Clara Hollyberry

D'oh

I was going to say the same thing; that lovely little owl.

That's awesome 😁

This house. And it IS amazing! https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/The-Eco-IV-Contemporary-Home-Unfurnished/1100288 But the fireplace shown in the bedroom pic is from here, and it makes a huge difference. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Fireplace-LUTON-REDGRAVE/6634311

Have you tried changing your groups? Making sure you're activating the land group that allows for scripts. And have you tried detaching the huds and then reattaching them?

Where I am getting it from is 7 years of renting land in Second Life. 100% of the rentals come with a covenant. Renters are bound by that covenant. There are different covenants for different companies. Some allow only tiny houses. Some don't allow skyboxes. Some require only tropical themes, no concrete or glass. Some forbid you to change ground textures; some don't mind if you change ground textures. To a greater or lesser extent the idea is to promote homogeneity and "community" -- whether it succeeds or not depends on how strict the rules are and how much building the landlord did before parcelling out homes. Yes, taking a Linden Home involves also being subject to a covenant; I said that already. Every option involves some permissions and some restrictions. What is comfortable for some people and not for others is simply a matter of what you're permitted or allowed to do with the land you occupy. My whole point, and I'll repeat it here, is it's better to get the premium account (addressing that quandry in the original post) so that there are the most options.

**gasp**

Amen to that.

I love the Mainland because I can always make a house straddle the ever-elusive boundary between land and water. I love that boundary, and I love having both land-and-water-nature (and sounds!) The Heterocea Atoll makes for interesting landscape and landshape. This is a terrific continent. We redid everything for the autumn. This is the view from the bedroom: and the views from outside: We ripped apart a recently-released Compulsion pumpkin display to get the single pumpkins we could arrange as we pleased.

There are ways, though, to choose a beachfront lot or a Japanese style home (or both) and change and renovate and upgrade and alter and change your mind indefinitely, until such time as your ideal Linden Home comes available. You can keep a basic subscription and rent land, subject to other people's covenants and restrictions about what you can rez, leading to a homogenized feel environmentally. Or you can upgrade to premium and buy mainland parcels whose covenants are very permissive, putting precious few restrictions on your styles of builds or landscapes, but with a more chaotic feel environmentally. And when the new Linden Homes are widely available, you can claim and abandon one after another until you finally get one that you're pleased with style and location and neighbours; and you'll have a great place to live in a beautifully landscaped zone, so long as you agree with and abide by the Linden Home covenant. Every option comes with permissions and restrictions; however, I firmly believe paying for the subscription to get all the premium benefits is worth it. Biding one's time on the mainland is good fun! I too like beachfronts and Japanese styling; on the mainland, I can rez and delete and re-rez new styles as often as I like while I lurk in picture-forums and blogs and see what fresh new things Linden Lab is cooking up for premium subscribers.

Land for sale is big business in SL, has been for as long as I have been here. Land for sale is not necessarily vacant; it could be simply waiting to turn a profit (or other variables). Even abandoned vacant land still gets logins from previously-homed avatars who still play even if they don't financially control that parcel. I think yellow on a parcel is not the whole story; one can't draw conclusions just from that.

I have tested it. also to the OP there is this knowledge base article on the matter:

I do it from the website https://my.secondlife.com/ The privacy tab allows only friends or only private etc. with one click.

Well said.

That must really suck for you. However, my friends and I do not experience this problem in our countries; so, it's not everybody, by far. A support ticket to address your specific concerns might help you better.

I was going to make this point but there it is. We live in a country where we can die simply by going outside. Canada is so much rock. It's not the easiest land to settle, and the winters are rough, even at its most southerly points. There is not much choice beyond electing to respect the climate and its whims. Canada's history politically is charged; there have been liberal-minded Federal leaders with a view to trying to make reparations with First Nations communities; there have been conservative-minded leaders more interested in selling our natural resources. Camper parks, mobile home parks, trailer parks... there are all kinds of villages supporting this living in Canada and it seems to me that it ought to be the way of the future. "Owning" land becomes such an outdated concept and environmentally disastrous as the population increases. But moving across the land with ritualized mobility and migratory structure seems to make so much more sense. Something we can also learn from our First Nations communities and their ancestral traditions.

Well if that isn't just the perfect bit of paradise right there ❤️ Way to go!

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I think that's not a downside 🤟 I would totally support an idea like that. It's supposed to be a starter home after all. Giving new Residents a toolkit, a plot, prefab puzzle pieces, and a framework within which to create something that would be pretty good even if it's only their first time is encouraging and enriching. I love it.

No I don't care. I usually venture into crowded places invisible; but on my own land or for photography somewhere empty it's a full load of whatever requires expression.

Every Spring I do a purge. It's merciless. I commit to a 50% reduction of stuff. Somehow each year I keep below 20,000. And that's without storage prims. I am an avid shopper, birthday gift accumulator, anniversary gift collector, snapshot taker, full-throttle inventory bloater: and I delete 50% of it every year. This routine will continue with or without the advent and success of BOM.

I use Caspervend and I have set a group discount. Are you sure your Caspervend doesn't have a group discount function? It seems strange to me. edit: nevermind, I found the texture vend wiki. I see the issue.

D!va has the messiest whispiest hair I have ever seen. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/93289

I hope you get the info you need here. I tried last year to contact a person about a parcel I was going to purchase but I didn't get any reply from them; and without answers to some key questions it was too risky to spend that money. It is a lovely area though.

Yeah it's a thing. There are threads opening up all over now, Mainland and Bellisseria most recently. Keep a list of the invaders and include the names in the AR, is the prevailing advice.