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How many only-on-the-mainland things can you spot? I spy: Shoebox skybox under the cloudline, free-standing animated water prims, deciduous, coniferous, and palm trees all in the same shot, spinning real estate cube, unscaled side textures, untextured giant prims, terrible particle effects... I wouldn't have you any other way, Mainland.

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I found this basically unmarked 512m parcel with a bunch of silent avatars on it. No search listing, no obvious commercial purpose. Just a bunch of what appear to be newbie avatars sitting on a wall doing nothing. Why?

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Check out my cute new avatar! Wish I had a PS3!

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Waterhead Welcome Area was my original home location. It's barely changed. :)

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He's got a surprise for you...

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A friend built this statue for the holiday season.

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It's rainin' bots! Look closely!

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Pressing SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+1 hides the invisiprims, revealing the bots...

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The Blue City sim has their traffic bots scattered all over for some reason... perhaps to hide the telltale stack-o-dots on their world map. There are actually several bots surrounding me in this picture, but they're obscured by invisiprims...

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Same group, better angle. We're peering inside a pink box like the one yonder in this screenshot.

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Ah I was kind of stumped looking for this bot farm as the green dots on the minimap were giving false information. Found these avs at 4000 meters on the Quark sim. There are 86 of them.

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Someone actually left graffiti in the Beast Cave. I don't know how it's there because the sim has 10-minute autoreturn. but there it stands.

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Yep. She's got six of em.

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I spent around $1,000 USD on some parcels in Bay City - Docklands over the weekend; land that I actually plan to use. This is the view from my new house, an intentional monstrosity perpetrated by scumbag Mike Pessoa. He doesn't live there; he's purposefully made his parcel as horrible and out-of-theme as possible to make people want to buy it just to clean it up. This is what happens when you have no covenants, by the way.

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This is ALMOST what I had envisioned for our house in Bay City but not quite there. :( I want something that looks like it was built a long time ago but lived-in in the 60s.

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A bunch of scumbag, no-value, parasitic poobags bought most of the Bay City auctions so they could flip them at a huge profit. So far it appears they may have over-estimated demand. This flipper, Mike Pessoa, is trying to make his overpriced lot more attractive to buyers by... putting up an ugly out-of-theme house that's way too big for the parcel.

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Here's the fourth botbox I found at Beyond Good and Evil.

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It's too bad- "Beyond Good and Evil" is a great game. Sorry to see the name cheapened in this manner.

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Interestingly, it appears that almost ALL traffic on Costa del Sol is bot traffic. I have found at least three bot farms on the island, and the minimap suggests there are more.

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The traffic bots at Beyond Good and Evil run a script that makes them twitch left and right every second or so. It's like watching a roomful of half-rezzed meth addicts. There are 15 bots in this box, accounting for around half of this sim's traffic.

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I've noticed an annoying trend with traffic bot farmers. They put security orbs around their boxes, as if they don't want people to know what they're doing to drive up their traffic. This is at around 600m up at the Beyond Good & Evil club at Costa del Sol.

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The treehouse yonder is where I live, with my partner, on Desperation North. The view is from a lot that was just vacated on my rental island, Desperation East.

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Here's an available 2048m lot on Desperation North.

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Here's a 4096m lot on my rental island, Desperation Vivienne.