Second Life is full of opportunities to earn Linden Dollars, but it is also important to have fun while earning. Some players make the mistake of thinking that they have to do something they don't enjoy to make money in Second Life. That's simply is not the case.
Sometimes it can feel overwhelmingly challenging to earn linden in Second Life, but with the right information to hand and some ample determination you can make money.
Working as a dancer or helper in our clubs
Wanted Helpers and Dancers for Mediterraneo OC
(1) Wanted helpers for a minimum of 10 hours weekly.
The salary is 10L/hour, plus 100% of the tips, and plus a Skybox fully furnished.
(2) Wanted Dancers for a minimum of 10 hours weekly.
The salary is 10L/hour plus 100% of the tips.
For information contact: Ona Hyx
Real Estate Agents Wanted
For rental of houses and shops, and the sale of land.
At the conclusion of the contract with your client, i will pay to you:
a) 10% of the two weeks (for example, if the lease of a house costs 1,000 L / week, then I will give you 200L)
b) 2% on the sale of land. (For example, if the land is sold for 20,000 L / week, then I will give you 400L)
If you are interested, please leave a notecard for membership in the mailbox next the reception desk. You will be contacted as quickly as possible.
For information contact: o0Crystal0o Resident, Ona Hyx
Camping for money
This one is extremely easy. If you manage to find a money camping spot not yet occupied by another resident, you can take it. Required time and payment differs from place to place, but for as long as the money are not sucked out of the camping spot, you are getting paid every fixed amount of time – can be every 20, 30, 60 minutes. How much? Depends. Sometimes it is L$1, sometimes more.
While the amount of money earned is not really satisfactory on its own, there is another huge disadvantage: you have to stick at one place, motionless, for a long time. Doesn’t it remind you of something? If you like spending hours of your time at one place for pennies with no visible opportunity to improve your situation, you can successfully do it in real life.
In Second Life, one of the main advantages of which is free roaming, you would rather spend your time exploring the Grid, wouldn’t you? In fact, you are here for this. And now you end up repeating the worst part of your real life in second one. I honestly do not understand why camping spots are so often occupied, but they are, so there must be something about them I fail to perceive.
Sploders
Now, you probably have noticed that there are not so many places in Second Life which can be called “packed”. I can think of only one, to be true. Do you want to see more? Consider sploders. Not very time-efficient, not very profitable, but this is the event every Second Life resident should experience once in a lifetime.
In places with relatively bigs pots (mostly over L$500) you can witness the phenomenon of the great power of money in action – 90-100 people at the region, everybody waiting for about half an hour for the sake of getting some lindens, usually no more than L$25. Now THIS is determination!
For information: o0Crystal0o Resident, Degoya Galthie
Games
Many machines where you can play for nothing!
So, gambling is against the ToS, right? Yes, but these are traditional gambling activities. Second Life would not be Second Life without the whole range of adult activities.
What is so bad about bingo? Yes, that one game your grandma spends hours playing with her friends. Not sure how boring you should be in life to enjoy the actual bingo – but nice resident of Second Life kindly have spiced it up for you, turning the innocent game for people residing in retirement facilities into the most popular gambling activity.
Bingo is the most popular gambling game, but far from being the only one! There are other games that will take your monthly salary away from you leaving you no chance from taking it back from the gaming machine owner, since you have left it there of your own accord.
But hold on! We talk about earning money, not spending them. I’m thrilled to have you informed that there are places that let you play these games for free. And not just play them, but also have a chance to earn something – up to 4 times a day, the machine pays a certain amount of money to the player who has got the highest score since the last payout.
You will need to get a hand of these games first, but once you do – you will be paid for your own entertainment and will not spend a linden yourself, how about that! The prize varies, usually it is around 20-40 lindens. I must say, this is a great way to have some fun in Second Life, too. Anyway, try it.
For information contact: Ona Hyx, binyy Resident
“Best in” contests
One of the very first skills you obtain in Second Life is tweaking your own appearance. While you may look like a superstar, this is not something you can impress people over there with – this is a standard. However, they have managed to organize contests even for those who cannot do anything other than dressing themselves up in things others created for them.
These are “Best in” contests.
This is how the regular board looks like. People register, then people vote. Also, some people DO come for the music.
How does it work? Once you have a decent variety of clothes/outfits (roughly 20+ outfits will be enough), at any time of the day, you search for “Best in” and choose the Events tab. You will have a list of events, and some of them will be featuring Best in contests. Themes vary: from primitive Best in Black or Best in Jeans to something like pretty self-explanatory Bare as you Dare – but do not pay too much attention to the 100% match of the event: the sexier your outfit is and the more dirty jokes you pass during the event, the more likely you’ll be voted for. However, original outfits, really original, have a good chance too.
So, what you have to do, is to dress up as close to the theme as possible and head to the event in one of thousands Second Life clubs. Over there, you need to trigger the dancing animation and pretend you are there actually for the music. Don’t forget loud club gestures which any resident will gladly share with you, or you can even get them in the freebie stores. All in all, attract as much attention to yourself as possible. Watch MTV for inspiration.
At some places they do it differently. Here, the host was taking votes for people in costumes, and then announced the winner. Human contact forward!
Your task is to achieve the level of the instant celebrity – that way, more people, especially of the opposite sex, will vote for you. Voting is anonymous and winners are revealed only in the end, but you still can threat a few people with being sodomized by your german shepherd – since you live only a few blocks away from them – if they don’t vote for you. (They are online, they cannot be sure, so of course they will be afraid.)
Events last for 2 hours mostly, but it does pay off, since prizes are rarely lower than L$200 and usually distributed between 1st, 2nd and 3rd place (by the amount of votes received), so even if you come second or third by votes, you still get something. In most cases, you will earn more than through traffic HUDs, games, and definitely sploders and camping. So don’t exclude this method. And keep stuffing your inventory with clothes – you never know when it comes handy!
For information contact: o0Crystal0o Resident, Ona Hyx
