The progress report on reorganizing my bloated and discombobulated #SecondLife inventory is… it’s in progress.
At least I’ve been able to enjoy going to events and seeing friends, or chatting in my old groups. I also figured out the Star Mesh Body a bit better and made one new outfit (from stuff I had in folders from last year) that fits well. I have a lot of outfit folders based on the Ruth Too/2.0 mesh avatar that I’ll be able to convert to the SMB mesh avatar. Now I just have to figure out how to use the fancy head that has facial expression animations, but make it look like “me.” The built-in SMB “skins” are not as nice to me as the older skins I had that I’m comfortable with.
This image is from last January or so, when I started to set up a “Secret Garden Platform Sale” to get rid of the #DigitalFarmingSystem inventory that I had grown, bought, raised, or crafted over about 5 years. That inventory is “no copy” status, meaning that I can sell or give it to someone, but once it’s out of my inventory, it’s gone. I’d rather sell than delete it all, because I spent way too much time and virtual moneys acquiring it. It’s like an addiction, too.
I got frustrated in January and hesitated to pull the trigger on announcing the sale in the various inworld DFS groups, and then real life got more interesting and I wasn’t logging in. Sometime in March, I missed a deadline for paying the yearly subscription for one of my alts, which meant that after a while, some of my inworld holdings expired and the stuff sitting on them were returned to my inventory. I’m not re-subscribing any of my alts, and only Dhughan and I will remain as “payment on file” for holding virtual land. Blah, blah blah! Are your eyes glazed over yet?
Since getting this fast, capable new computer, I wanted to resume my social stuff in Second Life, dump the DFS stuff because playing that farming game is a little like indentured servitude; to get essentials like virtual fertilizer, you have to log in at least every other day to “care” for your virtual poo-producing animals, or they “die.” You can pick them up and put them in inventory indefinitely but they have no more than 20 or 30 days to “live” once rezzed out, depending on the species. Lots of people still seem to enjoy this farming game, and there’s a lively inworld economy of resellers, auctions, and person-to-person trading and selling going on. I’m just ready to find other things to do with my time inworld.
Right now, my spouse and in-house tech support Rock Fall is transferring files from old computer to new computer, so my progress on getting the sale ready is on hold. Somehow, this “getting rid of DFS inventory” consists of making more of it into a more marketable state; think turning raw materials into pantry essentials. I’m then re-packaging it for bulk sales, and that’s where the Caspervend outage comes into play. I can’t load the sales boxes into the inworld server until this outage is resolved, and I can’t rez out vendors or update them – all their display “screens” are greyed out. That’s when I checked on the Caspervend group and found people repeating the “system is down, don’t do anything” message.
Meanwhile, the stuff that was returned to my inventory is a jumbled, coalesced mess that’s got random names because a “collection” of items returned together are given the name of the last object selected. So I’ve been rezzing out stuff from the “lost and found” folder to check what’s in the collection, and re-taking it as individual objects. Fortunately, this latest version of Firestorm’s third party viewer has this nifty “take as collection OR take as individual objects) option.
All this is of absolutely no interest to anyone except me, it’s just to help me keep track of what’s been done and what’s yet to be done
I’ll need to create an announcement for the sale to be posted in the DFS groups – I think I started to do that in January before I got busy.
I’ve got the “Secret Garden” platform recreated and ready to put down vendors. Depending on my “objects budget” I will be rezzing out the various plants and trees and seeds and fields; people like to see stuff they’re buying to make sure it’s working or as advertised.
I started “cooking” some raw materials down into what I consider the pantry essentials” category for one server. I have a ton of virtual livestock; the ones that are “zero days old” have slightly more value than the aged ones, except for “milk cows” that have to be a third of their lifespan old before they give virtual milk… ridiculous addiction, this game. I’ll have a ton of “meats” that aren’t worth much, but this early in the month the cooking addicts might buy some in bulk. Prices will be at or below market value for sure.
All the cooking tools, farming tools, and other sellable items will be on the block, too. Just waiting for Dear Spouse to finish installing stuff on the new computer so that I can get back to working on the inventory, and waiting for Casper Warden’s tech people to get the server issue fixed for setting vendors up.
