Blake sea and sex.

[Love Zhaoying]

5 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

The OP is trying to AVOID sex on boats not find it. 😁

Then, I doubly suggest avoiding alcohol and boats. The captain plies you with liquor, calls you his cabin boy, and next thing you know, "it's your turn in the barrel".

..or so I've heard.

[Aethelwine]

1 hour ago, Rowan Amore said:

The OP is trying to AVOID sex on boats not find it. 😁

They may well find less of it on Zindra. People seem to like breaking rules... or perhaps more to the point people just don't know about Zindra or where to rezz there.

3 hours ago, animats said:

Come to Zindra. Zindra has a sizable ocean, and it's little used. There are some unmarked water rez zones:

• Mosh South/53/219 in the Port of Kama City. Linden-owned.
• Ursula Bay/109/167, a ruined dock, Linden owned.
• Pimuenti/22/176, a dock owned by Bay City Lands and open to the public. A few boats are docked there.
• Villareal/202/140, a marked private rez zone.

If any moles read this, it would help to mark the Linden rez zones in Zindra, both land and water. Few users know where they are.

LCC used to have a location in Zindra, but that seems to be gone.

 There are LCC marked locations in Foley and Destonia. Osborne Walk also has a Rezz Zone marked.

Edited July 17, 2022 by Aethelwine

[belindacarson]

I can think of more important things in world than worrying about to people bouncing about on a boat.

 

I'd personally just pass on by.

[Henri Beauchamp]

15 hours ago, animats said:

If any moles read this, it would help to mark the Linden rez zones in Zindra, both land and water. Few users know where they are.

If any moles read this, I'd prefer that they would add rez zones in Zindra to match what we have in all other continents, that is at each sim border on Linden roads (zero such rez zone in Zindra), and of course add rez zones too on the coast line... Oh, and also fix the Linden roads parcel flags so that automated transportation systems (such as Yavanah's excellent pods) may roam them...

Also, you cannot sail around Zindra because of missing protected waters or water sims on the South West and North East coasts... This, too, should be addressed !

Zindra has been hastily and poorly thought out and built (what I call the adult segregation debacle): it would be about time that LL grants ”Adult” folks the same care as they show for ”Moderate” and ”General” folks !... Then, perhaps, they would be less ”disputable” activities in ”Moderate” seas and lands...

See also this post of mine

Edited July 18, 2022 by Henri Beauchamp

[Mollymews]

Blake Sea - Sirens Isle is the party place because the music stream is turned on

right now is about 30 people here, and nobody is having rudies. And the song playing is Turn My Head by Live

 

Edited July 18, 2022 by Mollymews

[Arielle Popstar]

14 hours ago, Aethelwine said:

They may well find less of it on Zindra. People seem to like breaking rules... or perhaps more to the point people just don't know about Zindra or where to rezz there.

 There are LCC marked locations in Foley and Destonia. Osborne Walk also has a Rezz Zone marked.

I think that would be more on point I think. Over the years I have heard about Zindra and have searched for it on occasion but never had any luck finding it until @animats specified specific regions on it. Looking at in on the inworld map, I don't think I have ever been there even by accident and have pretty much defaulted to disregarding any specific maturity levels elsewhere and just relied on my own wish for a degree of privacy when engaging in adult behaviour. It certainly wasn't for any wish to break the rules.

[Aethelwine]

3 hours ago, Henri Beauchamp said:

If any moles read this, I'd prefer that they would add rez zones in Zindra to match what we have in all other continents, that is at each sim border on Linden roads (zero such rez zone in Zindra), and of course add rez zones too on the coast line... Oh, and also fix the Linden roads parcel flags so that automated transportation systems (such as Yavanah's excellent pods) may roam them...

Also, you cannot sail around Zindra because of missing protected waters or water sims on the South West and North East coasts... This, too, should be addressed !

Zindra has been hastily and poorly thought out and built (what I call the adult segregation debacle): it would be about time that LL grants ”Adult” folks the same care as they show for ”Moderate” and ”General” folks !... Then, perhaps, they would be less ”disputable” activities in ”Moderate” seas and lands...

See also this post of mine

I agree with everything you said but in response to what you put forwards on your link about a protected route between Zindra and mainland, I really think the chances of that are about as close to zero as it is possible to be. There is no way they will put in the hundreds of open space regions required. I suppose they could move Zindra closer or they could create a sort of wormhole where two region borders geographically apart act like they are next to each other, but I think such fancies are just dreaming aloud rather than anything remotely likely to happen.

