how do the other's know this?

I am an avid camper. How do others know when I have 'preselected' a camping
spot?

What setting must I use to 'see' what they are 'seeing'?

Also, is there any way to disable this feature so others do not
see that I have 'preselected' a camping spot?

kimbo ...camping is addiction.....

Really have no idea what you are asking here.

First, how do you preselect a camping spot?

Second there is no way that I know of for you to see what anyone else sees or for them to see what you are seeing.

If someone is grabbing a camping spot before you can get to it then it is probably a bot programmed to find anything it can sit on and it can do that much faster than you can.

Welcome to Bot Life!

Do you mean seeing what spot someone is looking at or touching? Go to Advanced in the top menu bar, to Character, then check off Look At and Point At.

Please explain.

That was going to be my guess too, but I'm not really sure what the OP is asking either.

maybe they found one of the real nice high paying camper slots... and someone else found them too

Somehow, 'avid' and 'camper' don't go together. I mean, I have a hard time imagining someone staring raptly at the screen as their av does nothing but sit/dance/clean/whatever.

I'm not actually sure what the point of camping is at all...

I mean I thought ppl come to SL to have fun and hang out and chat so why sit on a chair doing nothing? Am I missing something?

They do stuff, but have alts/bots on campers, or leave their av with an anti-idler on a camper while they sleep. It's free money.

If it were RL and there were chairs that paid you for sitting in em, you'd see people sleeping in them too.

LOL ok I get it....

But are we talking lots of free money or just a handful of lindens? What is an average hourly rate for sitting in a chair I wonder?

True and some people would leave they're kids sitting in them too.
The difference is in SL you can make photocopied cardboard cut outs of people and sit them in the chairs for money
I always found it pretty boring, it's like playing COH where people do "filling" to powerlevel. They spend an hour standing at the door of a mission while a massively overpowered hero clears the mission by himself giving them all an equal share of the loot for doing nothing.
Dumb thing is they powerlevel to 50 where the game runs out of missions and fun stuff to do anyway, only thing they can do is fight other level 50 players.
WoW has actually started selling Level 50 characters straight off at a lower price than the farmers to put them out of business. As an actual player it's pretty bad an experience to be hunting in the wild and then have a dozen bots charge through laying waste to every animal and raw material in the area so you have to wait for 15min for them to respawn, then the bot mob does it's second pass..........

When I first started, camping payed (a *lot*) better than it does today, and I had no L$s and some sick idea that buying L$s was admitting defeat, so I'd camp while scripting. Some places even allowed building, so I could test stuff, sometimes to the, uh, "inconvenience" of my fellow campers. And presumably to the detriment of script lag, to which I was at the time quite oblivious.

It amuses me now to see camp pads full of fancy-dress avatars: tuxes, ball-gowns, up-dos, etc.,--when I've gone to great effort and expense to acquire the wardrobe of somebody who looks like he *needs* to camp.

(I'd try to post something germane to the original topic, but I, too, have no idea what the OP is on about.)

Yes...they have already 'touched' or 'right clicked' and brought up the 'pie menu', but have not left clicked the 'sit'

I'll check that Advanced tab....thanks..

There are such places. I have a part time job, sitting outside a doctor's office making people feel sick

the only way i would camp is in a sandbox and i could build at the same time..
although i would not be very good at it since i can't stay in one place for very long..

so what was the question again? sorry i drift

I think it would be more fun to sit in a courtroom, making people feel guilty.

/me imagines Ann in her car, driving like a woman posessed. "Oh, I can't wait to get to a camp chair."

...with a laptop running SL in their laps?

For future searchers who find this thread, since the last time it came up was 2006, when you show Look At...

I still don't get what this does. Last time I tried (in a place with about 40 people) everyone had Xs on them, a few were of different colours. Does this mean everyone there had looked at me (?!!!), or that _I_ had looked at everyone (which I hadn't). And what's the difference between Look At, and Point At?

Bah, I haven't used it since, makes no sense.


ETA: Crystal just answered above

"WoW has actually started selling Level 50 characters straight off at a lower price than the farmers to put them out of business."

This is not true. Onus is on you to document this false claim. Blizzard actively pursues accounts involved in this kind of activity. They just banned thousands of accounts merely for "win-trading," for instance.

Perhaps you got confused by the recent ability to use a level 70 in Blizzard's current tournament. That 70 can only be used in the tournament and on specialized servers. When the tournament is over, so is that character.

Why would anyone camp for 4.5 cents an hour?

Cause it's 3.5 cents per hour more than I make in rl.

It's not always about money, you know.

when i first got into sl with a few friends from another game..i was like .lets go to the clubs lets go shoppin lets go here and there..then one said let me show you this one club..we went there and you could get paid to sit in these chairs..i was like omg you mean if we sit there they will pay us and we can chat and go dance and get a drink and sit some more and just like a real club but they pay us? they said no..you can' get up cause if you do you won't get paid..

i said so we sit there and do nothing? my friend said yes.
i said and we make how much? ..i think it was like 10 lindens evry 15 or 20 minutes or whatever back then..i said i didn't come here to be bored out of my mind..i'm gonna be a dancer..
well the club i ended up working for back then i was getting about 2k everytime i danced and we ended up putting in like 10 of those chairs to see what would happen..
my friend ended up sitting in one of those chairs longer than i would be dancing..i used to dance for hours and hours ..
i think he may have made like on his best 3 days 250 lindens and here i was makng about 2k to 3k an hour hehehehe
he used to be so sour about it back then cause really there was not many jobs for guys back then but security in clubs..so he camped..

depends on the clubs I think Some prefer the male dancers