Posted by: uncle fester Posted on: Today at 10:39:23 AM
Is it at this point where you're sucked through a portal, Tron-style, never to be seen again? I've heard Second Life can do that...
And is having a really small head just part of the modelling or did you specify it?
Sorry, I'm intrigued really 
References to TRON...... Do you mean like the big head computer thingy?
The Avatar Editor is surprisingly alot like the one on the "The Sims Two" game, except you can do more with the face, hair and body. I can make my self very fat, even obese looking. As I am in the real world I look fatter standing up in profile. From the front I look slimmer and when sitting down. I've tried to duplacte myself exactly keeping all this in mind. Actaulley, If you run out and buy "The Sims Three" You might find that the character editor is the same if not better. I was pleased with the level of detail and freedom given here.
Incidently, I do have a rather large head. Something I have noticed from the hats I own and letting other people the same height and size of me wear them. On other people they are too big, on me they fit just fine.Now I have tried giving myself a large head here to. It's ever so slightly disproportionatly large. But not to the point of being a huge disfigurement. I gotta laugh that there is a Package Editor if you choose your Avatar to be male. It starts from a value of one to ten for "Coin Purse" then from there to fifty to one hundred for "Duffel Bag" I thought it was ten points to a inch and got something that was rather lot more noticable than I thought it should have been. So I have scaled it right down for the sake of not looking like I had a bowling ball shoved down the front of my pants. While mine is a descent package, it's still reasonable. A balance between honesty and modesty.
Anyway, with that editor it's eiither nothing at all or the bowling ball.
So apart from a few bugs in the system you have control over the size of just about every part of your body and it's not perfect. I think I made my hands alitttle two big, but they wouldn't be too much smaller otherwise.
Posted on: Today at 11:20:47 AM Posted by: Van Dom
I dabbled VERY briefly (about ten minutes) with Second Life about a year ago but just couldn't get on with it. Can you actually earn money from it though? I hadn't heard that? How does that work? I knew it had some kind of "internet currency" going on but not a means of actually making real, tangible cash!!
The best way I've found of making money from the net is through those Opinion websites that are around. You sign up and they send you out surveys to fill in every so often, and you "earn" money for completing them. When I say "money" its generally in the form of vouchers towards various online websites, such as Amazon, which you can then redeem to purchase items, but this suits me just fine. It takes a while to build up a decent amount though as you only get between 50cents and 2euro per completed survey, depending on the complexity. Still, I'm working my way up to having enough credits to get that Seinfeld complete box set so I dont mind putting aside 15 minutes a day to waffle on about what TV channels I watch or what hair conditioner I use... 
I'm still trying to find out how to do that myself. Though I won't expecting anything big. I have read that it's manily the accountants and buisness people in the real world. The ones that have real savvvy for making money who would only be raking in the dollars in "Second Life" So, for myself, for a person who's only ever.been a railway porter, a cleaner, a fruit picker, and car window washer. I'm not expecting much. But I would like to have enough money after doing what ever I can after a while before I can decide to move on or stay and work harder, smarter..
I'm not expecting the Crown Jewels or Lost City of Eldorado as somebody else within the game already has told me.
In "Second Life" there is a heap of stuff there and if you know what you are doing then you will do well. Though, I won't forget that it's the people whom have made it in the real world who go within this game and have a descent chance of duplicating their income. I know that at first I will only be making little if anything at all, but my main concern is being able to make a buck without leaving the side of my home computer.
I'm also aware that there are alot of scams, ways to lose money. So I will tread carefully.
I have already made three dollars doing a survey. I also am well aware that this isn't really money I can spend anywhere. It's contributing to a coupon at a particular store. What I hope to be doing receving more of these coupons from the surveys and selling/trading them for real money or just purchasing stuff that they are applicable to and entering competitions and winning prizes.
It's worth a try atleast.
Posted by: the_legendary_shark Posted on: Today at 11:33:24 AM Why would I need a second life? I can't handle my first one.
I tried this, once. It was too creepy and dull for me but most people seemed to be enjoying it. At least, the ones who weren't just standing or sitting around, swaying slightly and gazing off into the distance like purgatorial cyber-zombies seemed to be enjoying it. I built a fortress of solitude on a mountaintop with a view of the sea, but the mountaintop transpired to belong to somebody else and my impregnable fortress got dismantled while I wasn't looking. There was also a rather caustic private message from the mountaintop owner to enhance the experience.
I 've known of this site for long long time and have only registered under a fortnight ago. I know that of course it looks dead, but thats virtual reality for you. It's never going to be perfect, but it's okay for me and it's suposedly all free. Well atleast for now it is. As they say you can't make money unless you spend money. But we'll see about that.
