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Kabalyero is an avid online gamer from the Philippines currently immersed in the creative virtual world of Second Life.

Author: kabal.yero

One of the many things I really like about Second Life is the ability to create your own content. An example would be this Zombie Skin worn by a fighter in RPG Empire. In Second Life, you improve the look of your avatar or character with attachments but attachments can cause client lag when fighting so fighting with little or no attachment is prefered.

I'm not sure about the effects of clothing textures on lag but I guess it would be minimal. Then again, why wear any clothes when you can have just a skin. Clothes are baked on top of the skin so having just a skin would be faster I guess.

They're practically nude out there. LOL! Besides, the zombie skin or undead skin has another effect. It kinda distracts your opponent. I haven't checked yet but I think my avatar, Kabalyero Kidd, was given a fighting skin too. I haven't really checked since I don't fight anymore. I kinda enjoy fishing more than fighting!

Feudal Nippon is a new RP/Combat sim owned by Ronin McGinnis. As the name implies, Feudal Nippon is a Japanese themed sim and, since it's Japanese themed, it is expected that those who wish to RP in Feudal Nippon to also be in Japanese costumes.

My landing to Feudal Nippon wasn't very pleasant because I kinda landed on a property which is protected by a Land Protection gadget. 10 seconds later I was ejected off the land. Ouch!

I don't really have a landmark to Feudal Nippon. What I did to find it was, I searched for Temporal Rifts Empire which is another sim owned by Ronin McGinnis and to my luck, Feudal Nippon is connected to Temporal Rifts Empire. So, I just like clicked somewhere on it, hit the teleport button and I was there.

The Landing Area

Feudal Nippon's landing area is inside a small shack near the docks. There you'll find free items like katanas and kimonos, a group invite gadget for easy group joinin, the rules and regulation which you must read before proceeding and a map of the place.

As you can see, I'm not wearing a Japanese costume, I was in my Urban Warrior kinda outfit that day (which cost me a lot of linden dollars by the way, LOL) but I do have a big OOC sign floating above my head (OOC, Out Of Character). I was hoping that it was enough to show anyone who could be there that I'm not RPing (Roleplaying) but just visiting.

Near the landing area is the dock and there you'll find a 7Seas Fishing Game setup. 7Seas Fishing Game is a good way of attracting new people to your place and also helps in increasing your land's traffic. It's like camping with a different twist!

Read more... [A Look at Feudal Nippon]

It seems that mikeD Streeter has been working hard on Dark Century’s second sim, Dark Century II. This time, he totally re-designed the place and turned it into something that is not so dark. The description I got was that it’s a fairytale land for residential purposes but I think it needs a little more color before it can be really called a fairytale land.

Here I am standing at the newly re-built Dark Century II

The mountain where the castle was located is gone together with the castle. The place is now a valley with waterfalls, ponds and flowing lava from a volcano. Flowing lava? LOL! Yeah, flowing lava.

I found out about the change from Jackie Balbozar. She insisted that I visit the place and because of my curiousity, I did. She sent over a landmark and I think it was placed way up in the sky because when I landed I kinda dropped a few meters down.

One or maybe two avatars were there and a few minutes later the owner, mikeD Streeter, appeared as a gas cloud but only for a second. I believe he was showing the place to someone because I saw him with another avatar hovering way up in the sky. Me? I just stayed where I landed because it’s a residential sim and that means the place is more likely to be private. [READ MORE]

The practice of illegally copying or cloning objects in Second Life, as least for me, is a very big issue that should be taken seriously but there are merchants and creators specially in SLExchange who does not believe or do they care about this issue. In one thread, a creator and a merchant posted her case on content theft. She found one of her creations copied prim-per-prim and texture-per-texture and that can only be done by using a third party program. Fortunately, a DMCA complaint was filed with Linden Labs and it looked like the original creator won but what pissed me off is the fact that many argued that it isn’t possible and that CopyBot no longer exist.
 

An object owned by Korena Starbrook was copied and was being distributed for FREE! :(

Okay, there might not be anymore CopyBot programs out there but you don’t need a program named CopyBot to copy objects in Second Life. All you need is LibSecondLife’s Test Client and you can get that by downloading and installing LibSecondLife. LibSecondLife is the heart of almost all text based Second Life viewers out there which are commonly known as SL Bots.

Now, most of these bots omitted the ability to copy objects but not the Test Client. The Test Client has it all. With it, you can copy textures and objects regardless of permission. The only thing it can’t copy are scripts and animations. So, if you are planning to start a Second Life Business then I suggest you start with scripting and animation specially if you are paranoid about content theft. [READ MORE]

It seems that RPG Empire decided to make the Empire of France sim into a Roleplay/Combat sim again. You see, a few weeks before, the Empire of France sim was changed into an open kind of sim that does not involve RP nor Combat. This happened when the people who were assigned to it left RPG Empire. Fortunately, the Empire of France sim is back and it is once again a Roleplay and Combat sim.

The new queen of the Empire of France is none other than mikeD Streeter’s partner, Sandralee Streeter. Together with a few other people, they are now in the process of rebuilding the Empire of France.

Roleplayers Wanted

With the Empire of France sim being rebuit to accomodate Roleplay and Combat, what’s missing now are roleplayers. Those who wish to roleplay as french men and women are welcome to join the Empire of France. I’m sure positions of power would be available to those who will become active roleplayers in the empire.

[...continue reading The New Empire of France]

When JohnnyNite Darkstone vacated the position of Emperor of The Roman Empire region, he was immediately replaced by aaminah Shikami and she was coronated Empress of The Roman Empire region last August 20, 2008.

I went to the coronation to capture some snapshots but, because of the amount of people who attended the event, the sim lagged like it never lagged before. LOL!

The objects and people around me took a lot of time to rez. The event was practically over when everything finally rezzed for me.

The coronation was followed by a tournament and since I can’t take any snapshots I decided to join the tournament instead. Participants were instructed to go to Sparta and wait in the Arena until it’s time for them to fight which everyone did. While I was waiting there, someone started to mock my outfit which everyone there thought was funny. It was very rude and very disrectful.

[...continue reading The Empress of The Roman Empire]