Comments on: Creationism – Your Divine Alt?

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:32:15 +0000

>> “ok question: If you create an alt you pay 10 bucks, right ?”

No, the lindens removed that charge. You can now create about 10 alts to the one email address, and they do correlate email addresses with hardware hashes.

I have… 10 and 2 that I couldn’t enable.

By: Lindoid Interruptus

Lindoid Interruptus — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:29:48 +0000

You know, the “Official Guide” makes some very specific recommendations about using an alt as a inventory backup measure, as well as a convenient alternative to virtual mattresses or SL Ponzi Schemes (I meant to say “Banks” — really I did), for “securing” Linoleums that you don’t just yet want to sell back to the Lindens, but that make you nervous to be carrying around, especially if you are sometimes clumsy with a mouse, or fear any of the many scams one can enjoy in one’s other Life.

Of course the “Official Guide” also has some entertaining (and fairly copious) tidbits about Casinos and other gaming establishments on the grid. So it’s anybody’s guess whether their use is endorsed or not. Given grid instability and asset server hiccups, though, one has to be very risk-tolerant NOT to be using an alt for at least some basic functions.

By: Lugh Ingraham

Lugh Ingraham — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:35:08 +0000

I’ve had a few alts…a few female and a few male.

I have them because it’s fun to create something or someone entirely new from scratch, as an artist…this is the ultimate medium…the human form itself.

Each one has their own personality and unique behavior and that does kind of bleed through into my behavior IRL but not a lot, just a little.

Although I did RP plenty on all of my alts, the sim owners eventually banned them once they found out that it was really me behind the AVs…just goes to show you what disagreeing with Admins will do to ya.

Course if you think about, no one really knows who is and who isn’t an alt….Lugh Ingraham could be an alt of someone….

By: Alyx Stoklitsky

Alyx Stoklitsky — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:21:26 +0000

I make a new alt every day to crash Ravenglass with.

Or so Prokofy say.

By: Ananda

Ananda — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:44:56 +0000

I am not surprised at this behavior at all… time, especially starting and ending relationships, seems to run at a much faster pace in SL but people run the same worn-down patterns here. This is just a sped-up instance of the pattern where people are born, learn, gather knowledge and friends and loves, lose them, die, and get born all over again in a new identity where they try hard to forget what went before. That people have a really strong desire to leave their past failures and identities behind is evidenced in the fact that most claim not to remember them, and will often object strongly to the very notion that they lived before.

Now this doesn’t answer *why* this is such a standard pattern…

By: Urban-Dreams

Urban-Dreams — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:47:40 +0000

I myself have 2 alt accounts. The sole reason for those accounts is to store my items just incase somthing happens to my main av and I loose everything. However, my second alt account is female and I find it amusing seeing who differently you are treated by other av’s

By: Boinkers

Boinkers — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:58:18 +0000

ok question: If you create an alt you pay 10 bucks, right ? Or do people who make alts open a new account with different / false email addys and data (wich, AFAIK is not allowed by Lindens – yeah, yeah i know: who careas about that )?

By: Bobby Troughton

Bobby Troughton — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:49:15 +0000

In roleplay places alts are quite useful to have multiple characters. If one gets killed, or you want to add more intrigue to a plot, or to play another in other places, load up another. Also good if you get bored with a character. So it should be noted then that if there ever was a ban on free alts, it’d effect more then just griefers.

By: Bennie

Bennie — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:15:13 +0000

I wish I could have my alt log off and go to RL work for me.