In my ever continuing mission to provide an educational service to the residents of Second Life, I offer a guide on how to build a sim in Second Life!
Load up the Second Life website (10 seconds)
Find the webpage to purchase a sim (1 minute)
Realise how much a sim costs and swear (5 minutes)
Search the SL Forums for a second hand sim (30 minutes)
Contact the seller of a sim and wait for them to come online (2 hours)
Negotiate and agree deal with the sim seller (30 minutes)
File a ticket with Linden Lab arranging the sale of the sim (5 minutes)
Wait for Linden Lab to debit you for the $50 transfer fee (2.6 seconds)
Wait for Linden Lab to sort out the transfer of the sim to your ownership (2 months, 17 days, 18 hours, 53 minutes, 44 seconds)
Terraform the land on your new sim (7 hours)
Swear because the terraforming isn’t going the way you want it to (3 hours)
Look around for someone who can terraform the sim for you (2 hours)
Hire a terraformer and negotiate a price (25 minutes)
Explain to the terraformer what you want (2 hours)
Let the terraformer complete the job (20 minutes)
Think about what you want to build (5 weeks)
Start building your structure (2 weeks)
Decide you can’t build and start looking for builders (6 days)
Hire a builder and brief them on what you want (3 hours)
Let the builder create your dream build (3 weeks)
Wonder why you’ve not seen your builder in the past week, and IM them (15 minutes)
Wait for the builder to reply (2 weeks)
Get fed up and sack the builder for going AWOL, and find someone else to build your structure (4 days)
Sack the new builder for undoing all the terraforming work (2 minutes)
Decide to give up on builders and just do it yourself..again (3 minutes)
Try to line up two prims (6 hours)
Give up and look for prefabs (8 hours)
Purchase a prefab, and then set it up on your land (3 hours)
Finish setting up the sim (5 hours)
Open the sim to the public (15 seconds)
Watch as the sim crashes (30 seconds)
Log into the SL forums (2 minutes)
Place an advert to sell your sim (10 minutes)
Uninstall Second Life (3 minutes)
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Alessia Kranfel on July 8, 2009
LOL LOL LOL!
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Bailey Longcloth on July 8, 2009
ROFL!!!
I just call you kiddo. *wink*
Chantal Harvey on July 8, 2009
Hahahaha sounds about right! Only one remedy: leave that sim empty (mine is) and use it for other things…
Fricker on July 8, 2009
For some reason I keep going back to this one over and over… “Realise how much a sim costs and swear” and sware and sware
) Hahahahha
Emerald Wynn on July 8, 2009
Yeah.
Rrishanna Regina on July 8, 2009
You forgot:
Landscape Sim (6 hours)
Give up landscaping and look for landscaper (2 hours)
Hire Rrish. (fast)
Let Rrish landscape (even faster)
Shelby Rasmuson on July 8, 2009
Ok…lining up 2 prims might just take me longer….
Mistletoe on July 9, 2009
Sounds like the voice of experience there
Bluegum on July 9, 2009
Rez a prefab skybox at 3000m to contain your shop but leaving the sim completely unterraformed and add a pick to your profile linked to 128,128,0
Anemysk Karu on July 29, 2009
Very funny
I still want my own sim and do it all myself
maybe some day. I always stop on -> ” Realise how much a sim costs “
Maria Korolov on July 29, 2009
I had no idea that setting up a region on Second Life could be painful… I’ve been working on OpenSim builds, where there are a LOT of growing pains — I had this romanticized feeling that life on Second Life was all worked out — you pays your money, you gets what you need.
OpenSim may have problems when it comes to stability (except on business-focused grids like ReactionGrid), and may take some fiddling to set up if you’re running it yourself on your own server. But, on the plus side, setting up a region is quick (just a few minutes, if you’re self-hosting, a couple of hours maybe if you’re using a host) and way cheap. Self-hosting, of course, is free (just the cost of your electricity and bandwidth), and hosting with PioneerX or ReactionGrid starts at $15 – $25 a month for a full region.