Couple Links for New People to SL

Norikue

After reading a few posts in this forum on SL, I thought I should post this link for new users.
Wired Guide to Second Life and Foolish Frost's Guide for New Users.

Wired's guide is more of a travel guide for new people. It's not complete since this is an ever changing virtual world, but it's a place to start. Foolish Frost's guide is a big help with using the interface, making prim objects, what's in the inventory, how to pull things out, etc.

Like someone else mentioned on here; Second Life is not a MMORPG. The fun of this "game" is making things or buildings or clothing/armor/avatars. I came over to SL after playing Everquest for 7 years. I was wandered around thinking the place was rather boring at first. I started to play Tringo to make money. These days Tringo is not as popular as it once was. Then later on I finally started to make things and I make my Linden money by selling them now. The learning curve is high but reading the offlicial Second Life forums in the Content Creation area is a big help.

Looking at the Events Calendar is rather futile since it's awash with "yard sales" and "sexist whatever" contests. Forget those. Try the Wired Guide out first for looking around and exploring. Dark Life is player made RPG game, one of the very few there and it's very good. Based mainly on EQ. Another player made game is the Pot Healers in Numbukulla sim. It's based on the Myst series. That one is free to play with several freebies though out the game and a big freebie loot area at the end. Very nice build also.

Yes, there are of new people on there with crappy builds but they are still learning to build and those are on the Mainland sims. Mainland sims are a crap shoot for good builds but they do exists just harder to find.

I will admit this can be a giant 3d chat room if that is all you do and there a quite a few people that only socialize on there. But there is much more to do on there than just chat, it's the learning that takes some time and patience. I was lucky and had a friend teach me over a year ago.  

I hope those guides will help out people wanting to try out SL.

I will say again though, if you are looking for a typical MMORPG, don't bother with SL. It's not for you. If you are looking for something that you'll learn about 3d design and scripting, trying to tweak things and create things for fun. Then SL is deffinately for you.

Norikue

I just compiled a long list of SL related sites on my *gasp* blog. I think there are many helpful sites in there and many more that will give people a better grasp of what to do or how to do things in SL. (Other than hopping on sex balls with escorts in the clubs. lol )  

Sundiver

Hey and thanks for nice links I am not that new to SL, but still need to learn a lot! What makes SL inspiring to me, is how you can learn something new all the time. Building, scripting, making better textures, gaining a better understanding on how to optimize builds, meeting new people, joining groups, explore, play games, e.t.c.

I also like how often they update SL, which clearly shows they never stop working on improving it.