Some have commented on this blog’s absence over the last ten days or so. Most of that is simply due to Second Life itself – not allowing me in, or not allowing me to move around my own property let alone anywhere else. I’ve managed to get in and out a couple of times a day to simply keep the breedable animals fed and watered, but even things like trading in turtle eggs has me standing there for over an hour, counting down my life as it passes by…things…take…ages…in…my…second…life…
I’m somewhat jaded about Second Life at the moment. There’s little joy in what I am able to do in-world and when the animals I previously loved to blog about become a burden, then something has to give. I’ve therefore made some more cutbacks in the animal department, with more to come. Here’s an updated list -
- About twenty Petable turtles have gone to my partner in crime (ie. the owner of the land) PacificBlack, who is actually enjoying his in-roads into turtle keeping. The TCD team has been lucky enough to have one of each of the specials recently, and this keeps us happy in maintaining our turtle groups. It took several days before we got our first April Birthstone this month, but we now have a male and female of these, so are perfectly happy.
- Ozimals bunnies – the 1.2 kindle a basket over Easter to get a choco elite bunny depressed me, particularly as I watched people announce statistics on the chat groups such as – ‘Kindled 200 nests, never got one at all’ and ‘I have five of them!’. I kindled about fifty 1.2 nests, twenty of them were purchased (cheaply) and never got one of the elites. I’ve kept four of my kindled bunnies to breed from, but that’s put up the food costs. The rest are sitting in my inventory, obviously starved at this point. There’s no point for me to now go around the markets searching for any new bunnies to purchase, given how many of them I myself now have. Of course, I’m going to have to terminate or kill several more of them given the food costs in maintenance, where they are also noticably not breeding so successfully also. I am contemplating just making a couple of them into simply pets.
- HunnyBunny bunnies – we have the (purchaseable) chocolate Easter bunny pairs here, still maturing to breeding age. The St Paddy’s and Valentines special bunnies are paired also, and producing red eggs together every few days. I am contemplating taking the three other normal bunnies and the red eggs to the HB official orphanage, however, to save on food costs.
- TL Sheep – after the controversy caused by TL Sheep originally being created using another person’s (Jon Haskell) well-known sheep a couple of weeks back, I have since deleted all TL Sheep from this property. This was a personal choice, and I wish Boxi Boxen and Telur Lane the best of luck in these sheep, however I hope that the fact that Telur maintains he purchased those copybotted sheep from an ‘unknown’ somebody at some point, is analysed and he looks into his payment statements to locate the culprit who sold these to him. This would be best on behalf of the entire breedable community, I’m sure. Boxi’s german-language chat group hasn’t helped my own attempts to understand those sheep, or any of the upgrade features for those sheep, making knowledge extremely difficult to come by, and therefore blog about. Both situations have left me uncomfortable, and thus leant their way to my personal decision to delete TL sheep from the property a couple of week’s ago, and release the pens for the upcoming HB Sheep or any new breedables coming up. This means I will no longer be blogging about TL Sheep as I do not own them.
- PinkyPigs – I still like the noises they make. I currently have six of these (three too many probably), as a couple are due to die from reaching the end of their lifespans very soon, and the younger ones are replacements. I appear to be able to get ruby gem collars, but no other elites, which can be quite demoralising, but given their short lifespan, I’m not willing to go out and purchase an elite (a love pig is the only one I know of) given they will die within a couple of months.
- sionChickens – I still have a pair of ancients who produce lovely eggs, an astral, a wandering original killer chicken (who only has a couple of months left of his life) and my Golden Rooster wanders around my office building. Many are coming up to the end of their lifespan, so I will eventually hatch out a couple of chicks to keep them going as long as sionChicken food is available.
- XS Cactus – I have a large border garden of XS Cactus. Maintenance of these breeding plants is very easy – using a golden watering can, I can water these plants for two weeks for only L$200. They remain a favourite due to their low maintenance and the production of seeds every day. At 2 prims each they are not a burden on prims either, and make a nice display.
- Seid Mushrooms - I have a crop of about twenty of these, all producing spores every day. I have several Level 5 mushrooms with special qualities, and although the maintenance of these – both feeding and watering – takes a long time – it’s currently free. Having to travel with the spores to a big mushroom to get the growing mushrooms, has been difficult recently with TP errors and lag defining my day.
- PlantPets – I have six of these out, at various small primmages. Their maintenance is free – but they require watering a couple of times a day for some quicker growers. Of course – these breed also, and currently I have a nice lot of gift packed PlantPets to give away to friends.
- Other Living Plants - there are three other types of living, growing plants I am trying out on the property. These will be blogged as I get through their lifecycles and also try out those who produce baby plants also.
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