The also deliberately do not permit renaming of avatars (how long since even simple databases allowed changing of prime keys?). This, of course, results in those that are unhappy with their first avatar dumping large amounts of non-transferrable items when they start with their new avatar. Oh, yeah, more real dollars given to Linden Labs for buying duplicate non-items.

Finally, they have back up inventory data bases and can track items purchased by avatars that are later abandoned. Why does the State of California permit them to act as if these items are of no transactional value and don’t require an abandoned property report? Just because their TOS says so? Doesn’t work for other businesses.

LL profiteers on the results of the decisions they make to not support their own users. The users need to wake up from their addiction that makes that possible.

1) I figured, based on the horrible “popular” list and the like, that I might as well look around at some of these sex “hot spots”… I found exactly *1* that was populated with any significant number of people, and most of those where guys. The rest, 95% where human form, 3% where some sort of bot/camper in some lame area, and 2% where just wandering around, but not doing much. I had to really ***look*** to find places that actual SL people did actual SL sex in, and I still only found 3-4 sims that both cater to it, are not a tiny number of Gorian areas, and people actually can be found in. Where ever the image above came from… Its no place I have been. lol

2) Not everyone can design/script well, if at all, so there is “some” legitimate annoyance at how much you have to spend to get good quality items. If you plan to involve yourself in combat systems, RP, etc. you need DCS equipment, or some variation, and its not trivial to get that by making it. However, I am using flexi hair and legs from one furry vender, with a free flexy tail, and a free everything else. So, you can get “free” even for furry stuff. Its just not always going to be exactly perfect for what you want (imho, too much of the designs are almost as plasticky as the stupid furry head and tail you start with).

My real gripes have jack to do with the stuff that people here, who spent 1-2 days wandering around the botted high-profile, garbage heaps of SL, if they bothered spending that long, saw, but that a) you its damn hard to find stuff beyond that initially, b) the stuff you can find is… not that impressive (sorry Linden, your “see this” list of things you hand out stinks, and some of it isn’t even accurate) and c) Too many groups that have some sort of RP are either over restrictive on character types, over bearing in their “theme”, too narrow in that theme for all but very narrow groups of people to have an interest, or too “combat” oriented.

I have yet to find one that fits my vision of things, and I have looked every place from the so called elven empires to CARP (though not seriously in the later case as an RP place). The only one so far I didn’t get told “at the door” that I would have to become something else, besides a fox, or conform to some silly sub-group, because their combat/rule system only allowed X, Y or Z, and if you look even a little like Z, you *are* Z, has ironically been the Arizona Tombstone area. I don’t doubt I will get grumbled at staying as I am if I apply, but I am going to try for a sort of “fox/coyote” persona, complete with script to magically change everything from my clothes to my weapons, while hidden in a dust devil. I mean, they have Indians, I don’t see why I can’t become the local “Indian legend”. lol And, how the heck hard should it be for someone to RP that they can’t “tell” I am a fox until I do something to trick them, or the like?

Its an idea, and the best I can manage so far, in an environment I wouldn’t mind spending time in, instead of under the thumb of some horrible set of rules that don’t just limit what I am, or deny it, but force it to be something else. Until someone comes up with a better option…

In any case, some people here need to get their immature heads out of their tails and ask themselves if maybe their “bad” experience didn’t have more to do with their attitudes and how they “looked” at, for, and around the world, not the world itself.

-Cheers

There’s a farm for you all to harvest and the noobs who spend 75 bucks could’ve spent all that buying ugly poorly made garments that I made in 15 minutes and one of those kinds of persons comes along every other week. As for the choice in furry, I support yiff because the furry population is imo the largest consumer group in small-medium sales and often spit out some of the finger equipment in the game, for example; populated clubs that have actual players playing and talking and buying and yiffing and having fun.

I giggle at those individuals who sit in chair for 19 days earning 3 Linden an hour or whatever to populate some b.s. casino. L2Build. Building is free, make your own damn avatar and your own damn clothes and stop buying shit if you noobs are gonna bitch-fest like you got RIPPED OFF by somebody. QQ, cry more. If you don’t like spending money cause you don’t know how to make a few squares and circles then go play world of warcraft.