Markham Weatherwax
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The sim has been sold. Thank you.
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Beautiful Sim for sale: Darling Resort
Sale price $L50,000. All offers will be considered. Buyer pays the transfer fee. Tier is due on the 3rd of each month.
Tier is currently paid through 2023-01-03.
Sim must be moved. The cost is covered by the transfer fee.IM: Flip (imdatboi) in-world with any questions or offers.
The sim is currently fully landscaped with homes and feature areas.
Objects not included in sale.http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Darling Resort/104/150/24
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Darling Resort
Upscale Adult Rated Residential Sim
Darling Resort features a mix of home types, from Mediterranean style homes on large parcels (shown above), to smaller rustic cabins and simple homes, designed to fit most every budget. The public areas are for the exclusive use of our tenants and their guests. With lake, boating area, and adult features and more, Darling Resort is the perfect place to call home.
Ours are upscale homes, with custom landscaping designs, and both furnished, partially furnished, and unfurnished houses. Our properties are full private parcels, not shared. The public areas of our Sims are beautifully landscaped and planned with tenant access waterways, public feature areas, and other amenities. We also limit the number of rental parcels in each Sim. We do not rent out every square meter of space like so many other rental companies do. Our Sims are guaranteed exclusive and private for our residential tenants.
- Security Orb for Every Property that covers the entire parcel from land to 4000m
- Sim-Wide Dance System for Singles and Couples
- Many features and amenities on every home parcel and in public areas
Come visit our rental office and look around the choices and options of our many highly landscaped and exclusive residential rental properties in Darling Resort (A) and Darling Estates (M) and find your perfect place to call home. If you've already visited us before, check back to see our new additions and updated parcels!
* [Darling Estates Rental Office] *
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13 hours ago, KathrynLisbeth said:
Ability to show parcel boundaries on the Mini Map is already present in some TPV's. (Of course that is not present in the Default viewer.)
So... If can show the parcel boundaries?
Why is HIGHLIGHT A BANNED PARCEL not on the mini-map? Ya know? Color the parcel Bright red? (and/or Bright Green if is using the payment info restriction)
Then.. would be a definitive signal reported to individual viewers that a parcel is restricted. Thus bypassing the need to see banlines on the inworld view from a great distance, or play the 'Well now you found a Security Orb (sensor scan)' game.
This can relate to your Draw Distance. If it is too small, it won't pick up parcel data until that parcel comes within your draw distance range. If your draw distance is too big (and it is still loading in tons of textures and objects), that can delay the update of the mini-map data as well. Region performance plays a role too. A freshly restated Sim will update that data much quicker than one that has not been restarted in a while. Land changes (terraforming, permissions, etc.) affect it, and people rezzing and deleting objects, that all plays a role in how fast and how often the region data is managed. There are a lot of variables in that, but generally if your draw distance doesn't include a parcel within its range, it usually won't show it until you've gotten close enough to it. It depends greatly on your viewer, and connection to the Sim, too.
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Sim border still crossings are not easy in a vehicle, even though LL had supposedly made such crossings smoother prior to moving everything to the cloud. Now it is almost as hard as it was in the early days of Second Life. If you are speeding along in a car or plane, you can very well end up in someone's yard. You can also lose control of your vehicle after crossing even at very low speed. I hate ban lines and always have. But the one thing I hate more than ban lines is limited warning time security orbs. They can kick you right off to another parcel, which might have an orb that kicks you around some more. You are still rezzing things in so you can't see any signs or might not even get the pop-up warning before you find yourself kicked to the curb, or even back to home
I agree with your sentiments about ban lines on roadside parcels (and I say that about water way parcels too). But it is the landowner's right and privilege to have that option. If you need to see ban lines and parcel details, using a viewer like Firestorm with the basic functions built-in is essential. If you use the SL Viewer you can buy the Ban Line / Explorer Hud or something similar. The hud works in Firestorm too, giving much more detail than Firestorms built-in functions. It is a great tool that I use sometimes, even when I am driving very slowly.
I always have my mini-map open at the top left of my viewer screen. I use it to see "red" banned parcels, and also to avoid other dots when I have Show Friends Only enabled in Firestorm. *chuckle* - But it does take some time to get all of the parcels in the sims permissions. If you are rezzing in the things around you, it probably won't show the banned parcels for a little while. It is a great function when you are standing around, or walking, but if you are moving at speed, it is delayed while new textures load in and new objects are rezzed in.
The SL Road Systems were not designed properly (and they've degenerated over the years as well). I always thought there should be community standards for roadside and water way parcels. Or, at the very least, a wide space between those parcels and the road, or water way. LL will never change that. They could do it easily, but they won't.
