Say NO to Bloodlines!

 Like a lot of people I have been having a big problem with Bloodline users harassing my customers at Freebie Paradise.  You see bloodlines is a horrible pyramid sceam of a game masked loosely as role play.  The "Vampire" players wear a hud and run around asking people if they can bite them via a hud that try's to animate the person being asked.  They rank by biting as many formerly unbitten people as possible. When a person is bitten it puts there name on a website as one of the players "catches?".   Now I have no problem with people doing whatever they would like in sl.  I do have a problem with people harassing new players in my establishment who are in no way involved in vampire role play. They are there to shop and work on there appearances, not be spammed by this low rate game.  I have a bot that is a group invite bot.  People click a sign, she sends the invite.  A lot of bloodline players don't seem to catch on to the fact that she isn't real, so she has been getting an increasing number of bite requests daily.  I put up a "do not bite my customers" sign.  That didn't work.  I put up a greeter at the door that says "NO BLOODLINES" when they land at the parcel.  That doesn't work.  I got a request as I was remodeling the sim.  Now I'm getting messages from customers telling me who is harassing them.  I shouldn't be hearing a thing about a game that I am not involved with and have no interest, but now it's become a daily part of my Second Life and I'm not happy.



 



So along comes Yohan Pintens.  I'm not sure why he did it.  Probably a mix of him being sick of me bitching about bloodlines, and his willingness to help the sl community,  But Yohan has created a Buffy Bot!  Buffy sits nicely on your parcel and if anyone sends her a bite request, she instantly ejects and bans them.  She can also just warn them but I prefer the eject option myself.  Buffy is a program that runs outside of sl and works with an alt. And what's even cooler than the fact that he made this amazing Bloodlines defense tool? The fact that he made and is distributing it totally FREE!!!  You can get yours by following this link.

 http://www.landmachine.com/?products=buffybot

Edit to add..... I received this from a Bloodline co-owner today.  I really do like the fact that they recognize it as a problem and that they are so polite. I still plan to keep Buffy going though because necklace or not, they still attack newbs at my place because they know new players have no idea what bloodlines is.

Greetings Sarah,

Mars Bracken here, co-owner of the Bloodlines vampire system.

I read your brief interveiw online, and my partner and I think the Buffy Bot is totally awesome! It's been quite a trip watching this thing grow, and that's one of the more interesting developments.

However, we do feel badly that people are being inconvenienced by the biting. It's definitely gotten out of hand, with 33,000 non-alt players now, people's ban lists fill up quickly.

In an effort to help, we've made a free "Garlic Necklace" that just needs to be activated once (not worn permanently); once activated it will make it so the avatar will never recieve another bite animation request from a Bloodlines player again, anywhere in SL. If they end up wishing to reactivate at some point and play, that option is provided as well.

We really had no idea it would get like this, and the majority of our players are using the system as it was intended - as a tool for networking vampire RP culture. But as we've learned, as the total number of players grows, so do the "Leeches", "Mosquitos" and other bad apples that abuse the system.

In any case, passing you a copy of the Necklace, as well as a folder with the vendor (Garlic Necklace 1.1 is the label on it). If you feel like passing the Necklaces to anyone who needs one, or setting up the free vendor, feel free.

Sorry again for any inconvenience, and have a good day.

Sincerely,

Mars Bracken
Owner/Designer @ Liquid Interactive LLC