Sister Nova

Leafdrop Grinch perhaps?

Patch does mention them as separate items rather than just the 'seasonal aspect of holidays'. The 'scatter of leaves' I take to refer to Autumn/Fall rather than any 'holiday' celebration ("Happy Leafdrop!" ? ).

Hi Emily and welcome to SL. Unfortunately the ONLY way to have land in SL is in having to pay a subscription/rent. I would suggest renting as it gives a great deal of flexibility and no initial purchase price, AND is very low cost with the requirements you’ve outlined. Some landlords already have skyboxes in situ that you can then decorate, and some just have land parcels on both mainland and private regions that you can place your own building. Usually they will have some indication as to what restrictions they have in relation to skybox height etc. You could very easily get a place that would enable you to have a prim allowance of 100 for L$100 per week. One of the oldest rental businesses can provide a parcel/skybox for less than that where the skybox doesn’t count against your allowance and you even get a discount for paying 4 weekly. If you decide to change your account to Premium, you can hold up to 1024 sqm of land (351 prim allowance) without paying anything other than your premium subscription and you’ll get the other premium benefits too. However, you WILL have to pay an initial purchase price for the land from the current owner unless you opt for a Linden Home. The LH building doesn’t count against your allowance in this case, but only the new (and at the moment very scarce due to demand) Linden Home continent Bellisseria allows skyboxes above 2000m. The much more available old areas do not allow skyboxes. Good luck with tour search, and if you have any difficulty in finding rental businesses drop me an IM in world and I’ll send you some details of some I use/have used.

A parcel of land is a piece of land. For example: “These small parcels of land were purchased for the most part by local people.“

There is a tick box in the about land window that if ticked can enable privacy to the extent of restricting contact between avatars on and off the parcel. If you select this, anyone off your parcel won’t be able to see avatars on the parcel or see any local chat if they’re in range. Likewise, you won’t be able to see or ‘hear’ anyone outside your parcel. The parcel permission icon for this that appears at the top of your viewer is an eye symbol.

I logged in at 10:16 SLT and saw there were problems so just stayed at home. So maybe others did the same. The ones that dropped off were people maybe trying to relog not knowing the reason for problems with inventory/rezzing/teleporting etc.

So nice to have visitors, you are very welcome indeed

As much as it would be a pain to move from a settled homestead, I'd be off like a shot if a landlord tried this with me. If your friend doesn't want to be without a homestead I'd suggest she keep an eye on other landlords property and as soon as her rent exceeds an available rent elsewhere, time to jump ship.

I was looking to move one of my mainland properties from Satori to Sansara, so I would be able to travel to and from my land in Bellisseria. I found a parcel that suited me perfectly, and was very pleased to be able to use it exactly as I had hoped. I then bought the parcel next to it, and a day or so later, the rest of the parcels having been taken, I managed to get some abandoned land that one of the other purchasers had discarded having cut the size they wanted, which very conveniently adjoined mine. My initial 560 sqm parcel had now grown to 3360 sqm. My Belli Traditional was let go to make room on my tier, but I still have a camper. The mainland is once again my home though. There are only 5 other land owners on the region: 1 has over a quarter of the region, 2 others a quarter each, myself and 2 others have the remainder. As the region is very hilly (which really was an attraction for me), the other owners are in the sky, and the only other building on the ground is what looks to be a temporary building that the owner has now left having given up trying to landscape, and putting buildings in the sky. As the ground texture is rocky, I shall be able to indulge in some seasonal changes which is something that I enjoy seeing. The bottom group of buildings is a Priory, which was the first parcel. I then decided to get the next parcel and moved another of my builds, which was a remembrance garden, and made it into a proper chapel which seemed appropriate especially as the region name is Rosslyn. My house is then next to that. The neighbour's temp build can be seen at the bottom of the hill. Rosslyn Priory Rosslyn Chapel

I wish you well with your new land! I still have a camper at Belli, though let my traditional house go as I wasn't using it and thought someone else would benefit from it. My main home is in Sansara (my owned land), but I also have rentals in Sansara, Heterocera and Jeogeot as I love having places I can travel to and spend time at. I'll be sure to wave if I see you in Heterocera as I travel around

A very interesting thread, I've greatly enjoyed reading through it.

The textures shown on the new area are what I would imagine are just default textures. I've seen them many times on regions that have been reconfigured and moved for new owners to start their own customisation.

I had thought that perhaps cabins would possibly be a contender for the next release. If it were a smallish release then it could be feasible for it to be seasonal in the sense of it being snowscaped for the Winter months and back to green come the Spring. If there were a Victorian theme I’d be setting sail for it straightaway!

It could be done as another choice on the homes page with another continent name. An excellent idea for those that would want it!

That may have been promptly actioned because of the fact that having anything placed so that it appears as a map marker is against the covenant.

This thread should give you some idea of the frequency of each home type coming available on the site:

You can't actually go very far if you can get past that bridge as it comes to a dead end. Most of the waterways around the camper area are inland only, and aside from the ones that can be accessed from the main body of water (which is the standard 20m water level) the water level is at 30m.

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A great idea!!....... For the mainland. The Linden Homes, despite the popularity of Bellisseria with folks that have been in SL for many years, ARE considered by the Lindens as starter homes. This is the sort of thing that is a later stage than starter. I know that building components can be bought on MP, would be great to maybe see packs sold so that this sort of thing could be encouraged.... on the mainland.

There really is a very wide time range for abandoned properties to become available, from seconds to hours. I have abandoned a property in the past and it took 16 and a half hours to go back into the system and get a new owner.

Building under the houses would probably never be allowed, it really would have a detrimental effect upon the terrain around the house... and how do you change the area of the hole for each house design? I wouldn't want my garden to be on a prim cover. If you want a basement, best way to do it is to have an 'anywhere' style door that teleports you to a linked door and have your basement room in a skybox.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, they have turned up on my mainland parcel too. Neither parcels are in the centre of the region. Having placed the list of names I have collected on my Bellisseria parcel's ban list they cannot enter at all now, and any that show up on my mainland parcel that aren’t on my list are added on my next login.

I've been having these too... they appear under my staircase. I have an orb that deals with them, and as I always check my orb's log, I enter their names (after checking that they are the 'bots': nonsensical names; 1 of the 3 birth dates I've noticed they all seem to have; empty profile; no pymt info on file) I then add them to my parcel ban list, so they can't even appear there now to trigger the orb. I have a mainland parcel too, and some have been appearing over there. Needless to say, I do the same there.

It would be lovely if the people that get them are into sand and a beachy theme.... Hopefully there'll be no 1024 sqm grass 'carpets' placed 😕 I wonder whether it would be possible for the Lab to have two categories of traditional home that would show up on the dashboard when looking to claim a Linden Home: 'Grass' and 'Sand'.

Could the new mystery be railway tracks side by side?