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Old 24th July 2007, 03:55 PM   #4
lisa
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Originally Posted by Wiggles View Post
One bad thing I heard is that, when you join, people will greet you and try to entice you to the bad parts of town, lol. Kind of like a popup ad, only in people form.
Uuugh. For sure. There are people who stalk the welcome areas looking for noobs who don't know any better. The Lindens and guides discourage it, but there's not a lot they can do. Like any big city, tourists and new people are always targets for crime.

The people stalking the welcome areas will also try to entice new players with promises of good camping. There are safe enough places to camp, but a lot of them are scams. Camping is a strange SL phenomena. Basically, you know how Google ranks sites based on their popularity? SL does the same thing, so people figured out that if they paid people a few pennies an hour to sit on their property, it would artificially increase their seach ranking. They've done things since to discourage the practice, but when camping was at it's worst, I actually walked into a casino where one whole wing was walls of oblong body pods filled with hundreds of people lying inside them camping. Most of the people were AFK, so they weren't even talking, they were just renting their body to the casino. It was like something out of The Matrix, very creepy.

Still, if you can make it past the welcome area, there's a whole lot of neat stuff out there. I can post some landmarks (bookmarks) if you like.
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