I still experience an occasional hiccup with the Second Life money system so i remain slightly wary of it. Since money transactions remain a very buggy and unreliable thing when it comes to virtual worlds, I've learned many new ways to make financial gains without any in-world monetary implementations at all.
At present I am gradually leasing out 25 regions from my own servers. I simply request payment be made via PayPal within the first 7 days of each month and thus far I've not experienced any issues at all. Everyone seems very happy and I simplify things by only leasing out full regions rather than trying to divide them up and lease out portions of regions. While an in-world money system would at times be nice, and eventually will come into being through optional plugins, I am quite happy managing my virtual world properties through PayPal payments. - Len W. Brown On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, J Ross Nicoll <[email protected]>wrote: > I think this illustrates extremely well why most of the devs don't want > to touch a money system. Making a proper monetary system means ensuring > that transactions happen, or do not, you can't get 7 copies of the same > transaction that then have to be unpicked by hand. I wouldn't be averse > to writing a money module if I had time (so, not this year), but I'd > want to do it properly so you can't get into this sort of mess... > > Len Brown wrote: > > > This reminds me of a situation I encountered in Second Life last > > Autumn. I logged in on a Saturday morning and decided to sell a piece > > of land I no longer needed. I set the asking price at 10,000 Lindens. > > > > Right about that time Linden Lad encountered a problem and began a > > rolling restart of their servers. Somehow the money system got "stuck" > > and when someone bought my land it did not register with the Linden Lab > > servers. > > > > The result was that, over the course of the next 20 minutes 7 people > > "bought" my land. When the dust settled I had one actual owner of my > > land and 7 actual purchases. As you might imagine, a lot of people were > > very angry that I got their Lindens and they got nothing in return. > > > > I communicated to them all and tried to explain the situation but most > > called me a liar since "this never happened before. I then contacted > > Linden Lab tech support (after waiting nearly an hour on hold) and was > > told NOT to refund the Lindens as they would resolve the "glitch." > > > > After 24 hours and some very hostile people demanding their money back I > > decided to go ahead and send each of them the 10,000 Lindens they gave > > me. Almost a week later I logged in to find my account nearly 70,000 > > Lindens overdrawn! > > > -- > The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No > SC013532 > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >
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