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Heylel

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There are a few people on this board that know the specifics of exactly what I do (though I'd prefer they not say heh). But I actually have my own business in SL. While everyone tends to make fun of SL (for good reason in most cases) - when I show them how much I make, they get really quiet.
SL as in Second Life? If so, I did a lot of research work in that platform. Some very reasonable subcontractors to work with.
 

Noodleface

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Can we get an idea of what you do sort of? Like do you sell services or land or created stuff?

How much do you make roughly?

There are so many questions, and so many flying penises
 

Xequecal

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Yeah over here in USA I consider 3% high for a car loan and thats for usually sports cars. Your everyday car you can get 0-2% financing pretty easy if you have decent credit.
Germans hate debt and consider it a sign of weakness. You don't want to know what you have to go through to get a mortgage over there.
 

Agraza

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30 year mortgage basically reshaped american finance. It started as a scam attempt by insurance companies to get property via foreclosure, but there have been reforms to the original concept. Outside the US mortgages and credit in general works so incredibly differently, and that's why most of the developed world rents and we buy. There's still plenty of argument in favor of renting here though. Mortgages are not a good investment in many cases. Property value has too many variables outside your control to be anything close to guaranteed, but it's good for people that wouldn't otherwise invest their money, and that's a lot of fucking people.
 

Picasso3

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Just heard 4 people got laid off from my old 30 person firm. One with 25 years there and the other with 17. They've retained some of the interns however. So fucked up.
 

Big Phoenix

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30 year mortgage basically reshaped american finance. It started as a scam attempt by insurance companies to get property via foreclosure, but there have been reforms to the original concept. Outside the US mortgages and credit in general works so incredibly differently, and that's why most of the developed world rents and we buy. There's still plenty of argument in favor of renting here though. Mortgages are not a good investment in many cases. Property value has too many variables outside your control to be anything close to guaranteed, but it's good for people that wouldn't otherwise invest their money, and that's a lot of fucking people.
Houses are an all around retarded investment.

And they did reform it, it's called the reverse mortgage lawl.

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AladainAF

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SL as in Second Life? If so, I did a lot of research work in that platform. Some very reasonable subcontractors to work with.
Yeah, Second Life. It's certainly changed in modern times, last few years. They have made vast improvements to the platform although it also has a lot of issues.

Noodlemod_sl said:
Can we get an idea of what you do sort of? Like do you sell services or land or created stuff? How much do you make roughly? There are so many questions, and so many flying penises
lol, yes, good ol' flying cocksEVERYWHEREhahaha....

I do a lot of stuff, actually, and all of it brings in money. What I like most is selling custom scripting services for any project and in SL that could mean anything from color changing for hair worn by avatar to little breedable critters that run around your land (cats, etc), scripting guns to make them shoot, baseball games, all the way to writing huds for well.. some of the most bizarre shit you've ever seen. At first it's kinda weird, but then you realize that you're making good money and just go with it and get numb to all the bizarro-world requests. I just fear for my life when my kids get older and ask me what I do for a living.
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Most of the money from SL comes in over time. You make shit, put it on the market, or in my case you script it and the person sells it.. then I get my percentage cut (usually 20-30% depending).. forever. I am still getting paid every day from products I worked on over a year ago.

There is still a lot of money to be made and with SL 2.0 even more. Especially if you can use blender, or Maya, or 3DS Max. People will generally make a 3d model of a gun for example, make sure you unwrap it and texture it nicely. Then a scripter can make it functional (or you can buy a pre-set combat system such as DCS2 which you can distribute with your gun).Here's an example weaponandhere is more from his store. Bear in mind that L$250 = 1 USD so yeah. They probably sell quite a few, and again - once you've made it.. it's there forever, so as long as new people are logging in, you have potential new customers.

I won't get into too much detail on how much I make, but let's just say that it's more than Business Level 2 and not as much as Business Level 4.
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If I had started SL in 2005, I'd be a multi-millionare by now.

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Mist

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Dude, if you let me invest even a small amount of that in MTGO we could make even more money.
 

