Yeah I know, I keep coming back to this game. I need to stop. I have an idea for a new scenario that can only be done online, so I need to stop releasing new downloadable versions. Plus I have other projects I want to start. I keep telling myself this, and yet I keep falling back into tweaking my old project.
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I learned the secret to life from my cat. Find a comfortable spot, and enjoy. I think most everyone can agree with this, the problem is that there is often a misunderstanding of what a “comfortable spot” happens to be. Most people think it is a function of money, and stuff. They are wrong, and that is why most people are miserable.
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From a Second Life perspective, a 3D Internet presents many challenges. The biggest one on the minds of most people is “How do I make money?” Because of the open nature of a 3D internet, any rules regarding permissions and copying simply cannot be enforced. The Second Life economic model will not work. There will be money making opportunities on the 3D internet, but the buying and selling of 3D goods for virtual cash can only be done in a closed off system like Second Life or an individual OS grid.
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I have been following the Open Sim development for a couple of years now. Some of the latest developments have convinced me that if there is ever going to be a 3D internet, it will be based on Open Sim. I say this knowing that Open Sim currently has a rather low population of participants, low enough that one could question the sanity of such a statement. Well here is a brief summary of this conclusion.
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Most people that play Second Life, run into this problem eventually: You want to build stuff, and cant afford a lot of land, so you go to a sand box region, and when you go, its laggy and overcrowded. There is a solution with OpenSim. You can create a free, lag free personal sandbox island on your own computer and build what you want.
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In my last post, I decided to venture in to the untamed islands on the frontier of the Metaverse: The Open Sim Grids. Today I introduce 4 good grids to start out on, and I will introduce others in the weeks ahead.
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I uploaded a new dating sim download. You can get it here. It fixes the bugs pointed out in the 6.2 post back in January.
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So I need to make one last There.com post just to say goodbye. The pic above is the first screenshot I took in There. Most of the people in the screenshot, especially Twiddler, Marykins, and Emilia are people I knew in The Sims Online, and they encouraged me to sign up for beta.
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I predicted a year ago how economic troubling times would affect virtual worlds: Those profitable ones are likely to be even more profitable as people seek out cheap entertainment. Those relying heavily on VC money will likely be hurtung as VC money dries up.
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