Second Life - Page 4

Chameleon · #37 May 17th, 2007, 12:54 PM

Here's a photo of a party with my dragon friends.

I'm the big blue dragon in the upper left.

Chameleon · #38 May 29th, 2007, 05:20 PM

I have some new pets roaming about on my island. hehehe. Come see!

oogiezone · #39 June 2nd, 2007, 12:31 AM

For one of the classes I took last semester, we were required to create a second life acct and download it. Then we (as a class of over a hundred people) were all suppossed to sign on simultaneously and play a series of soccer games. then we had to write a paper about our Second Life experience. Almost half the class never even made it into Second Life or got off Orientation Island, and I have to say I was really dissappointed with it. As soon as I got my grades I uninstalled it, and really didn't ever plan on going back. So tell me, am I just missing something? Or am I letting one bad experience bias my judgement of the environment and should I give it another try?

brickman1444 · #40 June 2nd, 2007, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by oogiezone

For one of the classes I took last semester, we were required to create a second life acct and download it. Then we (as a class of over a hundred people) were all suppossed to sign on simultaneously and play a series of soccer games. then we had to write a paper about our Second Life experience. Almost half the class never even made it into Second Life or got off Orientation Island, and I have to say I was really dissappointed with it. As soon as I got my grades I uninstalled it, and really didn't ever plan on going back. So tell me, am I just missing something? Or am I letting one bad experience bias my judgement of the environment and should I give it another try?

Let me just say that I completely skipped Orientation Island and only went there once for the free stuff they have at the end.

oogiezone · #41 June 3rd, 2007, 11:36 AM

I never got any free stuff! What a rip-off! The biggest problem that I had, was once I got off Orientation Island, you go to a new island before you actually can get the the entire Second Life world. Once I figured THAT out, and got into the whole world, I was unable to teleport to the coordinates set up by my professor. I kept teleporting into a building that was really dark, and I couldn't see to get out of the building, and kept walking into things. I couldn't get my character to move around the obstacles that I couldn't see. Also, my computer kept freaking out when I opened the window to change her appearance, so I couldn't do that either.

I think I might have enjoyed it more if #1, there had been some comprehensive instructions on how to use the technology. As someone who is not vey technologically inclined, it is very frustrating to just "see what happens." #2, it hadn't been something that was required. The fact that my professor even assigned this was ridiculous. He took what might have been something fun and turned it into somehting that pissed us all off and made us hate the experience.

Joah · #42 June 5th, 2007, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Chameleon

Here's a photo of a party with my dragon friends.

I'm the big blue dragon in the upper left.

Cham,... Have you ever even played Heroscape?

Chameleon · #43 June 13th, 2007, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by oogiezone

I never got any free stuff! What a rip-off!

I have so much free stuff, it's coming out my ears, and I still haven't gotten through all of it. Send me an IM and I'll send you a landmark. There's free stuff all over the place, and it's not going away.

Second Life is graphics intensive, and it looks to me some of the problems you're experience may be due to having a low-end PC, or maybe a slow network connection.

I'm having such a blast on Second Life!