What could the next new continent theme be modeled after?

[Monday Avril]

I abandoned my nice placed meadowbrook to get one of this new plywood homes. But rather then to use one of them i prefer something in a differently design. Im tired to see all the time this old-england style just everywhere

To be fair, the new housings are very well set but too small and the surroundings are neat and provide a feel--at-home experience. Except one hole i found lasted from terraforming. But they dont listen to me. If there is not a plan behind? The old homes miss a garden what makes the new more usable. A refined meadowbrook on the new parcels and i agree.

For new surroundings to attract people i suggest to look for new house designs from the Philippines, Thailand, the UAE with plenty of themed surroundings (Palm Jumeirah, International City, Harris Island), Antalya in Turkey, Sochi in Russia, Panama -Balboa or -Arrajan, For colonial latin old style check Medellin or Bacuramanga, Cuba, Genova in Italy, Cinqueterre, e il Veneto. RSM San Marino,  or Bellagio (CO) or Lecco (LC) would be another model when you prefer homes dotted along a hill. And remember, for italian and latin homes to make the walls at least 3 feet or 1 meter wide. This is common on old houses in Italy. And 4m high ceilings to absorb the heat. The tuscany, that is for tourists like Rome. Search with yandex gave me the best results

 

Bellagio Italia

Edited July 11, 2019 by Monday Avril

[Julianne Hellershanks]

Oh a cyberpunk town would be soooo awesome!

[Fionalein]

On 6/29/2019 at 10:51 AM, Chronometria said:

Patch said that the  next theme was particularly appropriate for  railway. I think steampunk or english cottages. 

But will they have the time for a railway? .... And come on - as if the current theme wasn't ... 50s USA - that was the heyday of the railroad hobos. But do you see a station?

Edited July 11, 2019 by Fionalein

[Clara Hollyberry]

On 6/28/2019 at 2:10 PM, PrudenceAnton said:

 

 

These are so beautiful!

[CynicismSells]

On 6/29/2019 at 3:22 AM, Bitsy Buccaneer said:

San Francisco is just so obvious it needs to be done even if it werent' home to LL, all that great history, character and architecture. It would be brilliant

Complete with poop map? 😷

[Litta Nightfire]

 

 

For an Italian/Tuscan feel, look at The Grove estate.  

I like the adult N'Orleans idea, tho I wouldn't choose to reside there.  I tend to hang in Moderate spaces.

1 hour ago, Monday Avril said:

For new surroundings to attract people i suggest to look for new house designs from the Philippines, Thailand, the UAE with plenty of themed surroundings 

I love this idea, partly because I have no clear vision of what you're suggesting, not having visited.  So bring it on!

I also love the desert idea.  My favorite time in SL was spent in the large desert section of the old Azure Estates.  But it's best if you're living in the midst of wide open spaces, and that may not be feasible on a LH continent.

[animats]

There are a few constraints in SL.

The parcel system encourages horizontal separation. Stacked apartments exist in SL but are not very popular. If you get too many avis too close together, the system starts to choke. Prim allowances become low. Voice and chat have too much range. Bellisseria has about the right density. The Tuscan sims above are about at that density. Bellagio is much denser, too dense for SL. Dense cities exist in SL, but the buildings are mostly shells. (There's an impressive modern Japanese city in SL, but the tall buildings have little inside above the first floor.)

One of the reasons Bellisseria is a success is that there's buffer space between all parcels. That was a great idea, and well-executed.

Another win in Bellisseria is a usable road system. That provides a sense of real world space, even if you don't drive much. Visit the old Linden Homes continents, which don't have a useful road system, and you will feel lost quickly.

French farm village. A tourist destination. That would work in SL. With about half as many buildings.

[Gingir Ghoststar]

On 6/28/2019 at 1:10 PM, PrudenceAnton said:

The beautiful new Bellisseria continent has that unique Americana theme of New England throughout and has been well done in its design.  Second Life premium members are gobbling up new releases like they are the last skittles in the bowl and ready for more!

But what is down the road? I think I remember the discussion of other continents in the future coming into play for premium members.  So what could be next in theme?  I made a brief mention of such an idea in a post and thought I'd drop it in here. I don't know if this has been a topic before and when I do searches, it never triggers the topics I'm looking for, so here it is.

