Turbosquid links will be forthcoming….

I’m currently in the process of extracting links to all my turbosquid files that exist prior to today and converting them in to html links that I can load up here in the blog. The next several posts will contain the links.

Why, you might ask am I doing this since people can currently go over to Turobsquid and just browse my stuff…

Simple answer to that is because I want to refer to some of that stuff in future posts here, and also maybe give more explicit commentary on the individual files then Turbosquid allows. For instance Turbosquid itself does not like artists to put ways for people to contact them inside of the descriptions of assets on Turbosquid… Turbosquid’s database system is neat, but a little dated… so tagging is not always done the best way over there as it’s limited to x amount of spaces, etc. Tagging here in the blog, I seem to be able to have a lot more abilities then over there.

I currently have over 9000 assets on Turbosquid, so this might take several postings to do. I do plan to put some commentary in to some of the postings giving a little more info about stuff then the turbosquid system itself does.

I’m also doing this because I ultimately want every one of my online assets to be linked to in this blog. Since there’s so many assets over there already, this helps me moving foward since I can cross reference stuff from my blog here, my future portfolio website, and other creative online endeavors I plan to undergo someday.

Some might call this spam, but I hope you understand that it’s not really. The idea here is to document what I have online already, and moving forward, create just as much comprehensive descriptions and links to new works… slowly building my own creative online empire of artwork more or less. It’s something that will take time to do, but this way of doing it is massively faster then the individual linking process I was planning to do a few days back that would have literatlly taken months instead of days…

I want to be able to cross reference stuff on Turbosquid to non-Turbosquid stuff that I have online, have the ability to have people that like my work contact me directly, and do a lot of other things that this will allow me to do in the future, which Turbosquid’s limited functionality cannot provide. I like TS, will continue to use it, and suggest others do likewise, but just feel it’s time to do a lot more then I have done over there, and am limited by what I can do there, so it’s time to bring the there over to here a lot more… Similarly, I’ll be doing likewise with Zazzle, my portfolio website, and maybe even other sites and projects I’ll be working on in the future… This blog is about re-creating MY online identy.

This sort of huge project is just one small part of doing that. I’m trying to take more control of what I create, and can do online. I’m trying to bring the various pieces of my scattered shatters of the online MY back together in to one ME, fully united… that’s what the links in the turbosquid urls that I”m going to post are about… That’s what almost all of my postings here are about… I want and need to be an individual artist not some random, unidentified person out there in cyberspace with millions of shattered pieces orbitting the earth, like space junk that has no purpose anymore… I want to be me, Jeff Thomann, and this is all what part of me trying to do that is about…

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Maria’s blog: 4/16/2010

I’ve not put a lot in to blogging from Maria Mesh’s perspective for a while. I think now is the time to start doing that. I type a lot on Entropiaforum, so sometimes get lost over there instead of typing over here…

Today, Maria sold her apartment, Omegaton West Habitat – Delta Tower, Apartment 1D to a society mate. Eventually, she may get the chance to buy it back at the same price, but only time will tell. The apartment was sold to free up some PED. Maria also sold a lot of empty books she had in resettlement storage when she was running the “lost library”… an idea that sort of fizzled because a lot of people did not seem interested in buying blueprints, even if they were TT priced. What bps she has left she’ll either sell in the shop or sell to friends at a good price.

Most of the rest of the empty books have the Technician bps in them, so I need to manually unload each and then sell them and the books themselves to the trade terminal. The Lost Library has served it’s purpose, it allowed me to “save” my peds that were tied up in all of these books up until now… I spent the money on them all so that I could basically waste my time moving stuff around in books and organizing them in a nice and neat way instead of wasting time in game doing other junk that would be throwing the money away, such as hunting, buying overpriced stuff I don’t need, but wanted, etc. It was a bit of a way of making the peds last instead of blowing them all at once. Now I have a clearer vision of what to do. I’m going to keep buying stuff at TT prices off of the auctions and selling in the shop. That way I can keep playing the game safely and not loosing a ton of money in high risk investments… so the need to have that many books to mess around with is not there as much any more. Each of the resettlement containers has around 100 books in them, each priced at 1 ped, and a good bunch of them had 2-4 blueprints in them at 1 pec each, bought from the technician… so each resettlement container had about 10 US dollars worth of peds in them… not a lot of money, but enough to make my need for peds now want me to sell them so that’s what I’m doing. It was also, in part a bit of a test on the servers to see how many items an avatar could hold. I discovered that an avatar can hold an almost unlimited amount of items if they are stacked in books, boxes, and other containers… you are not limited to the 200 item slots in inventory and 500 in storage for each planet as some may believe…

Since the apt. sold, Maria is left with two estate deeds – The Shop at Omegaton West Habitat, Delta Tower, Block A, Shop 1, and one of the booths behind it, Omegaton West Habitat, Delta Tower, Booth #3. She also bought a shopkeeper and manniquin a few days ago, which is part of the reason she’s in need of peds… and sold the apt. Shopkeeper cost her 3k, that is 300.00 US Dollars… and Manniquen was only 30.00 US Dollars. I thought you could sell items the manniquen wore as he wore them, but apparently I was wrong on that, so it may be a bad buy. I sent a support ticket in about it since I could have sworn I saw a manniquen do that a few years ago in one of the malls.

Out of the 100 books that were in one of the resettlement containers, only 25 are left that have blueprints… I’ll unload the other resettlement container later that has the component II books and other books later. Luckily, the technician and Trade Terminal don’t let you sell books to them that have blueprints in them, which makes it a lot easier to sell the empty books than it would be otherwise… I just throw them all in the sell tab and if they have blueprints in them they bounce back in to inventory.

A lot of crafters tend to throw away low level blueprints, that is sell them to the trade terminal, or hand them out to anyone on the streets. The idea behind the Lost Library was to gather up those throw aways and re-distribute them to other folks in exchange for other blueprints, etc. That worked up to a point, but it got to be very difficult to organize, so I eventually sort of gave up on the idea, and just started selling on consignment in my shop. With that I paid Trade Terminal prices to crafters, tried to sell the stuff, and then if we got profits I gave them profits back. There was a lot of work involved in keeping the google documents. I still have several things on consignment with several people, but will slowly either sell them back to them at TT value or outright buy them so I’m not left holding a lot of people’s stuff, where I could eventually get accused of being a scammer.

In Entropia Universe, your reputation is EVERYTHING… if you ever get accused of scamming, you might as well forget about playing the game for a year or two… it’s not really that bad, and I’ve never been accused of scamming because I never have scammed… but some people aren’t so smart… you are not as anonymous as you may think you are in a virtual world… I could write a lot of topics on that eventually.

Well, my hands are a little sore from typing this and moving all those blueprints from the resettlement boxes to inventory, and then to the sell tab of the technician, so I’ll write more at a later time. Have a nice day.