TimothySKing

Try enabling media options. Preferences/Sound&Media + allow inworld scripts to play media + play media attached to avatars After enabling, reattach the hud.

I still have this problem, but only with The Verne. Which is so annoying. That's the house I want. Tried everything. No luck. Keep getting this message: . . . you are not authorized to open and close the doors, blinds and windows of this house. . . . . .

Fat chance, it seems. Might as well get an old Linden Home for now. The homes are totally old, but you can make a platform in the sky over your house (up 2000 meters at least) and do things up there.

Jeeze . . let it go already.

Yeesh. Give me a break folks. It's a suggestion to LL. I'm not suggesting getting rid of Linden homes on mass or anything. Just to have options. You'd think I wrote something that was going to change the world drastically. No such thing. I only suggest LL add additional options on the current land menu. You want a house, great, you got it. You want some lovely landscaping, boom, you got it. I would love to be able to convert my place to a Japanese garden or something other than an actual Linden Home. But you can't. Seems logical to me that some of us would enjoy additional options such as preset landscaping. I'm pretty darn sure quite a few premium users would love this option. And it doesn't take away anybody's home, but you would have the option to choose pre-made themed scenery in place of a house. Just an idea to suggest to LL. And sky boxes are allowed above 2000 in the new areas. It's irrelevant.

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I visited your Cafe bookshop. Lovely. I hope more people make nice community spots like yours.

I'm just thinking of a way to avoid a bunch empty houses in the community. In my opinion, empty houses do not contribute community building, as far as the layout of the land goes. So let's Imagine: I place my skybox in the sky somewhere. I'm not using the house. Instead, I could choose "park" or "Japanese Garden", or some other theme than an empty house. This would provide pleasing scenery for the community and get rid of empty houses. And nobody looses anything. In fact, people get more options. Obviously LL have added a switching function to rez in different homes; basically sets of mesh objects grouped. A brilliant idea. So, there's no reason they couldn't substitute non-building scenery options.

Perhaps there should be sims with empty plots and sky rights for them . Why not?

From a recent Linden Lab post about the Bellisseria homes in their own news feed: "Are you ready for your new life on the Bellisseria continent? Now may be the perfect time to upgrade to Premium! Your new home is waiting for you!" I wish they had released more homes for us who didn't get one, but it's not a big deal for me. I can wait. I'm still a huge fan of VR worlds. A few minor hiccups along the way are to be expected. In the meantime, I'm gonna pool hop in Bellisseria. Wanna join me? lol

I guess LL will probably get rid of the old home areas eventually. Then we'll probably miss them. lol I actually like my current home. It's not bad.

I didn't mean that LL should refurbish homes people are living in, I meant homes that are abandoned.

Yeah. You're probably right. Maybe I'm just lazy to do all that work to find a house. I was just thinking if LL had a database to choose plots, they could identify plots that nobody wants. Then they could work on making those plots desirable. Or the they could turn them into public picnic spots or something.

As for the claiming of the new home areas; LL should have stated exactly how many new homes were being released. A very simple thing to do. If they mentioned this, I missed it. I don't mind the "first come, first serve" thing, but I still don't like the random assignment of homes. LL should have a dynamic database. Random assignment of homes was never a smart idea. It's also annoying to have to waste time claiming/abandoning as you try to find a new home. And why only 5 times a day? Ridiculous. A searchable database is what they should have. On a side note, I wish LL had been working on refurbishing the existing home plots. I get the whole theme thing, but why not just start converting some of the old homes to different ones? THen LL could provide links to refurbished homes. Done. By the way, I really love the new homes and the areas surrounding them. I'm really happy to see this. It's great to see people sharing their photos of their home decor too. Some people have such wonder taste. I think I'm going to go for stroll through the new homes area now.

