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Hiro Queso · 02-10-2008, 12:27 PM

If you add an avatar name to your toolbox, do you then have exclusive use of that name, like a reservation - similar to SL? If so, how many can you reserve, and is adding the name to toolbox sufficient to secure that reservation?

Or can any given name be used many times?

Siobhan OFlynn · 02-10-2008, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Quiplash

There is as yet no standard starter inventory (although that should change in the near future). You have to upload all your own textures, animations, etc. and build everything yourself: skin, hair, clothes, trees, houses, poseballs, etc. etc. Like I said, this is not for people who live at the mall. It's true pioneer land. That's what makes it so exciting.

I registered. Send me an email when the mall opens.

Khashai Steinbeck · 02-10-2008, 12:57 PM

Just saw Sakai Openlife post this on the OLG chatroom:
http://125.252.80.102/Opensim_Standalone_0_5_r3274.zip

Walker, I believe that is what you were looking for. She said there is/was a carrier problem with the other link.

Briana Dawson · 02-10-2008, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by prinţesă nină

5 minutes in modthesims2 is testament to the fact that insanely talented people will create for something other than financial returns

Well. Nina, this has always been the case in SL, you just were not there as Nina.

(or maybe at all).

People *will* create awesome things solely for the benefit of expression. Lots of people still do it in SL. I expect it to be more rampant in this OLG community since prims are not yet an issue and the place can truly be a commune where people share near everything - people create and share out of sheer enjoyment of seeing their things uses by others. As the place goes commercial this will change as people start viewing their fellow residents as a possible vector to dollars.

Briana Dawson · 02-10-2008, 01:03 PM

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

Well i can't help but think that someone with ill intentions registered the name Briana Dawson there on purpose.

If this is how this "OpenLife Grid" endeavor is starting, I will happily stick with LL.

edit: i will not delete this post, but i feel silly now.

Quiplash · 02-10-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Joannah Cramer

Unless i misunderstand it, the fee only applies if you want to have a region hosted on external computer managed by openlife... if you have personal computer hooked to the 'net you could alternatively use it to host your own region connected to that grid, entirely for free (although people experience in your region would be limited by your bandwidth etc but then it also applies to external hosts)

Correct on all accounts except one; at present you cannot connect your standalone sim on your own personal computer with the OpenlifeGrid grid. I'm sure that this is on the to-do list, however.

Joseph Worthington · 02-10-2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

Avatar squatting perhaps?

Khashai Steinbeck · 02-10-2008, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

Did you try to register "Jesus Christ", too?

Hiro Queso · 02-10-2008, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

That sux

Someone's obviously being an arse.

Well, it would appear that anyone wishing to sign up should grab their avatar name asap.

Quiplash · 02-10-2008, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

Talk to Nina; she said in this very thread (go back to post #21) that she was going to start registering well-known SL avatar names. I bet you anything she signed up for it.

Her exct words were: "i am registering all the sl famous people right now.
kind of like domain squatting, but av names instead."

Hiro Queso · 02-10-2008, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Quiplash

Talk to Nina; she said in this thread she was going to start registering well-known SL avatar names. I bet you anything she signed up for it.

Do you know if there is a limit to the number of avatars you can add to your toolbox? And when they are added, are they securely reserved? Will anything be done by people blatantly taking well-known names in SL?

Forgive me if you don't have the answers Quip - I don't know what involvement you have with openlife, etc.

Hiro Queso · 02-10-2008, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

Well i can't help but think that someone with ill intentions registered the name Briana Dawson there on purpose.

If this is how this "OpenLife Grid" endeavor is starting, I will happily stick with LL.

For what it's worth, I just performed a little test. I added a test name to the toolbox and then deleted it. I then tried to add that same name up again and was able to. So, if someone has taken your name as a joke, it can easily be reversed. Let's hope.

Khashai Steinbeck · 02-10-2008, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

Well i can't help but think that someone with ill intentions registered the name Briana Dawson there on purpose.

If this is how this "OpenLife Grid" endeavor is starting, I will happily stick with LL.

Briana, I just spoke with Sakai over on the OLG chatroom, she said "ok you should suggest her to post to the forum
and we'll chase it", about your name being taken.

Briana Dawson · 02-10-2008, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Khashai Steinbeck

Briana, I just spoke with Sakai over on the OLG chatroom, she said "ok you should suggest her to post to the forum
and we'll chase it", about your name being taken.

