Food

Food might be interesting..

But this would be an activity tax, no?

Wouldn’t it discourage activity to some extent since any action would cost money?

Like going to events, exploring, and playing games.

Maybe re-think the idea?

It would have to be progressive somehow in that new people with 400 $L to their name are not be taxed to death, and it would have to not discriminate against people who play a lot of hours / like to be active. It would also have to be 0 inconvience (or close to it).

Now a complaining tax.. that might be something to think about

Some kind of food would be fun.. and would open some new things to do like resturaunts.

Maybe make it so you get some kind of bonus by eating?

No.

TSO sucked from its days in beta, before I had even *heard* of SL. I actually *quit the beta*, it sucked so badly.



I play second life because in Second Life I *dont* have the concerns of the real world.

Last night I was talking to somebody about TSO mentioning that if I ever made another pizza I would chew my own hands off.

Then I started thinking of the perverseness of making a TSO spot here in SL. You could have some simple blackboards and piñatas that spit out fake prim-based money so people could spend hours mindlessly clinking something for non-transferable money which would be redeemable for a limited selection of some crummy merchandise.

Maybe put some beds in and tie their use to the continued ability to click the piñatas. That would be so vile and exploitive.

Wow. From the hostility of the responses, I'm surprised a mob hasn't come around to lynch me. I'm not suggesting re-creating TSO. And for crying out loud, TSO is hardly the only game in which your character can eat.

OMG NOOOOOOOOOOO!
Horrible idea lol

Have you ever played TSO? Go try it, you have to green every 5 minutes... Yuck!

Wow, this is like a "Kick Me" sign.

TSO made me hate making real life pizza and I love pizza! There's a reason that (most) books and movies don't feature the main characters sleeping or using the toilet. It's boring. Eating is pretty boring too, for me. At least simulated eating is.

If anyone is still interested in bringing TSO elements to SL, Kenzington Fairlight has a mood diamond that will float over your head and follow you around.

I played TSO during the playtest / beta and I found it crushingly dull. I like The Sims but I couldn't take it. In order to do anything fun or creative you needed money. To get money you had to "play" boring pointless horrible "games". In order not to suck at the games you had to basically study. The idea of paying to watch your avatar read a book for a couple hours minus bathroom breaks (for both of you) is like some kind of surreal sadistic joke.

OK, I want to make this perfectly clear. At no time did I suggest copying TSO. I nver suggested making avatars have to sleep, go to the toilet, bathe, etc, etc. I suggested eating. Just eating.

I also didn't suggest making avatars eat every 5 minutes -- that would be dumb. That would be copying TSO's biggest failing.

I simply suggested that avatars could eat. There lots of games where the characters eat. Even Pac-Man ate. You people have TSO on the brain.

As long as I can hook up a virtual reality tongue stimulator to simulate the taste of whatever it is I'm eating in the game, I'm all for it. Maybe it could be like an electronic piece of gum that wirelessly communicates with the game to figure out what flavor effect to produce. Sweet, sweet food... all day... I think I'd knock over an SL bank for enough $L to afford the addiction. Then I could do away with the crutch called sustenance and live soley on the warmth from my monitor...

Hehe, sorry, Cubey. It's all like a game of telephone gone horribly wrong: "what, Cubey said TSO is good?"

I'd LOVE to be able to have food. Just like we can change the material of an object from Wood to Glass to Light, how about to Food? It could be a very interesting thing to have. Certainly from a social aspect...we eat and talk so much IRL....

Don't make it mandatory, though -- give us the ability to eat, don't make it so we HAVE to eat.

I think theres potential -- people eat and their bellies distend --- then I can go and script 'Crazy Siggy's Colonic Irrigation Boutique', set up in Aqua -- just for 'shits and giggles' and laugh all the way to the bank!

Turning your crap into L$ -- quite literally!

Siggy

Yeah, don't make it mandatory, but it might be fun in some scenarios (which could all be scripted by players).

Like how about an ultra-realism "survival" RPG sim or group of sims. Its like a game within SL where the whole point is to survive. Maybe it is all wilderness and you have to hunt, fish and forage for your food. I already know someone that has a fishing system in the works. You could die of starvation if you don't eat enough. You could eat poisonous things by accident, perhaps causing hallucinations. Certain foods would give you different benefits, like increased energy and alertness while hunting. And of course there would be more factors to survival than food.

Just rambling off ideas...

He did? OMG!

Noooooooooooo!!

Here's a quick fix to the problem of too much money in the world: give it all to me! That's right! I'll just go and spend it on land use fees!

I'm down with the idea of adding more cash-sinks to SL. But I think they need to be fun or useful *in and of themselves* to everyone that uses them. Food is boring to me; I don't want to spend money on stuff that's boring.

Maybe it would be fun to some, so sure, let them sink cash into it. Of course, scripting this up yourself is possible, but then it doesn't give you a cash sink; the user selling the food would be getting the money. A real cash-sink would need to be implemented by LL.

just have a meter that tell you when to eat just like you stomc dose in real life