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The avatars don't have health points and the simulation lacks death mechanics like a traditional MMO. Griefing is typically achieved by placing garbage objects

The avatars don't have health points and the simulation lacks death mechanics like a traditional MMO. Griefing is typically achieved by placing garbage objects (if permissions allow building) or making hideous, obnoxious, obscene, and/or performance tanking avatars and ruining the look of a space.

Animats 3y ago
Avatars do have health points, and it's possible to get killed, but only in combat areas. Those exist, as games within Second Life. But ordinary residential, retail, and display areas have that feature turned off. One of the better weapons.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHXUHA7osc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHXUHA7osc
- carbocation 3y ago
  I am entertained at how elaborate the detail of the weapon is, and yet the avatar is gripping the mag instead of the handguard.
  - redog 3y ago
    Its second trigger is backwards.
  - vasco 3y ago
    There's a second trigger there for the grenade launcher, you can see this at ~1min.
  - jncfhnb 3y ago
    This is a thing that people do irl Regardless of the grenade launcher bit
samstave 3y ago
Traditional MMO? I was beta for UO, 1996 - but I find UO to be the founding MMO, for me... UO, was my golden era of gaming.
- andybak 3y ago
  I only I knew what "UO" meant.
  - flohofwoe 3y ago
    Ultima Online, offered more freedom already in the 90s than most modern MMOs (of course freedom in gameplay doesn't necessarily mean "fun" for most players, but still UO pretty much invented the modern MMO genre, then WoW "tamed" and simplified it which made MMOs hugely popular, and in turn it was WoW - not UO - that everybody else copied).
  - marak830 3y ago
    Ultima online, the first graphic MMO(precursor to that was MUD's: multi user domains).
    - toast0 3y ago
      Dark Sun Online [1] was released nearly a year before UO, and was a graphic MMO. UO was certainly better in most (all?) respects. Which is why it has an enduring legacy, but it was only one of the first, not the first. Neverwinter Nights[2], is arguably a much earlier MMO, running from 1991 to 1997 on AOL. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun_Online:_Crimson_Sands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun_Online:_Crimson_San... [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_vid...
      - marak830 3y ago
        Wow I never knew that. Thankyou!!! I'll go crawl through those links, and thankyou for picking up my error :-)
      - samstave 3y ago
        Ran a NWN server from my house for a LONG time... from servers and racks from defunct tech-startups in the ~2000 down-turn. Had an awesome setup in ~2001... On pennies... I couldnt imagine running anything close here in the greedy-era.

Animats 3y ago

Avatars do have health points, and it's possible to get killed, but only in combat areas. Those exist, as games within Second Life. But ordinary residential, retail, and display areas have that feature turned off. One of the better weapons.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHXUHA7osc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHXUHA7osc

carbocation 3y ago
I am entertained at how elaborate the detail of the weapon is, and yet the avatar is gripping the mag instead of the handguard.
- redog 3y ago
  Its second trigger is backwards.
- vasco 3y ago
  There's a second trigger there for the grenade launcher, you can see this at ~1min.
- jncfhnb 3y ago
  This is a thing that people do irl Regardless of the grenade launcher bit

samstave 3y ago

Traditional MMO? I was beta for UO, 1996 - but I find UO to be the founding MMO, for me... UO, was my golden era of gaming.

andybak 3y ago
I only I knew what "UO" meant.
- flohofwoe 3y ago
  Ultima Online, offered more freedom already in the 90s than most modern MMOs (of course freedom in gameplay doesn't necessarily mean "fun" for most players, but still UO pretty much invented the modern MMO genre, then WoW "tamed" and simplified it which made MMOs hugely popular, and in turn it was WoW - not UO - that everybody else copied).
- marak830 3y ago
  Ultima online, the first graphic MMO(precursor to that was MUD's: multi user domains).
  - toast0 3y ago
    Dark Sun Online [1] was released nearly a year before UO, and was a graphic MMO. UO was certainly better in most (all?) respects. Which is why it has an enduring legacy, but it was only one of the first, not the first. Neverwinter Nights[2], is arguably a much earlier MMO, running from 1991 to 1997 on AOL. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun_Online:_Crimson_Sands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun_Online:_Crimson_San... [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_vid...
    - marak830 3y ago
      Wow I never knew that. Thankyou!!! I'll go crawl through those links, and thankyou for picking up my error :-)
    - samstave 3y ago
      Ran a NWN server from my house for a LONG time... from servers and racks from defunct tech-startups in the ~2000 down-turn. Had an awesome setup in ~2001... On pennies... I couldnt imagine running anything close here in the greedy-era.