Aethelwine

Dr Lonnie Smith plays on this too. Aligator Bogaloo - featuring Lou Donaldson with Melvin Lastie, Lonnie Smith, George Benson, and Leo Morris (later to be better known as Idris Muhammad).

Dr Lonnie Smith with Iggy Pop

I was renting a parcel for many years before it became apparent I did not have eject rights. Of course it was a griefer that made that apparent and it was subsequently corrected, but not all renters will be put in a role with security rights. I used to run a motorbiking region (10 years ago now), we got griefed a few times for allowing furries to visit, homophobia etc. I used an orb to allow group members to eject and ban from the region. I can't remember all the calculations involved in deciding to use that instead of handing out group officer roles with similar rights, but the orb worked well for that purpose. It allowed us to put temporary bans on newly made throw away accounts that were being used and it allowed us to maximise the time the region was open for visitors.

I think Coffee Pancake suggested or has spoken in the past about changing the range at which you could set to show banlines. If there was a viewer side slide to the range they could be seen then when at home your could turn it down so that your neighbours banlines don't light up your home like the neon street advertising from a Tokyo cityscape, and when travelling you could turn the range up that you can see them so you have forewarning when travelling so you have time to avoid them. If i recall correctly the way they work currently it is not possible to do that currently in the viewer, but if it could be changed on the server end to allow that it would help alot.

Earlier on you gave your experience taking a long journey, and observed after crossing no doubt hundreds of parcels you got 2 security orb warnings in all that time. Your experience would appear to indicate that the majority of people don't use security systems to block traffic through their parcel? That those that do are actually the minority. .. which makes all the emotive language and hyperboles fall a bit flat when you are making the opposite claim to a majority opinion.

I would say orbs or security systems are useful if not essential to allow club managers and renters the ability to eject unwanted guests on land they are managing or renting. They allow for much more dynamic access to group rights to eject and ban than creating and assigning roles for that purpose. With groups that have multiple functions or cover more than one area with land rights the roles available can quickly get used up.

That region sounds like a nice place for a club .. which brings me to another problem with mainland and neighbours, the way resources are allocated per region with potential for one 512 parcel on the region to use all the script time, or become a popular club packed 24/7 with people. On an estate an estate manager has an interest in managing it on mainland in extreme circumstances you might have some success getting Governance to intervene but in reality best option is just to move out. This sort of lack of control over what neighbours can do inevitably limits the value of land and impacts retention. I have a fairly large parcel in Zindra, water access and Japanese manga club on one of the parcels regularly with 20 or more avatars hanging out. It is their parcel, they pay tier on it although less than I do, but they are using it and so I am limited with what I can do. They are nice enough people and they have every right to make use of it and pleased for their ongoing success, but I think it does illustrate a much more real problem for landowners and the land market than passersby intruding.

If they were to add in a new mainland area then perhaps they could use it to link Gaeta to Corsica and the rest of the grid, maybe, even finish off the East side of it. If they were inclined to test the impact of a new covenant then Gaeta might be a good option, it has been isolated and has traditionally had lowest occupancy rate.

Following on from that thought . changing the way banlines work so they work like a wall you bounce off or edit out of without breaking vehicle scripts would make travel easier, and investing in road and river parcels more appealing.

Originally I was unhappy about the SS Galaxy move, it broke up the route between Honah Lee and Sailor's 'cove South without forewarning to the estate owners who took a few months to replace it. I suppose what happened behind the scenes impossible to be sure of, but the perception was it was done without thought or consultation with the estate owners. That said it is moved now and where it was are now rentals, moving it back is not an option. Where it is is fine it still fulfills a function as a place of interest and can be used as a venue. The first time I visited it was for a friend's wedding, it is nice it can still perform that function. But it's primary function is as a place of interest, people don't need to be visiting it daily to be a success in that regard. So long as it remains somewhere you might want to travel past or show to someone, then it is doing fine. Like the Bremner dinosaurs it is a wonder of prim building. Meshifying it would remove part of its charm. Mesh and materials are great, but let's not get carried away or we lose our history.

UK a Prog supergroup, with Allan Holdsworth, John Wetton, Bill Bruford & Eddie Jobson

Allan Holdsworth, self taught guitar genius

One specific example of somewhere really sad that could perhaps do with some love is Frostar, on the east edge of Gaeta iV. It quite possibly is a monument to the end of an era when mainland was being expanded, a rushed ugly expanse of "Palm tree 1"s that don't properly resolve unless you cam to within a few metres of them. I might have previously blamed the moles for this but looking now it looks like a Governor Linden build. the structures are frugal and rundown but not so bad it is the expanse of those ugly palm trees that makes the area an eyesore. Arguably I suppose the austere, rushed lack of love is indicative and a monument to its time and therefore worth preserving because of the way it portrays that, but really even that considered.... please just do something with it instead. Maybe the library palm trees can be universally replaced with something that has a lod factor that works beyond 2 metres, or send a mole there to rip them out and redecorate, put in a park or just nicer trees and some shrubbery, just deleting those trees would be an improvement. It is a glaring exception to the high quality Linden and Moles builds elsewhere.

The argument around resource for enforcement only applies where the rules need to be manually enforced. If enforcement of a rule was automated or if a functionality was removed then there would be no additional resource required. Even when enforcement is required, there may be changes where benefits outweigh resource needed.

I would like to see some active purchasing or reserving from sale parcels being used or that potentially could become protected waterways along areas like west and north nautilus. I think there is potential to increase value and customer experience at a relatively modest cost of time.

I rather like forum as a name, it harks back to Classical Rome, and reminds me of A funny thing happened on the way to the forum and Up Pompeii. Maybe Agora would be better, with a Classical Greek reference point instead.

I came to Secondlife after a stint in the Utherverse\Red Light Centre virtual world. The 5 minutes after the dancing and sexy possibilities had grown dull it was the free home that kept me there and decorating it. Decorating there involved assembling a limited pallet of objects and shapes, and linking textures to them from a photobucket account. With the tools available and a bit of experience and trial and error you could do some pretty amazing things. When I came to SL, and after I got the hang of getting dressed and had decided I was going to stay for a while I was looking for somewhere to call my own. My first land was a sky platform on the Bloodlines\Vampire community land that had got me to join them for cost of my soul and rent. They were my mentors through newbie mistakes and confusions. Like, I had an early freak out over an onduty pregnancy they helped me through. I remember I had some breedable fairies there, they kept breeding and made me unpopular as they left eggs everywhere and kept breeding continually pushing me over my prim limits. I progressed through rentals on private estates to once I had got in to motorbike clubs to group ownership of a full region for building sky roads. For mainland it was the attraction of travelling that got me buying parcels and renting.

I have to go to work, but one last video. Carlos Santana - with Europa. One of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

Cassandra Wilson, singing in homage to Miles Davis

Or maybe prefer something stronger? Straight, no chaser - Thelonius Monk