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This game is not an MMORPG.
Kethrym
Member Posts: 85
I'm saying this as a warning to all those who want to try it out. There is no real RP here. Second Life is a community of players all interacting in a giant chat room with customizable avatars. Literally. If you are over 18 (dont take this the wrong way but there is too much content rated R) and looking for an alternative to myspace or online dating then give this a shot. Everyone from Goths to Furries are excepted in Second Life. If you can't accept the diversity then please don't go there to verbally attack the community.
Tips for enjoying Secondlife
1. Be yourself, not the person sitting at the keys, but the person deep within your inner being. Its possible to be anything in Second Life, be proud of who or what you are.
2. Be tolerant.
3. Be social, friends are easily made by going to dance parties, casino's ect.
4. Under any circumstance dont beg for money. Money in SL is just like Money here in RL. I know thats hard to grasp but after you've been broke for months then you will understand it.
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True, SL is not a MMORPG but a Virtual World. Only problem there is absolutely nothing to do in it! It's basically a graphic interface chatroom with some player made animation loops thrown in (for dancing and for... err, let's leave that out).
1. how do you earn money, BESIDES those chairs that is REALLY small cash?
2. i walked around a lot...and found a lot of places...EMPTY O_O
3. a lot of adult sections, though i am 18+, i found it, annoying with the sexual graphics and what not.
4. what's the purpose? is it just chatting?
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1) Besides camping chairs,there are 'money trees' which usually offer a bit more money than the chairs,but are usually watched over like the chairs.
You can also get a 'job',but most jobs within SL seem to revolve around the sex market as far as I'm concerned. There's possibly some jobs in building/scripting/other. Maybe even the land market.
You could also sell the things you make. You'll need to be good at building/scripting,but it's free to learn just takes a lot of time and practice.
You could also use real money to get Linden money.
2) It's a big world but things will have changed (some places lose popularity...); there's a fair amount of 'junk' out there but most likely most empty places aren't used too often,but they will be used by somebody.
3) Something you just have to put up with. SL is often criticised as a game for 'sexual avatar relations' (and that's being polite; even people like the Guardian's weekend 'The Guide' have talked about SL in this way in the Duran Duran in SL article),but that's the price of freedom of expression; someone is going to want to get all XXX up ons. As it happens,the most popular places (on basis of traffic) in SL revolve around:
-Sex clubs/nightclubs.
-Casinos.
-Weapon shops.
That says plenty. There are plenty of non-XXX areas though; you'd have to go looking for them if you really want to get involved.
4) The purpose is whatever you want it to be. If you want to use SL as nothing more but a chat room with 3d avatars,go ahead. If you want to build fantastic things of wonder,go ahead but be prepared to put the time in. Second Life has no singular goal,just many goals that each individual sets out to do.
One might say there is 'business', since a lot of residents build houses (with no use), design pose balls, weapons, and clothing textures etc which they sell to people who have "stipend" memberships, buy Lindens for real cash or "work" by leaving their avatar in a camping chair for an extended period of time.
"What's the purpose? Is it just chatting?"
Basically, yes.
Second Life is more like a big 3D chat world full of crap and banners. I tried it and was pretty dissapointed. Loading is very slow even if I have a very fast computer and a high speed extreme internet.
I think people are nice in this "game" and it has ALOT of potential but I find Second Life really confusing... I didn't know where to go and what to do.
I don't know, nice game I guess but no for me... for now.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
i understand what you are saying but there are quite a few things to do u could race u could build u can perhaps take up a sport like snowboarding or surfing or perhaps settle down get some land get a house and then perhaps get married and go to night clubs have fun basically
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
there is also a show mature optoin on the search thingy that will take away all the sex things and all rude things there are more pg sandboxes also i think if it is ticked where it say show mature optoins make it un ticked then u will only get non sexual things and other stuff
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
No there is another: MySpace...
Full of perverts: Check
Angsty Teens: Check
Furries: Check
Emos: Check
Annoying and pointless: Check
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. -Nietzsche
One might say there is 'business', since a lot of residents build houses (with no use), design pose balls, weapons, and clothing textures etc which they sell to people who have "stipend" memberships, buy Lindens for real cash or "work" by leaving their avatar in a camping chair for an extended period of time.
"What's the purpose? Is it just chatting?"
Basically, yes.
The game mechanics are greated by the players, using the scripting engine.
Its akin to Furcidia.
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"Anyone posting on this forum is not an average user, and there for any opinions about the game are going to be overly critical compared to an average users opinions." - Me
"No, your wrong.." - Random user #123
"Hello person posting on a site specifically for MMO's in a thread on a sub forum specifically for a particular game talking about meta features and making comparisons to other titles in the genre, and their meta features.
How are you?" -Me
No there is another: MySpace...
Full of perverts: Check
Angsty Teens: Check
Furries: Check
Emos: Check
Annoying and pointless: Check
Is the last line your sig?
M: It is insanely massive
M: It holds thousands of players...
O: It is online...obviously
R: You play a role with your avatar..
P: You do play/script/build the game world
G: It is a virtual game not just a world, ie all the scripts created by users to have fun
Therefore one can only conclude it is an MMORPG.
However, is MySpace.com a MMORPG as well?
Jokes beside, I admit that Second Life can be a MMORPG, if people want it to be one. It can be an opportunity for role-playing, even if only a tiny minority uses it that way. It can be a business model — after all, people develop content for the Web and call it "web design" and a business! — so, developing 3D design is a business as well. It can be all of the above at the same time, and people will endlessly disagree with what it is. This is, actually, Second Life's greatest strength: the ability to provide to each and every one of us with something that appeals to us — even if others disagree with "our" view on what SL "is".
However, saying that Second Life is only a chatroom, or only a game/content development tool, or only a MMORPG, it's too limiting. It's all of that put together; each of us, depending on what we want to do with Second Life, will have a different way of using it. Or not. It's up to us
"I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country."
-- Philip "Linden" Rosedale, interview to Wired, 2004-05-08
MySpace is a whole completely different aspect in its self. You play a role in the huge community by finding other people you are interested in, but it is not a game, you don't play a "fake" role, something you are not. When you are on MySpace you are yourself as in the real world, granted you could/can make fake profiles of something you are not, but this was not the reason it was built and how it is operated.
I agree with you here no doubt, lots of actual business use SL to provide extra income on the online community. There is money to be had and since this is a new break through in technology and shock it will still be a hugh success. As more and more "Virtual Lives" come out it will be less and less of a deal and people will start searching the real world again for their income. So yes you are right it can be a complete different label depending on what the user does with the software, a good example would be Entropia Universe, they officially call it a "Virtual World" and has the power and the backing to actual create a virtual economy that is mixed with the real world. Once again it all depends on the player of how this game is labeled.
Great point and well noted.
Hehe you know, HashBrick, I do agree with you, but if you replace the above paragraph with "Second Life", it describes what SL is so well:
Second Life is a whole completely different aspect in its self. You play a role in the huge community by finding other people you are interested in, but it is not a game, you don't play a "fake" role, something you are not. When you are on Second Life you are yourself as in the real world, granted you could/can make fake profiles of something you are not, but this was not the reason it was built and how it is operated.
See? It makes sense as well
Quoting LL's CEO, Philip "Linden" Rosedale: "I'm always surprised with what people make in Second Life". He's so right. It is being used for totally different purposes than the ones he intended... but he's glad
"I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country."
-- Philip "Linden" Rosedale, interview to Wired, 2004-05-08