When a customer of a business which strives on small transactions has a thousand dollar mistake, then someone of authority should step in and write a note. In my opinion that person is the CEO. Even a short note to say sorry from the big boss would go a long way. That's what should have happened and should still happen. It's not like a CEO doesn't have the time for something as important as vitally important customer service. It would take them a few minutes. He could even have his assistant draft the note for him. So easy. PS. I know the CEO is never going to read this, but I don't care. I'm just putting in my 2 cents. All the Best, Tim

Bobby, I hear what you're saying, but rezzing stuff wasn't my point. But I agree, sandboxes are the place to open boxes. However, I was more concerned about owning land to create a home, a business, or whatever. It's about creating and actaully owning my own place where I can do whatever I like. I think that's what a lot of users miss out on simply because the cost is way to expensive. Developing a big piece of land is a wonderful thing. I think the key to a deep user experience is having a big chuck land to call home. Most folks can't fork out the high rents and buy lots of stuff at the same time these days. I certainly couldn't sustain those land fees. Not with the current pricing scheme. Thus, we will probably see a slow decline in user numbers. Certainly not a gain. I like second life, but the high land costs issue has made it very difficult for me do much creatively so I look forward to the next incarnation of SL.

What's a second life if you can't afford a home or place to start up a business? I predict having affordable, or even free land, will be ideal to attract large user numbers; hopefully several million. These users will have more money to buy things because land ownership costs would be negligable. This should create plenty of market demand, in turn allowing Sansar and creators to turn a profit. To illustrate, I was paying 40 bucks a month for what I considered a fairly oridinary sized plot of land in SL; paying it to one or two people who were in the landlord chain. Let's imagine for moment land is free. Discresionary spending, as far as in world purchasing, should rise allowing more merchants and creators to prosper. Add another million users; then both stand to profit quite well - even with a tax. Plus merchents will save on land too. My 40 bucks will be spent broadly to many users, rather than to just a few. Plus, I'll have total control of my land; which is a game changer. And then there's services and events. With all this extra money I'm saving on land, I'd be willing to pay a ticket price to attend fun events. Why not? Going out in RL life is expensive. A night spent at home playing around in the virtual world is way cheaper. Event organizers will save land costs too. Call me optimistic, but the Sansar business model makes so much sense to me. Whatever scheme they come up with I hope it works; and I hope land is dirt cheap so everyone can make a virtual place to call home - a second home.

RE: Jumpman wrote: "Folks don't play Second Life because they can't afford land. Won't buy rezable product because can't afford land. Doesn't purchase wearables because won't play Second Life because can't afford land. Won't buy things because land costs eat up all their disposible income. Folks don't play Second Life because they can't afford land. Won't buy rezable product because can't afford land. Doesn't purchase wearables because won't play Second Life because can't afford land. Won't buy things because land costs eat up all their disposible income..." I think you're right on target Jumpman. It's unfortunate the way Second Life land ownership was setup regarding land ownership. Land in SL is always going to be in the hands of a small group of minority of players. That's backwards and lends itslef to folks getting ripped off or mistreated by other players. The worst happening for me in this regard, was when a greedy player closed the rental sim and didn't give renters any refunds for their advance rental payments. I lost some money, but that wasn't what frustrated me the most; it was the fact that the game TOS essentially allowed a player to steal my Lindens, and others, in a blatently shady, and highly unethical manner. There was no recourse due to the landlord's pathetic no refund policy - which seems to the norm in SL. Taking money without rendering a service is faudulent regarless of whatever a landlord writes in their rental agreements. It felt as nasty as being ripped off by a real life landlord or real-estate agent. Just a very negative experience for any player. But I am a believer in virtual worlds, so I continue to play. Needless to say, I'm hoping to have my own affordable land in the new virtual worlds with no landlords to speak of, other than the company that owns the game.

updated today - Why does my SL viewer get stuck at VFS and quit? this never happened before. I really don't want to have to muck around uninstalling, reininstalling, or installing another viewer. That would really suck. Hope the company fixes this now. andby the way, why they release an update that doesn't work on this many computers? Not too thrilled about that. however, let's see how fast they get things fixed.