Sid Nagy Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Fay Starlight said: I feel they should have allowed tickets on these and I would have one next to friends and kept my homestead. Now I am going to downgrade to reg premium and lose the homestead. It's been a disappointment, and I just can't pay anymore into this. I paid for a year of Premium Plus and cannot use benefits I paid for. If they get much more tickets than they can deliver spots, that was very little use I guess. As soon as they have a reasonable amount of new homes of this type they will open tickets, because then it makes sense. Edited December 20, 2023 by Sid Nagy 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Jaxxon Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 10 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said: They will allow tickets, just not right now. My guess is they'll allow tickets in January. Per Patch....Jan 8th 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nika Talaj Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) If anyone is feeling that they can't find the spot they want, or that Mediterranean is just TOO fancy, Acacia Woods seems to have a popular camping spot under the bridge. ETA: added a red arrow pointing to the innertube rezzer that actually IS in the far puddle. 😎 Edited December 20, 2023 by Nika Talaj 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Emerald Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 1 minute ago, Nika Talaj said: If anyone is feeling that they can't find the spot they want, or that Mediterranean is just TOO fancy, Acacia Woods seems to have a popular camping spot under the bridge. I feel there should be an innertube rezzer there instead of a tire. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Nika Talaj said: If anyone is feeling that they can't find the spot they want, or that Mediterranean is just TOO fancy, Acacia Woods seems to have a popular camping spot under the bridge. Bonus: You could take the inner-tube out of that tire to use for a float! (Assuming it's not a radial tire.) ETA: @Persephone Emerald beat me! Edited December 20, 2023 by Love Zhaoying 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nika Talaj Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 2 hours ago, Fay Starlight said: I feel they should have allowed tickets on these .... I feel sure that new regions will be built after January 8th, when tickets can be used. Note that there are no empty Mediterranean regions they could use for a community center (betcha that will be amazing!), and there are a couple rivers that need to be completed. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leora Greenwood Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) Honestly, I have chosen my Linden Homes several times by ticket and found, to my surprise, that I was no more satisfied with them and no more likely to stay in them long-term than if I had rolled them randomly. So now I just enjoy the Game of Homes and, as today, landed a really, really nice location on the third day of trying. I am happy! 😄 I totally forgot why I came to this thread! My new Mediterranean is located in Alzaefaran. What does that mean? All I found by Googling was reference to a perfume company but there must be a deeper meaning. Anyone? Edited December 20, 2023 by Leora Greenwood just a doofus 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyric Demina Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Leora Greenwood said: All I found by Googling was reference to a perfume company but there must be a deeper meaning. Anyone? I think it means Saffron in Arabic, but my Arabic is rusty. In Spanish, Saffron would be Azafrán. There is a similarity. Edited December 20, 2023 by First Noelle nerdy language adds that nobody asked for 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylvia Tamalyn Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 45 minutes ago, Leora Greenwood said: Honestly, I have chosen my Linden Homes several times by ticket and found, to my surprise, that I was no more satisfied with them and no more likely to stay in them long-term than if I had rolled them randomly. Same! And as a side note, I don't think they allowed tickets when the ranch homes were very first released, so this isn't anything new. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polenth Yue Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 It makes sense to have a ticket pause when it's a premium plus theme. A lot of people will find a house they want in the initial period, so there won't be such a rush of tickets when they open. In this case, it's also a holiday, so people will be covering when other people have breaks. Waiting until everyone's back at work in the new year is sensible. It's baffling to me that someone wouldn't wait a couple of weeks for something they really want. After waiting all this time for the theme to be finished and released, a few more weeks isn't much. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leora Greenwood Posted December 21, 2023 Author Share Posted December 21, 2023 Tiggie and me enjoying the setting at our new home in Alzaefaran and playing with EEPs: 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nando Yip Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 13 hours ago, Leora Greenwood said: I loved your backyard close to the water, perhaps the only thing that makes me go to PP is a theme that I can put on a parked boat with access to the wonderful sea of Bellisseria, and the house needs to be modern, Mediterraneo is beautiful, spacious, but I will not be a resident of these houses. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa Firelight Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 This release has been very frustrating for me... I have upped 4 alts to try and roll a place I like.. I keep getting what I think are other people's tossers... usually one or two houses away from one I would like. Almost all of my friends have rolled places I like, so I know they are available.. but I am just unlucky in my rolls. [On the positive side, I guess this release will save me money cuz if I dont find one I like, I wont need to up that alt to annual premium.] (Yes I know that on Jan 8 we can start submitting tickets, but I am not hopeful that anything I like will still be available by then.) