Archive for July, 2010
Creating Second Life Scripts
July 28th, 2010
Linden Scripting Language (also known as LSL) is a programming language in Second Life that enables you to add interactive behavior to objects in the games. With SL scripts you can make lights that flash different colors, a gate that opens and closes when you click it or you can even create rain.
One SL resident makes his living by selling rain, virtual rain that is that he sells for about a dollar per reusable storm. He is just one of the many residents selling products in Second Life for real money. Others sell things like snow, fire, lights, or even the sound of barking dogs or chirping birds that they have created.
Second Life Scripting is basically a list of instructions that are carried out in the order they are written. These instructions are performed by a computer and need to be in a specific format and grammar known as syntax. Learning the scripting language can be difficult at first but with the correct guidance you should be able to learn fairly quickly.
If you are interested in scripting or are just looking for some scripts you can go here: Second Life Scripts. Creating scripts can not only bring objects to life but it can create endless opportunities for you.
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Making Money In Second Life
July 21st, 2010
In Second Life, Avatars need new hairstyles, new dresses for parties, new shoes for the ballrooms, suits for business meetings, watches, jewelry, houses, furniture for their houses, art to decorate the walls of their house, ponds for their landscaping.
They need virtual goods, virtual goods that cost real money.
In the last couple years, many of us have seen our real economy sink while Second life’s economy has thrived.
- $567 million U.S. dollars with user-to user transactions, a 65% jump from 2008
- $55 million U.S. dollars was cashed out by Second Life residents in 2009
- Over 50 businesses made more than $100,000 in 2009
Goods in Second Life are not bought with real money but with the in-game currency called Linden dollars. Second Life Lindens can then be traded on an exchange. Similar the real world Federal Reserve, the Second Life owners, Linden Lab, control the exchange. The exchange rate has remained relatively consistent at 230 Linden dollars for every U.S. dollars.
There will blogs to come about diversity of goods and services that are sold in Second Life for money. Meanwhile if you want some ideas on what you could possibly do to make a virtual living or want to discuss some ideas with residents so can do so by joining a Second Life forum. This is another place where residents with similar interests can gather and share SL secrets on how to be virtually successful.
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Making Second Life Lindens With Surveys
July 13th, 2010
Many residents who are running low on Second Life linden dollars try their hand at survey ATM’s. It is tempting to try them after seeing advertisements on how you can make thousands of linden dollars that way.
Is it really a quick and easy way to make lindens? You’re promised lindens in exchange for giving your email address and completing a survey. In reality it’s usually some offer or promotional trick and as you’ll find out soon enough, new surveys are hard to find. Also most ATM’s use the same survey but have different payouts. So once you’ve completed a survey and you find it again later at a location that paid more, you can’t fill it out again.
Completing surveys used to be a decent way of making SL money but most of the big-name companies that used to pay out have all but disappeared from Second Life:
- Hippiepay
- Welfare Island
- Rave Pharm
If you do decide to complete surveys be sure to use an alternate email address and don’t expect them to pay. The large survey sites have gone out of business and what’s left are smaller companies that can’t pay out as much.
There are hundreds of better ways to make lindens in the virual world. There are Second Life strategies available that will show you the latest money making idea. Second Life millionaires also oftentimes create SL guides to share their money making secrets with you.
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Making SL Money- Take The Gamble
July 6th, 2010
Last week we discussed Second Life tips to making money with little effort. Aside from camping, another way of making lindens easily is Freeplay. Second life Freeplay is playing one of the many types of in-game machines such as Zyngo Wild or Deal Extreme. You try to beat the high score to earn SL linden dollars.
Like camping, Freeplyay games are used to try to increase traffic to gaming parlors and such. There are two types of SL Freeplay payouts:
Instant payout- you instantly win money when you beat a high score
Timed payout- The high score of the day wins money
Second Life Freeplay has been around even before the gambling ban. Some people consider it a form of gambling since the land owner of where the games are played can temper with the probability of winning simply by adjusting the high score. Games that cost a bit more to play also tend to have higher return rates. Many compare Freeplay to “games of chance” such as those seen in gambling cities.
Freeplay is a fun way to earn some lindens but on the downside, payouts are usually low so its basically useful only if you just want to kill some time or find a game you really like.
If you are a risk taker that is looking for easy ways to make money that have higher return rates than try some Second Life cheats instead. These can show you ways to making money and advancing faster than normally possible.
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