Can't Create Group In-World

[Edward Ashford]

Greetings, I logged into Kitely today after a long time of being offline, and tried to create a group. Though I found that I couldn't. A message came up saying, "Unable to create group. You have insufficient funds to create a group." Which doesn't make sense, because it apparently doesn't cost anything to create a group.

Thank you, Shalom.

2025-08-25 Create Group-Firestorm-Releasex64 6.6.17.70368 - Edward Ashford.png (65.28 KiB) Viewed 18326 times

[Ilan Tochner]

Hi Edward,

Creating a group in Kitely costs 100 KC. It has been this way since June 2012. The reason we charge for it is because people tried to cybersquat popular group names when it was free. By adding a cost it minimizes the incentive for people to grab names just in order to try to sell them for a profit later. Please read the section about changes to groups policy here: https://www.kitely.com/virtual-world-ne ... messaging/

[Edward Ashford]

Greetings @Ilan Tochner, thank you for letting me know... I had no idea that was the case. Then what I'm now wondering is why does the button still show "Create group for KC 0" ? There must be something in the Opensimulator files on the Kitely server(S) that makes that show one number or another.

Thank you, Shalom.

[Ilan Tochner]

What viewer version are you using? It should have displayed the correct cost, and it did in the past. OpenSim is configured to charge 100 KC for the operation or it wouldn't have blocked you from creating the group when you didn't have enough KC to complete the operation.

[Edward Ashford]

The one I've been using for OpenSim is 6.6.17 although I do have the latest version, but I don't use it often, since it takes so much more processing power to run it, and I have a slightly older CPU. I'll try to login with the new version soon, and let you know what it shows.

As you can see from my screenshot, it was showing Zero, not one Hundred.

Thank you, Shalom.