Yorkie Bardeen

I'm also certain that a lot of mainland is de-facto abandoned and just not yet reclaimed by Governor Linden. I had a neighbour in Metis who owned 16km2 of the region on the mountain side, who I am sure left SL over 10 years ago. It was only in the last few years that the land finally returned to abandoned and then was swooped by the usual cutters. Until that time, his majestic mountain of rock spheres persisted long after he left, still set to his group, with (I can only guess, but I'm sure) nobody paying tier on it.

It needs to be closed for at least 18 months while the LDPW carry out impact and risk assessments (biodiversity in the encroaching meshes etc), and draught a plan of action for stabilising the area and potentially re-opening the tunnel some time in 2030.

Currently impassable.

It's bad enough when a DJ "friend" wants you to visit some club, and there's five people there- the owner, the DJ, the host and two afk alts of the owner and now you're talking about charging.

Sometimes you can get lucky with a bit of mainland.

I get it, and it's annoying if it's done without permission. I actually do provide easements to neighbours but my parcels are almost completely public access anyway. Still I would probably put a side road in for a neighbour if they were nice people because driveways and things can be cute and lead to little communities growing.

Because Second Life is weird and messed up. If SL was organised correctly, privacy extremists* wouldn't get mainland, which was created to be a contiguous, communal and navigable landscape. In the early days it was a requirement to get anywhere at all. So "group only" banlines only extended some distance from the terrain level in order that other residents could fly over the land (avatar flying, not vehicles). There was no point to point teleporting, only telehubs and flight. I think it changed over the years but it's at 50m currently. This means the simplest way to get privacy on the mainland, is to have your building at ground level with group access switched on, and if you want a different view then you would use a "skybox". It would make more sense if there were regions provided by LL that are basically like private regions, with nothing visible outside the parcel, and available with mainland tier since that seems to be what a lot of people look for. So it is what it is. People who want privacy and don't want to pay private landlords are forced to choose parcels on regions that were not intended for them. I can't be fussed chopping the quote up more but I'm not sure what you meant by neighbours using "your" protected road or waterway. Those protected ways are public, not any parcel owner's private property. Maybe I misunderstood. For the original question , I like having a "few" neighbours, and so far it's been an overall good experience with some friendly people. *I only use the term in fun, since people who enjoy using the public linden roads for their intended use are generally called extremists here.

Two minutes later than that. Unless the ground is exactly level this happens. The good news is that it recovers now, if you tap a movement key it will correct. When it first came out the death tilt was unstoppable and permanent. It is a beautiful horse though.

60 seconds after stopping on the road.

The rezzable waterhorse needs serious work on the scripts to overcome long-standing and well known (to vehicle scripters) bugs and problems. I even bought the friends edition (ouch). The animesh horse itself is wonderful, but it was always a case of how far can I get before the scripts die. Even wearing it (and I dislike wearables) wasn't bulletproof; eventually I'd end up offset to the side of the horse and no amount of script resetting would solve it. I would have to melt that one into glue and rez or wear a new copy. I also got some really great looking tack and stuff, but because it was all made by someone used to making wearable meshes where nobody gives a damn about triangles or textures or whatever, it all turned the horse into like 200LI (ouch again). There's something kind of derpy about the Teegle horse but if I ever spent $13k on a horse again I would probably go for one of those.

When I was on terrible internet last year, I think my record was three full minutes for a region crossing (teleport). Most people would probably give up before that.

Some people are going really hard on telling everyone to shut up, it's all baseless conspiracy and there's nothing to see here. Meanwhile the Executive Chairman of Linden Lab put out a statement. A statement which did not say "blah blah, mendacious and libelous attack on our staff, we stand behind and beside our embattled colleagues through this difficult time" but instead a statement saying that "some" of the allegations so far are asserted as unfounded, that investigations are on-going, and that LL, as a company, recognise that they need to do better. None of this is the language of "nothing to see here" after being cleared by the legal department and posted publicly by the chairman. When a senior management spokesperson talks about "working with external partners to investigate the matter further" in relation to alleged corporate crimes, I always imagine them saying it in front of a backdrop of federal agents wheeling luggage racks full of servers and laptops out of the building. I would like to think that those of you throwing qanon and conspiracy theory slurs around are just being emotional and protective of SL.

idk what your work situation has to do with it. The script function thing is just an example of a thing that doesn't need constant, on-going supervision, I'm not demanding it, but I don't see "We want Bellisseria but with blackjack and hookers" getting much enthusiasm from LL looking at it as yet another covenant to police. I think they would rather people just pay up and move to Bellisseria.

Covenants need someone, being paid a salary, to go through all the abuse reports. Unless it's a built-in system, like tphome failing vs avatars between certain Z positions, or having a built in 10 second delay- that's just an example, I'm not campaigning for function changes. More covenants means more employee time dealing with them. Nobody is going to agree on what looks good or acceptable. Bellisseria mostly works because the Lindens imposed their own Stepford, beige, milquetoast mid-century aesthetic on almost all of it, so anyone turning their garage into a hot rod chop shop sticks out and there's probably some self-censorship that goes on there. Or else they really are all empty houses or just used by premium account owners as a place to drop a pose stand. It would be nice I think if LL would allocate some of the bigger wastelands of the mainland and let some group of enthusiasts (there are probably hundreds of us) to decorate them as public spaces. Set the LI limit to 0.1 of usual so they don't lag out everyone, but it would improve things a bit. If more mainland starts looking "nice" people seem to be attracted to that and to add to it. This is how a few mainland communities have grown over time. I would not like to enforce restrictions on mainland. I have my aesthetic preferences, but other people have theirs and we have to get along somehow.

I personally prefer 1:1 scale but it's a minority position. Generally I see builds default to 1.25:1 - 1.3:1 or so. If you want a guideline look at the new Senra avatars from Linden Lab, these are in a way a declaration of intention for scaling.