LORD OF THE RINGS ROLEPLAY ON SECONDLIFE

Secondlife is a virtual world, where creators can utilize land (servers) to create virtual worlds to interact in. You can create a free avatar and account, then join the vast lands called sims, such as ours. It is free to start, but it can cost virtual money to purchase more advance avatars, clothing, and such created by makers. We can help you find free items to start with and how to edit  your avatar to look decent for your roleplay. If you want advanced mesh avatars, animation systems etc, we can show you how to get them, as well as how easy it is to use. 

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You can use the default Secondlife viewer you download from them our a third party viewer. We recommend the default viewer, or Firestorm and Alchemy Viewer as third party. Firestorm has more advanced features, while alchemy has better performance for newer CPU's and GPU's. Secondlife is more CPU Dependent. Set draw distance at 128-260m. Advanced lighting on, but shadows off at first. 

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LORD OF THE RINGS RP LAND

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Our group and land focuses on the writings of JRR Tolkien. We have main scenarios happening on the land you roleplay into. It will be different then the movies and books in that your character story is being created by you, and will affect outcomes during RP. We may be in the Second Age of middle earth when Sauron is rising to power, and joint RP of members will affect it. The same applies when we enter the third age of Middle Earth. 

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We are a Moderate Sim. Sexual content is not allowed on the sim. We are  a true Roleplay group in the style of JRR Tolkien. Romance is normal, be must be kept clean. 

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Avatars must have shapes fitting to races of Middle earth during RP. Oversized avatars with excessively large breasts, and other features is not fitting. While on the sim, use a proper shape or avatar. The assigned manager or owners will ask you to change the shape while on the sim if it is not fitting, and enforce it. 

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We are an all accepting group. There is no discrimination based on Race, Color, Gender, Gender choice and self acceptance, Sexual orientation or Religious, or non-religious affiliation. Out of character all members are expected to treat each other with dignity and compassion.

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PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZED

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Our land is designed to be optimized for viewers. On Secondlife,  Certain objects can cause load and performance issues. On many overly done sims, your frame rate will be low, often under 30 frames per second even without shadows on. Many do not bother to think about the engines core design, and the older form of Opengl used, as well as texture memory of the average PC, and CPU utilization.

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An example is, with a I9 CPU system you will get 80-120 FPS with 240m+ draw, detail set to 4.0, detailed water, but with shadows off. With shadows on you can still expect 60+ fps. This is normal on our land.  

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Performance is still good on lower end systems that can expect a solid frame rate during RP, even when using the combat hud. Sim environments on firestorm and other viewers replicate the world of Middle earth well, including the darker burning skies over Mordor.  Even in the vastly large halls of Erebor in the Dwarf Kingdom.  All on a cloud based server infrastructure. Texture and items done to not over load cache and memory, 

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Expansion of the Land

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WE HAVE EXPANDED ACROSS TWO SIMS (NOT CURRENTLY CONNECTED) THE EXPERIENCE TELEPORTERS WILL CONNECT ACROSS ALL AREAS OF THE FULL SIM AND LANDS. 

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We are dependent on Linden donations to help cover server cost and operations (non-profit).Donations can be made on the donation board. Via rentals, or by direct system donations (coming soon through our non-profit).