So what's going on in the world of Second Life right now?

I'm an old (but not that old) character who hasnt logged in regularly in over a year. So, seriously, tell me whats going on in the world, or at least your part of it, big or small. Id really enjoy it and maybe even find some interesting things!

I'm hoping this thread will catch because people will enjoy sharing the short version of their Second Life.

I was searching my mind for something positive to say. The best I could come up with is that SL is still great for meeting intesting people. Pretty much the same old same old with me. To me it is all about finding a group of fun and interesting people and enjoying them as much as you can.

The negative is there is a tons more people and the amount of people that are usually in world at any given time keeps growing. SL needs to hurry up and catch up so that things stay good when there is over 75,000 in world.

working on some projects with the company I work for (exciting stuff, can't say more though sorry)

um... meeting new people all the time

*knocks on wood* lag is less for me lately

I am guessing you know about flex, sculpt and all that fun havok 4 stuff

Working on my gallery, my garden, or hopping on an alt and exploring. Or going to parties, there's been a rash of them of late.

Working on my/Hal's gallery of second life art for public display. Enjoying my friendships. Learning to fly - which means more than learning to fly.
Keeping out of trouble. Becoming more of real me in some situations.

There are more people, but there is also a LOT more land and several more continents. It makes it seem like a ghost town even with 80k on line. That works out just fine for a recluse like me.

Places have come and gone, but basically everything stays about the same.

I pretty much completed what I set out to accomplish a couple of months ago - that is open (yet another) gallery, but make it a garden since there is no weather in SL, only to discover several other creative people have already done this. But that's okay, I'm in good company.

Having run out of excuses, I must now work hard at coming out of my shell and socializing a little.

thanks for your stories, guys. i AM listening haha.

weston- ive definitely noticed the ghost town vibe and its sad. thats kinda the reason i made this thread. to find out where the hell everyone is and what theyre up to!

"..find out where the hell everyone is..."

Just zoom way out in Map and look for the green dots.





Joke!! A joke!!

People are still providing material for my scripts and stories, with a minimum of provocation or manipulation.

Pep (All the virtual world is a stage and all the avatars merely players)

We finished building the Great Wall of China (ok, ok, a replica) and are just now putting the finishing touches to a traditional japanese town that everyone is welcome to visit.

I was concerned about the ghost town thing, but whenever I have been on there have been a few people wandering around that I could chat with.

I've been going to quite a few more live music events than I used to and have been really enjoying them, when I get in-world time that isn't taken up with working.

Oh and we started a Flickr Group So that people could exercise their artistic bents and upload their impressions of our sims. Been really pleased with that. There are some incredibly talented people out there!

The flickr group idea sounds awesome.

Well, thanks for your answers kids! I think when I get home Im gonna log on and see what's what.

Oh, and as far as the green dot joke, I actually DO that! Most times it doesnt work cause the dots are at a diffferent elevation than where i teleport to.

Just recently finished building a year-long project - 4 whole sims custom-made for Rutgers University (the RUCE 1 through RUCE 4 sims). Am catching up now on social connections and personal building projects that I didn't have much time for this last year. Making new texture sets to sell. Updating my avatars with new furry forms or new skins or new hairstyles. Looking forward to my next big sim-building project, but not sure what it will be yet, or who will hire me. I have a multi-sim bid pending that could be huge, but not in the bag yet!

hmm, does Elora know? Or is it her alt you are hopping on?

I, for one, want to thank you for this build. It's one of the most amazing things I've seen in SL.

Welcome back, Broseybrose. I spent a good deal of my time globetrotting through SL. I read about a new and/or interesting place, or one gets recommended to me, and I add it to my "must-see" list (which, amusingly, never seems to get shorter).

Between the sightseeing, spending time with friends and loved ones, and shopping...I keep pretty busy!

In the last year, there was a proliferation of cheap islands called Openspaces (now Homesteads) that allowed people to hunker down even more into their own private space than they had before. These islands were very popular, but too many of them make SL into a very cold, impersonal place. Yes, it is a wonderful refuge and a luxury to have so much space. But with their proliferation (they literally made up half of the existing amount of islands at their peak) resulted in a lot of land and even fewer people on it .

Linden Lab also felt the pinch because the performance on these islands was spotty at best, and abysmal at worst. So they hiked the price on them to decrease demand for them (and to purportedly pay for infrastructure to support them). It has left a number of people feeling cold and bitter about Second Life in general, and eroding trust in Linden Lab. There is another price hike coming in July, that should further diminish the demand for homesteads.

Linden Lab in the meanwhile is attempting to (finally) clean up the mainland and expanded mainland with unique double prim offerings that buyers will take 5 years for them to break even with, at best. What LL needs to do is take back some of the public waterways by land exchanges or eminent domain so that the spaces won't be obstructed by banline morons and other obstructionists that build on top of open water - the selfish people who want to enjoy access to the wider world but won't shell out for an island to get the level of seclusion that the banlines falsely offer.

Congratulations. Nice to see my tax dollars going to a good cause.

Yes, and possibly yes Only the Eight Ball knows for sure