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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Insanity on September 27, 2007, 02:12:00 pm

Title: Greetings From Second Life
Post by: Insanity on September 27, 2007, 02:12:00 pm
So, I finally decided to try out Second Life...
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Title: Greetings From Second Life
Post by: Speler on September 27, 2007, 02:36:00 pm
Forget Web 2.0, this is RL 2.0
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Post by: bfr on September 27, 2007, 03:28:00 pm
Insanity: Cool, I think I want to check it out now.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 27, 2007, 03:45:00 pm
lol
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Post by: Speler on September 27, 2007, 03:47:00 pm
Wait, is that a dragon?!?!  Maybe I will look at this game in more detail (is there combat?)
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Post by: Insanity on September 28, 2007, 08:43:00 am
Mmm-hmm.  There's a land dedicated to them.  You can buy the eggs and hatchlings and raise your own.

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Yays, Pacman!
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 28, 2007, 09:10:00 am
interestiing
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Post by: Insanity on September 29, 2007, 08:40:00 am
If you think Second Life is interesting, you should see http://www.entropiauniverse.com.  If you like sci-fi games, you'll probably love this.  It is also a metaverse like SL, but there are actually objects to the game.  And unlike WoW, there's a balance between socialization and gaming (and did I mention, it's free - although you can 'seamlessly' exchange money between both the metaverse and the real world).  And plus, the physics and graphics are friggin' awesome and are soooooo much more smoother.
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Post by: TIfanx1999 on September 29, 2007, 11:42:00 am
It looks like a really odd version of the SIMS, but with dragons........
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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on September 29, 2007, 03:11:00 pm
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QUOTE (Insanity @ 29 Sep, 2007, 12:40)
If you think Second Life is interesting, you should see http://www.entropiauniverse.com.  If you like sci-fi games, you'll probably love this.  It is also a metaverse like SL, but there are actually objects to the game.  And unlike WoW, there's a balance between socialization and gaming (and did I mention, it's free - although you can 'seamlessly' exchange money between both the metaverse and the real world).  And plus, the physics and graphics are friggin' awesome and are soooooo much more smoother.  

 About the italicized text: does that mean you can lose virtual money to gain real world money? XDsmiley.gif
Title: Greetings From Second Life
Post by: Insanity on September 29, 2007, 06:07:00 pm
"Join people from around the globe who use the Entropia Universe currency, the PED, to develop their characters everyday on the untamed planet of Calypso. The unique and secure Real Cash Economy allows you to transfer your accumulated PED back into real world funds."

The exchange rate there is a flat rate of 10 PED <=> $1 US.

And on Second Life -- let me see if I can find it here...
...I think you'll find a little info on their commerce system here:
https://secure-web1.secondlife.com/currency/
And a tip on "hustlin'" in SL (this actually goes for any metaverse out there in which you have financial opportunities):
"Don’t focus on getting rich. Focus on solving problems instead. Second Life, like first life, is FULL of problems. If you can correctly identify a few of them and provide good solutions, the money will always follow."
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Post by: kalan_vod on September 30, 2007, 05:22:00 pm
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It looks like a really odd version of the SIMS, but with dragons........  

 Exactly what I was thinking ;)wink.gif
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 30, 2007, 05:32:00 pm
Darth Android (Telroth) on IRC may like how it have dragons %)rolleyes2.gif
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Post by: Insanity on September 30, 2007, 05:39:00 pm
Woo-hoo, my tower is complete!  Took all day to make - especially the awesome revolve-and-fade inner doors.  Now I just got to add some more detail...

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Title: Greetings From Second Life
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 30, 2007, 05:41:00 pm
this is in second life or the other game?
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Post by: Insanity on October 01, 2007, 08:13:00 am
It's from Second Life.
I'm going to make into a giant shiny building that has four rooms per floor and an elevator.
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Post by: Insanity on October 03, 2007, 03:29:00 pm
Yay, I finally finished my tower!
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And here I am, now wondering what I'm going to do with it.
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2007, 03:31:00 pm
nice ^^
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Post by: Cadethian on October 03, 2007, 05:14:00 pm
are you like a dragon/human halfbreed? O_Oshocked2.gif
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Post by: spengo on October 03, 2007, 09:05:00 pm
It's emo man! he's got the whole thing, sitting around looking depressed, bat wings (goth?), cuts all over his arms, and the hair in front of the eyes. Perrrrfect. XDsmiley.gif
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 04, 2007, 02:16:00 am
it's more Resident Evil to me, altough the Zombies in there didn't had wings
Title: Greetings From Second Life
Post by: Insanity on October 10, 2007, 12:18:00 pm
There was a Slayer concert today.  I thought it was rather interesting and took a crapload of screenshots, http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=174165906&albumId=1006750 or the first half http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa282/MetalRandomist/Screencaptures/Slayer%20Concert%2-%2031%20of%2061%20imgs/

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Title: Greetings From Second Life
Post by: dinhotheone on October 10, 2007, 12:52:00 pm
i did some research on second life and i was wondering how yo make stuff, like can you make anything? like a sword that can kill other people? what exactly can you do?
Title: Greetings From Second Life
Post by: Insanity on October 10, 2007, 01:16:00 pm
You can create virtually -- and I use that term loosely -- anything you could think of linking together objects called 'prims' and the LSL scripting language used to "breath life" into your creation.

There was someone in a sandbox a few days earlier who was working on some big, intricate, and realistic working versions of Transformers.  It must have taken that guy months to build and get all that animation for objects as large as they were.
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Post by: g28401 on October 20, 2007, 09:57:00 pm
ugh second life.  I can't stand it.  the only time I ever use it is if I need to get ahold of my gf and no one is answering the phone.  I don't like it, plus it bores me.  I'd rather have a nice game of UT2004.  or Battlefield 2.