We will just have to keep bashing our cars and planes into people's houses, or their ban lines. Oh well. Life in SL.
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Come spend some time with us at Darling Club, an outdoor dancing and hangout, dance venue and ballroom. Come relax to our eclectic mix of music: Oldies, classics, Latin, disco, hard rock, and ballroom. A nice place to enjoy and relax.
Feb 14: Valentine's Party at 10AM - 10PM!
Each of the four Music Sets are 3 hours long.
Many dances for couples and singles in our dance system.
Fireworks, music, and special Valentine's tables and kissing booth.
Low key, elegant, and relaxing.
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We've moved our rental office and headquarters to our Darling Coast Mall.
The new SLURL: [Darling Estates Rentals]
Visit us today, and also enjoy the mall, with bowling, clubs, and stores.
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Happy New Year, Everyone!
May this new year be a better one for all of us in both worlds!
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Visit our unique and beautiful landscaped Sims to find the perfect place for you at Darling Estates Rentals!
Since 2012 creating unique living experiences!
Ours are upscale homes, with custom landscaping designs, and both furnished, partially furnished, and unfurnished houses. Our properties are full private parcels, not shared. The public areas of our Sims are beautifully landscaped and planned with tenant access waterways, public feature areas, and other amenities. We also limit the number of rental parcels in each Sim. We do not rent out every square meter of space like so many other rental companies do. Our Sims are guaranteed exclusive and private for our residential tenants.
- Fewer than 10 rental properties in our Full Private Estates
- Security Orb for Every Property
- Sim-Wide Dance System for Singles and Couples
- Many features and amenities on every home parcel and in public areas
Come visit our rental office and look around the choices and options of our many highly landscaped and exclusive rental properties and find your perfect place to call home. If you've already visited us before, check back to see our new additions and updated parcels!
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I am going to bump this thread because there have been no new Premium Gifts released this year at the gift vendors, at least at the Premium sandboxes. The gift still being given out is the winter decorating gift from 2020 (which was holiday string lights previously released in a gift from a year or two before). Are they still giving Premium gifts? Are they giving them at random official events? I have not noticed anything that can be considered "Premium virtual gifts".
It is still listed as a perk for paid membership, so... what's up with that? -
1/4 Sim Parcels available in our Darling Resort Sim!
[1/4 Sim] - [16384 Sqm] - [5000 Prims] - [128x128 Footprint] - Full Parcel Rights - Zoned both commercial and Residential.
Check out our [rental office] to see these and other available rentals in Darling Resort and our other Sims.
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Check out the changes to our Darling Keys Sim!
New: Zoned Residential and Commercial
Use the land for either a residential property or for your business, or store, or light venue.
New: Parcel Sales rather than group rental property
Simply purchase the land and you are ready to go. No need for a group slot! You own the land. You can deed it to your group if you desire. You can use the land level and/or use a skybox. Mix and match both residential and commercial on the same property. It is your choice.Parcels sizes are 4096 Sqm and 5632 Sqm.
As always at Darling Estate Rentals we do not create many rental parcels in our full estate Sims. We limit the number of properties to make sure that our renters do not experience lag or other issues. We remain exclusive and our public lands are lightly designed to provide excellent views and no draw lag overload.
Check out the newly designed Darling Keys Sim at our [Rental Office] today, and for out design parcels in our other Sims..
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A Few Darling Keys Views - At Sunset and Sunrise
Center View
River View
Parcel View
Darling Keys is a unique neighborhood style design, with a central park, carriageways for walking or bicycling, with a wide outside river, and is exclusive - having only 9 rental parcels in the entire Sim. Upscale homes, large private parcels, and no commercial traffic. It adjoins our Darling Seas Sim on the East side, which is usable by our tenants for relaxing and light boating. The Keys River can also be used to sail up and into the Darling Seas Sim. We've designed and landscaped to ensure that our residents have a quiet, enjoyable home. Great views on all sides, and a very livable residential experience.
Visit our rental office to see the available residential listings in Darling Estates, Darling Keys, and Darling Resort
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When you have a sim with only one group owning parcels of land then anyone in the group with a role that has group land rez rights can rez on ANY parcel. There is no way to prevent that being that the land is the same owner. You could make, let's say, 4 groups so that people in group 1 can rez anywhere on parcels owned in neighborhood #1, but won't be able to rez in the other "neighborhoods". This will limit your prims for each set of group owned lands. You'd have to add some public land to group 1, some to group 2, etc., to balance that out.