Zindra looks very much like the continent was abandoned part way through being created, and the road layout they went for along region boundaries flawed from the outset. There are some interesting places like the dams in Gilda and Pengallon Bridge, down in Lierminster the bridge and large roundabout, Zama City... but then it seems like they just gave up and left it all half done and broken.

Edited July 18, 2022 by Aethelwine

[Lindal Kidd]

2 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:

I have heard about Zindra and have searched for it on occasion but never had any luck finding it

It's located waaaay off away from everyone else on the world map. To find it, just use "Zindra" as a map search term. While continent names are not searchable, one of the regions there is named "Zindra Bay", so it'll work.

[Lindal Kidd]

1 hour ago, Aethelwine said:

...a protected route between Zindra and mainland, I really think the chances of that are about as close to zero as it is possible to be. There is no way they will put in the hundreds of open space regions required. I suppose they could move Zindra closer

Physical distance means nothing in SL, so I agree there is no rational purpose served by Zindra's isolation. Besides, many private Adult regions are much closer to the Mainland. I think LL should definitely move Zindra and the Horizons regions closer to the Mainland and connect them for access by boat or plane.

[Arielle Popstar]

4 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

It's located waaaay off away from everyone else on the world map. To find it, just use "Zindra" as a map search term. While continent names are not searchable, one of the regions there is named "Zindra Bay", so it'll work.

I'm sure I have searched that in past but failed. Tried it now and it found Zindra Ocean and then showed me the rest.

[Madelaine McMasters]

1 minute ago, Lindal Kidd said:

I think LL should definitely move Zindra and the Horizons regions closer to the Mainland and connect them for access by boat or plane.

I'd connect some ad infested section of mainland to Zindra with a long dark tunnel, lined with flickering red lights. That would set the mood for either direction. I'd live down there.

[Katherine Heartsong]

On 7/17/2022 at 9:36 AM, Rowan Amore said:

Also wanted to add, if you set your mode to Busy, you won't see local chat.  Your camera, on the other hand, is entirely controlled by what YOU choose to cam in on.  

Wait, what now? You mean I can block the spammy, incessant emoting in the Nearby channel at one or two of the EDM dance places I go to by just doing this?

*rushes off an tries*

[Love Zhaoying]

14 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I'd connect some ad infested section of mainland to Zindra with a long dark tunnel, lined with flickering red lights. That would set the mood for either direction. I'd live down there.

Is scary Dark Ride! Should sell tickets.

Edited July 18, 2022 by Love Zhaoying

[Madelaine McMasters]

6 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Is scary Dark Ride! Should sell tickets.

I'd charge a toll.

Free to get in, pay to get out.

[Love Zhaoying]

1 minute ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I'd charge a toll.

Free to get in, pay to get out.

Is there a toll bridge?

Will a troll be hiding under the toll bridge?

Pay-as-you-go, gotit!

[Love Zhaoying]

1 hour ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Physical distance means nothing in SL, so I agree there is no rational purpose served by Zindra's isolation.

No zombie outbreak, plague, leprosy, cooties, or otherwise barrier is needed?

Cool!

[Rowan Amore]

1 hour ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Physical distance means nothing in SL, so I agree there is no rational purpose served by Zindra's isolation. Besides, many private Adult regions are much closer to the Mainland. I think LL should definitely move Zindra and the Horizons regions closer to the Mainland and connect them for access by boat or plane.

I totally agree.  Aside from Horizons being adult, it's really just a regular SL neighborhood.  There are some adult businesses there, of course since retail is allowed unlike Belli regions.  There's also a Quest which I see many newer residents doing.  Since it does attract many new residents, it would make sense to have it closer to mainland same as Zindra.   Are we the considered the outcasts to LL?  Kind of seems that way at times.

[Da5id Weatherwax]

The whole point of moving every "adult business" to Zindra when they created the Adult region rating was to ensure that you could never walk, ride, sail, fly or otherwise navigate without teleporting to an Adult region from one of stricter maturity rating.

The connection of Zindra to the rest of the grid by any navigable channel will never happen.

However, I will make you a promise.

Should I ever win hundreds of millions on the lottery and SL is still around I'll buy enough regions to make a decently sailable archipelago, Adult rate it all, then petition LL with all the influence a continent-owner can muster to allow it to be connected to Zindra's oceans and stick 10 years worth of tier in escrow. "All the planetsislands are yours except Europathat funny looking one in the southeast region. Make no landing there."

