Jupiter Rowland @JupiterRowland

Athena is living mostly on a huge backlog of clothes and accessories imported over the last eight years. Also, it can benefit from still being compatible with EvoX, matching soft thighs having been imported and some female store owners who refuse to rebuild their avatars around newer bodies and still import Athena clothes.

But Athena is no longer universally considered the hottest female body around. Especially Legacy and Reborn are trying their best to redefine sexy, and it looks like more clothes are being imported for them than for Athena.

I'm not saying Athena-based avatars will soon be banned from some club sims for looking child-like in comparison with Legacy; more likely, Legacy-based avatars will be banned from the OSgrid plazas for not having any clothes to cover up their undies.

But chances are it won't be long until the first Athena user is derided by a Reborn or Legacy user for wearing an "unsexy" and "outdated" body, just like users of bodies from the Ruth2 and Roth2 families have risked being derided from within the Athena/Adonis/Apollo/Decadence crowd for the very same reasons.

There are people in OpenSim who think that people only use Ruth2 or Roth2 because they haven't heard of "the good stuff" yet. Chances are you might even be seen as dumb if you don't use a ripped SL body.

I've had several encounters with people who seemed to have a swear word dictionary open when they talked about how ugly Ruth2 and Roth2 are. I've even met a store owner who had everything and then some in a huge freebie store but refused to offer Ruth2 and Roth2 because of how ugly he found them. I'm pretty sure these people have tried Ruth2 with an Athena shape and/or Roth2 with an Adonis shape, but still.

And now that Reborn and Legacy are the hot shit, and Athena is being demoted to second rank, people will start wondering why you've pulled your body from an even lower shelf. Even if, in your case, the body is largely your own work.

At least these are still here: https://opensimworld.com/dir/?grid=avitronlogin.avitron.ne... and https://opensimworld.com/dir/?grid=avitron.net:8002

As far as I can tell, there are no more official sims because Alex had them all pulled, but there are still some third-party sims run by people who may not even know that they're breaking the rules, or even only that AviTron is off the Hypergrid.

eBody Reborn. "Curvy" body (as in hips about twice as wide as the waist). Stolen from SL where eBody is the hottest shit under the sun currently. Same goes for Legacy.

The wheelchair gives me dumb ideas again.

Someone please make a scripted combination of wheelchair and working gun that makes you careen backwards from the recoil, Lucky Luke-style.

Don't bother, the entire grid is down and most likely for good, and Spoiled Diva herself has passed away. If this sim still shows up as online, it's because someone has copied the beacon long ago, kept it in their inventory and planted it on their own sim, not knowing what it actually is and does.

If you want to make your own outfit, there's a box of Cornflakes textures somewhere on Needful Things.

Someone who doesn't know what OpenSimWorld beacons actually are has copied your beacon and placed it on their own sim named The Pine.

Result: Both Virtual Beach and The Pine send data to OpenSimWorld with the same beacon code, and OpenSimWorld takes both for the same sim because it can only distinguish sims by their beacon codes.

Solution:
* Go to the Virtual Beach entry on OpenSimWorld. (Do not delete it!)
* Generate a new beacon code. Copy it. You may want to save it somewhere for now.
* Go to Virtual Beach in-world.
* Click the beacon and open the admin menu.
* Enter the newly-generated beacon code.

Now Virtual Beach has an individual beacon code again, and The Pine can no longer interfere.

IMPORTANT: You also have to keep this from happening again. This is actually mentioned in the manual notecard, but many sim owners stop reading at the point where the beacon is connected to OSW. It works, so why bother continuing?

So what you have to do is:
* Edit the beacon.
* Uncheck "Copy" under "Everyone" so that nobody can copy the beacon anymore.

Actually, the most up-to-date beacons have a safeguard against this. When you rez a beacon that you've copied from some other sim on your land, it automatically resets and deletes the entered beacon key.

So it sounds like your beacon is outdated. Either it has been standing on Virtual Beach full-perm for years, or if you've actually built Virtual Beach just recently, it has been lingering in your inventory for years.

If you want to be absolutely safe, get the most recent OpenSimWorld tools box, up-to-date beacon included, from its official source, Satyr Aeon's own OpenSimWorld sim (https://opensimworld.com/hop/74730).

Only ever get these things from there, never from some third-party sims. OSW boxes on third-party sims are likely to either go or already be outdated. I've recently discovered OSW boxes in freebie stores run by an acquaintance of mine. They were from 2017, and he didn't even know they were outdated.

