Is Camping Dead ? 1 / 500 !

I spent some time today in SecondLife, and wanted to confirm what had been said in comments about camping going down because of the new search feature.

The cause is not so easy to define, but I must say that when I went thourgh campsites I had in my inventory, I was quite surprised. Many of them just vanished, or lowered their rates. Some CampMasters were still at the same rate, but not accepting any campers.

Many dancepads changed from 2L$ per 10 minutes to 1L$ per ten minutes. This seems to be the new "standard"... weeks ago my minimum was 2 L$ / 10 minutes, but this seems to be hard to find nowadays.

One of my favorite campsite even changed its rate to a ridiculously low rate... It's in fact so low that I made a snapshot, to be sure you'll beleive me... have a look.


Beleive me, this snapshot did not went through Photoshop. This bench is truely paying 1 L$ per 500 minutes, which is 8 hours and 20 minutes ! And as you see... it's full of campers ! Either camping is dead, or they did not read the rate before sitting here.

GRRRR ! Fake Benches F....d my 200th Post !

This was supposed to be a happy, festive, funny post, but it has been RUINED by bloody fake camping benches !

I found a spot cracked-up with 3L$ / 15 minutes benches. I was so happy that I sent a notice on the "Free Money from JohnLight Raymaker" group to share it with all the members ! I even teleported some friends there, before starting a long camping session.

When I came back, what a surprise... I had earned 26L$. Those of you thinink "lucky JohnLight" shall explain me which number multiplied by 3 can give 26 !!

After some trials of few benches in this place, I found out that two out of three of the poseballs there are paying only (2L$ / 10 initial version) 2L$ / 15 minutes (corrected after Sylver's comment) ! I just feel disgusted, and my blog-iversary is wasted, to say the less !