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In the GOLDENSANDS sim I found a skybox mall with 2 bots sitting at desks wearing police tags, and someone standing with a mall tag near some random money givers (he was essentially camping). In a skybox club I found 2 bot bouncers, a bot DJ/manager, 2 bot dancers and a bot on a dance pole, all with nearly-identical, nearly-empty profiles.
This visit happened at about 2 am SLT, Wednesday, August 13, 2008.
I found two live people on the beach in the Insignia sim and about a dozen campers at the other end of the island. In a reversal of how it's usually done, the campers have a nice beach and the store they're supporting is in a skybox.
This visit happened at about 1:30 am SLT, Wednesday, August 13, 2008.
Okay, so half the sim is still camping, but...half isn't! The Japanese sim of KanazawaSLing hosts a Camp Ma$ter with a daily limit of L$20. There were eight avatars standing admiring it; 5 of them were being paid.
Elsewhere in the sim I found one person at a freebie shop, one person at another shop, five people in private residences, and one buiding something on a platform.
Despite the strong showing of camping here, I'm calling this one Chilling and IM-ing.
This visit happened at 6 am SLT, Tuesday, August 12, 2008.
There's a casino in the Heaven On Earth sim called Heaven Games. I found 10 avatars there. As far as I can tell, one of them was playing a game, two were being paid for camping, four were camping but not being paid, and three were standing about doing nothing. Perhaps they failed to notice they aren't signed in. You have to have the group tag active.
This Camp Ma$ter has a daily limit of L$15, so if you stay here longer than 2 1/2 hours (paying 3/30) it stops paying you. Right now six people have the camping group tag but only two are signed in to Camp Ma$ter. I think this venue gets people to camp for free.
Nobody answered my hello's and nobody answered my L$50 challenge to name one of the Beatles.
How many ways can a place be tacky? Come to the southern mainland sim of Cuscus to find out! I swear, I didn't stage or manipulate the snapshot under the cut.
The Kolkata sim hosts two casinos, and at the time of my visit had 16 avatars present. One casino sports Camp Ma$ter, but it's turned off. Nobody's there. The other sports Anywhere Camping and has, as far as I can tell, 12 people using it, including two who are in front of games but not playing.
Over the wall, sitting at her pool (away) is the owner. On another property (away) is someone on a boat (too big to move). I don't think he has anything to do with this. I think he's out of range of Anywhere Camping. Next to him is a mall with one shopper and one camper.
This visit happened at 3 am SLT, Tuesday, August 12, 2008.
The TokyoZERO Shop 01 sim had 33 avatars in it, dispersed widely. This is camping. All of it. On benches and ladders, mostly, but there's also a musician, and one I haven't seen before, someone was being paid to use a pay phone.
The sim to the north, TokyoZERO Shop 02, was much the same. 23 campers in that one. To the northwest, 16 more campers in TokyoZERO Shop 06. Took a look through several nearby lesser-populated sims and found...campers. Also a couple people from the SUN GROUP floating in mid-air (separately, in different sims), and a couple unmodified avatars with empty profiles, standing alone in separate sims. I found one person not camping. What was he doing? Trying to sit on a camping bench.
This one's a tough call, but I think it's...Bots and Campers.
I didn't want to put Sex-O-Matic and bots in the same title, but that's what I found. Fortunately these are independent items to report.
Shown here is a pair of obvious bot boxes in a pair of sims called DragonFly Oasis and DragonFly Odonata. The one on the right is over a store called Dragonfly Sex-O-Matic Furniture. The one on the left is over a hair store. The four dots in a square pattern are mannequin bots in the men's store. At the time I visited there were as many as seven customers, but when I visited later only the bots remained.
I'm sure someone has created shopping bots, and I thought I'd found that someone, but probably not. Here's why I stayed more than an hour to find out...
The twelve avatars I found in the ERE Pantalica sim were inside a ring of stores. Nine of them were amusing themselves staring at a rotating yellow sign (pictured under the cut), though if they chose they could have sat in a ring of chairs, or even danced at the Pantalica club. This camping system is one of those that allow you to wander. It encourages you to "walk and visit" (i.e. shop at the stores, visit the casino), but as you can see from the icon, nobody here was cooperating.
Three of the people were chatting, but not dancing, at the club, which is adjacent to the camping area. One of them was Pantalica security. Everyone else in the sim wore a camping tag.
Camping instructions were thouhtfully provided in English and Italian...
The 21 avatars I found this evening in the Liberty Land sim were all bots. One in a L$10 store that re-sells transferrable items, I think, and 20 in a skybox over a casino.
Yawn.
This visit happened 10:30 pm SLT, Monday, August 11, 2008.