We have more of a New England look on the Bellisseria continent being developed. Imagine if the next new continent was done in a style of the older traditional homes through Italy and France? Villas dotted along slopped hillsides by a coastline. Tranquil little valleys of vineyard like villas and shops?  Doubt that is in the plans, but the possibilities of uniquely themed continents being built for premium members is rather exciting if Linden Lab keeps to these new themed ideals.

The Lindens keep watch and listen to the favored comments that SL residents put out there. So what are your thoughts for the next unique theme for a continent, that premium members would crave to have a dwelling on?

 

Those are so fantastically lovely. It would be really neat to see an island done up like that or an archipelago done up like that. 

[Hunny Bunny]

With the way things are going currently, I think this could be appropriate.

[SweetTaffeyLove]

A suggestion  to make it simple, fast, and easy for LL and Premium Members is to expand on the option of requesting abandon mainland, to include water areas, at No Cost, No Auction, all you need is a Premium Account and 1024 meters or less,  and it's yours."  All the Moles have to do is section off abandon land into 1024 sizes.  (What do you think?)

Another simple, fast and easy approach is to make another continent with water and land mix, section off into 1024 meters, add connecting streets, fairies, etc., but put whatever you want on it,  just follow building rules regarding height, lights, eye sores, etc."  (What do you think?) 

Or,  just add different SL Houses in a controller from the list of ideas below to choose from, not just one theme. (What do you think?)

Or, continue with the snail paced, competitive, high demand, low supply, approach of creating theme continents.

Current themed ideas mentioned above and counting....

1. Italy and France
2. historic Japanese, Moroccan, adobe, 
3. medieval-fantasy 
4. steampunk or english cottages 
5. Midcentury Modern 
6. urban city 
7. bali beach, jungle houses 
8. Spanish or Mexican abode
9. Adult rated,  New Orleans 
10. San Francisco 
11. more...

Ten plus, continents would need to be developed, guess how long it would take before you could live there?

In addition, if going with themed continents, how about a trading list?  to give people an option to trade their SL home land spot with each other, from continent to continent, or mainland. 

Edited July 14, 2019 by SweetTaffeyLove

[Polenth Yue]

2 hours ago, SweetTaffeyLove said:

A suggestion  to make it simple, fast, and easy for LL and Premium Members is to expand on the option of requesting abandon mainland, to include water areas, at No Cost, No Auction, all you need is a Premium Account and 1024 meters or less,  and it's yours."  All the Moles have to do is section off abandon land into 1024 sizes.  (What do you think?)

Another simple, fast and easy approach is to make another continent with water and land mix, section off into 1024 meters, add connecting streets, fairies, etc., but put whatever you want on it,  just follow building rules regarding height, lights, eye sores, etc."  (What do you think?) 

Or,  just add different SL Houses in a controller from the list of ideas below to choose from, not just one theme. (What do you think?)

Or, continue with the snail paced, competitive, high demand, low supply, approach of creating theme continents.

I can't see many people going for ideas that result in low quality builds rushed out quickly. The whole reason people are waiting for the new homes over the old ones or mainland is to get a house as nice as the current new houses. I live on the mainland, so it's not that I don't appreciate open building areas... but if someone wanted that instead of a new house, the mainland is already waiting for them.

I'm sure people realise they won't make every theme suggested and some themes might be years in the future. But if a theme is chosen, most people will want it to be done with the same care as the current themes.

[LittleMe Jewell]

2 hours ago, SweetTaffeyLove said:

A suggestion  to make it simple, fast, and easy for LL and Premium Members is to expand on the option of requesting abandon mainland, to include water areas, at No Cost, No Auction, all you need is a Premium Account and 1024 meters or less,  and it's yours."  All the Moles have to do is section off abandon land into 1024 sizes.  (What do you think?)

Since typical Mainland can be sold, there is no way LL is going to just give it away to Premium members instead of a Linden Home.

