[Unpopular Opinion. Redo the mainland from scratch?]

2 hours ago, Ingrid Ingersoll said:

Probably not, the land behind you doesnt have what anyone wants.

Unfortunately, it happened to me. I had a beautiful location in a rocky, hilly area of Sansara, and my immediate neighbours all had sizeable parcels but preferred to live up in the sky. I placed some lovely old houses with a church and considered that I had contributed something to the area that would be pleasing for anyone to see that might come across this pretty much isolated location. One parcel adjoining one side of my own went up for sale and the new owner placed a huge skybox on the ground. It loomed over the cottage that was my home and completely ruined my outlook. Why do people do that? They couldn’t see out of the box, had no access in or out of it, was several regions from a road or river, and it would have been just the same if it were placed at some altitude. I abandoned my parcel and the area looked neglected (other than the skybox) once again.

[The BIG Reveal -- WOW!]

15 hours ago, Teresa Firelight said:

I am a bit concerned about the "always dark outside" environment

The neighbourhood does look especially magical in the night time setting. If that is to be the default for the theme once released it is easy to set the environment to your preference on your own parcel. I have one of my homes set to mimic my RL time zone with a 24 hour day and GMT. It’s lovely to mirror my sitting after dark with subdued lighting with the addition of a ticking grandfather clock that soothes me whilst reading.

[What's in a name?]

1 hour ago, iBrat said:

Can I bring up Emerson LAKE again?

It is a pun on the name of the prog rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer

[Next theme (after the chalets)?]

1 hour ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Likely the release will happen after SL18B concludes - I think all of the past ones were within a few weeks of the reveal Event ending.  So possibly the week of July 5th, but maybe not till the following week.

The campers were revealed at SL16B but according to Patch's release thread they weren't available until 17th September that year.

Hard to know for sure what sort of run in time is needed, especially with the comment that the houses are unfinished as yet.

[The Continents are Joining?]

3 hours ago, Eowyn Southmoor said:

Well the Moles have added a third airstrip in Bellisseria only a few days ago - smack bang in the middle of the great river that runs through the Chalet theme. So that's 3 now in total, plus of course there are "proper" airports at both the northern and southern ends of Bellisseria, in neighbouring Satori/Jeogeot. 

I'd say overall, pilots in SL are being pretty well looked after in Bellisseria, besides, this IS SL, you can land your big plane on those airstrips too

 

Don’t forget the large airport at the southern end of Sansara too!

The airstrips are perfect for Bellisseria, and with all the water around you can land a seaplane or a helicopter with floats pretty much anywhere.

[Next theme (after the chalets)?]

Looks fairly dark... no windows shown... underground perhaps?

[SSP?]

SSPE1187A looks like it may be the build for the region that is now Altberg.

[Alts and Linden Homes]

4 hours ago, Sam1 Bellisserian said:

Good to know and might be a good reason to want one of those prime spots on water. If you don't have to rez on the rez spots what are they there for? My guess is for non residents?

Yes, non residents and also residents that use all their LI allowance for furnishings a decorations. The rez zone is also handy for larger vehicles.

[I want the Private Owned 4-lane freeway on the SL mainland]

15 minutes ago, Indy Melody said:

I find this a pointless revival of a topic that had no activity for one year. Nothing better to do in the middle of the night maybe?

It’s an alt of the OP. They push this subject in various places  

[GTFO in Belli]

7 hours ago, Rabid Cheetah said:

OK, what do I do again to make a parcel a GTFO HUD?

It gives the contact in the Get The Freight Out group charter.

[Names for Different Home Areas?]

1 hour ago, Matthieu Quander said:

I have no insight into the why or how the names were chosen, and they were clearly made from the same multi-region template, but I'm positive the "Squishy Pickle" houseboat area existed before the "Pickle" traditional island.  My first new premium home was a houseboat in the middle of "Squishy" that was released in May of 2019.  My second was a trad on Willow Heights, from which I was able to see the "Pickle" get added to my open water view in August 2019.  

Here's a blog post from @Daniel Voyager that talks about it, where he refers to "Pickle" and "Squishy Pickle II."  

When Bellisseria was first created the original build was still in the SSP area. The pickle was evident there as part of the layout to come and the squishy pickle was made from that and was placed to the south west of the SSP landmass. I remember laughing when Patch threw us a curve ball with the squishy pickle actually being placed to the top right of the actual continent as it was then. The rest of the pickle build was eventually copied across afterwards as the continent then grew to the limit of the SSP layout.

[Why do I sink through chairs? It's embarrassing]

26 minutes ago, JordonBanks said:

Oh - need to check that out.  its a VISTA animation, and having a setting which gave priority to the object animation would make a lot of sense to me, if that is what is needed to not turn into Casper the Ghost.  perhaps it does.  I will investigate further 🙂

Yep - I only usually sit on actual 'sittable objects' and so I don't turn on any sit animation specifically.  I just right click on a sittakle object and choose sit. (from the little Firestorm circle menu thing).  But My VISTA AO is on by default.  And so is on when I sit on anything.  and thats what must be causing the conflict.  I am not manually turning on anything.  But only way to no longer sink into an object is to turn my VISTA AO off, when sitting on that object.  and then manually turn it back on again, when I stand up again..  which is the pain bit to remember.

 

Most of the AO huds have a specific button that turns on and off the sit override. Some will always be switched on whenever you log in (part of the loading process) and others will remember your last setting. I always turn the sit override off whenever I log in. I then don't have to think about it anymore until I log in again, or decide to switch it on in order to use it. It was particularly handy when a lot of furniture didn't have animations already installed.

