Archive for December, 2006

Changing the colour of your objects on the minimap

The minimap is a very useful tool but one thing that bothered me was that my objects show up as an almost identical colour as residents at different levels.
You know, those ‘T’ shapes.

I asked live help if it was possible to change the colour of my objects and was told that they didn’t know of any way to do it.
So I went digging and found the answer is in the file:

  • C:\Program Files\SecondLife\app_settings\colors_base.xml

minimap purple

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Pyramid schemes in SL

Several asswipes are dropping pyramid shaped prims on any land they can build on.
These prims vary in size from 10 mtrs down to small ones but all feature a dollar bill texture and give out notecards when touched which relate to a pyramid scheme.

pyramid scheme

Pyramid schemes are illegal in most countries and certainly against the Second Life TOS according to the Linden I asked.
The creator of these prims is DisQ Hern and the main person dropping them is Knight9954 Rojyo.
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Avoid junk on your land

One of the biggest issues relating to land in Second Life is that of other residents building on your land. If you go away for 4 weeks and leave build turned on, you can bet your land will be full of junk and you may possibly have the odd leecher squatting there as well.
Sadly, many people do just that and it causes grief, upset and distress to neighbours and people who are trying to live around you.
How bad could it be? A plot near me recently had approx 1500 items on that weren’t the owners - things such as plywood boxes, particals, rotating objects, stuff for sale etc. Real sim laggers! No one wants to live near that.

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Afterworld - EU ripoff

I was shown the following movie this evening which was on youtube.

Its for a Russian MMO called Afterworld. Anyone who has ever seen Entropia Universe can see this is a blatent rip-off of Mindark’s MMO.

Everything from the POV, environment, loot pop-up, swirl effect and trumpets add up to make it an almost identical copy.

I see legal action coming.