 

 

2 hours ago, SweetTaffeyLove said:

Another simple, fast and easy approach is to make another continent with water and land mix, section off into 1024 meters, add connecting streets, fairies, etc., but put whatever you want on it,  just follow building rules regarding height, lights, eye sores, etc."  (What do you think?) 

Or,  just add different SL Houses in a controller from the list of ideas below to choose from, not just one theme. (What do you think?)

Or, continue with the snail paced, competitive, high demand, low supply, approach of creating theme continents.

The reason the new Linden Home area is in such high demand is because LL is going slow and not just creating cookie-cutter parcels with homes on them.  While they might, at some point, decide to make a copy of the entire Bellisseria continent after it is fully complete, I'm pretty sure they are not going to change the current process of carefully crafting unique regions for the homes with the current continent.

 

 

2 hours ago, SweetTaffeyLove said:

In addition, if going with themed continents, how about a trading list?  to give people an option to trade their SL home land spot with each other, from continent to continent, or mainland

Too easy for people to game the system - trying to "sell" the trade to the highest under-the-table bidder.  Thus, that will not every happen.

Edited July 15, 2019 by LittleMe Jewell

[Evangeline Arcadia]

5 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

The reason the new Linden Home area is in such high demand is because LL is going slow and not just creating cookie-cutter parcels with homes on them.  While they might, at some point, decide to make a copy of the entire Bellisseria continent after it is fully complete, I'm pretty sure they are not going to change the current process of carefully crafting unique regions for the homes with the current continent.

 

I kinda think that it would not be a bad idea to release a copy of the continent once it's completed and all regions have been released. It would certainly go a long way to provide new homes for those waiting. Even though it would be a copy, and LL are trying to make everything more unique, I don't think people would mind.

It would provide more homes quickly and so keep residents happy, perhaps giving LL a little breathing space. I don't know how feasible copying the region would be. Maybe they can't do it. If they can I would really hope they do. I mean it might not need to be even the whole continent, maybe half would do.

It's possible that the traditional homes and houseboats may be the most popular themes rather than any fantasy or cultural styles they introduce (like Elderglen and the Japanese style which I can't remember the name of), so they'll still be in demand going forward. In which case the copy would help meet the demand.

Or LL may just introduce some other totally awesome theme that blows the rest out of the water and becomes the favourite:)

[Morena Tully]

1 hour ago, Evangeline Arcadia said:

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It's possible that the traditional homes and houseboats may be the most popular themes rather than any fantasy or cultural styles they introduce (like Elderglen and the Japanese style which I can't remember the name of), so they'll still be in demand going forward. In which case the copy would help meet the demand.

Or LL may just introduce some other totally awesome theme that blows the rest out of the water and becomes the favourite:)

If they do the elderglen and japanese replacements.. particularly the japanese, in the way they've done traditional and houseboats, I think they'll be stunning, and the new "must haves".. Think of how beautiful japanese gardens are. It could really be stunning, and the homes, the insides would likely be roomier. I'm really hoping the japanese theme will be next on the list, either that, or the lovely european village or villas. I'm really impatient to see what is on the horizon!

[Monday Avril]

On 7/11/2019 at 4:33 PM, Litta Nightfire said:

For an Italian/Tuscan feel, look at The Grove estate.  

I like the adult N'Orleans idea, tho I wouldn't choose to reside there.  I tend to hang in Moderate spaces.

I love this idea, partly because I have no clear vision of what you're suggesting, not having visited.  So bring it on!

I also love the desert idea.  My favorite time in SL was spent in the large desert section of the old Azure Estates.  But it's best if you're living in the midst of wide open spaces, and that may not be feasible on a LH continent.

Here, the upper are desert style and this below Andalusia style. For 1024 lots are this too big but here they are

 

 

Edited July 15, 2019 by Monday Avril

[animats]

On 7/15/2019 at 9:15 AM, Monday Avril said:

Here, the upper are desert style and this below Andalusia style. For 1024 lots are this too big but here they are

And you could make most of those out of prims!

[animats]

Here's another possible look.

Portmeirion

This cute little place was the setting for The Prisoner, a 1960s TV show. It was built in the 1920s in roughly the style of an Italian village, but in Wales. It's a summer resort, with whimsical architecture. Useful for building ideas. About the right density for SL. See it in Google Street View for more detail.