That is a real pain in the rear and I would not recommend it. I suggest using one group and just keep track of who has prims where. It is not as hard as you think unless you have many different public land parcels (not meaning the rental parcels). All you need to do is go to each land parcel and return any prims owned by people who should not have prims on that parcel of land. With many separate parcels it can be a lot of work.
If you click your Casperlet Prim Counter and select Debug Count it will report back who has prims on each and every parcel owned by the group that the prim counter is deeded to. That is helpful if you have many different parcels. You can see if renter #3 has prims on the parcel rented by renter #1, or on some public land.
In About Land for all group owned parcels, you can go to the Options tab and turn off Object Entry for Everyone and also uncheck Group. This will prevent a group member who is on one parcel from moving an object onto the other parcel.
It is very common for a renter to put down a mesh object, then rez another object on top of it or within that mesh physics shape. That will send that new object flying off to end up on other parcels or in the air somewhere. This is the main reason you find renter objects littered around your sim. It was not intentional, and the renter doesn't realize that the object ended up on the other side of the sim. *chuckles*
Unchecking the group object entry helps prevent that.
You can sell the land to the renter and have no need of group land or group rez rights. They will only be able to rez on the property they themselves own. That of course limits them (and you) to the parcel land capacity. It is not sharing prims with other same-owner lands. Anything you rez onto that land the renter can return at any time too, so depending on your sim design, that could be problematic.
When you create your land group YOU will be the one who defines the roles. I never recommend setting that group so that "anyone can join". Make that group specific to your land rental business. Only tenants should be in that group. And certainly, you should get a Smartbot. The bot can be a avatar that you've created, and attached to the Smartbot system. That service will log your bot in and you can set it to park where you want. The bot can be set up in the Casperlet system to invite a new renter to the group you set for the meter. It will also invite any co-tenant that a renter adds to their meter. That bot will automatically eject people from the group if they are evicted on the Casperlet system - as well as their co-tenants. And also will eject from the group a co-tenant if the primary renter removes that person as a co-tenant on their meter.
There are different types of bots, so that too is going to be a learning curve for you.
If you do not use a bot, you will have to manually do everything yourself. When someone pays to rent a property, they want immediate access to rez and begin their tenancy. They will not want to wait for you or someone on your staff to login to change their roles or invite them to the group. They paid you, they want it now, not later. *chuckle*
And yes! Do join the Caspertech Support group. It is very helpful. The website also is an exceptionally good resource. I would grab a big cup of coffee, sit down, read it through, make notes, and then read it again. It is a lot of learning, so take it all slowly and learn the basics and you will be fine. It just is not a simple plug and play when setting up and running rental properties.
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On 4/29/2021 at 4:40 AM, StrongZer0 said:
I'm looking for a radio that does one of two things. Can someone help me locate this?
1. Allow different avatars to listen to different channels on the same parcel
and/or
2. Not change my land audio URL and fade as one gets further away from the prim
I have an XRadio and it is great, but it is very prim heavy at 15 LI and years ago I had a radio that would allow different avatars to listen to different streams on the same parcel. However, for the life of me, I cannot find a light LI radio to do either. So, if anyone who can search better than I can, is willing to give me some direction, it is highly appreciated.
Thanks.
I believe that is shared media. it used to be called Media On Prim. It does not use the parcel media or audio stream, so it bypasses land restrictions. There is also a function that allows playing external media to a specific user. I've seen those standalone radios you mentioned in skybox or skydome rentals over the years. There are some still for sale on the marketplace, but you really need to investigate them to be sure they still work properly and are not old scripts.
You can play two music streams on the same parcel by setting the parcel audio stream (sound) to one thing, and also setting the Media to an audio stream. That gives you two music streams on a parcel. It won't fade out as you walk away from an object, but it is the easiest solution.
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We are pleased to announce that our renovation of Darling Resort is now complete!
Darling Resort is an Adult Rated lush green residential Sim, lightly landscaped, with excellent views, rocky beaches, waterways, and more. With very few rental properties in the entire sim, it is very exclusive and private. We've designed to ensure that our residents will enjoy their private homes and properties with open yard space and water views and water access.
- At Darling Estates Rentals we limit our residential rental properties to 10 parcels or less in a Full Estate.
- All of our rental properties include our Sim-Wide Dance system with singles and couples dances.
- Dance alone or with your partner to our Darling Radio music stream.
- Dance, bowl, or play Alienum at our entertainment center.
- Enjoy quiet, private, exclusive, comfortable living.
