Tip of the Week #1: New Uses for your Signature Real Key

Welcome to my first Tip of the Week. Short, sharp, for busy avies. On how they can make full use of their Signature toys’ many features, some of which are not prima facie obvious.

Tip #1 is for subbie’s happy owner, and revisits that little prim key you have in your pocket. Yes, the Signature Real Key, which has been around since the early days of the Signature Gag (circa 2006), that requires you to not only be near your sub, but also facing her for you to use it (yes, yes, laws of physics come to Second Life, blah blah.)

Tip #1a. You can use the key to order your sub over for any reason other than locking or unlocking her. Say, subbie needs a kiss or a spanking. Just whip out your key, click the button, and watch hapless subbie come over to you. Instant obedience, no permissions asked.

Tip #1b. The Signature key system is totally Cuff-aware.

  • If subbie is suitably bound in her Signature cuffs, and you click “come over” (even if it’s with a non-Cuff key, e.g. a gag key), she will come over in the “walk” of the respective position. Say she is bound lying down, she will crawl on her belly; if she’s standing upright, she must needs hobble over. Poor thing.
  • but if she is bound in a no-move pose (e.g. thighs tight), then, suprise! She will not be able to move.
  • unless she is bound with her arms in a suitable position, clicking “crawl over” will fail as she can’t get her arms in front of her.

Tip #1c. Everytime you unlock your sub, do check the message that is displayed in chat. That confirms that you were the last person to lock her, and at what time. If that time is different from what you remembered, beware – mayhap your sub is cleverer and naughtier than you think! And if your sub has reached the Slave Circle, you have the additional option of reviewing her lock history, which gives historic details of who locked/unlocked her, at what time and so on.

Go on, have fun!

Luv, Lulu Ludovico

New Top20 Gag Circle Scoreboard

[13:17] Suzhanna Rossini: You know… That gag scoreboard look like shit.. Hehehe… [13:20] Lulu Ludovico: Heh, funny you should say that… the next-generation scoreboard is ready for deployment next week – I’m just doing final testings 😉

And so… here we are. Goodbye to the old makeshift hovertext Signature Gag Scoreboard. Welcome to the next-generation:

  • Top Twenty names now, not just Ten.
  • Cool new look, Windlight ready.

A word about the Top Twenty… The Top Ten names are firm. The 11th to 20th names are not truly the next highest-ranked people. They’re there because they’re the highest-ranked who competed their Trials recently. See, your Signature Gags don’t touch base with my servers unless you just completed your Trial.

So, here’s everyone’s chance for their fifteen minutes of fame. Just complete your Trial, and if you’re doing better than the current 20th name, you’re in! Good photo opportunity if you ask me.

If you’re still wondering what all this Scoreboard thing is all about…click here.

Luv, Lulu Ludovico

Signature Cuffs v1.046 RC Refresh, and Zhao AO v1.01a

Signature Cuffs Release Candidate have been refreshed with v1.046, available at the blue box in front of the Update Switch at the Secret Warehouse. If you received the in-group message, sorry there was a typo where I meant v1.046, not v1.045. The box itself and the Release Notes (in the group notice attachment) have the correct version.

If you have Zhao AO v1.01 and get the “Sexy: Walk” not found error, just load the “default” notecard (press the blue floppy disk icon on the AO and then select “default”) and you’ll be fine. Or, get Zhao AO v1.01a from the crate beside the Update Switch, or even get the v1.046 RC.

Cheers, Lulu Ludovico

Please vote for a better way!

By now, many of you know that the Signature Command HUD prompts you to save your settings by detaching it every time it has detected an important setting change. Failure to do so means that those settings will be lost the next time you crash, which we all know, happen a few times a day.

Now, this sort of database behavior is never accepted in mainstream MMORPG games. Imagine you are in Everquest 2 or World of Warcraft. You spend the last 6 hours gaining one whole level and getting that phat loot from that uber monster that you just killed. And then you crash, only to lose everything. No one accepts that, and rightly so – that’s why it never happens. Your stats and stuff still remain safe on their servers. You’re not required to detach anything to save anything. It’s automatic.

Why is it then that we accept this sort of thing from Second Life? No wonder people complain there is nothing to do here. It’s not serious enough a platform for roleplaying.

Want a better way? Please vote on the Jira. Votes matter in getting the Lindens to take note of something. If you not quite sure how to, start here instead.

Meanwhile, you’ll all have to keep detaching your HUD to save settings. Until the Lindens get off their bum and actually do something.

Coming soon: Leather Signature Cuffs

Yes, the rumors are true.

A leather version will be joining the stable of LULU Signature Cuffs. It’ll be a hot new, nasty look.

And yes, if you have the leather PLUS Cuffs, and the PLUS Arm Cuffs Plugin, you will be able to upgrade to the leather Signature Cuffs, and the Signature Arm Cuffs Plugin respectively, at a discount.

When? Soon.

*winks* Lulu Ludovico

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