If you're going to sail your boat or fly or drive in vehicles I would always suggest that you detach your AO hud if you are going to be crossing a lot of regions. Very rarely your AO can get broken by crossings... but I emphasise that it IS rarely. In the 15 years  that I have been in SL, and the tremendous amount of travelling that I have done, I think this has only happened to me no more than 5 or 6 times. As a precaution (because I don't always detach the hud) I make a copy of my HUD and use the copy. I can then copy the original to use again in the event of the last being broken.

[Names for Different Home Areas?]

4 hours ago, Evangeline Arcadia said:

I was thinking the same thing the other day. I just refer to the Stilt areas as Stilt land, log areas as Logland. Sounds kind of boring though.  In the beginning when there was just the land mass containing the Traditionals it wasn't an issue, but we have so many separate land areas now, tradiitonal area, victorian, multiple pickles, stilts, chatlet one etc. I think it would be quite nice, and fun, to have some kind of consensus for names for the distinct areas.

What I would like to see even more, is names of continents and areas such as we are discussing officially written on the map. I've been in SL for years and still don't know which continent is called what! LOL

 

Most people that travel will have come across map boards that give out textures of continental maps in various places. This is the most famous by Carl Metropolitan.

[The map location of brand new Linden Home drops me in open water??]

The teleport co-ordinates that the map gives when obtaining a Linden Home only state the X and Y part, the Z (altitude) seems to default to 0 or 2. If you have a land house this isn't a problem as it will put you on the ground level, although depending on the house that is already selected on the parcel I have ended up under the staircase on a few occasions. With water houses, the ground level is of course under the water, so that is where you'll end up. If you use the world map instead of the website link and copy the co-ordinates onto that and input the Z co-ordinate as 22 you should end up inside.

[Sansara Continent]

10 hours ago, Stefanie Starlight said:

I do have one specific question:  Bellisseria I think I understand as a concept (though does it properly include ALL of the Linden Homes areas between Sansara, Jeogeot and Satori, or is it properly only the really well designed bit between Sansara and Jeogeot, with the large accretion towards Satori then being a sort of cancerous growth?   )

The whole of the continental landmass that is situated beneath Sansara, above Jeogeot, and reaching north eastward up to the southern tip of Satori is all Bellisseria, and with more themes yet to be added it will be growing even more.

[I Need a Cabin Recommendation]

POST have a couple that I don't believe are covered in your list.

I initially went to get this link for you being one that I have used myself on numerous occasions.... https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/POST-Gnesen-Farm-Sheds/4251552

... and then discovered that they do this one too that may be more what you have in mind (though I haven't ever actually used it myself).  https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/POST-Holopaw-Shack/6660107

[SSP?]

13 hours ago, Malayaa said:

I found the place at Brady Stream where windmills go to meet other windmills....hope they are not planning some kind of world domination

 

Wind power!! Something has to supply the energy for 'full brights' and lights!

 

[Next theme (after the chalets)?]

4 hours ago, Nika Talaj said:

But then, let's dream that they departed from the old-world village of the Maelstrom ride and instead built more modern Norwegian homes, open floor plans, lots of windows and interior wood ... yes, I am describing the longed-for Meadowbrook replacement home!! -- something like these ...

You'd have more than parrots singing away happily to themselves!

You certainly would..... 'Norwegian Wood'?

 

[So aliens are real.]

4 hours ago, bigmoe Whitfield said:

I'm going to stick by my theory with if they exist they are coming here for just what I figure they would, as of right now.   They are not real, sure there might be life out there,  which there is, but they are not coming here and visiting, people are wishful for such, but I'm not buying it until I am face to face or they have them on tv in a world meeting type setting,   so right now,  and people love to think other wise,  that crap they are saying "out of this world technology" is bs, they know it's bs, they know it's either ours and they are covering their butt's or it's one of the other developed nations having a go,   it's like with all the bs surrounding "area 51"  groomlake airforce base, was nothign really more than new testing ground for the likes of jpl and such for spy planes and other equipment.

Sure the Borg may be out there, but I’ve always been more hopeful that there would be a benign ‘Federation of Planets’. 🖖 

[I'm going to give up on flying airplanes on SL]

4 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said:

I wonder if you use your LI allowance up to the last LI on your land. Can airplanes still cross the land?
Isn't it so that they count on the parcels LI the moment they enter the sky above it until they leave the parcel again?

Yes, vehicles can enter a parcel with no available prim allowance, I entered a full parcel with my car just yesterday, and even loitered for a few minutes. If the driver stands the vehicle would then disappear regardless of the land settings, but passing through is no problem at all.

A full region is a different matter, a vehicle would not be able to enter.

[Connect the Continents]

56 minutes ago, Mollymews said:

if we had this I would probably live in the expanse. Just docking down to change my outfit and pop into the shops

 

I’ve seen you on a little island quite a number of times when passing  

[SSP?]

I love Bellisseria just as it is. I have a home there and also have property on each of the other continents with the exception of Zindra and Gaeta I. I appreciate the diversity of each and would hate to see it all looking the same just to make the map look pretty.

[New last names!]

6 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

 

Three month old encouragement just doesn't have the same impact as when it was fresh. If it has any impact at  all.

The post is an intention of revised behaviour, but I do realise that many want everything now. Let's wait and see if they deliver or not.

[New last names!]

3 hours ago, Yumeni Rieko said:

Oh no...that's too long 💀

Here’s some encouragement, from one of the recent news blog posts from LL..

”Now that Uplift is complete, we anticipate that the rotation of available options will happen more often.”

 

[New last names!]

40 minutes ago, Yumeni Rieko said:

Would be nice if we knew when new last names are going to be released...like every 2 months or whatever, to know if I should hold and wait for new ones or not...

With the revisions of the list that have taken place so far since the introduction of the name changes, I look at around six months being a general rule of thumb.