Making 30L$ each day is hard work

Each time someone asks me what are my goals in terms of camping, I answer 30L$ daily, according to my strategy.

Each time I say that, I got the same answer: "It's too low, you will never get millionaire, and it's easy".

Each time the discussion starts, and I have to explaing why it is hard work to earn 30L$ each day. The keyword is not earn, nor 30, and not even day... but E-A-C-H ! Ok, I don't camp each and every day, but I manage to maintain a weekly average of 210L$, and beleive me, it's not so easy. Between job, private activities, campsites closing, Second Life maintenance and bugs, it requires quite a discipline to maintain it...

Next time someone will ask why I have such a "low" objective, I'll say that the answer is worth... 30L$ !

Restricted operations

According to the man in the repair shop, my main computer will not be fixed before mid of next week. So my operations will be restricted until then, as I need my spare computer for other activities... nevertheless I won't stop camping nor blogging. This could even be a good opportunity to improve my strategy and planning.

The next steps in the quest are (as mentioned in answers to comments):
1) Set up the shop, potentially called "The Price is Light" (thank you Jenyca). I'm still accepting name's proposals
2) Work on a way to inventory good / bad campsites, but this is not easy for several reasons. This won't help me to save money directly, but it will kind of a community work
3) Continue the cleaning of my inventory
4) Improve my scripting knowledge to be able to create some funny things to be sold in the shop

And obviously, I will tomorrow make the first Midas interests transfer to APEZ.

Ups and downs - how to find new places

After the 500+ L$ week-end, the start of week is a bit disapointing. Xero is frequently off, as they don't have running events, so their good dance dance are off, as well as the bar.

To find a new place, I did as usually. When camping, you always receive advertising landmarks from robots or other campers. As a rule, I do keep all of them. Then when my current favorite spot is closed, I look at my unsorted landmarks, and check if they are cool or crap. As you may guess, most of them are crap !

I also got a promising one from a member of "Free Money from JohnLight" group, but had no time to check it. I found a good 3L$ / 10 minutes spot, but limited to 18 L$. Obviously, I shared it with the group.

563 L$ in a week-end ! - 6799.00 L$ by Ginko

Yes, you read it correctly. Between satruday evening and sunday evening, I earned 563 L$ by camping !

This has been done in various places, mostly Xero Party, but also Apfelland and a new 2L$ / 10 minutes campsite I found today. I will publish it later, for the time it is a secret I share with the "Free Money from JohnLight" group members only. The group is doing well, with new active members sharing their best campsites, and you can join now for 6 L$ only !

So yes, my Xero is my new favorite place, certainly better than any other until now. I'm quite happy, because I had a busy week-end doing sport, working on other projects and websites, so not a lot of time to supervise JohnLight and JaneLight.

The speed of earning is good, and I hope being able to maintain this pace. I'm also thinking about the machine or the 1'000'000 L$ lottery, and this is progressing.

There's more to xero than the dance dance

In the corner of Xero club is a camping bar. The standard payrate is 1L$ / 10 minutes, but if you join the "Club Xero" group, which is for free, you then get 2L$ / 10 minutes. I don't know yet if it is time limited, but JaneLight will camp here for a while, and I will post about it later on.

As usual, this information has first been given to the member of "Free Money from JohnLight" group members before being published here. Also remind that the members of this group will be eligible for earning 1'000'000 L$ when I will have it.

Camping by Apfelland - 4009 L$ by Ginko

As mentionned in previous post, Apfelland is a place with a lot of time unlimited 2 / 10 camping spots. I saw people here with more than 100 L$ earned, and still camping.

Leaving JaneLight and JohnLight there overnight, I earned 128 L$, but both client crashed. I don't know how the PC clients are doing, but the Mac clients are crashing all the time.

Anyway, I passed the 4'000 L$ step, so the fee to join the "Free Money from JohnLight" group is now 4L$. This is still a low ammount to get tips about the best payrates in Second Life, and be able to participate in a lottery with a 1'000'000 L$ price, isn'it ?