I've read somewhere that there's an option that preserves creators' credentials upon making an OAR of a sim. It's optional, it's usually off, and many don't switch it on. Linda Kellie made all her OARs this way; if anyone wants to fix this, I've got about five UUIDs of hers, including two or three for Clutterfly.

In other words: If you load an OAR, and everything is set to you as the creator, you can't do anything anymore. It's too late. It's the OAR itself that's faulty.

Thank you back, especially in the name of my little in-world sister, for Classic Closet and for taking care of the bugs.

Also, always nice to see new takes on Damien Fate because his meshes offer vast possibilities of combination, including with Clutterfly skirts for example. Many of Damien's meshes can be worn by Ruth2 v4, often even with the original alpha masks. And there's no such thing as having too many cross-halter dresses.

Ever since 2015, it has been the same. Almost everyone wants the newest and best content possible. For free. No matter how. And yes, it has to be SL content.

And, of course, almost every freebie sim owner wants to have the newest and best SL content in their stores, otherwise people won't come and shop there anymore.

Back then, things were easy. There was a bunch of people copybotting everything they could possibly copybot and another bunch of people importing and packaging it. Everything was full-perm, and you were actually demanded to take it and put it into your own freebie store to obfuscate how exactly all that stuff came into OpenSim. That's what "Sharing Is Caring" actually means.

Some years later, the methods changed. People still copybotted, but only for their own stores. They slapped their store labels on the boxes and implied or outright claimed that they had made all that stuff. And they wanted to offer it exclusively. It was no longer about cooperation. It was now all about who had the coolest exclusive stuff in their stores.

Remember when "drama" only meant criticism of or any other opposition against illegal content? It seems that the dominant kind of drama nowadays is between two different factions.

On the one side, there are the "boutique" store owners who still copybot from SL (I wouldn't be surprised if "I've bought it from the Marketplace" is actually a lie, and all that stuff was actually botted straight out of other avatars' inventories) and offer their prey exclusively and no-transfer as their own creations. Whoever wants that stuff has to come and get it from their stores. It's all about popularity, visitor numbers and OSW ranking.

On the other side, there are those owners of big freebie stores who lose customers to those "boutiques" because all they have is stuff from the 2010s and boxes with Sacrarium brands on them. Their owners are jealous of the "boutiques", but they're also too chicken to go botting themselves and/or too cheap to go to SL in the first place and/or too lazy to put what they've stolen back together afterwards. They want the same hot shit as the "boutiques" with next to zero effort.

In-between are other "boutique" store owners who otherwise are like the second faction. They want new hot stuff in their stores, they want to imply or outright claim that they've made it, but they don't want to copybot it from SL. So they go to other "boutiques", copy everything by hand, god-mode it, make themselves the creators and change the box art, and be it by plastering their own brand logo over the existing brand logo.

One more reason to try and go all-legal: You'll stay out of all this drama. In fact, I think all this would be different if legal content, especially made in and for OpenSim, was more well-known and more popular. Not only, however, are there many creators who don't want their works to spread across the big freebie sims for various reasons, but legal freebies can't compete with having a free-of-charge complete luxury avatar that'd cost you L$15,000 in SL, and I'm only talking about one outfit. Just like a legally-acquired SEAT is nowhere as cool as a stolen Lamborghini. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the currently on-going "rejuvenation" of the content available in OpenSim through massive mass-copybotting will make it more likely to be ridiculed or attacked for using legal content instead.

Partnersitze? Sollen nächste Woche die letzten verbliebenen Singles verkuppelt werden?

Bonus: Switch avatar collision on and watch the tower of stacked avatars grow.

Or better, SFposer. It's similar to PMAC, it has all the features of PMAC, and it was developed by OSW's own Satyr Aeon. (https://opensimworld.com/library?view=44) It's actually very easy to convert from PMAC to SFposer.

And unlike PMAC, everyone can adjust their individual positions. With PMAC, only the owner can adjust positions by editing markers.

You can get a complete starter kit on Satyr's own sim OpenSimWorld (https://opensimworld.com/hop/74730).

I don't know if this has been your plan for some time already, or if you're really this fast.

So people shall be allowed to drop beacons on their sims, advertise them here with all bells and whistles and then tell people, "LOL none of you ain't gettin' in here, this sim is only for me and my best buddies!"? And you shall still refrain from giving it zero stars for obviously abusing a loophole?

