Second Life MMORPG (lots of pics)

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » January 24, 2006, 1:45 pm

I messed with the builder a little bit last night (making walls and stuff), and I like the interface for that. I haven't really looked at how clothing etc. would be made. Either Second Life is full of Goths, or that's all that Winnow looks for, hehe. I did a little browsing around this morning before work, and found some other clothing stores, etc. I even got some free bling from one mall, but the "bling" effect was blinding. I also picked up some bloody bunny costume to scare the goth kitty with

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » January 24, 2006, 2:08 pm

Thank god, a second page so I don't have to load 60 pictures.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » January 24, 2006, 2:11 pm

Rellix wrote:Thank god, a second page so I don't have to load 60 pictures.

That wont last long!

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » January 24, 2006, 2:15 pm

Aslanna wrote:
Rellix wrote:Thank god, a second page so I don't have to load 60 pictures.
That wont last long!

Winnow could just link to them this time around =P

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » January 24, 2006, 3:07 pm

Winnow, have you seen any Bruce Lee or Tekken-skins?

I have found some anims, now i just need the skins!

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » January 24, 2006, 3:18 pm

I saw some in one of the malls I clicked on this morning. I don't remember which it was. It might have been the same mall that had the bloody bunny outfit for free

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » January 24, 2006, 3:47 pm

Boogahz wrote:I saw some in one of the malls I clicked on this morning. I don't remember which it was. It might have been the same mall that had the bloody bunny outfit for free

Name of Mall? Bloody Bunny Mall?

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 24, 2006, 4:14 pm

Hmm, think ill have to take a look at this next time i have some free time

. Looks fun.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 24, 2006, 4:36 pm

Kwonryu DragonFist wrote:
Boogahz wrote:I saw some in one of the malls I clicked on this morning. I don't remember which it was. It might have been the same mall that had the bloody bunny outfit for free
Name of Mall? Bloody Bunny Mall?

There's a way to direct link to a specific game location (link loads the game and takes you there) from a message. I need to research how to do that and then will start linking locations here.

There's lots of oriental themed skins and clothes Kwon. My first suit was from a Mandarin outfit store. Have you used the ALL button on the search window and looked for "martial arts" or "Bruce Lee"?

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cid · Post by **cid** » January 24, 2006, 5:39 pm

Cid Potato in da house!!

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » January 24, 2006, 6:04 pm

Winnow wrote:
Kwonryu DragonFist wrote:
Boogahz wrote:I saw some in one of the malls I clicked on this morning. I don't remember which it was. It might have been the same mall that had the bloody bunny outfit for free
Name of Mall? Bloody Bunny Mall?
There's a way to direct link to a specific game location (link loads the game and takes you there) from a message. I need to research how to do that and then will start linking locations here.

There's lots of oriental themed skins and clothes Kwon. My first suit was from a Mandarin outfit store. Have you used the ALL button on the search window and looked for "martial arts" or "Bruce Lee"?

I'll try it! Thankies!

cid · Post by **cid** » January 24, 2006, 9:00 pm

Whats the name of your apartments winnow?

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » January 24, 2006, 9:16 pm

search for serpent isle, and click on the one that's listed as "Serpent Isle Theatres" and teleport. It will place you very close to his place. His is on the second floor - it's the one with the huge glass hot tub outside.

cid · Post by **cid** » January 24, 2006, 9:34 pm

6 and 9 is for rent. The landlord showed me around. Just need to figure out on how to make some cash now.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » January 24, 2006, 10:03 pm

prostitution, dancing in casinos.. or sitting in casinos on the right chairs.

$3 for 10 minutes!

Kwonryu DragonFist · January 24, 2006, 10:44 pm

Rellix wrote:prostitution, dancing in casinos.. or sitting in casinos on the right chairs.

$3 for 10 minutes!

Worth it?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 25, 2006, 4:15 am

Not much in way of pictures tonight! I showed Cid around a bit and he rented the apartment next to mine. There's a couple left! The Sims neighbor just moved out as well because her "daddy" was shooting weapons in the apartment and you're not supposed to do that!

Sims peeps are a little creepy. She had a dad and grandad and an extended family that was a little unsettling when I could see the text of their discussions trying to resolve family issues. Sheesh! Leave the family issues to RL!

I played around with the Apple Martini animations and decided to turn my entire balcony into a hottub:

Tried out a scripted dungeon device and things didn't turn out well for me!

Kwon asked about karate moves...here's what I found at one of the freebie stores:

I spent most of the night actually digging through the offerings at the freebie stores...it only confirmed that you don't need to spend anything if you don't want to and still have fun. Here's some of the stuff I grabbed. Each folder or box of stuff is $1L so the entirety of stuff you see would amount to less than 10 cents and you are given about the equivalent of one dollar (250L) for free and another 50 each week for free. Chump Change!

