How do we stop these 'Hunger' bites?

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Originally Posted by Ponsonby Low
Oh, honestly, I am NOT going to go around wearing a garlic necklace (even if it IS invisible) or carry watermelons or holy water or holy watermelons, just to make some dopes think they're important enough to affect my behavior. These people are just plain silly and I have no patience with their fantasies or their inflated egos; they can just.....bite me.





To be honest, I was just going for the 'they can bite me' joke. Though I won't deny that the joke was on the anemic side.










(I do genuinely love your "...remove your fangs. Type YES to accept" strategy, though, I have to say.)

Apparently, everyone could make such a boring game where you walk around, scan the environment for avatars and just "bite" them by selecting them from the scanner. Just dump it's name into some database and you have been bitten. No need to play an animation on you. The animation only should make it somewhat realistic and is a service to let you know you have been "bitten".

But the newest thing in Bloodlines is they finally build some counterweight for the spampires: the spamming lycans. Perhaps i should have accepted the bite request by a lycan two weeks ago so I could kick some spampires butt.

Ah, here's the perp's website: http://slfirstblood.com/

IM the idot guy who took your blood “Sorry but I was at the clinic today and I really think you need to get to a doctor asap!” LMAO!

Or on your own land with your finger on the “eject/ban” button!

Twenty metres, according to the website.. you obviously encountered a vampire belonging to the bloodline Klutz.

omg the sick bastards! MS comic sans serif - the horror!


And I wonder if White Wolf ever trademarked any of those clan names. I hear they're quite aggressive in protecting such things.

The problem is that this game is, it would seem, for very shy and retiring vampires, so all they do is wander around clicking on the sensor buttons on these huds they've bought and racking up points for being able to get within 20 meters of someone and managing to click a button twice. That's the extent of their interaction with people. So you aren't going to know to ban them, cos they aren't requesting your permission to be animated or anything.

I suppose it makes a good game for people who do a lot of camping. Come to think of it, it's a use for traffic bots.. the vamp just needs to find places that use them, and it's lunchtime. The possibilities are endless.

I wonder if someone could come up with a steak through the heart anim...


or are steak anims medium rare in sl


(boom boom !!!!)

That doesn't work with The Hunger.

So it's basically a scavenger hunt for unique avatars? Once you've been tagged / identified (I won't call it "bitten" because that's just stupid and completely inaccurate) by one of the players then you aren't elligable to be tagged by someone else.

I don't know, it doesn't sound like something that I would do but I can see where some might find it ammusing to wander around the grid and see if they can find unique people. The players probably wind up exploring some areas of the grid that they might not have encountered otherwise too.

Again, not really my thing, but I honestly don't see why people get so bent out of shape for having their avatar name in a database somewhere that has absolutly no effect whatsoever on them. Besides, if I record my chat log and happen to be in the same region as you while you're talking, you're now in my computer's "database" as well. Oh the horror.

I have a silver dagger that sends a "USER wishes to give you a hug" message. When it's accepted, the dagger causes my avatar to stab the other person multiple times, and paralyzes them for at least a minute as they get pounded into the ground. It's neat.

bit like being a butterfly pinned in a glass case really....

Various reasons.

Some don't like the lack of disclosure. Some don't like the idea of something somewhere saying "vampire whosit owns your soul," for various reasons. And some just don't want to support what they see as a pyramid scheme.

Also some simply dislike being bugged about it anywhere they go. Nor does being bitten end that. Then they tend to ask if you want to move up.

Noo... that's far too complicated. According to the instructions, you can bite the same person a certain number of times a day and so can rival vampires. Then you have to come back tomorrow and you can do it all over again.

What larks, eh?

OK, I acknowledge that being bugged about it wherever you go (like BloodLines) is extremely annoying. But my impression of this is that it's completeley invisible to the "target" avatar.

I also understand that some people don't like the fact that they are in some "database" somewhere without it being disclosed to them, but if people feel that strongly about it I don't understand why they are on the grid in the first place. I'm sure that there are plenty of mall or store owners that have logged the fact that I entered their store (if only to get a unique visitor count), or people that I've traded IMs with who have logged the communication, etc. Those two examples seem much more intrusive into a person's privacy than having someone who once got within 20m of them essentially write their name down, which is really all I see this as being.

Hey, cool. If they are seeking congregations of green dots, that means that pretty soon all the traffic bots will be Traffic Vampire Bots.

Ooo.. I want.. where is it for sale at?

Isn't that Cheree Bury's Anti Vampire Dagger? Check Cheree Motion.

But wait! There is hope - from the website: "No Drama Clause

The Hunger is a "No Drama" game. Should it be proven that a player has been causing drama or harassing other players in violation of the Second Life TOS, the player will be removed from the game WITHOUT REFUND."


Yeah.. right....

Should store owners put out little dishes of blood to attract them and drive up traffic?

Dishes of blood? Please, immolate me now rather than denigrate vampire kind to further into mediocrity than Bloodlines and The Hunger already have.

My abject apologies to the Dark One

VV Accepted, now as penance you must come to the Blood Bank on Friday to give a pint or two as a donation

Does that make me an honorary Blood Doll?