Astralia's Shopping City lost its last interesting shops; CW: long (2,761 characters)
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Shopping City in Astralia has lost almost all its appeal now.
Cloe Kegel has ripped out the last remaining shops that offered legal mesh clothes and replaced them with more outlets for stolen SL clothes for stolen SL bodies. For some of the items in these shops, Shopping City was the very last place all over the Hypergrid where you could get them. Now they're gone. No longer available anywhere.
Some two dozen tank top and miniskirt sets textured by Illiana Blachere and based on Damien Fate meshes, gone. Another Damien Fate-based set by Avia Bonne with an exclusive handbag which, I think, Avia has made herself, gone. And so forth. At least Oddball Otoole's Damien Fate texturings are still available at Riverford in Craft-World.
But Shopping City has lost the best reason to go there.
Maybe, just maybe I can get into contact with Cloe or the former owner of La Tortuga and ask them if they've still got the sales boxes, and if I can have them to keep the content alive. It'll certainly be more difficult and require more luck than my successful rescue of the Deva Moda clothes and make-up, and I'll have permissions to fix.
If that fails, I guess @
Juno Rowland and I will have some god-moding, permission-fixing and repackaging to do. Unfortunately, there are some items of which I don't know who made the textures because Cloe probably accidentally overwrote all credentials at some point in the past.
It's such a pity that so many who offer custom-textured Clutterfly or Damien Fate clothes or even obscure old layer clothes are or were sloppy, careless shopkeeps who never check what they slap against their shop walls, much less repair what's broken. Otherwise I'd be in possession of many many more sales boxes.
Sometimes, the only way to save content that's becoming increasingly rare is actually by copybotting it out-right because the items or sales boxes have botched rights, they can't be picked up in any "legal" way, and the shop owner can't be bothered to fix them. I'm almost tempted to take a copybot viewer to Sinus and save the Damien Fate stuff from Eva Kraai's shop because Eva flat-out refuses to fix her old content as she told me herself.
This wouldn't be so bad if the Ruth2 and Roth2 families didn't have to rely on Clutterfly and especially Damien Fate for legal mesh clothes. Chances are that the Max family will eventually get brand-new mesh clothes rigged just for these bodies, but Ruth2 and Roth2 with their unusable dev kits will probably rely on that slowly vanishing old stuff for good, even though Damien Fate makes Ruth2 v4 look pudgy and Roth2 v2 look thin as a twig.
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