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DARLING ESTATES RENTALS
Visit our unique and beautiful landscaped Sims to find the perfect place for you at Darling Estates Rentals!
Since 2012 creating unique living experiences!
***[Rental Office & Community Center]
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We've made some landscaping changes, price and prim changes too, in Darling Keys. Come visit our Rental Office to see what we have to offer.
- At Darling Estates Rentals we limit our residential rental properties to 10 parcels or less in a Full Estate.
- All of our rental properties include our Sim-Wide Dance system with singles and couples dances.
- Dance alone or with your partner to our Darling Radio music stream.
- Dance, bowl, or play Alienum at our entertainment center.
- Enjoy quiet, private, exclusive, comfortable living.
Welcome home!
[Rental Office & Entertainment Center]
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We are pleased to announce that our renovation of the Darling Keys Sim is now complete!
Darling Keys is a unique neighborhood style design, with a central park, carriageways for walking or bicycling, with a wide outside river, and is exclusive - having only 9 rental parcels in the entire Sim. Upscale homes, large private parcels, and no commercial traffic. It adjoins our Darling Seas Sim on the East side, which is usable by our tenants for relaxing and light boating. The Keys River can also be used to sail up and into the Darling Seas Sim. We've designed and landscaped to ensure that our residents have a quiet, enjoyable home. Great views on all sides, and a very livable residential experience.
Here are some of the rental properties and homes now available in the Darling Keys Sim:
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DARLING ESTATES RENTALS
Visit our unique and beautiful landscaped Sims to find the perfect place for you at Darling Estates Rentals!
Since 2012 creating unique living experiences!
***Please Visit our Rental Office to see the available residential listings in Darling Estates, Darling Keys, and Darling Resort.
[Rental Office & Community Center]
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Our Easy Going Society 7Seas Fishing Weekly Contest at Easy Goings Skyland Mall is underway. Our contest starts every week on Wednesday at 10am SLT and runs for 7 days. Current pot is $L400, Top 3 fishing scores for rounds for the week split 50%/30%/20%. Rounds start every 1/2 hour SLT and run for 29 minutes. Unlimited (Baited fishing). Ties Allowed.
We also host Alienum - The Alien Plants fishing game, and Fish Hunt.
Good luck fishing, everyone!
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2 hours ago, Solar Legion said:
Yeah, funnily enough what is being described with the Group Owner role .... is not something I have noticed behavior wise. Rather, wasn't when I used a Landing Point.
I - as Group Owner and Group Creator - could not circumvent the Landing Point from outside the Region.
In case it makes any difference: The parcel is Group Owned/Deeded, not simply set to the Group.
Hmm. I see that I wrote that part about roles incorrectly. What I intended to convey from our experience in our sims was that if a person is BOTH an Estate Manager of the sim and also the owner in the group that owns the land, they can TP in from outside the sim via the world map or a LM and it ignores the landing point. If however the person is not an owner in that group, being in an officer role, they get sent to the landing point; If the person is only an owner of the group, not also an Estate Manager, they get sent to the Landing Point now.
For example, I am an Estate Manager of a Sim and in the owner role of the land group that owns land in the sim. I routinely TP into the Sim from outside of it by using LMs, selecting locations and heights via the world map, and it allows me to bypass the set landing point for the group-owned parcel. Another person who is an Estate Manager of that sim, but who is in a lesser role (non-owner) of the group, they get sent to the landing point when TPing in from outside of the Sim. This was not an issue for that person before, but within the last 4-6 months or so, suddenly they are always sent to the landing points of group owned land. I however, can still TP in to anywhere in the sim, even when I am not wearing the correct group tag for the land.
This is not mainland, it is a full private region, on the main server channel (and now the cloud). Some have said here that they've been experiencing this for 5 or more years, but I have no idea if that was on a RC or Magnum, or other Server Channel, or it relates to the age of the Sim. I can only example our experiences in our sims, and for us, this has not been an issue for my managers or tenants until this very year.
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1 hour ago, Qie Niangao said:
As we explored very recently in another thread, the conditions that appear to determine whether or not this works are so intricate that I'm not confident we've ever known when they worked in the past, if we've even discovered them all yet.
A parcel-related group ability similar to "ignore landing point" might be "landscaping using Linden plants" and (to work around an obscure SL bug) I have a "planter" prim, owned by a group member, that rezzes Linden plants whenever its region restarts. Except it can't. It just sits there, trying unsuccessfully to rez those plants for days until that owner appears on the region so it can discover the owner has that ability so its calls to rez plant objects are permissible. The moment he appears, planting proceeds.
At least that specific ability has been like that a long time.