Something unexpected on the group

Today while as was having dinner in real life, something I loved happened on the group "Free Money from JohnLight". I did not read all of it (no, I'm not having dinner in front of the Mac, but in front of my beloved wife) but basically a new member joined, and a discussion about how to earn free lindens occured. Some members introduced kind of a hud displaying ads, from which I never heard before.

So apparently the group can help its members to earn more free linden dollars without my own intervention ! In term of social study, this is called "emergence", meaning that the force / intelligence or a group is more than the sum of its individual forces.

I like this, and encourage all group members to use it to share their knowledge. However please reserve the group for this sole usage, and remember that this group is not adult rated.

The million will go to YOU !

Yes, you read it correctly. I decided that by the end of my experiment (to earn 1'000'000 L$), this million will go to you. Or to one of you to be more precise. And to be fully precise, I will start a lottery machine, which will be accessible only to the members of the group "Free Money From JohnLight".

This would be quite an attractive machine, as the bet would be very low (probably below 10 L$), and the possible gain will be 1'000'000 L$.

I have to work a bit on the exact rules, but be sure of this, the million will go to a group member, and group joining fee will increase with time, to remain about 1 / 1000th of my fortune anytime.

So... join now, it's still 2 L$ to join, but as soon as I will reach 3'000 L$ fortune, the joining fee will be 3 L$ !

Today camping bring 161 L$ more - 2787.56 L$ total by Ginko

Quite standard camping, apart from some testing a casino, on a 5L$ / 10 minutes campchair.

Once activated, it gives you five cycles, so a total of 25 L$ within 50 minutes, but to activate it you have to play a slot machine, which costs 10 L$. In my case I lost these 10 L$, so the total was only 15 L$ / 50 minutes.

Then you have to replay to reactivate the chair, so this is not something that can be used daylong, as the macs are at my home, and I was in my office all day.

JohnLight's landmarks book III - Number guessing

I mentionned a couple of time a free game where you have to guess a number between 1 and 100 in six attemps, by proposing numbers and having answers like "Too high" / "Too low".

This is not giving any money for nothing, you have to play the game, which needs more activity than camping, but it gives you 1 L$ each time you win, which is quite easy.

If you stay concentrated, you should be able to get about 1 L$ per 2 minutes.

This games can be found in Meyers (136, 27, 30).

Have fun !

New Ginko rate - 2623.15 L$ by Ginko

Total camping bring 73 L$ more by Ginko. It appears that the new rate of 0.13% per day comes from a Ginko change (it was 0.09% a day before), so that's good for me !

I also figured out what I will do with the million once I will have it, but shhhhhhh, this is still a secret for the time being. Stay tuned, because it could become your million !

More on that later, both JohnLight and JaneLight camping by Platinum again, which is definetly the best camping spot for the time being.

Could be lucky...

While I was moving JaneLight arround to some places for which she received landmarks when sitting by Platinum, I found a dance dance (you know, those pyramids of dancepads, like in Oceania), limited to 200 L$ (whereas it is now 150 by Oceania), and it was nearly empty. So for the time being JaneLight is on pad 2, and JohnLight on pad 3. If there is no crash in betwee, I should get 400 L$ in about... 18 hours ! So double overnight, and whole day camping tomorrow.

This is good as I'll be on a business trip tomorrow, unable to do any SL... but no way to supervise them, so any crash would lead to a low earning.

Don't expect any post tomorrow for the same reason.

Nothing special to report - 2272.03 L$ by Ginko

As mentionned in the title, noting particular to report. I was busy in RL for most of the day, just having JaneLight and JohnLight doing some camping / dancing.

More addresses, tips and strategies in the next days.

With the total deposit by them, the Ginko daily interest is now 2.27 L$ a day.

