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New (Worst) Money Sink Ideas!

Keiki Lemieux
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02-17-2006 10:54
What are your pet money sink ideas? You know, the kind of ideas that would be REALLY unpopular, but you think still might be a good idea. Here are a few of mine:
  1. Bling tax - 10L charge whenever you say the words "bling on."
  2. lol, lmao and rofl charge - Set up a lolMod program where volunteers moderate the use of lol, lmao and rofl utterances. If you use one of these, a lolMod will determine if what you are reacting to is actually funny and charge you if it was not. lol - 10L, lmao - 20L, rofl - 50L. This is doubled if it is in all caps.
  3. Howl tax - 1L per howl, nuff said.
  4. Push avi charge - 1L per avi per meter pushed from a script. This triples if it's a security script and the owner is offline.
  5. Breast size surcharge - (female avis only) Every time you adjust and save your breast size under appearance, you are charged 10L per point over 60. You want enormous tatas? You need to pay for them, just like in RL. If you slide it 100, this charge jumps to 1000L.
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Lianne Marten
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02-17-2006 10:56
I support this product and/or feature.

The last only because i'd be grandfathered in, and I never change it anymore anyway :D
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Keiki Lemieux
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02-17-2006 11:04
Yep, current large breasts would not be charged. Only if you decide to go bigger. And of course newbies get a free pass and are not charged for their first breast slider increase.
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Cliffy Palmerstone
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02-17-2006 11:07
From: Keiki Lemieux
What are your pet money sink ideas? You know, the kind of ideas that would be REALLY unpopular, but you think still might be a good idea. Here are a few of mine:
  1. Bling tax - 10L charge whenever you say the words "bling on."
  2. lol, lmao and rofl charge - Set up a lolMod program where volunteers moderate the use of lol, lmao and rofl utterances. If you use one of these, a lolMod will determine if what you are reacting to is actually funny and charge you if it was not. lol - 10L, lmao - 20L, rofl - 50L. This is doubled if it is in all caps.
  3. Howl tax - 1L per howl, nuff said.
  4. Push avi charge - 1L per avi per meter pushed from a script. This triples if it's a security script and the owner is offline.
  5. Breast size surcharge - (female avis only) Every time you adjust and save your breast size under appearance, you are charged 10L per point over 60. You want enormous tatas? You need to pay for them, just like in RL. If you slide it 100, this charge jumps to 1000L.


ROFL.
Damn- that'll cost me 100L.
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Nyx Divine
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02-17-2006 11:10
From: Keiki Lemieux

  • lol, lmao and rofl charge - Set up a lolMod program where volunteers moderate the use of lol, lmao and rofl utterances. If you use one of these, a lolMod will determine if what you are reacting to is actually funny and charge you if it was not. lol - 10L, lmao - 20L, rofl - 50L. This is doubled if it is in all caps.]


  • Hehe this reminds me of that commercial where gal calls into SOMEPLACE to determine if someone's remarks or behavior at the office are or are not funny and if it's ok for them to laugh. Yeah I know this is pretty vague....but I know what I'm talking about even if noone else does hehe
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    Gabe Lippmann
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    02-17-2006 11:11
    Throw in a charge for avi's private parts speaking out loud.
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    Keiki Lemieux
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    02-17-2006 11:22
    From: Cliffy Palmerstone
    ROFL.
    Damn- that'll cost me 100L.

    Snap!
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    Jonas Pierterson
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    02-17-2006 11:33
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    Howl tax - 1L per howl, nuff said.


    I love this one.
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    Lianne Marten
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    02-17-2006 11:33
    From: Nyx Divine
    Hehe this reminds me of that commercial where gal calls into SOMEPLACE to determine if someone's remarks or behavior at the office are or are not funny and if it's ok for them to laugh. Yeah I know this is pretty vague....but I know what I'm talking about even if noone else does hehe


    TBS :)
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    Midnite Rambler
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    02-17-2006 11:50
    A few more great money sinks, that will be remarkably unpopular:

      [B]Cybering Tax in Clubs[/B] - 10L per 5 minutes of cybering in a club setting. This should alleviate the problems of walking into a club, and no-one is talking because they are all cybering.


      [B]Genitalia Tax[/B] - 100L every time one exposes ones attachment genitalia anywhere but in a private setting.


      [B]Chat Spam Tax[/B] - 1L per word of chat spam. Goes with the Howl Tax already outlined. Increaes to 5L per word if accompanied by a sound file, and 10L per word if it comes from one's genitalia.


      [B]Muscle Tax[/B] - (male avis only) As with the Breast Tax, the Muscle Tax is for those men that have shoulders and abs way out of proportion to head or rest of body size. With a similar price scaling.


      [B]Tanned Tax[/B] - 200L Tax for skins that are tanned to an unhealthy tone. Doubles to 400L if the avie has blonde hair, huge breasts, or enormous muscles.


      [B]Texture Flicker Tax[/B] - 10L per metre for textures so poorly placed that they cause constant flicker in a shop setting. Doubles to 20L per metre if it is in a club or mall setting.