Be seeing you!

[Monday Avril]

19 hours ago, animats said:

And you could make most of those out of prims!

Remember the shown are real life and already built houses. Not models.

[Lydia Amethyst]

On 7/3/2019 at 2:45 PM, Sylvia Tamalyn said:

I love this idea! I was thinking the other day about a French Quarter theme, and making it Adult would be perfect. I'd give up my beach Traditional in a heartbeat for a place like that. 

Can I have your beach traditional, pleaseee? That's what I've been trying for this entire time... lol

[Sylvia Tamalyn]

35 minutes ago, AlyceAdrift said:

Can I have your beach traditional, pleaseee? That's what I've been trying for this entire time... lol

LOL, well to be fair, not all beach parcels are alike. The ones in my area have little wooden fences between the yards and the water, so might not be exactly what you are envisioning. I've seen some in other areas though that are totally open all the way from house to water!

[Lydia Amethyst]

52 minutes ago, Sylvia Tamalyn said:

LOL, well to be fair, not all beach parcels are alike. The ones in my area have little wooden fences between the yards and the water, so might not be exactly what you are envisioning. I've seen some in other areas though that are totally open all the way from house to water!

Honestly I will take anything on the beach right now, the middle of sims makes me feel so claustrophobic!!

[Hunny Bunny]

Replace the SL moon with a planet and you get ...

[Nika Talaj]

On 7/20/2019 at 2:31 PM, animats said:

Portmeirion

This cute little place was the setting for The Prisoner, a 1960s TV show. It was built in the 1920s in roughly the style of an Italian village, but in Wales. It's a summer resort, with whimsical architecture. Useful for building ideas. About the right density for SL. See it in Google Street View for more detail.

Be seeing you!

And so easy in SL to do those big white bouncing balls coming from the water to getcha!

[PrudenceAnton]

With so many discussing what the next LL continent might be like, the type so home themes we could hope to see, I figured I'd refresh this post I did back in June.  Yes, my favorite theme would be to live in a rolling countryside with villas dotted about the land, rivers and bays that homes sit on the banks overlooking.  So, here's my original post, from a New England style of of landscaping, retro Americana, to a Mediterranean style of landscaping, retro European.

[Pussycat Catnap]

On 7/14/2019 at 2:33 PM, SweetTaffeyLove said:

A suggestion  to make it simple, fast, and easy...

Current themed ideas mentioned above and counting....

1. San Francisco 

A whole continent full of unleashed dogs, so much fecal matter in the air from BOTH dogs and humans that you are breathing it in when you go there, trash everywhere, huge homeless camps full of people from other states that were dropped off in greyhound buses after being put on them by authorities back home with one-way tickets living alongside normal folks who still have jobs but can't pay the rent... and then multi-million dollar 2-bedroom high-rise apartments above porn shops that neighbor schools... and some of the richest people in the world Ubering around the area without touching the sidewalk, and armies of mono-ethnic, mono-gender techies staring and screens as they cross streets to go into 'coffee shops that serve under-roasted crap passed of as a $20-latte' and try and sell you their app or buy yours (even if you don't have one)...

I moved out of that in RL... for a reason...

😨

San Francisco actually now looks like an Anglo version of some places in Latin America and South Africa: Income inequality so extreme it shocks you to believe the people around you tolerate it, extreme fragmentation, complete lack of public infrastructure, glitzy wealth on a scale that even millionaires can't afford with starving children literally dying on a sidewalk outside...

- It is basically the poster-disaster case of the Cyberpunk genre... the kind of city folks from places like Lagos and Sao Palo have long known... miraculously the crime has yet to follow... but the camps can only be right next to palaces for so long before that starts happening too.

 

  

On 7/13/2019 at 11:50 AM, MichaMoz said:

With the way things are going currently, I think this could be appropriate.

That's actually what San Francisco looked like when I was a kid... then there was this couple decade period after the Clean Air Act started working and they cleared out the junk cars, gangs, and coastal double decker freeways and BEFORE the techies moved in... and now it looks like the prequel to Bladerunner could be shot there...

Edited December 17, 2019 by Pussycat Catnap