Okay, I admit it. I’m armed. Well, sometimes. I think Zoe has better weapons than I do….

No, I’m not a griefer, but a couple of times I was harassed by griefers and given a pretty hard time. So, this girl got armed quite some time ago. Before we talk about weapons, I thought I’d mention shielding.

My favorite, and only, shield in Second Life is the Aubretec proTEC HUD Shield. The shield is about as good as they come, with quite a few options and features:

Inner Shield - a tight-fitting shield that deflects bullets and other attacks.

Outer Shield - a 10m radius shield that only activates when penetrated.

Interceptors - Rezzes plates between you and bullets to deflect objects that pose a threat to you.

Neutralizer - let your shield scan for oncoming objects, such as bullets, and shove them away from you.

Movelock - the standard anti-push measure for light to moderate push scripts.

Cloaking - render your avatar partially invisible, to make yourself a more difficult visual target.

Non-Phys - an invisible personal “vehicle” that uses smooth, non-physical movement - preventing you from being pushed by anything, ever. This also allows you to travel through solid objects and offers protection against non-physical bullets. While in the Non-Phys shield, you will look as though your av is flying (complete with hover up and hover down anims), so people never need know you’re using it.

OS (”Oh, Shit!”) Shield - in trouble? Click the OS button and you’ll be instantly lifted 300m, and a huge, solid, THICK prim shield will rez around you for the most solid prim protection SL can offer. Arm the shield, and it will automatically push anything that touches it - except you and your stuff, that is - hard.

It is a low lag device and I have never had any problems with it. You just wear it as a HUD and then it will make itself mostly invisible.

An interesting thing about it is when the Interceptors rez to intercept an incoming bullet, a semi-circle shield rezes in front of the bullet and will glow with a color you define.

While Vint was taking this picture of Vincent and myself someone was driving around and shooting people. I could see the shield rezzing in front of me (and Vincent).

-Veyron