SabellaFallen

Heylo -- wasn't sure if this should go here, or in Help Wanted, or what... but... I'm looking into purchasing a tip jar or two. What has me worried is I've been hearing that some of the ones on XStreet actually have some sort of additional script that sends a part of the transaction to the script builder, each time a tip is given.

I'm looking for 2 jars:
1) more of a donation thingy - all proceeds to one person
2) a jar that dancers can 'sign into', with a splitting feature that I can set up percentage wise. It would need to display a text message showing who was signed into the jar at the time.

Additional functionality would be great, but that's the core of what I'm looking for.

XStreet has models going from 0L to over 1KL... I don't know ANYTHING about scripting, so I figured it was best to get some advice...

-sf

Ned Easterwood

Sabella - drop an IM on Beathag McMahon inworld. She has a tip jar script she would be glad to give you that would work for your donation thingy. Or she can give you a tip jar that works like that.

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Grandma Bates

Send me an IM in world. I have a floating tip jar that you can have, full perms. (Someone contracted out with me to make the script and then did a runner as soon as he took delivery of the final product.) You are free to look through the code and do anything that you want with it including sell it or give it away. It allows you to let other people use it and will split the tips it takes in.

It is also available at NCI through their freebie vendor if you do not want to wait until I can get online.

abVanmoer

In general, no object can take money from you or send part of a transaction to anyone else unless you give it permission to take L$ from you.

That being said, as you are looking for tip jar that can split tips, it will need permission to take L$ from you so that it can pay the dancers their share. This is because an object isn't actually able to hold L$, all tips are paid to the object owner first.

So what is to be done. As you have noticed there are tons of tip jars on xstreet, some are cheap to buy upfront but will pay the creator a share - these should, and mostly do say so as much in the xstreet listing. Hopefully any that don't will have been reported and removed.
But there is no harm in playing it safe by dealing with people who have been recommended or have a legitimate business and reputation to maintain; looking at the creator's avatar age or their in-world store can give you some clues.

I have sent you one of my donation boxes via xstreet, when you rez it, it will ask if it can take L$ from you, the reason being that it can optionally be set to share payments with other avatars if you so choose.

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SabellaFallen

thanks so much for the replies! I really appreciate the info and the generous offers of help

-sf

Grandma Bates

I agree. You should be weary of any script that asks permission to hand out funds. If you are able to look at the code the command that you need to look for is "llGiveMoney."

The subtly here is that these scripts often loop through a list variable to get the percentages and the UUIDs to send the money. If you are not familiar with scripting you will have to read the scripts very carefully. You will also have to review the entire code to make sure that the entries in the lists are valid. In the end you are placing a lot of trust in the creator of the script (and its chain of custody).It is often better in these cases to have other eyes looking at the code as well.