Very interesting. I didn't view that thread because it looked like it related to orbs. The issue with the Linden plants, I've never seen that. But of course I don't use or allow the use of them on any of our lands. I have that disabled, but it comes at a slight cost: Not being able to rez onto the land from the library. Dunno what a lamp or a kiosk in the library has to do with "landscaping using Linden Plants", but apparently it does. *laughs*
I do know it that there was not an issue a few months ago, but suddenly my tenants could no longer TP from their created LMs to the rental properties without first getting set down onto the landing point set for that rental property. They did not have any issue with it before, and then one day, no luck. I had not changed the land, had not changed any role settings, or anything. It was just sudden.
I guess I will do a test to see if selecting other role abilities for officers might resolved this, one setting at time, as close to owner role status as I can. From what you say, I gather it can be something anomalous and seemingly unrelated to the ignore landing point setting.
Thanks for the reply.
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For more than a few months now I have been seeing this same issue: Group owned Land with a Landing Point, Group Roles set to "ignore landing point", but the person ends up at the landing point when attempting to TP from the world map from outside the sim or via a Landmark despite them wearing the group and correct role title. Teleporting from within the sim to other group owned land positions/parcels, ignoring the landing point is not a problem.
I have noted that if a person is a Group Owner, they can TP from outside the sim to any point they want on group land, but the lesser roles, they cannot. Even if someone is an Estate Manager for the entire sim, if they are not also a group owner of the group that that owns that group land they will end up at the set landing point.
I have tested this with the newest Second Life Viewer and Firestorm Viewer. Same thing. A group member with a non-owner role ends up at the group owned parcel landing point.
This was not an issue in the past. I've routinely set a landing point on a parcel, had separate Landmarks for different areas (On the ground and another in a skybox, for example), and group members wearing the group tag could bypass the landing point by using a LM or SLURL from outside the sim, while non-group members would end up at the landing point.
Anyone have any information about how to get around this issue, or is it just something that is now the norm in SL?
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Newly renovated and now available in our Darling Estates sim:
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DE11] - Farview House:
A stylish shabby open single story cabin home on a private 4032 sqm parcel. The house has stairs and a Mezzanine inside, garage style glass windows, and a stylized unique adult bathroom. The parcel is fully landscaped with wild gardens, feature seating areas, decks, outbuilding with adult hot tub, faux beach and cove, and more. Sim corner and very private and exclusive.
[DE12] - Sunview Cottage:
A two story cottage style home on a sim edge 4023 sqm private parcel. Beautifully designed and landscaped, with feature seating areas, outbuildings, and one of only a select few rental properties in the Darling Estates Sim.
The house has 2 Bedrooms and 1 Bath, partially furnished with a full feature bathroom with an adult tub/shower, a customized kitchen with 2 animation areas (sink and stove), coffee maker with coffee giver, and a kitchen table that seats 4, with animations and props. Outside, there are several seating areas, and an adult Hot Tub.
At Darling Estates Rentals all of our rental homes are on their own private parcels and come with Caspersafe Security Systems. Included also is our TIS Sim Wide Dance System that includes both solo and couples dances. You can dance in your house, in your yard, or on the public commons.
In all of our residential rental sims we limit the total number of rental properties, so that the vast majority of each sim is landscaped common areas for the use and view of our residents. We do not rent out every square meter of the land and sky like so many rental sims do, causing lag and draw complexity. We do not mix residential and business parcels in the same sim. We keep each sim under 10 rental properties, in total.
Upscale, private, and exclusive. A wide variety of homes, styles, and features. Visit us in-world at our rental office or view our blog for available listings.
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Hey! We've are gearing up for Halloween at the Alienum Space Station! We've decorated just a little, but nothing too scary. Come visit and look around, play the game, visit the lands who host our Alienum Clusters and Buoys, and earn $L or host an Alienum area yourself! Always fun, interactive, and a good way to meet people and see amazing locations.
Something wicked... err... special.... this way comes, so check back over the coming weeks.
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DE11] - Farview House:
[DE12] - Sunview Cottage:
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Firestorm Issue (?)
in General Second Life Tech Discussion
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I've never heard of error 1. But it sounds like you might have corrupted Windows system files or a disk issue. This is not a Firestorm issue.
I would try running SFC and then DISM in a DOS command window (run as administrator).
sfc.exe /scannow
See if that finds any issues.
Then run:
dism.exe /Online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
Then run "sfc /scannow" and reboot your computer when that completes. See if it happens again.
The only other thing it might be is your graphics driver. Might need updating or reinstalling.
Best of luck to you!