Sister Nova

I’ve never rerolled any of the homes I’ve received. I’m fairly easily pleased though, and my main home is on the mainland. I’m curious to know though, do those that play the Game of Homes truly believe they will stop when they get their dream home? Will you recognise your dream home when you see it?

It's all a question of aesthetics too. The themes are set into neighbourhoods, it's much better for all the buildings in particular areas to be linked in style. If any building can go anywhere, you start to get an anarchic look, similar to the mainland, which is contrary to the appeal of Bellisseria. From what you've said, I would gather that you've chosen to have a traditional home. If you want a Victorian, a move would have been easy to do in the last week. Your argument about about making things fair since we are paying for them could also apply to location. Someone has a water view from their house. Another has two sides of their property bordered by water... should everyone have water surrounding their parcel which would contain ALL the themes available in their rezzer because we're all paying for them? I'd certainly not want to live in a continent that had that. They are out there, many private estates provide that sort of land set up for their tenants, and for those that like that sort of thing, they're very welcome to it. The fact that you CAN choose any of the buildings within the theme of the parcel YOU chose, is a great improvement on the old Linden Home areas. Celebrate that.

I didn’t realise it could be done that way. There’s always been such a huge deal made whenever a release has happened. @Patch Linden is someone sneaking them out while you’re not looking? It’s certainly good to see them carry on, will make for a Happy Christmas for many house flippers

Who is doing the releasing? Patch’s last post in his update thread said there were to be no more releases until the New Year.

Yes, all the camper styles are available from the rezzer on each camper parcel

All 4 themes of Linden Home are currently available if you click on the 'Get your home now' link at the top right of your Dashboard

Looking at the SSP work area for that part it looks as though there are mountains there going east, but only a bit shows on that particular region. I would imagine homes will be placed on the green part, but that is just a 'best guess'.

My first suggestion would be to stop looking too closely at the map. It’s only when you look at the regions in South Bellisseria that any notion of duplication becomes apparent. It has already been said in a couple of threads that this will not be nearly as obvious when you’re out and about exploring as each region will have different styles of the house according to the owners’ preference, and that is then taken further by the fact that there are many colour combinations too! Second, go explore some mainland. Take your eyes off South Bellisseria and look south to Jeogeot, or north to Sansara, or even further north to Heterocera! You’ll see roads and water on each one, and railway too on Heterocera. I love the mainland and have several parcels on Sansara and one on Jeogeot. My home is in the north east of Sansara by the wonderful town of Greater Coniston, and I have a cabin in the snow lands to the west. I love being able to fly, sail, and drive between them all (my journeys to Jeogeot are currently curtailed due to the disconnection as a result of the building secrecy but will recommence once all are linked again), and having a trailer in Bellisseria is a wonderful vacation home. As much as I do love the mainland, it’s always a pleasure going to Bellisseria and being able to appreciate all the work that has been done there. Having looked further afield, and even going across to the other mainland continents that aren’t joined to Bellisseria (yet? ), I feel sure that you’ll regain your appreciation of Bellisseria once again.

There are currently three themes of new Linden Homes (Traditional House, House Boat, Trailer) with a fourth (Victorian) being released very soon. Only the Trailer homes are on 512 sqm parcels and therefore have a prim allowance of 175 as per the old homes. The other 3 themes are on 1024 sqm parcels and have a prim allowance of 351.

There are some community buildings around: small cabins in the trailer areas; circular cafe/bar style buildings in the houseboat areas; lighthouses; a very large community cabin at an intersection by trailer area/river. There used to be very regular dances held at the houseboat cafes, I’m unsure as to the frequency of events these days. Some private homes have been decorated as cafes and pubs, and if you listen out to chat in the citizen/community groups people will sometimes give a shout out when something is being hosted. I’m not sure there’s really a need for anything else, as the buildings that are already in place are not used a great deal.

Here you go!

