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Second Life Registration (New) June 17, 2008

Posted by James in : Registration , add a comment

In the process of registration there are always some points that you might ignore and confuse. So I printed entire flow and pages, see seven steps below:

1. The following is the first page you will see, it provides many groups in Second Life. If you are interested in a group, click [Join Now] and you will enter that group’s website. If you complete the registration flow on that website, you will start at the place that your group planed and designed for you as your life beginning while you enter this game. Because every group has it’s own flow page, in order to avoid troubles, let’s click [Skip This Step] to enter Second Life’s registration flow. Anyway, you can join a group any time as you like.

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2. At first you have to decide your account name, what different is the accounts in Second Life are made up of names, you must fill in your First Name. Be sure not to use multiple character in your name, cause you might not enter this game. Besides Second Life provides Last Name for you to choose. While it’s chosen you can click [Check this name for availability] to check if your account had been used or not in case of wasting your time.

If your account had been used you will get this page, keep your Last Name and try other First Name, or directly click [x] to turn it off to choose again.

Congratulations! Your account is available. click [Choose this Second Life Name] to keep going.

If you see this page, it means you are too young to play(must be 13 years of age or older).. Registration Notes

If there are so many blanks need to be filled, that’s because you are below 18, you must fill in adaut’s credit card information, and have to play with family’s company as your guardian.

The word on the Birthday field turns red, it means you missed this option or it’s wrong.

Don’t worry, this window page appears to remind your name’s opening is a small letter. If you wanna change, click [Cancel], if it doesn’t matter, just click [Enter] to keep going.

3. The third step is to select your avatar. Although Second Life had told you that you can change your type casually, in order to have a similar appearance before you get everything clear, I suggest choosing a type first in case of regret.

4. Then is your profile, the three options in [SL News and Updates] don’t have to be checked, you can also neglect the option [Promotion Code], as regards the option [Who Referred You], you might fill in “James Yiyuan”(if you upgrade to Premium, I’ll got L$500 ^^), all other fields are needed. The red frame is [reCAPTCHA] code, you must key in the code showed on the field. If it’s not clear, you can click the refresh icon near by to ask a new code, or click speaker icon just listen to the code(better not use this, if it doesn’t work, SL quite insist that you must install it). In the end there is an option [Terms of Service] down the page, don’t forget to check after reading.

If you see this page, it means your [reCAPTCHA] code was wrong(you must be far off, the checking is not so ad litteram).

It’s too bad if you see this, don’t think as a complete page, it means your registration was failed, you have to try again, because Linden considers that you are a trouble maker.

5. It was right to see this, asking you to become premium member or not, there are three terms on payment, click [Skip This Step] to jump it if you don’t want it currently.

6. Congratulations! You’ve finished all fields, but the registration is not complete yet. Remember to receive email at first because Second Life will confirm your email.

7. The mail subjected [Welcome to Second Life] here is the content, click first link back to Second Life website to complete the registration.

Do you see this? Congratulations! You can downlord Second Life now.

http://blog.ttnet.net/secondlife/2008/05/28/second-life-registration-new/

Second Life Registration Notes

Posted by James in : Registration , add a comment

If you would like playing free at first, you can register free member in Second Life. In the process of registration, Second Life will ask you if you wanna upgrate to premium or not, but don’t worry, if you need days to consider it, just jump to next step directly. Second Life will remind you to receive your email, and after you back to Second Life by the link of confirmation email, the registration will be complete.

There are several points you should mention(basicly terms depend on Second Life):

1. Registration must be 13 years of age or older to access, below 18 not only have to register guardian and credit card information but also allowed in teenage area.

2. The same basic information and credit card can also apply an additional account, but each account will be charged US$9.95 since your additional account was built.

3. Premium members can choose three terms on payment(US$9.95 monthly, US$22.5 quarterly, US$72 annual), you can get L$1000 after you pay, you also can receive L$300 every week during member period.

4. Only Premium can own lands, you can’t create objects till you have lands. Free members can just go around, although free members can create objects, but can do nothing if they don’t get landlord’s permission.

http://blog.ttnet.net/secondlife/2008/05/28/second-life-registration-notes/

Account Type:

First
Basic

Additional
Basic

Premium

Cost:

FREE!

$9.95

Monthly: $9.95/mo

Quarterly:
$22.50 - in full
($7.50/mo)

Annual:
$72.00 - in full
($6.00/mo)

Customizable Avatar:

Signup Bonus:

L$250

L$1000

Weekly stipend:

L$300/wk

Building Opportunities:

Land Ownership:

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Second Life Land Plan

Posted by James in : Land Plans , add a comment

There is no any target and mission arranged in Second Life. You can start with buying a 512 m2 land, but only premium members can buy lands. Linden had ever provided a chance named “First Land” for new members in order to sell people who had never owned lands before. It’s a pity that it’s much cheaper but the quantity is limited and not provided now. And if you were choosy about location, don’t waste your time, just go finding your dream land.
According to my experience, the reasonable price of a 512 m2 land which is not particular is about L$9000. Worthy or not? Your own counts.. randimg

Here are some points:

1. If you take a liking for a land because of it’s beautiful view. I suggest that you better find out what residents are your neighbors at first, or simply buy the lands in front of your land or just buy them all(if you can afford it and not afraid of being feed). Because some bad guys prefer to raise land price after building ugly things to block your sights.