Here are direct links to two freebie places. The first one, Yadni's is a little better IMO..more stuff and you don't have to unpack it after buying it although it's not hard to unpack a box once you've done it (be sure to make a folder to drag the contents into when unpacking or it will get messy fast in your inventory).

Close the map after it loads and you're there! The little square boxes along the walls are what you're looking for:

[url=secondlife://Leda/196/6/53]Yadni's Junkyard[/url]

[url=secondlife://Manitoba/144/161/60]Freebies & More[/url]

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Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 25, 2006, 6:36 am

Ill try to look in tonight to see how it is. Hope theres still a free apartment when i get there

cid · Post by **cid** » January 25, 2006, 11:46 am

Having a blast so far. Sorry for dropping Winnow, mediacom decided to drop damn near all of SE Iowa

...

Spang · Post by **Spang** » January 25, 2006, 12:16 pm

this game is growing on me.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 25, 2006, 12:22 pm

Grrr, of course its down for maintenance now that i wanna try it. Ill try to get on later.

Any good guides for beginners around? Was looking around on the 2nd life page, and found downloadable skins and clothes, but no info on where to put it, and no info on getting started.

Spang · Post by **Spang** » January 25, 2006, 12:31 pm

this thread is a good start, seriously. in game there are a ton of people willing to help. just about anyone you talk to. best advice i can give is stay away from the casino games...

slingo is a safe bet for money making games or so i've heard. you don't pay unless you win or something like that. haven't tried it out yet though.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » January 25, 2006, 12:33 pm

I'll have to check out some of those shops this evening. I was in a little while yesterday, and found a meditation pad paying L$5 per 10 minutes which is much better than the L$1 / 6 minute chairs I had run across before.

I looked through the forums and I never saw any kind of script for keeping yourself active in-game. There was one person on a L$1 chair that had racked up over L$70 so it has to be out there somewhere. I am willing to bet that the official forums are not a good place to find it.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 25, 2006, 5:07 pm

Hmmm, apartment 9 is still free, but need some cash, any good tip on where to go to make money?

Siji · Post by **Siji** » January 25, 2006, 5:31 pm

Hesten wrote:Hmmm, apartment 9 is still free, but need some cash, any good tip on where to go to make money?

Make a female model and head to the sex clubs.. use the sex ball and ask for phat lewts.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 25, 2006, 5:53 pm

Hesten wrote:Hmmm, apartment 9 is still free, but need some cash, any good tip on where to go to make money?

IM me in game Hesten. I won't be on for another 5 hours or so though.

#4 will be opening up in a few days as well. Probably Friday or Saturday.

Remember, these Apts go for 300/week. If you decide to maintain residence, it's money making time. It's no big deal if you leave after a week or two though. You just pick up all of your belongings and place them in your inventory and can put them in the next place or just keep them on your person. As far as I can tell, your inventory is limitless.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 25, 2006, 6:02 pm

Is there a ghetto somewhere with cheaper apts?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 25, 2006, 6:12 pm

masteen wrote:Is there a ghetto somewhere with cheaper apts?

Yep, 50/week...if you load the first page of this thread, about 3/4 of the way down, I took picture and suggested one of the nicer places available for cheap. 50 first week with two or three free weeks thrown if from the managment for brand new players) so it's like $50 total for the first 3-4 weeks.

You get 500/week with the 9.95/month account so the nicer Apt would be doable but on the freebie budget, you'd be slumming it for sure. I saw some creative interior designs from people in the 50/week apts as well. I just liked that this island is maintained by one person and he keeps it clean of ugly buildings and signs. And that the apartments are well designed.... RAMPS>STAIRS in this game as your Avatar has a hard time with stairs...plus there's room in these apt to fly up the second floor with the open space by the ramp. (can always use free teleport gizmos to get from level to level if needed as well)

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 25, 2006, 6:57 pm

Only played around for little over an hour, but the people in this game seems very friendly and inclined to talk, unlike in EQ.
And damn you can find some ugly stuff for sale.

Havent played around with the builder yet, just looked around, but did manage to find some money trees (with no cash on them), and a place that payed 2L$ every 5 min you sat there. So guess to make cash, rig up an old comp, load up SL and sit while you watch a movie

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 25, 2006, 7:04 pm

Hesten wrote:Only played around for little over an hour, but the people in this game seems very friendly and inclined to talk, unlike in EQ.
And damn you can find some ugly stuff for sale.

If you've only played for an hour, you should still be on help island not finding money trees and ugly clothes! So far, I've found that newbie peeps aren't taking the time to learn the controls before venturing into the main world. Spending some time on the tutorial/help island is useful. At lease get the camera controls down to make life a lot easier.