AladainAF

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Wait, that's a monthly limit?

Damn son.
Rolling 30 day limit. I can't imagine hitting the $320,000 USD a month. Goes to show you that its possible. There are also enterprise limits, which allows you to cash out up to $1,280,000 a month.

Like I said earlier. In my past I couldn't imagine people being so stupid as to buy all these silly avatar things and whatnot, but they do. Trust me, they do. I wish I didn't shun it in the past.

If you all want to take a stab at it from a scripting perspective, you can take a look at thereference guide for LSL, though SL 2.0 will be using C# which will be nicer. It's basically like unity. You have objects, and you put scripts in objects that make the objects do things. The challenge in SL though are things like no arrays, or no switch... and most of all scripts can only be a certain size and script memory is independent of each other so like if you have a situation where say you want to have a ban list for a security orb, that could take a lot of memory if you have a ton of people on the list. A scripter will do something like have a separate script whos sole purpose in life is to maintain this ban list, and you'd script a "ban add", "ban remove" and "ban check" function. When the core script needs to check if someones banned it (seriously) sends a text message (called a link message) to that script using "ban check" with the persons UUID, and then the ban script sends a link message back to the core script with "found" or "not found" reply. Its sometimes convoluted in complex projects, but you get used to it. Code below is an example of the ban script, including BAN_VERIFY which will return whether they are banned or not...

If you notice all the built in crap starts with ll. Now you know why in my "I need a keyboard thread" the L key was worn to shit. heh.


It also takes a lot of work and effort and time to eventually bring up a good amount of money, but to be honest making something like half a car payment ~$200 a month in SL isn't terribly difficult. Even selling gacha trinkets out of gacha machines should make you that. (google gacha if you want to know what that is).
 

Noodleface

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what kind of shit tier shop you think aladain is running? He doesn't want penises, he wants dragon dildos
 

Tenks

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what kind of shit tier shop you think aladain is running? He doesn't want penises, he wants dragon dildos
You can't expect to hire someone off the street with a working knowledge of the intricacies of modeling a dragon dildo. Be realistic. But if he shows an affinity for making flying penises possibly he can learn and develop into a contributing member to the dragon dildo team.
 

Noodleface

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I wonder if this is something I could get my wife into - or would she run off with the first slumlord who flies a penis at her head?
 

Khane

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Rolling 30 day limit. I can't imagine hitting the $320,000 USD a month. Goes to show you that its possible. There are also enterprise limits, which allows you to cash out up to $1,280,000 a month.

Like I said earlier. In my past I couldn't imagine people being so stupid as to buy all these silly avatar things and whatnot, but they do. Trust me, they do. I wish I didn't shun it in the past.

If you all want to take a stab at it from a scripting perspective, you can take a look at thereference guide for LSL, though SL 2.0 will be using C# which will be nicer. It's basically like unity. You have objects, and you put scripts in objects that make the objects do things. The challenge in SL though are things like no arrays, or no switch... and most of all scripts can only be a certain size and script memory is independent of each other so like if you have a situation where say you want to have a ban list for a security orb, that could take a lot of memory if you have a ton of people on the list. A scripter will do something like have a separate script whos sole purpose in life is to maintain this ban list, and you'd script a "ban add", "ban remove" and "ban check" function. When the core script needs to check if someones banned it (seriously) sends a text message (called a link message) to that script using "ban check" with the persons UUID, and then the ban script sends a link message back to the core script with "found" or "not found" reply. Its sometimes convoluted in complex projects, but you get used to it. Code below is an example of the ban script, including BAN_VERIFY which will return whether they are banned or not...

If you notice all the built in crap starts with ll. Now you know why in my "I need a keyboard thread" the L key was worn to shit. heh.


It also takes a lot of work and effort and time to eventually bring up a good amount of money, but to be honest making something like half a car payment ~$200 a month in SL isn't terribly difficult. Even selling gacha trinkets out of gacha machines should make you that. (google gacha if you want to know what that is).
How does this money get taxed? Same as normal income or are there other stipulations?