Thanks, i appreciate that.

I would like to be apart of the new grid, even if i look like 2003 for a while.

Quiplash · 02-10-2008, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Hiro Queso

Do you know if there is a limit to the number of avatars you can add to your toolbox? And when they are added, are they securely reserved? Will anything be done by people blatantly taking well-known names in SL?

Forgive me if you don't have the answers Quip - I don't know what involvement you have with openlife, etc.

My involvement iwth OLG is purely from a super-eager and super-interested bystander and potential sim buyer.

In answer to your questions, you can probably create as many avatars as you wish (there's probably some internal technical limit like 256); any avatar you create is essentially reserved, since nobody else can then use that name; and it is impossible to determine what someone's intentions might be when they choose a new avatar name.

Hiro Queso · 02-10-2008, 01:29 PM

I didn't realise it was Adam's!

edit to add: Just found out it's not Adam's.

Beebo Brink · 02-10-2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Briana Dawson

Oh that is nice.

I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about?

Well i can't help but think that someone with ill intentions registered the name Briana Dawson there on purpose.

My name has been taken as well.

prinţesă nină · 02-10-2008, 01:31 PM

ok i will release the names

prinţesă nină · 02-10-2008, 01:31 PM

but what if someone else comes along?

prinţesă nină · 02-10-2008, 01:33 PM

just think of it as a friendly reservation

Nitnay · 02-10-2008, 01:34 PM

If anyone has taken my name Please do unmentionable with the AV cause I have a reputation to uphold.

prinţesă nină · 02-10-2008, 01:34 PM

ok beebo and briana are deleted....

Beebo Brink · 02-10-2008, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by prinţesă nină

but what if someone else comes along?

Please inform me of your Linden price for my name so we can arrange a suitable transaction schedule for transferring ownership.

Sincerely, Beebo Brink (of Second Life)

02-10-2008, 01:03 PM	#80 (permalink)
Briana Dawson Senior Member Loved by printesa Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Springfield, Illinois Posts: 3,432 SL Join Date: September 23, 2003 Business: N&B Exports My Mood: Awards: 1	Oh that is nice. I went to register my avatar name and someone already has... what is that about? Well i can't help but think that someone with ill intentions registered the name Briana Dawson there on purpose. If this is how this "OpenLife Grid" endeavor is starting, I will happily stick with LL. edit: i will not delete this post, but i feel silly now. Last edited by Briana Dawson; 02-10-2008 at 02:47 PM.

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02-10-2008, 12:27 PM	#76 (permalink)
Hiro Queso Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 753 My Mood:	If you add an avatar name to your toolbox, do you then have exclusive use of that name, like a reservation - similar to SL? If so, how many can you reserve, and is adding the name to toolbox sufficient to secure that reservation? Or can any given name be used many times?

02-10-2008, 12:57 PM	#78 (permalink)
Khashai Steinbeck Giant Shiny Golf Tee Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North-Central Missouri Posts: 203 SL Join Date: 9/26/2005 SLShopper Ads: 5 My Mood:	Just saw Sakai Openlife post this on the OLG chatroom: http://125.252.80.102/Opensim_Standalone_0_5_r3274.zip Walker, I believe that is what you were looking for. She said there is/was a carrier problem with the other link.

02-10-2008, 01:31 PM	#93 (permalink)
prinţesă nină Banned adores her psycho Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: melbourne Posts: 4,360 SLShopper Ads: 1 My Mood:	ok i will release the names

02-10-2008, 01:31 PM	#94 (permalink)
prinţesă nină Banned adores her psycho Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: melbourne Posts: 4,360 SLShopper Ads: 1 My Mood:	but what if someone else comes along?

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prinţesă nină Banned adores her psycho Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: melbourne Posts: 4,360 SLShopper Ads: 1 My Mood:	just think of it as a friendly reservation

02-10-2008, 01:34 PM	#96 (permalink)
Nitnay Perv at Large Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Penn. Posts: 1,125 My Mood:	If anyone has taken my name Please do unmentionable with the AV cause I have a reputation to uphold.

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prinţesă nină Banned adores her psycho Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: melbourne Posts: 4,360 SLShopper Ads: 1 My Mood:	ok beebo and briana are deleted....

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