addy2k11

I recently began renting a plot of land to practice building on and maybe set up a home but there is one problem with this land - there is a tree right in the middle of the plot. I have had a quick look around at other occupied plots nearby and the residents have somehow removed the trees from the plot. I asked the resident who rents the land out how to do it and she sent me a link to a youtube video which really hasn't answered my question although I do know a lot more about editing terrain now. I can cover the tree with a hill... but I really don't think that is the answer to this. I have also searched on google and looked at a few books I bought back in the early days to help me on SL but still no answers to this question. So my question quite simply is: How do I get rid of the tree or am I wasting my time? Thank you in advance for any answers.

I know this is an old thread but I would like to thank you all for your help, it seems to be working fine, albeit a little slower than usual but I have experienced the odd slow down in SL speeds during my time on SL so it is no big deal. I know it is a while since I posted last, it has taken me a long time to get the internet back and then I had a multitude of e-mails waiting for me. I don't know what the 'trigger' was, I just uninstalled it and then re-installed it again and it worked first time. I thought the problem was with my laptop but now it has worked I am not so sure but the important thing is it works and there is no point going over questions that cannot be answered. I am afraid none of the suggestions actually did work (or more likely I was not following them correctly) but you still invested time in reading my post/s and invested further time by answering my questions and it is fantastic people like you that make this forum a fantastic place for newbies like me. Thank you again, I think we can consider this thread closed

Thank you to everyone for your replies, I have tried some of suggested remedies but they didn't work, I got exactly the same result To make matters worse my internet connection went down this morning so I am having to use an internet cafe to try and sort this problem out until I get back online at home. Of course I cannot access second life viewer from there. I am in England so it will take me a while to reply as most of the replies will come during the middle of the night, we are 8 hours ahead of the server time. I am convinced the problem is with my laptop as not long before the internet went down I dug my older, slower laptop out and tried installing second life viewer on that. It installed it and I could login on it but it was unbearably slow. My avatar did not appear despite me being online for 10 minutes (all I got was the white egg shape - the head) and the buildings were the same Movement was fluid and the music/radio could be heard without any skipping or jumping. I viewed my friend list and depsite waiting for a few minutes it still hadn't loaded it, I only have four friends so it shouldn't have taken that long. It took about 20 seconds or so for my profile to pop up and I could blow the profile picture up after about 10 seconds. so although I could do most things it is not ideal for exploring. If there is something messed up with the graphics that could solve this problem I would be interested in hearing them. As for my newer laptop that has been installing updates all morning so I am hoping that once it has updated fully I will be able to use second life again.

I am still relatively new to Second Life (I joined last October) and I have had no problems logging in until today. Yesterday my laptop had a few problems so I had to restore the factory settings, I got round to reinstalling the Second Life viewer about 10 minutes ago and have been unable to login. When I try it says "Login failed. Despite out best efforts, something unexpected has gone wrong." It then asks me to check to see if there is a problem with the service, as far as I can see everything seems to be working fine. So the only thing left is my firewall but I do not know how to make changes to that and when I look at the list of allowed and unallowed programs Second Life is not there. The uninstall Second Life program is so I added that to the allowed programs but still no joy. What could be happening and where could I be going wrong? I didn't need to change any settings when I installed the viewer and set up my account last October. I just logged in straight away and it worked first time!