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyric Demina Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 17 hours ago, Polenth Yue said: baffling to me that someone wouldn't wait a couple of weeks for something they really want To address the befuddlement, I'd like to offer my own experience in the selection process for the new theme: on my first roll on the first day, I got a gorgeous house in a gorgeous location (they're all gorgeous of course); but it wasn't the one that I wanted. The specific one that I wanted is now occupied by someone else who got to it before I could luck out in the selection process. Now my wait-until-Jan-8 will be more like a wait-until-2025-maybe (or sooner, who knows -- but nobody knows). So it's not about "waiting a couple of weeks for something they really want." Possibly it's waiting a really, really long time, longer than others who got what they really want immediately. It is of course understandable why we have to wait (Lindens and Moles, big love to you all); but it shouldn't be baffling as to why people are upset about having to wait and then making financial adjustments accordingly. I say this not as someone disgruntled; fortunately I'm really happy with what I have. But, just to help explain the big feelings some people are having right now and to say it's not out of the realm of logic that these feelings might erupt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 It appears there is some assumption that there won't be more of the new theme homes built and released after January 8. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Nagy Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 17 hours ago, Polenth Yue said: It makes sense to have a ticket pause when it's a premium plus theme. A lot of people will find a house they want in the initial period, so there won't be such a rush of tickets when they open. In this case, it's also a holiday, so people will be covering when other people have breaks. Waiting until everyone's back at work in the new year is sensible. It's baffling to me that someone wouldn't wait a couple of weeks for something they really want. After waiting all this time for the theme to be finished and released, a few more weeks isn't much. Don't underestimate the bragging right. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 17 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said: Don't underestimate the bragging right. It's the artificial scarcity, "OMG they are running out of homes, I need one NAO!!!" Meanwhile, the Moles are right over there *pointing* working under a tarp to build more homes. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nika Talaj Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 (edited) Well, there's still 703 (TYPO!!! ~300) unclaimed Mediterranean homes, so there's no scarcity! But there's a scarcity of homes with nice water views, for sure, if that's what people are searching for. Weirdly, I just gave up a parcel with OK water views for one with no water but really nice landscaping around it, and few walls, so it feels like its out in the country. It's across the street from homes with really GREAT water, grrr, but c'est la vie. If I keep it, I'll try to build a largish pond out back. I love hopping. Sometimes it reveals something you like more than what you were searching for. (thank you, people, for catching the error) Edited December 21, 2023 by Nika Talaj 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKB7 Koskinen Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 3 minutes ago, Nika Talaj said: Well, there's still 703 unclaimed Mediterranean homes How do you know that figure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leora Greenwood Posted December 21, 2023 Author Share Posted December 21, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said: How do you know that figure? It shows on the second screen, right after you choose the theme. Yesterday when I was hopping, there were something in the range of 300-400 available. I call that Good Hopping Weather! See the available number in the upper left below. Edited December 21, 2023 by Leora Greenwood Added image 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnilWay SpiritWeaver Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 3 hours ago, Teresa Firelight said: This release has been very frustrating for me... I have upped 4 alts to try and roll a place I like.. I keep getting what I think are other people's tossers... usually one or two houses away from one I would like. Almost all of my friends have rolled places I like, so I know they are available.. but I am just unlucky in my rolls. I've ported around and found some rather choice spots that have the 2004 claim date 'never claimed' parcels always have. If this was a theme I wanted I'd be all over trying to get those. For me that means plots so close to the water that if the fence wasn't there I could have a boat slide into the river. One of the two lots that is on the bottom of the theme where it connects to the next theme is one of these and sits unclaimed. If I were to ever go for this theme, I'd be waiting for the coast to finish, and then use a ticket on some lot added near there. I suspect that the best homes for Ranch and Mediterranean will both be added around then - long after tickets are allowed but frustratingly also long after now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnilWay SpiritWeaver Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said: How do you know that figure? 297 available when I took this shot while making this post. https://secondlife.com/land/lindenhomes/detail/Mediterranean_2048?lindenHomesPage=1 Edited December 21, 2023 by UnilWay SpiritWeaver 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 18 minutes ago, Leora Greenwood said: It shows on the second screen, right after you choose the theme. Yesterday when I was hopping, there were something in the range of 300-400 available. I call that Good Hopping Weather! See the available number in the upper left below. Looks like it says "297 available", while "703" is the LI for each parcel.. @Nika Talajquoted "703 available". 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leora Greenwood Posted December 21, 2023 Author Share Posted December 21, 2023 10 minutes ago, UnilWay SpiritWeaver said: I've ported around and found some rather choice spots that have the 2004 claim date 'never claimed' parcels always have. TIL something new as I did not know that! Thank you! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKB7 Koskinen Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 (edited) So from 50 regions, with 12 homes in each region, that was 600 Mediterranean homes available on launchday (Monday 18th December 2023). And now there's 297 remaining. That's over half gone then, in just 4 days since launch. Edited December 21, 2023 by SarahKB7 Koskinen 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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