and watched a few times. I tell ya' what, blitz building is a good name for the event... All the prim motion of up to 10 builders running at once and trying to beat the clock is a really killer sight. (^_^)

I'm almost always around friends in a public and popular sandbox, so the idea of watching people build, being watched, sharing ideas, critique, showing off new things, and all that stuff.... It's not strange to me. It's all part of the entertainment I get from SL. (^_^)

I'm in SL for the crowd. One of my favorite things is having people around. I have Open Sim Server installed on my machine. If I wanted to merely build for building's sake, I'd be using that. But, it gets very boring very fast. I just gotta be around the crowd. (^_^)y

I'd watch people build.. but the one place I loved go to that was public turned their sandbox to group only. So I don't visit there much any more.

And you couldn't pay me enough to go visit a Linden owned sandbox. Those places are dangerous to braincells. Didn't used to be that way though, but there you go.

So, now... 0.

It changes, but prob'ly about 20% of my inworld time, both in watching and being watched. I tend to build in workshops, my myself, as do many I work around.

I don't often watch other people build, unless I am observing the work of one of my apprentice builders and making adjustments or giving constructive criticism and advice. I learned building and texturing and terraforming by going through the Ivory Tower and other in-world tutorials, and by examining freebies or other things I have bought, and by generally experimenting.

About 30% of the time while I am building or terraforming at a client site, I have someone watching me work, and I'll chat with them as I do it, explianing how things work if they want to know. I've actually had people comment that they normally don't just hang around and watch others build or terraform, but that they love to watch me do it, because I work so fast and make a lot of it look so easy. Sometimes it is the client that I am working for who is watching, but more often than not it's a friend of the client or a friend of mine.

I don't build in public sandboxes, so most of the time the people that watch me build are the kind that are respectful and pleasant to interact with. I don't get the noobs with incessant questions, or the people who are trying to steal an idea or interfere with my work.

I build quite a bit, but I never construct anything lol. Most of my 'build time' is spent just messing with prims seeing what I can do...I remember making a pencil just to see if I could lol. I'm not very good at building personally, but I adjust my skirts etc all the time, and once I spent a whole hour at the hangout with the most annoying skirts with people shouting suggestions at me and giving me much needed help.
Occasionally I have been asked to make a simple attatchment, or edit an attatchment for someone, so that tends to be done with the person there, watching.
I don't mind being watched...I'll often just pull out a prim at the hangout or somewhere and start messing.
I rarely set out to watch someone build...unless I happen to be there at the time, I don't actually go looking for people to watch. I guess I prefer to work on something myself....I tried to watch someone make something pretty intricate one time, and I ended up spending the whole time asking for advice on how he did that, or offering suggestions on how to make it work better....I'm like a back-seat builder lol.

I can't guess at a percentage, but I guess most of my building is in front of others, but even that is only a small part of my total online time.

I've rarely watched a person actively build. I do not spend much time in sandboxes anymore, as I've my own workshops to build in.

I imagine the same goes for people watching me build--as I do not spend much time in sandboxes...

I do however frequent a specific group workshop, which is given to renters of vendors in Creeve Town, and we are all good friends...sometimes we do watch each other build as we shoot the schtick.

In my honest opinion, most builders don't interest me...all the great builders build in secrecy...so you won't find them working in the public eye. I don't mean this in an elitist fashion at all...I simply don't have a desire to watch a builder work, unless they are crazy talented...but like I said, these folks tend to build behind closed doors.

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Back on topic:
My building area is not public, so no one gets to see me building in general. Only exception is some custom work at customer sites.
As for myself, I never watch people building, just do not have time for that. Would like to try it though, I might learn a lot from others.

I quite like watching newbies rez plywood cubes and cones.

Seriously, though, I don't spend any time watching people build, I just build stuff myself. However, as explore I do look at existing objects and buildings a lot to see how they were made.

I would have to say zero except if I'm playing primtionary.

I watched people build for the first two or three days I wanted to learn it for myself. I was mostly looking to witness the creative process and see if I could pic up some tips. Now that I'm building myself, I only watch other people occasionally, but I do still watch.

Now I have to ask: What inspired the original question, Suezanne?

I dont watch anyone build it just feels wrong lol

But I charge 2/10 to be watched
or 4000L for 15 min to join in