Help Sims On Second Life

Help (Noob) Sims in Second Life

Help Island

In Second Life, There are quite a few Sims dedicated to helping new players. Here you will find experienced players who volunteer to help newbies, or just random people who want to lend a hand. Personally, I was one of those people that visited the noob areas randomly so that I could help when I felt like it. If you are a new player, then visiting one of these help sims would be in your best interest. Not only to the helpers teach and explain things to you, they may even give you free stuff to keep you interested in second life. These types of sims are usually under “General” control. This means that there will be no sexual or adult content. Most of these Sims have a few rules in common like “No Soliciting” or “No Violence” or “No Grieving” or “No carrying of harmful weapons”. These rules are there for a reason. The sims are a safe haven for new players. Having someone messing around with them will make new players not want to play second life anymore.

However, Some of these “Help” Sims like “New citizens Incorporated” are not very welcoming in my opinion. Why? I can give you several of my own accounts as to how some people


made me feel unwanted and irritable. When I first visited NCI, nobody had approached me and asked me if I needed any help. They were too busy talking to their friends and trying to impress each other. When I visited NCI again, I ran into the bitchiest woman you would ever meet. Like I said in a previous post, the content of second life is stored on the Linden labs database. Whenever you teleport somewhere, you will have to wait for everything to load onto your screen. This includes avatars as well. On this particular day, my internet was quite slow and everything was taking forever to load. I had decided to stand in a corner and wait for the sim to load so that I didn’t bump into anyone by accident. (It’s quite annoying when someone pushes your avatar, even if it’s by accident). Moments later I get an IM from miss bitch saying “Do you want something?” at first I was confused. I couldn’t even see this person. So I replied “No, Why?’. She replies “Because you’re in my face”. I was Like “Sorry. The sim hasn’t loaded yet. You don’t have to be so rude”. She goes on to say “Hahaha I m not rude. Little boys shouldn’t have such big mouths”. Before I could reply to that, she blocked me from talking to her. That’s the type of bull shit you don’t expect in a help Sim. (To this day I still wonder why she called me a little boy. I was 21 xD)

Since that day, I never returned to NCI again. I went to freebie stores whenever I felt like helping some noobs. I only went to NCI one more time a few months later. My friend was begging me to go there with her to help noobs. She was so cute…how could I refuse xD. As I was standing in NCI, minding my own business, a chick from NCI security IM’S me. “I have to ask you to please remove your guns”. I didn’t have any guns on me…just holsters. I explained that to her but she told me to take it off anyway. I respect the rules of a place I visit and so I took it off. She IM’S me again and asks me to please remove my fangs. I’m a vampire…I don’t want to remove my fangs. She told me that biting is not allowed on the sim. BUT I WASN’T BITING ANYONE D:

She insisted that I remove it, so I did. She IM’S me a third freaking time! “Please remove that offensive arm band”. The arm band is question was red, with a white circle on it and a black skull in the middle. From far it may look like a Nazi armband. I explained to her that it wasn’t a Nazi arm band. She still insisted that I remove. I was so pissed off. Make no mistake, I do not condone the behavior of the German Nazi nor do I support what they stood for. However, why do other people get to dictate what I should or shouldn’t believe in or wear? What if I believe that what Hitler did was right? Who are you to judge me? Who made you God of the universe? Just because you don’t like what Hitler did, doesn’t mean its offensive to the whole world.
In no way is this an attack on NCI. There are actually decent, intelligent people that are very helpful in NCI. All I’m saying is, Kick out the people like “Miss Bitch” and fire the security like “Miss Goddess of the universe” and NCI could be pretty awesome. This goes for any Help Sim out there in Second Life. Let’s just concentrate on helping the noobs so that the SL community can grow bigger and better.
Thanks for reading!