Second Life - Free PC MMORPG

[WallRunner]

This Thread is about a *Free* MMORPG Called Second Life:

More Info Here: Second life

What is Second Life, You Say, Well Here Is The Answer:

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by over 350,000 people from around the globe.

Info About The World:

The most important thing about the world of Second Life is that it is constantly changing and growing. Here's why:

Hundreds of new residents join each day and Create an Avatar

Those avatars Explore the World and Meet People

These people discover the thousands of ways to Have Fun

Some people decide to purchase Virtual Land

Linden Lab creates new land to keep up with demand. What began as 64 acres in 2003 is now over 20,000 acres and growing rapidly.

About the Creations:

Second Life is a place dedicated to your creativity. It's about dreaming of something one moment and bringing it to life the next. Everything in Second Life is resident-created, from to the strobe lights in the nightclubs to the car (or spaceship) in your driveway.

Imagine tinkering with the steering and handling program of a motorcycle while your friend tweaks the shape of the fuel tank and gives it a wicked flame paint job, in-world and in real-time, before you both take it for a spin down a newly created road to look for some land to buy. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a pair of black leather wings? Build them and give it a go.

About (The Best Part) Money:

Make real money in a virtual world. That's right, real money.
Here's how it works:
Second Life has a fully-integrated economy architected to reward risk, innovation, and craftsmanship.

Residents create their own virtual goods and services. Because residents retain the IP rights of their creations, they are able to sell them at various in-world venues.

Businesses succeed by the ingenuity, artistic ability, entrepreneurial acumen, and good reputation of their owners.

Residents who have amassed lots of Linden Dollars are matched with residents who want to buy Linden Dollars at a Currency Exchange.

Second Life's real estate market provides opportunities for Residents to establish their own communities and business locations.

System Requirements:

PC Minimum System Requirements:

Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL
Operating System: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
OR Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)
Computer Processor: 800MHz Pentium III or Athlon, or better
Computer Memory: 256MB or better
Video/Graphics Card**:
nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better
OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better

Mac Minimum System Requirements:

Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or better
Computer Processor: 1 GHz G4 or better
Computer Memory: 512MB or better
Video/Graphics Card**:
nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better
OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better

System Recommendations

This hardware and software is highly recommended for a comfortable Second Life experience. The more of these recommendations you meet, the smoother Second Life will be:

PC Minimum System Recommendations:

Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL

Computer Processor: 1.6GHz Pentium 4 or Athlon 2000+ or better

Computer Memory: 512MB or better

Video/Graphics Card**:
nVidia GeForce FX 5600, GeForce 6600, or better
OR ATI Radeon 9600, X600, or better

Mac Minimum System Recommendations:

Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.3 or better

Computer Processor: 1.25 GHz G4 or better

Computer Memory: 768MB or better

Video/Graphics Card**:
nVidia GeForce FX 5600, GeForce 6600, or better
OR ATI Radeon 9600, X600, or better

*
Second Life is not compatible with dial-up internet, satellite internet, and some wireless internet services.

**
Second Life may not run on graphics/video cards other than the ones listed above. Unfortunately, if your graphics card includes any of the following words, it's NOT compatible with Second Life:
nVidia cards that report as a RIVA TNT or TNT2
ATI cards that report as RAGE or RAGE PRO
ATI cards that report as RADEON 320M, 340M, 345M, or similar model numbers
Intel
Intel Extreme
3DFX
RIVA
TNT
SiS
S3
S3TC
Savage
Twister
Rage
Kyro
MILENNIA
most cards by MATROX
The following cards have not been tested with Second Life, and compatibility is not certain:
nVidia cards that report as Quadro
ATI cards that report as RADEON IGP or RADEON XPRESS
ATI cards that report as FireGL
ATI cards that report as FireMV

Any More Questions, Go to their site At secondlife.com

Be sure to add me as a friend when you get there: Wall Beaver

From,
Wall51
A.K.A. Wall Beaver

P.S. **: Unless You have A Premium Account

 

[Tenacious D]

Well, I'm not getting Service Pack 2 so no deal.

 

[Gen.]

I'll stick with my first life thanks.

 

[guska]

Actually seems a bit like Project Entropia to tell you the truth, but as long as they are nothing like those bastiges, I will have a crack.

 

[CDailey]

What's so bad about "Project Entropia"?

 

[guska]

What's so bad about "Project Entropia"?

Ummm, have you ever tried to withdraw money from it? HAH! Good luck! (I eventually got mine, but not before a struggle, whereas others are still waiting...)

 

[angelboy52]

Damn, no Intel cards, I'm out

 

[guska]

Damn, no Intel cards, I'm out

That's because onboard video is seriously limited in it's abilities.

 

[angelboy52]

That's because onboard video is seriously limited in it's abilities.

Yea, I need to start saving for buidling my new PC, I gotta get ready for Vista

 

[Delirious]

I love it!!!!! I love the explorer+first person perspective+money system+chat capability.

Although there appears to be a bit of smut on there. I am now apart of one of the churches

 

[WallRunner]

im glad you like it, where is this church?, and whats your avatar name so i can add you to friends, please.

From,
Wall51

 

[Delirious]

Delirious Adria. I just searched for Christian in the search function and I found some cool places/clubs. It even plays Christian music!!

 

[WallRunner]

Delirious Adria. I just searched for Christian in the search function and I found some cool places/clubs. It even plays Christian music!!

Sounds neat, i'll go there sometime, and i'll add you to friends if i ever see you


From,
Wall51

 

[guska]

I am now a Blue Club VIP, and I just spent about an hour at a certain beach, Wall, I am sure you know it...

gOoSe Glenbrook is my name, I'm the dude in the Dirty denim jeans, dark grey shirt, and long black trenchcoat.

HotLicks is also a good club.

I also got myself a missus on there...sad, I know!



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[Delirious]

My GTP name is now my second life name.

I love the exploring aspect of this game...almost endless places to go and also that the land just keeps on expanding.

 

[DQuaN]

Well, I'm not getting Service Pack 2 so no deal.

You really should have SP2. Why don't you want it?

 

[WallRunner]

Because of the security center, probably, my dad didn't want it at first either

$1.00 US gets you 207 linden

And you can type /me (example: /me cocks his shotgun) in the chat window to make it say like this: Wall Beaver cocks his shotgun

From,
Wall51

 

[Gen.]

I take back what I said before and proclaim this game awesome.

 

[Sharky.]

Haha, doesn't work on dialup and nVidia Riva TNT2 cards. My PC doesn't even meet the minimum RAM requirements either.

 

[guska]

Well, I beg to differ with them on the no dialup bit, I am on dialup and it works fine for me. I was also running it with only SP1 for a while.

Although expect quite a few crashes on dialup, but you get used to it, and use those times to take a break!

 

[WallRunner]

I won't Be Able to play for a while, my sis & mom messed up our Desktop Computer, after 2 days of Me being away from it, it was gone, now all we can do is remove everything except the OS and a few other programs.

From,
Wall

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