    Not a great list, but it is still only 6.30 am here, and I'm writing it over my 1st caffeine fix :)
    Argent Stonecutter
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    Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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    02-17-2006 11:50
    From: someone
    Push avi charge - 1L per avi per meter pushed from a script. This triples if it's a security script and the owner is offline.
    Damn, my extreme skydiving launch platform kicks you two kilometers or more into the air when you turn it up to 11, and my grav-lift is half a kilometer tall.
    From: someone
    Chat Spam Tax - 1L per word of chat spam.
    Doubled if it's from a script that should be using llOwnerSay or llInstantMessage. 50L bonus tax if it's on_rez or on_attach helptext, or any variant of "ALL GO".
    Keiki Lemieux
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    02-17-2006 11:52
    From: Midnite Rambler
      [B]Texture Flicker Tax[/B] - 10L per metre for textures so poorly placed that they cause constant flicker in a shop setting. Doubles to 20L per metre if it is in a club or mall setting.

    Seconded!
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    Gabe Lippmann
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    02-17-2006 11:52
    From: Argent Stonecutter
    Damn, my extreme skydiving launch platform kicks you two kilometers or more into the air when you turn it up to 11, and my grav-lift is half a kilometer tall.


    It goes to 11! :eek:
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    Argent Stonecutter
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    02-17-2006 11:57
    From: Gabe Lippmann
    It goes to 11! :eek:
    Yeh, it used to go to 10... but, you know, some times you really want to give yourself an extra push, so you go to turn it up, and it's already at 10...
    kaia Ennui
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    02-17-2006 12:19
    AO ON / AO OFF - 50L per utterance

    I agree with the LOL, ROFL and LMAO charges, however I propose an additional surcharge of 50L if it is accompanied by a stupid animation or sound. If the said sound is the annoying child giggling, said officer can choose to waive fee and blow the offender's head off.

    I second Gabe's motion on fines for talking body parts.

    If you need volunteers to get this movement going I offer my services free of charge, providing i get to wear a cute cop uniform and carry a billyclub.
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    Gabe Lippmann
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    02-17-2006 12:34
    From: kaia Ennui
    I second Gabe's motion on fines for talking body parts.


    Really, you firsted it and I stole it so it would seem I had something witty to say :o
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    Noel Marlowe
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    02-17-2006 12:41
    From: Midnite Rambler

    1. Genitalia Tax - 100L every time one exposes ones attachment genitalia anywhere but in a private setting.



    Adding to this...
    1. Invisi-Winkie Tax - 10L per hour for wearing transparent genitalia when not on your own land. People are often able to see transparent prims - while building for example - and nothing is more disturbing that seeing certain red glowing members.
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    Vanethica Canetti
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    Breast Size taxes
    02-17-2006 13:31
    I will agree ONLY IF we get a 200 and 2000 refund for the same!!!


    Man I will be going from AAA to FFF many times a day! I won't have to work anymore! Just watch the crowd gather around me as I adjust 'em LOL ROFL OOPS there is more taxes!

    :-D
    Vanethica Canetti
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    02-17-2006 13:34
    From: Keiki Lemieux
    What are your pet money sink ideas? You know, the kind of ideas that would be REALLY unpopular, but you think still might be a good idea. Here are a few of mine:
    1. Bling tax - 10L charge whenever you say the words "bling on."
    2. lol, lmao and rofl charge - Set up a lolMod program where volunteers moderate the use of lol, lmao and rofl utterances. If you use one of these, a lolMod will determine if what you are reacting to is actually funny and charge you if it was not. lol - 10L, lmao - 20L, rofl - 50L. This is doubled if it is in all caps.
    3. Howl tax - 1L per howl, nuff said.
    4. Push avi charge - 1L per avi per meter pushed from a script. This triples if it's a security script and the owner is offline.
    5. Breast size surcharge - (female avis only) Every time you adjust and save your breast size under appearance, you are charged 10L per point over 60. You want enormous tatas? You need to pay for them, just like in RL. If you slide it 100, this charge jumps to 1000L.


    ROTFLMAO
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    Ordinal Malaprop
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    02-17-2006 13:45
    The above are all good. I endorse these products.

    Spinny Crap Tax: L$1000 for each spinning item you rez next to someone's property (this would be easy to avoid but people just don't seem to be able to help making ad blocks spin)

    Bananaphone Tax: L$10 per comedy sound sample played, including bananaphone, peanut butter jelly time etc. "Comedy" to be defined by committee consisting of me.
    Patch Lamington
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    Join date: 2 Nov 2005
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    02-18-2006 11:17
    Posting a reply to thread about abolishing the stipend/creating new money sinks: 100 L$
    Starting a new thread on abolishing the stipend/creating new money sinks: 1000 L$

    :D
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    Patch Lamington
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    02-19-2006 15:35
    From: Patch Lamington
    Posting a reply to thread about abolishing the stipend/creating new money sinks: 100 L$
    Starting a new thread on abolishing the stipend/creating new money sinks: 1000 L$

    :D


    aww come on guys, I didnt mean it for real!
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    Torley Linden
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    02-19-2006 15:37
    how about a rez tax every time you rez a prim you pay L$10

    ;)
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    Gabe Lippmann
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    02-19-2006 16:13
    From: Torley Linden
    how about a rez tax every time you rez a prim you pay L$10

    ;)


    As long as I get rezfund for cleaning up.
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