Top it off, please - 2002.08 L$ by Ginko

Stopping so close to 2000 L$ this morning was just too frustrating, so I had a short camping while going for some late shopping with my wife, just enough time for JohnLight to earn 5 Lindens, so my total fortune my Ginko is now 2002.08 L$ !

2 done... 998 thousands to go !

My goals for the coming week-end are to do as many as passive camping as possible, but I will have a very busy week-end involving a birthday party, and much more, so no time to relaunch and monitor the SL clients.

If I have enough time, I will may be also post a summary of what went on since I started this challenge, and an updated strategy as the L$30 / day is definitively too pessimistic.

Going back to RL now.

Short update - 1997.08 by Ginko

Night was partly good, JaneLight crashed again, total earnings 84 L$. By putting that by Ginko, I reach 1997.08 ! 2.92 L$ short of objective. I will probably find some camping time this evening to achieve the 2000 L$ objective, or Ginko will do it over the week-end (1.8 L$ interest a day) I only JaneLight did not lost 10 L$ in sploders yesterday...

I Know I promissed the pimp story, and I will write it down later on today.

No camping, both CPU will have a time to cool down, one of the laptops has been on for four days in a row.

The good part of maintenance - 1792.36 by Ginko

My first reaction yesterday when I saw that maintenance interrupted my long camping session while I was working was quite bad... but later on I found out a way to profit from it.

Linden Lab announced the scheduled end time of maintenance, and they were in fact slightly ahead of their schedule. I could reconnect 15 minutes before the announced end of maintenance, and found a nearly desert second life world.

As a consequence, all my favorite (i.e. best payout rate) camping spots were availabe... except the #1 dancepads at Skye. One of them was even occupied by Josephina, who had the same idea. Anyway, both JaneLight and JohnLight could have a good 2 L$ / 8 minutes camping session.

After that I put them by Platinum for the night, and so I could this morning deposit 280 L$ by Ginko.

One more full day camping attempt today, by Platinum.

Long term question - what to do after ?

A simple question popped up today... assume I acheive my goal and reach one million Linden Dollar... what will be next then ?

What could I do with that million ?
Invest in other project ?
Put all of it in a sploder ?
Become kind of sponsor ?
Convert all of it in cash ?
Leave it by Ginko for more interests ?
Give it all to a friend ?
... ?

Will see... but first step will be to earn it, isnt'it ?

Three quarter of a success

Today is still not THE camping day... everything was fine, both JaneLight and JohnLight were earning regularly by Platinum with no intervention from my side (quite normal as I was not present...) when the grid went down for maintenance, from 6am to 12pm (SL time). In my local time, this corresponds to 3pm to 9pm, so camping will probably resume then.

The total earning for this partial camping day is 144 L$, so quite good. Given the average earnings of the last days, I should may be review the basic hypothesis of 30 L$ a day, which now seems a bit pessimistic... I'm quite ahead of my schedule, and will do some additional maths to confirm all of that.

No change in my Ginko total, as I could not put the last earnings in, nor a list of good camping spots, as I can not access my inventory. More on that later.

Busy in RL today - 1432.71 by Ginko

I had a few minutes to manage JaneLight and JohnLight today, but they had a very satisfying camping... earning a total of 198 L$, by Platinum and on a 5 / 20 campsite.

Before doing my evening deposit by Ginko, I checked their work. Yesterday I had 1233.66 L$ by them, and today 1234.71, so 1.05 L$ per day, as promised. Good boys, my Linden Dollars pump is then started, one a day, with or without camping, connection, and so on.

Camping will continue overnight, at different spots. JaneLight is on the beach, whereas JohnLight is by Platinum. Both clients have been restarted recently, so everything should be fine.

Busy RL day - 1233.66 L$ by Ginko

No time for Second Life today, except start camping in the morning, and stop in the evening. Total by JohnLight and JaneLight: 121 L$ (could have been much more if only I had re-activated Jane's anti-idle !)

All camping by Platinum, their rates are really strange, more on this later on.

1233.66 by Ginko, paying 1.11 L$ per day in interests.