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The joy of being a sim Owner on SL

Prisqua — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:43:41 +0000

JAG decided to buy Agina Island when it was put for sale while Saki & I decided to give up the club.Â Even though we had fun with the club and we got to meet so many people, we had to spend so much time on Second Life as we did everything ourselves, and the club was costing us a fortune… It did took away a bit of fun of being on SL as we did not have much time for anything else but managing the club even when we slowed down and had less parties going on….lol But we have learned so much that we will be totally ready for another virtual venture one of those days…

But now I had another Second Life job:Â Agina Island Estate Manager!Â I don’t think JAG & I realised how much work there would be owning a sim… So we found ourselves a bit challenged and with a few disagreements on top of it, JAG was even ready to re-sell Agina Island.Â But we also have some very supportive friends like Saki…. and it helped so much.Â And we are now seriously considering expanding Agina by buying a second sim…

The joy of managing a sim…
Besides fixing doors and sand, looking for objects residents lose lol we sometimes also have to put up with “angry” residents who leave their rubbish on our doorstep….

Sometimes we realize there is too many collisions on the sim so we have to find out the cause to avoid lag or even the sim crashing…. and we find it is just some llamas lying under the sea left by our residents….

Sometimes we all have to put in and help the boss get home when he is a bit drunk… (thanks Kahlan)

We do take the time to meet our new residents and we enjoy the get-together…

But best of all, how often do you go home to find the sim owner wearing a rubber duck floaty in your pool??? Priceless!!!

Our new home on Agina Island

Prisqua — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:56:13 +0000

We decided to go big this time… maybe a bit too big….

The mansion was a five bedroom house with 2 bathrooms.Â There was a smaller version withÂ 3 bedrooms but only one bathroom and that is the only reason we went to the bigger one so we could have each our own bathroom… I know, crazy, don’t even dare asking me why!!!! lolÂ And we got the house modified so that it became a 2-bedroom home with 2 bathrooms.Â Of course our bedrooms were now huge…

But having a bigger house means you need a lot of stuff to decorate it which means you need a lot of prims… more prims= a bigger tier to pay each month….Â and still running out of prims rather quickly anyway!

We had planned on doing a big party but never even got the time. And we never did really even furnished the house completely either.Â We always seemed to run out of time. But Saki & I always tried to find a bit of time just right before she would log off for the night and chat in the pool sometime for a few hours…

And life goes on to Agina Island

Prisqua — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:41:35 +0000

Like in real life, people come and go on Second Life.
The club was keeping both Saki and I very busy. Saki and I were hosting parties everyday at the club with different djs and that did not leave us time to do much of anything else. But it was also also a good opportunity to meet new people and for new friendships like Ninoo and his girlfriend Meea. Ninoo was a dj and started dj’ing at the club on New Years day. Life on Second Life is pretty much the same as in real life… lots of disappointments, bitching, cheating, people breaking up and moving on to something -or someone else…

Depending on how you play the game and some people do not like to call Second Life a game, but this is a world that can be emotionally draining. Some people sees SL as just a bunch of pixels and could not care less about anyone or anything, others have a real second life on there which can affect their real life.
JAG sees SL as just a game and a bunch of pixels. I am attached to my avatar and the other avatars sharing my Second Life.
JAG is in the USA and I am in Australia. Though we talk on the phone everyday nearly 24/7, it was quite interesting to be together on Second Life.
But our biggest disagreement happened on Second Life and he decided to move out the house leaving me hurt. We could not resolve the issue and I decided that I did not want him in my Second Life at all so banned him from the club and the house to which most people could not understand and hated me for it too.
Real life is real life and Second Life is Second Life so try to keep the two separated sometimes is complicated. And people were judging my and could not understand why i would do that but they had no idea what was really going on between JAG and I.
Anyway, Saki and I were offered a better deal for land and decided to settle for a new home behind the club. So I put my land on Costa Rica for sale L$27,000.
On Costa Rica, tiers are due and payable on the first. If you are late, you get charged a late payment fee of L$1000!!! And it is all automatic, you cant avoid it! Tiers are also non-refundable and i had just paid my tier. I put a higher price because first I wanted to get my money back – bought the land for L24,000 and a bit of the tier I already paid. There is no freebie on Costa Rica. and i thought putting it higher was better just in case I had to negotiate the price. Within 48hrs it was sold and without having to negotiate anything.
The weird part was JAG and I finally talked on Second Life on that now empty lot just a few hours before it was sold. My first land, my first home, my first friends…