Welcome to the Second Life Forums Archive

These forums are CLOSED. Please visit the new forums HERE

How to transfer freebies that can't be resold?

SuezanneC Baskerville
Forums Rock!
Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
05-07-2006 20:29
How do the non-LR run shopping sites give items to people inworld?

Could some variant of this mechanism, whatever it might be, be used to give out non-transferable copies of freebie items, in a manner such that people inworld could give a non-transferable version of an item to someone else inworld with little more effort than dragging something from their inventory?

I am wondering if there could be a "Freebie Dispenser" object, scripted such that an item to be given to someone else could be dropped inworld, the dispenser would read the item's key, the giver would tell the dispener who the recipient is, the dispenser would contact the freebie dispensing offworld server, and give the item to the desired person, with minimal effort on the part of the giver and recipient, neither of them needing to go anywhere inworld to pick up a no-transfer freebie item.

The goal is to solve the problem of freebies being resold because they are copy and transfer enabled.
_____________________
-

So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them.

I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to

http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne

-

http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03.

Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard,
Robin, and Ryan

-
Damanios Thetan
looking in
Join date: 6 Mar 2004
Posts: 992
05-07-2006 20:53
Doesn't that just move the issue from the distibution of freebies to the distribution of the dispensers? What perms would the dispensers have?
_____________________
SuezanneC Baskerville
Forums Rock!
Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
05-07-2006 21:59
From: Damanios Thetan
Doesn't that just move the issue from the distibution of freebies to the distribution of the dispensers? What perms would the dispensers have?
I thnk the dispensers could be no-transfer items. If I want to give people freebies, I would take the effort, one time, to acquire a dispenser.

When I want to give out a freebie, I drop the dispenser and my no-transfer copy of the freebie inworld. I say "Dispenser, give Damanios Thetan 'Old-Timey Bike'" The dispenser scans for the object and and the recipent, and sends a message to, say, slboutique.com, with the item's and recipient's key, which checks to see if the object is on its list of freebies and sends the object to the recipient.
_____________________
-

So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them.

I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to

http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne

-

http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03.

Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard,
Robin, and Ryan

-