The nice clothes/skins aren't free but if you search around, you can find decent stiff for pretty cheap and even some nice free outfits at individual stores (not the freebie zones) Poses, animations, furniture, gizmos, etc etc are good freebie items. The clothes are going to be a little generic there.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 25, 2006, 7:40 pm

Hehe, i guess ill take a trip back to newbie island then

. Just ran past the tuturial fast, never explored the island.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » January 25, 2006, 7:46 pm

I went through the island, and the builder portion was all that I had trouble with. There is so much potential detail that I don't think they could have possibly fit it all on the 2-4 billboards and attached notecards.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 25, 2006, 7:53 pm

Hesten wrote:Hehe, i guess ill take a trip back to newbie island then . Just ran past the tuturial fast, never explored the island.

It's too late now! You can't go back to newbie island after you leave. You didn't read my posts!

Probably missed it but one of my initial posts on this thread went over my first experiences and stressed that you should spend a good amount of time on the tutorial and help island before heading to the main island so you have a grasp on things. It's not that difficult but with a tutorial and help island there for you, it's worth using them to save a lot of questions later and not be frustrated with camera controls, etc.

The building part I didn't read all the way through though.

Camera controls...just be sure to use the TARGET ALT ZOOM and CTRL keys to make things easier.

cid · Post by **cid** » January 25, 2006, 8:44 pm

winnow your martini glass looked better

cid · Post by **cid** » January 25, 2006, 8:45 pm

also I am trying to find a motorcycle shop. Anyone seen one yet?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 25, 2006, 9:28 pm

cid wrote:winnow your martini glass looked better

Did you land on my balcony? I put splash sound script in there. I don't know the range on it. Hope the entire complex doesn't hear people sloshing around my hottub!

I've got bigger plans for the balcony!

Another nice thing about the Serpent Island is that there's lots of open space around the area to try out vehicles etc.

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 25, 2006, 9:38 pm

Found myself a cheap apartment in the place you had screenshots of Winnow.
No stuff in it yet, guess ill try to play around with buying stuff, and making stuff on friday

. ATM im still just fooling around.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 26, 2006, 12:59 am

And Cliquè D'Veeshan is born!

Can you guess which one Kwon is?

The description said it was a couch!

Anyone that wants to join the group (you can be in up to 15 groups) just send me an IM in game whether I'm offline or on and I'll add you.

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Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » January 26, 2006, 6:23 am

Win! I have changed my look to a much better one now!

That old look is passé!

Need to borrow some more LindenBenjamins tho

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 26, 2006, 10:21 am

Kwonryu DragonFist wrote:Win! I have changed my look to a much better one now!

That old look is passé!

Need to borrow some more LindenBenjamins tho

Pffth, sell your body like everyone else

. I found a few chairs and dance pads so far, not good cash, but better than nothing.

sarlen · Post by **sarlen** » January 26, 2006, 1:54 pm

And Sarlen Goff is born. After walking around a while a few things stood out to me.

1. The load time for just about any new area I explore is between 4 to 6 min.

2. The lag after everything loads is crazy bad, 2 to 4 seconds between keyboard commands to seeing it happen on screen. Which makes walking or flying very hard to do.

3. Clipping is non exsistant. I have been stuck in the world objects a few dozen times in a few hours of play.

One of the big things I do like is the streaming audio in some of the clubs I visited, the quality was very high.

Over all the lag issues and load times will most likely keep me from playing this game much but I like the idea's behind it.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 26, 2006, 2:41 pm

sarlen wrote:And Sarlen Goff is born. After walking around a while a few things stood out to me.

1. The load time for just about any new area I explore is between 4 to 6 min.

2. The lag after everything loads is crazy bad, 2 to 4 seconds between keyboard commands to seeing it happen on screen. Which makes walking or flying very hard to do.

3. Clipping is non exsistant. I have been stuck in the world objects a few dozen times in a few hours of play.

One of the big things I do like is the streaming audio in some of the clubs I visited, the quality was very high.

Over all the lag issues and load times will most likely keep me from playing this game much but I like the idea's behind it.

Are you on a dial up?

The load times and initial lag in zones is understandable with the world containing all unique items. Each new zone has a ton of new things to download and decompress. Setting your HD cache to 1GB will greatly reduce the reload times for zones you've already visited. For new zones, my load times can be 1-2 mins for full download but not 4-6 mins. The new patch is also working on loading items you are focused on and new objects like avatars first to help with initial entry into a zone.

I've been stuck a couple times in 2 weeks. It's been easy to get unstuck though with teleporting always available. Sit/Standup/"Go to" are also ways to unstick yourself.

As for music. Yes, the sound quality is excellent and some places like Transylvania have live in-game DJs some of the time. The Transylvania in particular plays great live music.

The past two days my Avatar has been jumping around as if I've got tourette's syndrome. It happened right after I loaded up on a ton of free stuff so it may be related to having thousands of items in my inventory. I need to check the forums as noone else seems to be having the problem.

