Bones,
I couldn't agree more.
I'm not sure how many of you keep an eye on the active forum threads on
the many FS sites but over the past 3 weeks the IFC organisation has
faced some incredibly damaging accusations, many of which simply
weren't true, but unfortunately some which did turn out to be a bit too
close to home for IFC to live them down.
Microsoft started it by withdrawing their support from IFC after some
disagreements over Mr Silcock's business practices. It then came to
light that Mr Silcock hadn't perhaps done as careful a job of keeping
IFC's finances away from his own interests, as one might expect.
As a result IFC has now folded and, as far as I am aware, there will be
no more IFC shows.
Anyway, the relevance of this to SL is that IFC actually owned all the
land that the "FS City" is situated on. All the tenants (and I have 3
organisations on there) either leased the land, or had it under some
reciprocal agreement with IFC.
Since the IFC troubles came to light there have been a series of
attacks on any land owned by Mr Silcock leading to "buildings" being
demolished and weeks of work down the drain, my VA was one of the worst
to suffer.
Since IFC is no longer around we can't guarantee the land around us
wont be sold to undesirables, or that we wont come under further
"attacks" So we are currently going to be moving, as a whole (of the
community currently situated in the FS area) to a better organised and
managed area.
.....and then we hope it doesn't happen all over again.
Alex
bones wrote:
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Why are you moving from the FS region? I thought
it would be better to concentrate all the FS related buildings in one
place.
bones
Ah well now I joined SL just after Christmas at the insistence of Mark
Silcock of IFC (Although we don't mention his name now given
the.....events of the past few weeks;) )
I put my VA up, and also "Bought land" for my Sound business.... I have
to say that it is entirely responsible for the intake of 90% of my new
VA pilots, and responsible for around 12% of my monthly turnover at
Turbine Sound Studios since.
We hardly have a presence (and are currently in the process of moving
from one area to another) yet still it brings people, and money, in.
Say what you like about these geek works, as a business man its hard to
ignore results.
Its been a brilliant source of info too. Only last week I met a
Lufthansa Airbus captain who has been able to forward me some
performance figures I was after, I've also managed to score some
development contracts with Flight1 and 2 other projects.
I think that as a business its a great place to be...but If I were an
individual...I'd be bored within about 5 minutes. Not my cup of tea at
all.
bones wrote:
That is the problem with a virtual world - you can get hooked on it.
I looked at SL a while back but although interesting it doesn't grab my
enthusiasm as much as, say, Myst Online. The only part of SL that I was
curious about (and still dabble with) is the object designer - it's a bit
like GMax but you can create soft as well as hard objects that react to
gravity and wind. It would be nice if GMax was easier to use with such
materials.
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mike Brook
Sent: 10 May 2007 20:17
To: JHB Airlines
Subject: [jhb] 'Second Life'
Whenever I've looked into the PCI voice server recently it seems that the
'developers' (or whatever they now call themselves) seem to be spending most
of their time on-line playing (?) something called 'Second Life' ...
MikeB
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