2. In the beginning, absolutely you don’t have enough Linden cash to buy a land. But don’t worry, Linden will directly charge from your credit card. Moreover, there are some limits for new residents..

3. In order to avoid new resident’s wrong spending. In first seven days after registration, you could only spend US$50. If a land costs L$9000(US$33) per 512 m2, and you want to buy two 512 m2, after you get first one, you have to wait till next week for the second one(becouse of the limit US$50). As a result of this reason, I lost the chance, so a beautiful view just leave me away :(.

4. Except the US$50 spending limit, there is one more US$150 limit in a month, after that the spending limit of first degree is US$2500 per month. That should be enough, if not!? I’m not clear that when you could upgrade to US$10000(Table 1)..

5. When you buy a land with not enough L$ balance, Linden should exchange your credit card to buy L$ first and transfer it to your account then to the seller(notice your blance). It needs a period of time to wait and don’t try again in a hurry, otherwise it cause too much L$.

6. If you own a over 512 m2 land, you should fee to Linden by month(Table 2). If your land over 4096 m2 than 512 m2, you could apply another account, then share your land so that you could save your fee. Besides, you can use the group land plan and you can additionally own 10% fee free of all lands.

http://blog.ttnet.net/secondlife/2008/05/26/second-life-land-plan/

(Table 1)

	New Residents		Level
	0 to 6 Days	7 to 29 Days	1	2
Buy L$	US$50	US$150	US$2,500	US$10,000
Sell L$	US$0	US$300	US$5,000	US$5,000
Purchase	US$125	US$250	US$2,500	US$10,000

(Table 2)

Additional Land
(over 512 sq meters)

(In square meters)

Monthly land use fee

1/128 Region	512 m2	US$5
1/64 Region	1,024 m2	US$8
1/32 Region	2,048 m2	US$15
1/16 Region	4,096 m2	US$25
1/8 Region	8,192 m2	US$40
1/4 Region	16,384 m2	US$75
1/2 Region	32,768 m2	US$125
Entire Region	65,536 m2	US$195

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Second Life System Requirement

Posted by James in : System Requirement , add a comment

Finally Vista users can drive your Second Life as crazy as you want..

The bottom lifts are system minimum requirements and recommended announced by secondlife.com. If cpmputer’s specification is under recommended, it’s hard to play in fact. But let’s open preferences window to adjust it. Here are some suggestions:

1.Set [Disk Cache Size] to highest, if your moving range is fixed(for example while you are building). It works well and beneficial, because compare to CPU or RAM or VGA, hard disk is much cheaper.

2. Disable all options in [Shaders]. The first option is [Enable Bumpmapping and Shiny], used to strengthen the surface details of objects and the metal reflection effect. [Enable Ripple Water] is used to describe the surface waves, [Avatar Vertex Program] is used to make your avatar look more detailed and natural. However, the last two options just not support old graphic card, so don’t request too much since our equirements are not good enough.. okey ^^;

3. There are three grades in [Avatar Rendering], it mainly used to adjust your clothes, needless to say, you should selection [Normal]. Second grade is [Bump Mapped], used to wrinkle your clothes, but this function has not allowed yet so jsut forget it. The highest grade is [Bump Mapped Cloth], used to avoid clothes looking like paint on your body, and your clothes will sway in the wind.. and Second Life warned that this option probably might result in a crash, feel well?

4. Two options in [Lighting Detail], [Sun and moon only] means the sun in day and the moon at night, all objects will not shine(like the light at night) except sun and moon. Since I can’t endure such sacrifice so I suggest to sellect [Nearby local lights].

5. [Terrain Detail]: If you select [High], would be more precise, couse the efficiency will decrease, so please select [Low].

6. The following are 4 buttons, default value is in the middle. Lower [Object Mesh Detail] (pull left), the circle will become approach the polygon and the radian of ball will distort. [Flexible Mesh Detail] makes the river look not affluent. [Tree Mesh Detail] affects the amount that branches and leaves present. [Avatar Mesh Detail] affects the distance that accessories or hand-things present. For the efficiency’s sake, pull left as possible as you can accept.

7. If you select [Anisotropic Filtering], it makes objects more quality, especially it’s more apparent if you change the viewpoint, but the exchanging condition certainly is you have to sacrifice your efficiency.

8. Finally there is an option you can select. Not all but most specification can increase efficiency through the option [Enable AGP].

9. If you don’t like going to crowded places and also like misty view, the recommended one is okay. For me, I don’t like noisy places, either. But the most I care is the field of vision( “view” or “scenery”). The [Draw Distance] set(default value 128) makes game page look misty, there is no any scenery at all. Because my system is 64 D CPU + 1G RAM + nVidia GeForce 6600, so I tried to turn [Draw Distance] to 256, the page finally accepted. If I higher it, it’s not affluent while running pages. Anyway, if you like drinking coffee and viewing mountains and valley at the same time, you have no choice but to spend money on upgrading your VGA and RAM. If your system is under recommended you better turn to 64, it got another great..

http://blog.ttnet.net/secondlife/2008/06/11/second-life-system-requirement/

The four pics are seted in different [Draw Distance], the sight from my viewing platform.