Hmm. Need to think about this. I'll check out the sites.

Diana

"Al Pickrel" wrote in message
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Does anybody out there in rgo land play or use any of the persistent
worlds games that are out there, like Second Life or Kaneva or even the
Entropia Universe? I was thinking it might be fun to get a group of
people together to build an online orchid society in one of these 3d
worlds. We could meet weekly or monthly to discuss orchids. It is
possible to set up slide shows inside some of these games to show off
orchid pictures.

Second Life has a monthly fee, but Kaneva and Entropia are free to
download and use. As long as you don't want to 'buy' anything like cloths
or apartments it is free. You can make an avatar and meet up with people
there to chat etc and not spend any money...

There are probably other free worlds to use, but I like Project Entropia
and to a lesser extend Kaneva for the purpose of making a 3D orchid
society... As long as you don't buy stuff in these worlds, they are free
to use.

I can often be found running around on the planet Calypso (Project
Entropia) looking for orchids and being killed by vicious monsters.
Sometimes I stay in the cities where it is safe and chat with people from
all over the world.

I have set up an avatar in Kaneva to test it out, but I don't like the
avatar controls as much as I do in Project Entropia. Project Entropia is
more game oriented. Kaneva is like a giant 3D facebook for social
networking.

Anyway, I thought it might be fun to group together and talk orchids "in
person" online one a week or so. If anybody else wants to join me in
either of the above worlds or uses another software, let me know and I
will arrange to meet you there.

Project Entropia:
http://www.entropiauniverse.com

Kaneva:
http://www.kaneva.com/

My avatar name in both worlds is Sam Buster Star.

;-)