With all the unique textures and avatars, some extra load times over stagnant, less unique zones and avatars in other MMORPGs has to be accepted as one of the consequences.

sarlen · Post by **sarlen** » January 26, 2006, 3:01 pm

Winnow wrote:
sarlen wrote:And Sarlen Goff is born. After walking around a while a few things stood out to me.

1. The load time for just about any new area I explore is between 4 to 6 min.

2. The lag after everything loads is crazy bad, 2 to 4 seconds between keyboard commands to seeing it happen on screen. Which makes walking or flying very hard to do.

3. Clipping is non exsistant. I have been stuck in the world objects a few dozen times in a few hours of play.

One of the big things I do like is the streaming audio in some of the clubs I visited, the quality was very high.

Over all the lag issues and load times will most likely keep me from playing this game much but I like the idea's behind it.
Are you on a dial up?

The load times and initial lag in zones is understandable with the world containing all unique items. Each new zone has a ton of new things to download and decompress. Setting your HD cache to 1GB will greatly reduce the reload times for zones you've already visited. For new zones, my load times can be 1-2 mins for full download but not 4-6 mins. The new patch is also working on loading items you are focused on and new objects like avatars first to help with initial entry into a zone.

I've been stuck a couple times in 2 weeks. It's been easy to get unstuck though with teleporting always available. Sit/Standup/"Go to" are also ways to unstick yourself.

As for music. Yes, the sound quality is excellent and some places like Transylvania have live in-game DJs some of the time. The Transylvania in particular plays great live music.

The past two days my Avatar has been jumping around as if I've got tourette's syndrome. It happened right after I loaded up on a ton of free stuff so it may be related to having thousands of items in my inventory. I need to check the forums as noone else seems to be having the problem.

With all the unique textures and avatars, some extra load times over stagnant, less unique zones and avatars in other MMORPGs has to be accepted as one of the consequences.

512 DSL connection. With just this game running I cap out my connection. No one else on my network can use the internet while I play it =(

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » January 26, 2006, 5:22 pm

This thread is not helping my vow to never play any MMO again!

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 26, 2006, 5:34 pm

I'll be getting my mangina on as soon as my new rig is together.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 27, 2006, 2:07 am

Grrrrrrrrr!

My issues with my avatar jumping around the screen was resloved with a reboot. Something was running in the background causing all sorts of havok with my packet stream. What a pisser. Irritating 2 days. I don't think it was SL related as I was only one with issue. It's smooth as butter now! Carry on!

Durew · Post by **Durew** » January 27, 2006, 3:24 am

Need more screenshots, looks fun

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 27, 2006, 5:49 am

Here's a few more before this thread hits the next page.

Tonight I went shopping for some new duds while Cid went dancing...and dancing...and dancing...he must of been out there for 3 or more hours!

Go Cid! Go Cid!

Grabbed some new hair, boots, non jeans and stuff so I didn't look like Barbie's husband Ken.

Ah, here we go! Ready to boogie! The Union Jack outfit for teh win!

Cid is a dance-a-holic! He said he's geting a new outfit tomorrow...too busy gathering Cliquè D'Veeshan groupies!

Turn around Cid!

I played around with the gestures and assigned a few keys for dance moves and one that makes me do a backflip while I make the sound, "Weeee" like a chipmunk.

Cheerleaders must be present at all times.

The Cheerleader made a quick change into a future girl outfit (and grew about half a foot). You can switch clothes and body shape on the fly (they appear fuzzy and then sharpen as the textures download)

Hello Kitty!

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Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » January 27, 2006, 9:22 am

Hehe, i just been busy making a little cash, still mainly play EQ, and this game is VERY CPU demanding, so cant run both at the same time, so when i been on the last few days, i mainly been using dance pads or money chairs.

Btw, good way to make a little cash, when you go to bed/work/whatever where you wont play, head to a dance pad/chair and sit, then just leave. The game kick you after i think its 30+ min, but you still get paid.
I wake up like 4+ times a night due to some medical problems ATM, and when im up getting some drink anyway, i might as well just log back in (FAST to login, not like in EQ), and use the chair/pad again, then go to sleep again, made almost 100$ in a 2 days that way.

Still working on finding free stuff, found some poses in Angry Ant just before i went to bed last night, so didnt get to test it.
Played around with the 3d editor a little, managed to make a rug

, so now my apartment got a few items in it

Gotta get one of you to show me how to use poses and find good stores.

Btw, how do you make links for others? Tried to send SPang some links the other day, but with no luck.

Durew · Post by **Durew** » January 27, 2006, 11:14 am

Winnow does that link in your signature include your referral? I'm gonna sign up to give it a shot this weekend and wanted to get you the free L$1000 for referring me