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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.

If your stuff doesn't look right in the default viewer day cycle then it's not fit for purpose. If nothing looks right in the default viewer day cycle then Second Life is not fit for purpose.

There are quite a few sailing/boating and flying groups in Second Life, and they mostly all run routine group excursions multiple times each week. I can't list them all because that takes up too much brane but I can suggest the Leeward and Skyward groups for boating/flying respectively. If you enjoy vintage aviation with a dieselpunk vibe, the Aeropunk Sky Pirates Coalition are a fun group of skybound skallywags who fly over or with pretty much all of the cruises. Also the Drivers of SL group does a weekly fully scripted HUD based exploration adventure using all the forms of transport available in Second Life. You might start out in a car, then a boat, helicopter, space scooter... on an adventure that will take you to all kinds of interesting SL destinations. You can join in on the big group outings on the weekend or do the "drives" alone or with friends at any time.

I don't recall the specifics but one creator explained why they only do fatpacks as modify and not singles. Basically people with the fatpack HUD were able to get hold of the texture UUIDs from the HUD and then give them to their friends with the single colour version, who could then just drop in a texture setting script and get the extra colours for free, albeit with some fiddly extra steps. So the creator in this case decided that if you want the flexibility of modifying the item, given the risk to them, then you should pay the full price for the fatpack. I don't like no-mod items for the reasons you listed. I regularly keep my scripts under 10 in total and sometimes a little tint is needed to fix six different creators' opinions on what "black" is. Creators can do as they like- it's their time and effort, customers can (and should) do the same with their own hard earned L$. I generally won't buy anything no-mod unless it's in a weekend sale, or it at least comes with script deletes.

Cynics might suggest that these regions and the community showcase are just there to provide cover for the true purpose of the welcome area which is to drive new residents towards premium linden homes and gambling with force-attach gambling HUDs.

Furware is based on a texture defined by the creator or others, it is not a real text system that follows any ANSI or other standards. this is an example of a furware "font" you can find in the box of fonts that comes with the system.

maybe it was just really bad timing... www. superyachttimes. com/yacht-news/ferrari-sailing-yacht-racing Sports car manufacturer Ferrari announces plans to enter yacht racing Written by Sophie Spicknell 25 Jan 2024 | 13:00 Luxury Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari has announced its plans to launch a sailing team under the guidance of yachtsman Giovanni Soldini.

Group only access only extends 50m vertically from the land level. Someone who doesn't have, or understand scripted security systems, will find that using their "skybox" on the ground and checking on "Group X is allowed" is the fastest and simplest way to have their quiet mainland spot.

I used to think root beer tasted like dentists' mouthwash. Since moving to the US it's one of my favourite sodas. I'm not saying it doesn't taste like dentists' mouthwash, but I like it!

My pet peeve is people using this GIF in this incorrect context. Happy Friday!

Hi, Faith. If you own your mainland parcel through a group which you have donated tier to, you can temporarily withdraw your tier so it's available when you want to try for a Bellisseria home. Just remember to add the tier back to the group after you've made the attempt. If you do succeed in the Linden Home lottery chase you can abandon your mainland plot, or increase your tier level to maintain it also.

I was responding to the comment that the +512 represents good value. It was very nice at the time but when you are at 16K tier it's not really much, which is where I am at. Thank you for explaining what I already knew, though. The effective price has more than tripled for all of my premium accounts on top of the $67 monthly land tier cost so I notice it. Everyone has a different experience, and this is mine.