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Don't Go Into The Corn Field
Via GameSetWatch, Clickable Culture's look at the Second Life version of purgatory - The Corn Field. A player explores an off-grid prison that misbehaving avatars are sent too for infractions. From the article: "Yaffle tested the limits of the prison, finding that communication to Second Life's 'Main Grid' was cut off. He even came up with a scheme to crash the server The Corn Field was running on in order to be teleported to the nearest safe simulator by default, but creating objects in The Corn Field appears to be impossible. Having exhausted his options, Yaffle merely waited around to see if anyone else would show up. A Linden Lab employee did stop by, but was incommunicado. 'If I was them, I would have been watching me and laughing,' Yaffle told me. 'I know I was laughing even though it was a punishment.'"
A player explores an off-grid prison that misbehaving avatars are sent too for infractions.
Off to the Corn-field for you slashdot editor!
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
It looks like you need a Third Life!
Rimshot, please!
"but giving them some kind of boring chore to perform to teach them a lesson would be nice."
You mean like levelling up?
I quit!
I'd love to pay money to play an online computer game in which I am put into jail and forbidden to interact with other players. Where do I sign up? The paint I put down last week is completely dry now and I have nothing to do, I would love to be trapped in a corn field very much.
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
Bunch of bleeding heart liberals, coddling the criminals!