[Rowan Amore]

1 hour ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:

The whole point of moving every "adult business" to Zindra when they created the Adult region rating was to ensure that you could never walk, ride, sail, fly or otherwise navigate without teleporting to an Adult region from one of stricter maturity rating.

The connection of Zindra to the rest of the grid by any navigable channel will never happen.

However, I will make you a promise.

Should I ever win hundreds of millions on the lottery and SL is still around I'll buy enough regions to make a decently sailable archipelago, Adult rate it all, then petition LL with all the influence a continent-owner can muster to allow it to be connected to Zindra's oceans and stick 10 years worth of tier in escrow. "All the planetsislands are yours except Europathat funny looking one in the southeast region. Make no landing there."

Seems to me they could make a buffer zone of sailable water rated A around Zindra and Horizons.  If one is NOT old enough to enter Mature, they aren't old enough to enter Adult either.  Sailing along, anyone who is only allowed in General regions would come up against a LOT of Mature regions so I don't see how moving it closer would really be that big of an issue, IMO.

[Ceka Cianci]

8 hours ago, Henri Beauchamp said:

If any moles read this, I'd prefer that they would add rez zones in Zindra to match what we have in all other continents, that is at each sim border on Linden roads (zero such rez zone in Zindra), and of course add rez zones too on the coast line... Oh, and also fix the Linden roads parcel flags so that automated transportation systems (such as Yavanah's excellent pods) may roam them...

Also, you cannot sail around Zindra because of missing protected waters or water sims on the South West and North East coasts... This, too, should be addressed !

Zindra has been hastily and poorly thought out and built (what I call the adult segregation debacle): it would be about time that LL grants ”Adult” folks the same care as they show for ”Moderate” and ”General” folks !... Then, perhaps, they would be less ”disputable” activities in ”Moderate” seas and lands...

See also this post of mine

Did they even finish the rail that was gonna be where we could jump on and ride from station to station ?

I remember them pumping us up on it and then the tracks just sat empty..

There was a hole thread about it on SLU..

This was my contribution to the thread..

I was looking so forward to riding the tram!! \o/

 

 

[animats]

4 hours ago, Aethelwine said:

Zindra looks very much like the continent was abandoned part way through being created, and the road layout they went for along region boundaries flawed from the outset. There are some interesting places like the dams in Gilda and Pengallon Bridge, down in Lierminster the bridge and large roundabout, Zama City... but then it seems like they just gave up and left it all half done and broken.

There's been a bit of mole attention to Zindra recently. The roads that dead-end at the edge of the world have been fitted with guard rails and trees. We got a new road to connect the northern and southern road systems. The signage mess at the Ungren safe hub has been cleaned up a bit. If we ask, we can sometimes get little stuff. Right now, I'd like more marked rez zones.

The Kama City road layout, with a badly built region crossing in the middle of every road, is what originally motivated me to build bikes that could survive that environment. When I first built a bike shop, I thought it should be in an adult region. That's not the case, but I never had a good reason to move.

Zindra is rather busy. Look at the world map, and you'll see more green dots per sim than Belli. I get a reasonable amount of walk-in traffic. Kama City seems to be picking up a bit. People are moving in. Someone just built a nice house with a park next to my parcels. Across the street, a new user is building a store. There's a new house at the end of the block, a classic California contemporary from the 1970s. Overall, build quality seems to be improving. Of course, there are three strip clubs within 250m, but they're not a problem. Two of them are good builds, too.

Zindra is important to SL. It's what keeps SL from having the problems with adult content that Roblox and Meta/Facebook/Horizon have. We have a place for adult content. There's some social pressure, as in this discussion, to get people who annoy others with sexual activity to move it to Zindra. This is far better than the approach the competition uses, an army of outsourced minimum wage moderators armed with ban hammers.

[Luna Bliss]

So where do I go to see all this illegal sex?  I want to document it.

[Lindal Kidd]

I'd tell you to go to any AFK sex palace in Zindra, Luna...but the many green dots that Animats reports are mostly out-of-work streetwalkers hanging about the aforesaid AFK sex palaces waiting for a client, any client.

Come to think of it, I can't recall ever seeing ANYONE using an AFK escort doll. Probably they're too ashamed.

[Luna Bliss]

3 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

out-of-work streetwalkers hanging about

omg, Lindal. I think we better start a support group for them. I hate to see this much suffering floating in our midst.

Such injustice.

[Silent Mistwalker]

4 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I'd connect some ad infested section of mainland to Zindra with a long dark tunnel, lined with flickering red lights. That would set the mood for either direction. I'd live down there.

I thought you already moved in. 

...sets self on fire and sees self out