Second Life – Page 191

March 8, 2013March 8, 2013

RELAY FOR LIFE KICKOFF

The 2013 Relay For Life of Second Life season is ready to launch. On Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 10am SLT, the Relay For Life Kickoff Celebration will be held on 4 special “kickoff” regions bordering the American Cancer Society Island.

More than 107 teams have pre-registered to participate in this year’s Relay For Life fundraising season in Second Life, but there is plenty of room for more. Anyone who has registered, or is interested in registering a team is encouraged to attend the Kickoff Celebration to learn more about this year’s Relay For Life season. If you are interested in learning more, contact Gem Sunkiller inworld, or you can join the Relay For Life Volunteers Group, or you can visit Relay For Life of Second Life.

The 2013 Relay For Life of Second Life theme matches that of the American Cancer Society’s 2013 campaign: Celebrating 100 Years of Hope.

“2013 marks the 100th birthday of the American Cancer Society. Our teams voted last year to use this as an opportunity to align with the organization to celebrate the many successes that we’ve had over the last 100 years of fighting cancer…and to re-commit ourselves to doing as much as we can to finish the fight,” says Stingray Raymaker, American Cancer Society Manager of Digital Platforms. Continue reading “RELAY FOR LIFE KICKOFF”

March 7, 2013

Tyche Shepherd’s Private Region Survey For February

Tyche “Statto” Shepherd’s private region survey for February 2013 revealed a couple of stark points:

The large estates now hold a bigger percentage of the grid.
Older hardware in the shape of class 5 regions is declining, whilst newer class 7 and 8 regions rise.

As this is a survey there are margins of error in the results, so they may be slightly out, but not by much …. I think I’ve got that right! Now February continued the decline in private regions on the grid, there was a net loss of 146 regions, so if you held steady during February you’d hold a larger perentage of the grid. Let’s take a hypothetical example here, imagine you owned 10 regions and there were 100 regions on the grid, you’d hold 10% of the share. However if 10 regions disappeared, you’d now own 10 regions out of 90, making your share 11.1%, so without doing anything yourself, your percentage of land holdings increases when there’s a decline.

However February’s overall decline was 0.7%, which is healthier than January’s 1.5%. However when it comes to the top twenty landowners, their holdings went up by 3.8% (+/- 1.3%) in February, giving them 38.9% of private regions. Tyche also comments that taking list prices, their holdings are up 2.3%, meaning they pay around 31% of all private region tier.

Tyche also looks at the top 10 owners and figures out that they hold 29.1% (+/- 1.2%) of regions and pay 21.4% of private region tier. This backs up Tyche’s statement that larger estates own more homesteads than smaller estates.

The big mover in February was the ACS owned Azure Islands, up 0.8%. Anshe’s estate holdings don’t show so well in the full list as there are individual estates, but overall they amount to 14.7% ( +/-0.9%) which is up 1.6% on January.

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March 4, 2013March 4, 2013

Magic Boxes To Be Semi Retired In April

Commerce Team Linden (AKA CTL) has announced on the official forums that Magic Boxes will start to be retired in April, although they aren’t being fully retired as there’s an issue still with Direct Delivery and no copy items.

Magic Boxes have traditionally been used to list items on the SL Marketplace. However the time is now approaching whereby you will need to switch to Direct Delivery, the important information:

April 2, 2013:

Merchants will no longer be able to list unlimited-quantity items for L$10 or less using Magic Boxes.

Any active, unlimited-quantity listings for L$10 or less using Magic Boxes will be unlisted.

April 16, 2013:

Merchants will no longer be able to list unlimited-quantity items using Magic Boxes, regardless of price.

Any remaining active, unlimited-quantity listings using Magic Boxes will be unlisted, regardless of price.

However if the items you’re listing aren’t unlimited, for example a breedable for which you have no copy rights and therefore have to sell it as a limited quantity item, there is no migration date yet.

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March 3, 2013

Fantasy Faire 2013 Store Registration Now Open

Fantasy Faire 2013 is coming and so are the details about participating. I was sent a notecard inworld detailing registration details for merchants, which I will share with you here, if you are interested in having a merchant presence in this year’s Fantasy Faire then please read the information carefully, also check out the related links from where you can apply. I like posts like this because I have to do less work, this is mostly the work of Elizabeth Tinsley, I just get to copy and paste, hurrah! Anyway, on with the show:

Dear Creator

Please accept our invitation to participate in Fantasy Faire 2013, Second Life’s largest gathering of fantasy designers, enthusiasts & performers. Join us April 20-28, for a week of commerce, special events, live music concerts & fundraising over 10 sims to benefit Relay for Life and the fight against cancer.

Bringing together the top Creators from a wide range of fantasy genres, the Fantasy Faire strives to showcase the depth and breadth of SL’s fantastical possibilities and that’s why we’re contacting you.

As the fifth annual Fantasy Faire of Second Life, we are projecting an even higher turn-out both for Creators and for visitors. We plan to make it fun and easy for hundreds of people to find you and your products.

There are a number of ways you can be involved:

FANTASY FAIRE PARTICIPATION LEVELS:

a) Themed Store (TEN per themed sim) – L$2500

25 x 15m store & 350 prims allocation

b) Featured Creator Store (SIX per themed sim) – L$ 8,000

30 x 25m store & 700 prims allocation

(Centrally placed near sim sponsor & sim landing point )

c) Featured Creator Store + Event Sponsor – L$33000

d) Event/Hunt Sponsor – L$30,000 (Does NOT include a store) This opportunity can be combined with a Themed or Featured Creator Store if you desire. Advertising at all Events including the Hunt, on the FF blog, on Fantasy Faire radio & in any promotional materials.

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