I've seen that one on the mainland.... can't think where though

I kept the traditional I acquired in April for several months, but as I wasn’t spending as much time in it having some other mainland properties, I let it go so it could be enjoyed by another. I do now have a camper from the second wave of releases and am very happy with the location. It is very much my stop-over home when travelling between my Sansara and Jeogeot properties.

Oh you tease Beth! A raise of the hem only for the ankle to be covered in an ankleboot

2019, I didn't upgrade my alts from monthly 'til June and quarterly 'til September

Your Vanity Fair account probably doesn't renew until 2021. My Walpurgisnacht account renews in Mar 2021 and does not show the 10% discount whereas my two alts that renew in 2020 both are able to get the discount.

Yup, that certainly would make sense, as they are 20% higher which ties in with VAT. It must be a recent thing though as I've never had to pay VAT on any of the membership plans previously (I have 2 alts that were paying monthly and quarterly earlier in the year before I paid them up on annual instead having staggered the due dates). I DO have to pay VAT on tier though, and have had to do so for a while. Here's hoping that Premium Plus involves a good land allowance so I can cut my tier!

I don't get the offer either, but I'm already paid up to Mar 2021 and I'll probably take up the Premium Plus upgrade if the benefits appeal. However..... on looking on my premium page.... what are these Monthly and quarterly amounts I'm seeing? Quite a difference to the ones shown elsewhere on this thread.

I wonder if the residents there will have an accent?

In most cases the owner of the private region will have a covenant in place, and when the person pays to have the rights to the parcel they have to tick the box to say they've read the covenant. I don't believe this is a scam of any sort, thinly veiled or otherwise. Having the parcel in their own name gives them certain rights as if they were the owner. Usually this includes a certain amount of terraforming (any restrictions would then be listed in the covenant), and also allows them to have access control to the parcel. They can even deed the parcel to their own group. The big advantage to the owner of the region, is that the prim allocation is then monitored by the usual restrictions of land, rather than the whole region being owned by the region owner's group, which then involves monitoring prim usage for each tenant, having to contact the tenant when they go over limit, inviting the tenant and any of their friends that wish to have land rights to the land group, surveying all the parcels to ensure no one has 'lost' an item on someone else's parcel etc. I know that caspervend can do a lot, but it's SO much easier for the owner in having the parcels in the tenant's name, especially if they have a lot of regions. The region group method is usually employed by those wishing to make a community, where the people running the group have themselves rented a region from an owner and deeded the region to their group. They are usually very happy to provide the various services and monitoring for their sub tenants.

Mainland parcels can only be terraformed by the owner of the parcel, and depending where it is, there may be limits to the amount that can be done. The ground colour cannot be changed other than placing something over the ground that can then be textured.

I’m gathering that the 4 accounts were all donating their 1024 sqm allowance. If they have no other held land or contributed sqm to any other groups, three can withdraw their contribution to the group and have their 1024 sqm allocation available once again. The 4th account would need to keep a donation of allowance to the group in order to cover the 400 sqm that the group still owns. In this situation, no fee other than your premium account fee is charged. The fact that you’re asking about being charged a fee, suggests that the 4 accounts have maybe a Linden Home each and the contribution of 1024 sqm to the group requires each account to be paying the extra monthly tier allowance for a further 1024 sqm. In this case you need to remember that you will be charged for that if at any point in the individual’s monthly time period, the account either held land or donated the allowance to a group. Even if the group receiving the donation held no land, the donating account is charged as if land were held. Have a look at each account’s Account Summary and you’ll be able to see the date that each account has to pay for their extra tier. If no land other than the 1024 sqm you get for being premium is held, and there are no contributions to groups, since the last payment was made, you will not incur the charge. Hope this helps

Ah right, my mistake then as I had assumed we were talking about a Linden Home in Bellisseria. Had I remembered that the old homes had them too I would have added the caveat “If you are in one of the new Linden Homes...” to my original reply to the OP.

I wasn’t aware they had control panels

I’d try changing the house to a different type and then back to your normal choice again.