If you see a sim entry here on OSW, the first thing you assume is that you can visit this sim. And then sims come along that not only require a group membership, but there's no way for average Joe to even obtain a group membership because he isn't BFFs with the sim owner.

At least, sims with restricted access should be marked as such:
* Requires group membership; open group
* Requires group membership; invite-only
* Requires group membership; closed circle/non-public
* Only for residents of the same grid

But even if this should come, it'd rely on sim owners actually setting their OSW entries up correctly. And many can't even seem to adjust the rating correctly; I guess some 20-30% of all sims on OSW have a different rating on OSW than in-world (e.g. advertised on OSW as Adult, actually General).

Another trick I discovered to work is to take what you've just copied to a sandbox on the same grid, rez it there and take another copy. Some items I got from some Alternate Metaverse sims only followed me home this way.

Of course, this requires a public sandbox on that grid, and for obvious reasons, many owners of new grids shy away from making public sandboxes currently.

I can confirm this with an OSgrid avatar: Unable to verify identity.

Gutes Gelingen! Ist ja immerhin mein primäres Zuhause.

Well, some people say that everything HAS to be free for others to just take. LIterally everything. They don't grant sim owners the right to have anything unique on their sims if it means that there's something that they personally can't copy into their inventories. Or even box up and slap against a wall at their freebie store with no creator credits (or even implying they've made it).

It's those freebie hoarders who grab everything they see anywhere on a sim, regardless of whether or not they may have any use for it. They can't stand not being able to copy something.

As I've said, they demand that famous unique structures such as the Lbsa pyramid (https://opensimworld.com/hop/75039), the Sendalonde Library (https://opensimworld.com/hop/86758), the Lani Mall (https://opensimworld.com/hop/75049) or the Tromsø Arctic Church (https://opensimworld.com/hop/88457) be copyable for everyone and full-perm. I'm pretty sure that all these sims are being copybotted regularly because someone feels like having to "liberate" everything that can't be copied. And I'm also pretty sure that the owners of big freebie sims frequently have to reject boxes with these buildings inside sent to them because they've got enough common sense not to offer them.

Related: https://opensimworld.com/post/94251

This has two sides if you ask me.

On the one hand, if you make something good and generic enough that it could be very useful for others, as rarely as this happens, I don't see why you shouldn't share it, why you should keep it to yourself. Sure, it's dangerous to put unfinished WIPs on your sim full-perm because people may pick them up, not knowing they're unfinished, and maybe even put them in their freebie stores. But how many halfway modern residential or shop buildings do we have on the Hypergrid that aren't stolen from SL? If you decide to make some of these, you should really consider boxing them up and offering them to others.

On the other hand, there are cases in which it's fully justified not to share something. To stay with buildings, that could be a purpose-made club building that you've custom-built for your personal club, logo artwork and all. Your personal club is something that you may really want to be unique in all of the Hypergrid. You don't want your personal club building to pop up all around the Hypergrid, same layout, same look, same name and branding even, now, do you?

Look around older sims on the Hypergrid, especially event sims, but not only. Before people stopped building their own clubs and started only using copybotted SL buildings, custom-made event location buildings were very common. Buildings and other structures that represent grids or projects have pretty much always been custom creations only for this one purpose.

But I guess some of you are willing to give Ruritania zero stars because they can't go around and copy every last building, including Xiophia Hall. I guess some of you hold a grudge against the Sendalonde team for not making their library copyable and full-perm. I guess some of you can't understand why they can't copy all those unique buildings on Dorenas World like the central structure of Anachronia, the GridTalk Club or the Rock House (I'm pretty sure that Anachron doesn't want the same building with the same branding to appear anywhere else, also because it has been home to a weekly five-hour event for over 8 years now). I guess some of you have a huge problem with being unable to simply go and copy Cuteulala Artis' citadel building from a running sim instead of installing the OAR, more so the enlarged version from Neiferleaf. I guess some of you see it absolutely justified to fire up Hydrastorm and copybot Michigan Central Station from Detroit 4, the Arctic Cathedral from CCI Norge or the buildings on Mont-Saint-Michel from the eponymous sim because their makers are so "arrogant" as to not let everyone copy and share them the regular way.

But, once again, some creations are not meant to be shared with everyone, much less boxed up and hung on the walls of freebie stores. Deal with it.